#📈 Upload Hell

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lucid pelican
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⚠️ Spotify Upload got me Quarantined

email ref: [9M6D21-24XRR]

Please double check.

I have been a heavy user, but a legitimate user.

It should be clear; I uploaded my listening history recently for you to see; I did see a few strange jumps in my stats around then.

I have actually been campaigning against the users of that dodgy app.

If this is the result of all that effort, you've missed the mark entirely.

Please reconsider.

Cheers

wÿrð𐍂

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tardy plover
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There is nobody here in this discord to do anything about it. All you can do is write to [email protected]

acoustic tundra
lucid pelican
acoustic tundra
lucid pelican
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Yeah; I don't know how it happened or exactly what happened, but I know that my stats are all messed up.

Stats.FM messaged me in October 2025 and told me to re-upload my Spotify data (“due to an error”). In November 2025, after a bit of procrastination, I did. Over a month later, I get locked out of the leaderboard (apparently there were user complaints).

I'm thinking, what for, I'm legit? I asked them to explain. They didn't say at first, just fobbed me off, told me to use Last.FM if I wasn't happy.

But since I have been a long time devotee, I pushed it. Got this response:

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Hello,

Thanks for following up.

We have investigated your account, and we have some questions.

Can you please explain the following points

  1. For the past 6 months, you averaged 1005 minutes a day, but your listening times on the graph often exceeded 1440 minutes (i.e. the total minutes in a single day), with several days above 2000 minutes. How?
    Your listening clocks are also unusually uniform, without any noticeable dips for sleep, etc.

  2. Looking at your lifetime listening, from roughly 2023 onwards, it surges dramatically, with several daily listening times well above 2000 minutes, including a day of 4000 minutes (i.e. 2.77 days). How did you do that?

  3. From 30th September 2023 to 30th September 2025, your average minutes per day were an impossible 1501 minutes a day. How?

We will wait for your response.

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I am thinking WTF?
That's impossible.

So I check the numbers, and they're right.

But they are not the numbers I had before I did the upload that Stats.FM asked for.

I have even kept reports; I did a quick comparison. I used to have normal, realistic numbers.

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And this is what it looks like now

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Where did over 3500 more streams come from? That's an about 150% what it was.

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That's just one month's example.
The info they gave me was true. It really does say I streamed over 4000 minutes in one day and had an average of over 1500 minutes a day for a while.

But this only occurred after I uploaded (what I assume was) legit data from Spotify.

lucid pelican
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Upload Hell

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📈 Upload Hell

short furnace
lucid pelican
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Or simply cap excess reports: if you report more than 60 minutes in an hour, or more than 1440 minutes in a day.

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This would curb ridiculous stats at least.

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In any case, with data integrity issues, bots, hacking, and erroneous stats, not to mention being banned from the leaderboard, it's not really worth it to me anymore.

~~ I mean, is Led Zeppelin's debut album still listed as "Lez Zeppelin I" ? ~~ wow, seems they finally fixed it.

signal glacier
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I re-imported my files once (without deleting the existing ones) and a lot of my streams became duplicated. All my stats became inflated as a result.

quiet fractal
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it wasn't exceeding 1440 minutes per day f.e.

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but a lot of songs were streaming f.e. for 16 minutes within 1 minute

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it fixed when i deleted the reimported files

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i will rather have 1% less statistics than 50% more fake ones

lucid pelican
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I have done that now. But the app is obviously still busted. And I'm still banned.