The U.S. version of TIDAL put this strange album Secret Place by another artist called PRINCE under Prince's album section...

This is obviously a mess up, anyone else see it?

feeluupp said:

The U.S. version of TIDAL put this strange album Secret Place by another artist called PRINCE under Prince's album section...

This is obviously a mess up, anyone else see it?

This Prince?

Aerogram said:

feeluupp said:

The U.S. version of TIDAL put this strange album Secret Place by another artist called PRINCE under Prince's album section...

This is obviously a mess up, anyone else see it?

This Prince?

No. Tell me how to post a pic on here again I'll post it...

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kookooman73 said:

It's on the UK Tidal as well. Judging by the track listing it's obviously a gospel or Christian album. If Prince has pissed them off maybe it's a deliberate dig!! What a shame P has pulled out of the Tidal concert for reasons unknown. It would have been massive publicity for him. I hope we still get Phase Two!!

Maybe if you didn't suppose, presume, assume and hypothetize to death, you'd stop reading meaning into everything.

Just have a strange feeling... There's a riff starting amongst Prince and TIDAL...

That "Secret Place Prince" needs to get back to his secret hidden place cuz his album is awful and dude can't sing to save his life!!!!

BTW it says "2015 Zambia Music Copyright Protection Society"

I guess the name Prince is not copyrighted in Zambia???

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feeluupp said:

laurarichardson said:

feeluupp said:

Just have a strange feeling... There's a riff starting amongst Prince and TIDAL...

Yes tell us what your crystal ball is showing you You and everyone else with your crazy speculating what the hell has this board come to.

naw no thanks. i'll leave the crystal ball for u.

Too funny, the evidence is starting to pile up......drops out of concert, no real purple pick, weird crap showin up on his Tidal library. He clearly pissed someone off over there or vice versa. If all Prince stuff is gone tomorrow it would not surprise me. It would be damn unfortunate, but I have been a fan long enough to realize these things seldom last.

leadline said:

Too funny, the evidence is starting to pile up......drops out of concert, no real purple pick, weird crap showin up on his Tidal library. He clearly pissed someone off over there or vice versa. If all Prince stuff is gone tomorrow it would not surprise me. It would be damn unfortunate, but I have been a fan long enough to realize these things seldom last.

These things aren't vetted often with smaller companies like Tidal (they are small as opposed to Spotify, Google Play Music, Apple Music).

I could submit a track through my distributor right now under the artist name of "Elvis Presley" and in a couple of days it'd show up on Tidal under Elvis's page. Some of the sites would probably reject it, but my guess is Tidal don't have enough people on the ground to vet all those things, and they rely on people reporting things like that after the fact.

What I'm saying is, don't take this as evidence that "Prince pissed someone off" at Tidal. To lump this together with him dropping out of the concert doesn't make sense.

That fella used to be under Prince in Spotify (and Deezer) as well until it was fixed. Like Militant says, it's just a matter of manpower.

inspireof said:

That "Secret Place Prince" needs to get back to his secret hidden place cuz his album is awful and dude can't sing to save his life!!!!

BTW it says "2015 Zambia Music Copyright Protection Society"

I guess the name Prince is not copyrighted in Zambia???

[Edited 10/5/15 20:27pm]

No copyright laws at all in Zambia really. Whilst there may legislation in certain areas, there is no policing and the courts of law will not hear a copyright case. They are too busy taking bribes from politicians to dismiss the corruption charges against them.

Militant said:

leadline said:

Too funny, the evidence is starting to pile up......drops out of concert, no real purple pick, weird crap showin up on his Tidal library. He clearly pissed someone off over there or vice versa. If all Prince stuff is gone tomorrow it would not surprise me. It would be damn unfortunate, but I have been a fan long enough to realize these things seldom last.

These things aren't vetted often with smaller companies like Tidal (they are small as opposed to Spotify, Google Play Music, Apple Music).

I could submit a track through my distributor right now under the artist name of "Elvis Presley" and in a couple of days it'd show up on Tidal under Elvis's page. Some of the sites would probably reject it, but my guess is Tidal don't have enough people on the ground to vet all those things, and they rely on people reporting things like that after the fact.

What I'm saying is, don't take this as evidence that "Prince pissed someone off" at Tidal. To lump this together with him dropping out of the concert doesn't make sense.

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Oh look, someone is ignoring the fact that Prince's Tidal presence required custom programming so his camp could maintain the "similar artists" pages. Becuase heaven forbids D'Angelo is linked there.

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Prince can never fail, he can only be failed.

BartVanHemelen said:

Militant said:

These things aren't vetted often with smaller companies like Tidal (they are small as opposed to Spotify, Google Play Music, Apple Music).

I could submit a track through my distributor right now under the artist name of "Elvis Presley" and in a couple of days it'd show up on Tidal under Elvis's page. Some of the sites would probably reject it, but my guess is Tidal don't have enough people on the ground to vet all those things, and they rely on people reporting things like that after the fact.

What I'm saying is, don't take this as evidence that "Prince pissed someone off" at Tidal. To lump this together with him dropping out of the concert doesn't make sense.

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Oh look, someone is ignoring the fact that Prince's Tidal presence required custom programming so his camp could maintain the "similar artists" pages. Becuase heaven forbids D'Angelo is linked there.

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Prince can never fail, he can only be failed.

Please. A little bit of custom code on a profile page doesn't override the standard digital distribution system.

Question for you - do YOU have any music on Tidal? Or Spotify? or Google Play Music? or Apple Music?

Because I do, and I understand every step of the digital distribution chain.


Like I said - no vetting system, so stuff like this slips through the cracks until somebody reports it. You think Tidal has enough manpower to have their staff look at ONE artist's page every single day? Haha.

Militant said:

BartVanHemelen said:

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Oh look, someone is ignoring the fact that Prince's Tidal presence required custom programming so his camp could maintain the "similar artists" pages. Becuase heaven forbids D'Angelo is linked there.

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Prince can never fail, he can only be failed.

Please. A little bit of custom code on a profile page doesn't override the standard digital distribution system.

Question for you - do YOU have any music on Tidal? Or Spotify? or Google Play Music? or Apple Music?

Because I do, and I understand every step of the digital distribution chain.


Like I said - no vetting system, so stuff like this slips through the cracks until somebody reports it. You think Tidal has enough manpower to have their staff look at ONE artist's page every single day? Haha.

Prince has got bored with Tidal already - his album is not exclusive, he's pulled out of the concert and his Purple Pick of the week is a playlist that was available last week!

Militant said:

BartVanHemelen said:

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Oh look, someone is ignoring the fact that Prince's Tidal presence required custom programming so his camp could maintain the "similar artists" pages. Becuase heaven forbids D'Angelo is linked there.

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Prince can never fail, he can only be failed.

Please. A little bit of custom code on a profile page doesn't override the standard digital distribution system.

Question for you - do YOU have any music on Tidal? Or Spotify? or Google Play Music? or Apple Music?

Because I do, and I understand every step of the digital distribution chain.


Like I said - no vetting system, so stuff like this slips through the cracks until somebody reports it. You think Tidal has enough manpower to have their staff look at ONE artist's page every single day? Haha.

What a hero.

aluminimum said:

Militant said:

BartVanHemelen said:

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Oh look, someone is ignoring the fact that Prince's Tidal presence required custom programming so his camp could maintain the "similar artists" pages. Becuase heaven forbids D'Angelo is linked there.

.

Prince can never fail, he can only be failed.

Please. A little bit of custom code on a profile page doesn't override the standard digital distribution system.

Question for you - do YOU have any music on Tidal? Or Spotify? or Google Play Music? or Apple Music?

Because I do, and I understand every step of the digital distribution chain.


Like I said - no vetting system, so stuff like this slips through the cracks until somebody reports it. You think Tidal has enough manpower to have their staff look at ONE artist's page every single day? Haha.

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And I repeat: in several interviews Prince boasted about how they were doing things their way on Tidal. Which means that they maintained what artists Prince's page links to, and even what can be seen on those pages they linked to. Yet that same team somehow can't prevent some lame-ass appearing on PRINCE'S OWN PAGE?

BartVanHemelen said:

Militant said:

Please. A little bit of custom code on a profile page doesn't override the standard digital distribution system.

Question for you - do YOU have any music on Tidal? Or Spotify? or Google Play Music? or Apple Music?

Because I do, and I understand every step of the digital distribution chain.


Like I said - no vetting system, so stuff like this slips through the cracks until somebody reports it. You think Tidal has enough manpower to have their staff look at ONE artist's page every single day? Haha.

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And I repeat: in several interviews Prince boasted about how they were doing things their way on Tidal. Which means that they maintained what artists Prince's page links to, and even what can be seen on those pages they linked to. Yet that same team somehow can't prevent some lame-ass appearing on PRINCE'S OWN PAGE?

This would have taken them 5 minutes. Maybe less.

So I repeat: They don't have the manpower to have their staff maintaining individual pages on a daily basis.

They don't vet anything before the fact. Even Apple, who have LITERALLY HUNDREDS more engineers working on Apple Music, don't do that. Bootlegs pop up all the time on iTunes and Apple Music. There was even a bootleg of Prince's acoustic version of "Love" up there a few weeks ago.

These digital services take things down AFTER they get reported. Not before. Why? Because it takes considerably less manpower to deal with these things after the fact. Vetting everything before the fact just isn't realistic when these services are adding thousands of new songs every day.

And also, very few of them have a system set up for multiple artists who have the same name.

feeluupp said:

I see prince finalyl got rid of that afro ...

that baby blue shirt looks kinda cheap tho...

not hatin...

just sayin..

dude still got crazy loot...so why´s he wearing that walmart style tshirt?

but I dig those glasses.

kinda like the glasses he wore during the musiciology tour.

inspireof said:

That "Secret Place Prince" needs to get back to his secret hidden place cuz his album is awful and dude can't sing to save his life!!!!

BTW it says "2015 Zambia Music Copyright Protection Society"

I guess the name Prince is not copyrighted in Zambia???

[Edited 10/5/15 20:27pm]

Names are trademarks . . not copyrighted

Thizz said:

inspireof said:

That "Secret Place Prince" needs to get back to his secret hidden place cuz his album is awful and dude can't sing to save his life!!!!

BTW it says "2015 Zambia Music Copyright Protection Society"

I guess the name Prince is not copyrighted in Zambia???

[Edited 10/5/15 20:27pm]

Names are trademarks . . not copyrighted

my bad.. U get my point though?