Playlists Being Falsely Reported!!!

[30secondindie]

I've been put into an extremely frustrating situation that some of you may have also had problems with. Someone is falsely reporting my playlists, and there's nothing I can do about it. When someone reports your playlist, Spotify will automatically remove the playlist title, playlist bio, and playlist avatar, even if there is nothing that is breaking the rules of the user agreement policy. 

I run a rather large Indie/Alternative music blog, and my most recent Spotify playlist quickly gained traction and was starting to build a pretty decent sized following. However, I woke up two days after creating it to find that playlist title was blank and there was no bio. Thinking this was an error or glitch in the system, I changed it back. Not more than 30 minutes later, everything went blank again. After 5 more times of this happening, I contacted Spotify about this issue. They let me know that someone has been reporting my playlist for copyright. Well, I had no playlist picture, I was using the standard Spotify playlist art, the title was "Positive Energy Indie/Alternative Tunes" and there was absolutely nothing that would suggest a copyright issue. To fix this issue and get my playlist back, I had to file a counter-claim, and the user who flagged my playlist will have 10 days to respond. However, even if my playlist gets republished, that same user can report it again and I will be in this same issue all over again. Spotify also told me that it would be extremely hard to pinpoint the user that is falsely reporting my playlist, so there's pretty much nothing I can do about it.

As someone that depends on Spotify for my music blog and social media channels, I can not afford to have someone reporting my playlists just for the fun of it, whether that be for better SEO rankings or just because they don't like my channel. I do not wish this problem on anyone, and I think it is an absolutely terribly flawed system that can be abused way too often. There has to be a better reporting system on Spotify's end, or at least some greater protection for users that value Spotify's service and depend on it for their business. 

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[FloFloyd]

Same problem than everyone here: playlist with 15k followers and top result totally hidden from public listing (at least I'm still able to access via link).

Conveniently, the top result now is a very similar playlist from a verified account named "Filtr Italy", not even the artist himself.

My best guess is that if some verified account has now the top result, Spotify won't help you. Very disencouraging for curators.

[Larcx-Brisk]

I have the same issue with one of my playlists. Actually, it's the only one that ever got any traction. I'm no blogger or anything like that. Spotify is so unhelpful that I can't help but think they do this on purpose. It's very frustrating. It's also ridiculous. 

[silvazy]

Me too.

[1136438600]

Same issue.  I created a Miami Vice TV Soundtrack playlist and wasnt getting any followers . Suddenly one day people started noticing it and i was getting quite a few followers which was a nice feeling knowing the work I had done to find all the tracks and put them in the right order. Now all of a sudden its constantly being reported and even when I use spotifys own cover art and just add a single letter to the title of the playlist..it just gets taken down. Emailed Spotify but they just ignore me. I've been a premium subscribers for over 6 years. There about to use a long term customer.

[Nerogane]

Hi

I had the same issue with my playlist with almost 60'000 follower. I've created a script that checks every few minutes if the title got removed and reapply the title, description and cover. The last time a got attacked, the spammers stopped after a few hours and gave up. I'm a software developer and was thinking to create a little website where you can protect your playlists from those attacks. Are you interested? Would you be willing to pay a small amount per playlist? I was thinking about $1 per month. If there is interest (like this post) I would get to work.

Cheers

[DesktopMusic]

My playlist name resets all the time I don't know why does anyone have a solution please? this is the link of the playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2jSzUMz8ahYsPMYF6XN0uA?si=64b1945293974088

Plan

Premium

Country

France

Device

Iphone 12 Pro/Asus

Operating System

iOS 17.0.3/Windows 11

[RazzaGB]

Surprise surprise Spotify not fixing a flaw within their system. I've just had this today where my playlist name keeps getting removed by someone reporting it. I talked to Spotify support, and they said there is nothing they can do about people falsely reporting. What a joke.

[violetcities]

Just happened to me. I feel for everyone who put hours of work into their playlists and had thousands of likes. Mine was just 5 Douglas Adams audiobooks (made available by the publisher on Spotify) that I shared as a playlist with fellow fans for easier access. At first I assumed someone mistakenly thought I had illegally uploaded the audiobooks myself or something, but maybe it was just someone who was jealous of my *checks notes* 107 likes.

[reyangurjar]

Plan

Free/Premium

Country

India

My Question or Issue

So, i have a playlist that i only use and has been liked by 10 people(probably my friends). Today i received a Email saying:

Hello,

We have automatically removed the following content after receiving a report:

URI/URL: spotify:playlist:2n7C7suf24n04XVopvJYrr
Content Type: PLAYLIST

Please see our Platform Rules for more information.

Please do not reply to this email.

Spotify

So, i checked my playlist and it's name was blank. So i renamed it and everything is fine(now) but i have read on the internet regarding this issue that this will happen again too. So please explain me what's going on and will i lost my playlist? And is there any way to back it up?

[Sburnett]

I don't know if this is the wrong section for this but I really could not find any category relevant for a problem like this. 

One of my playlists is constantly being harassed by another user who keep reporting my playlist name and getting it deleted. I suspect it's because he has his own playlist and is trying to steal followers because for some reason that's important to some people. Even if I change the name to just an acronym "MV" he STILL keeps reporting it 2 or 3 times a day, and this has been going on EVERY DAY since the 6th of January, like he doesn't quit, ever. The abuse of the report system truly ridiculous and annoying. I narrowed it down to who it might be (obviously the only one who isn't getting their playlist name deleted), but you can't block people from being able to view your account and public playlists. 

My question is - Will my playlist or account eventually suffer in the form of deletion or bans over these false reports? Or am I ok to keep changing it back?

I refuse to back down because obviously my playlist name does not violate any community guidelines and there are many just like it, this is just somebody who is desperate to have their playlist for this specific genre appear at the top and therefore falsely reports everyone else's playlists on a daily basis. I don't know what do to.

[JP115]

Hello, I recently got an email saying one of my playlists with a few thousand likes has been removed. The email said “we have automatically removed the following content after receiving a report” and that was followed by the url to my playlist. Although, I can still see my playlist the only thing that happened was the title was removed but I was able to rename the playlist with no problem. This is most likely just someone random reporting my playlist but I just want to make sure my playlist doesn’t get removed in the future. I read the playlist guidelines on the spotify website and I don’t see how my playlist has violated any of those guidelines. Should I be concerned about this or will my playlist be fine. 

[inTheAbyss]

Hey all.

As many others have already done, I've gone ahead and written my own Python script as well to help with this problem. It allows for monitoring multiple playlists and checks them at regular intervals. If a missing title/image/description is detected, it reupdates the playlist accordingly.

Part of why I've written the code to check first instead of just reupdating is because I've also coded the script to write the result of each check into a CSV data file (datetime, which playlist, title/image/description reported), so that we can observe for ourselves how frequent the reports are occurring. Perhaps the community could then somehow come together to publish the results from all our CSVs into one database, so that everyone will know the kind of damage Spotify is refusing to fix.

Do check it out and let me know what you think. Happy to assist also if anyone needs help getting it set up, just shoot me a DM. Contact details over at my GitHub.

[FOX-1]

Update: It happen again today. I had recreated the playlist as "FOX-1's Ultimate Playlist", I found nothing wrong with it but it was still taken down. Why is this happening? It is most likely some guy who thinks its funny. Moderators, if you see this, please put it back up or inform me of what is breaking the terms (if you put it back up or find problems, please email me). - I'd like to mention that I will update whether i've fixed any problems you find.

Original post:

I might have the same problem, my "Good Music 3.0" playlist keeps getting taken down for reasons unknown. It also happened about a year ago with the name of a playlist (it's fixed). I have recreated this "Good Music 3.0" multiple times, which is annoying, especially since it have 1000+ songs. Someone plz help or explain why I'm getting flagged.