Spotify changed their song titles for Mandarin songs into translated-English titles and/or Hanyu pinyin about a week ago.
Spotify users were up in arms and shared their displeasure online, with many calling for Spotify to change back to the original titles.
Users (primarily me) reported having difficulties looking up songs on the app because of the titles being changed to their translated versions.
Other users also reportedly had their English songs translated into Mandarin.
Speaking to Mothership, Spotify said that it was an experiment involving multi-language data, they said:
“At Spotify, we’re always looking at new ways to enhance our listeners’ experience.
This often means conducting tests on our platform, including experimenting with multilingual language data received from our music partners.
This test was deployed to provide our music partners the option to display album and track title transliterations, with their own language translations. Changes on Spotify were then reflected based on the user’s preferred language settings.
We have reverted the translated titles back to their original language.”
For users who are still experiencing the issue of having their mandarin song titles being reflected in English, you can just clear your cache and it will revert back to its original settings.