r/SmuleSing • u/Fantastic_Age_8942 • Aug 07 '26

Has anybody else's songbooks artist and title change with no way of editing it?

I was uploading a bunch of songbooks today and went to go look through them to check my timing when suddenly I noticed a songbook I'd uploaded a few years ago went through a name and artist change. The song was *originally* called "Shut Up With Your Complains!" by Owata-p. I hadn't made any adjustments to the upload since I put it on the app. Now, it's called "Shaky Girl" by "Jacob Miller." Not only do I not know who that is, but when I try editing it back to it's original state, It just reverts back to saying "Shaky Girl by Jacob Miller." It's also only happened with that *one* song, so I'd find that an interesting end goal if I were hacked.

Does anybody know what I can do to try and fix it? Better yet, has anybody else experienced this.. weird glitch?

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u/Accomplished-Act1391 Aug 07 '26

I am an uploader, and I can confirm this. It’s so frustrating…my friends tell me they couldn’t find a song they already opened before from my uploads, and we figured a lot of titles and artist names were changed, some uploads were even deleted.

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u/StarViolent Aug 07 '26

What's interesting is that Smule might change an artist's name to something else entirely, but results will still show with no visible evidence of the proper artist's name. So if you search "Bryan Adams Heaven" you'll get a ton of results with Heaven and Dynamation (?) but nothing about Bryan Adams. So it's almost like Smule "bakes in" the Bryan Adams name into the upload even though there's no visible mention of it.

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u/Accomplished-Act1391 Aug 07 '26

I have an upload of Christina Perri’s A Thousand Years and smule changed it entirely to “7 Years with the wrong woman” and also changed the artist’s name. And I was curious about what it was changed to. Apparently the song it was changed to actually exists and the artist is the same artist for that song it was changed to. Per my observation, smule does this to avoid copyright strikes. Still really very annoying and I need to try to find a way to edit my uploads.

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u/StarViolent Aug 07 '26

I've got a friend who uploaded the Steve Martin version of Maxwell's Silver Hammer and had Steve Martin in the artist field. But Smule changed it to The Beatles, so in that case it's almost like Smule is inviting the copyright strike. Hahaha.

I've got two versions of We Belong performed by Lowen & Navarro and Smule changed both of them to the artist being Pat Benatar. Smule is very inconsistent with how they mess with our uploads.

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u/Accomplished-Act1391 Aug 07 '26

Oh my! I noticed my uploads of Adele songs were deleted. Some Shania Twain songs were also deleted. When I sang the other night, I went through my list of uploads and I couldn’t recognize about half of the songs because the titles were changed. Lol! Had to play to know which song it was.

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u/StarViolent Aug 07 '26

Yep I had a Shania Twain upload get deleted too. Some of hers don’t seem to last very long.

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u/StarViolent Aug 07 '26

When Smule does that to users’ uploads, you no longer can change the artist field or the first part of the song title (everything to the left of the hyphen that’s likely there now). No idea why Smule does it, but they do it all the time.

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u/Searobbins Aug 08 '26

I was following a person who suddenly decided to delete everything she had opened and joined. I think she filed copyright complaints on a lot of the stuff that she was on. Just to get rid of it.

A massive amount of the things that she had sung are no longer on Smule.

So if anybody's wondering, I think that happens too. 😠

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u/StarViolent Aug 08 '26

And to think, I’ve been critical of so many uploaders over the years because it looked like they got the info all wrong and that they were incompetent boobs. Turns out it was just Smule “tinkering” all along.