Three problems collided:
- Direct upload = wrong pipeline. Spotify has separate music vs. podcast pipelines. Uploading audio directly triggers automated review that rejects hybrid content — narration gets flagged as "not music," songs get flagged as "not a podcast."
- AI-generated songs trigger copyright filters. Spotify's automated content matching (and NMPA takedown systems) flag Suno-generated music because Suno's training data included copyrighted songs. Even though our outputs are original, the audio fingerprint can match fragments in rights databases, triggering false-positive "copyright infringement" claims.
- Spotify killed Music+Talk (June 2024). The one format designed for narration+music hybrids no longer exists.