Lost tracks

[Ozz]

Hi, I have a problem with vanishing songs.

Spotify just deletes tracks off my playlists and when I go search for them via browse they're gone.

These are all previously played online tracks and some of them appear in the web player but greyed out.

Now I probably suspect its to do with changing legal establishments between spotify and labels.

I was just wondering if it is possible for devs to actually grey out the unavailable tracks from the playlist instead of just deleting them without any notifications whatsoever.

My playlists are huge so I can't keep track of all the track titles, artists.

Thanks

[JCdotnl]

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@Ozz wrote:

Hi, I have a problem with vanishing songs.

Spotify just deletes tracks off my playlists and when I go search for them via browse they're gone.

These are all previously played online tracks and some of them appear in the web player but greyed out.

Now I probably suspect its to do with changing legal establishments between spotify and labels.

I was just wondering if it is possible for devs to actually grey out the unavailable tracks from the playlist instead of just deleting them without any notifications whatsoever.

My playlists are huge so I can't keep track of all the track titles, artists.

Thanks

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Yes, Publishers have the rights to gey out a song or deleting it. 
Maybe they aren't getting enough money on Spotify, Netflix has the same problem with movies or series who vanishing after a time period.

[Ozz]

that's not really my point.

I don't care if its removed, I still want to see the deleted track on my playlist so I can find it elsewhere.

[Josh · Accepted solution]

Hello!

You can view the songs that are on your playlist that are not available on Spotify by going to preferences then under playback, uncheck "Hide unplayable tracks". 

[Ozz]

Ah i mustve missed that, thanks a lot!

[Ozz]

ALTHOUGH, some songs are lost forever. For instance I've unchecked that option, some songs did appear greyed out but some are completely gone such as Peter Gabriel's Mercy Street which I've listened to number of times on spotify a few months ago.

[Peter__]

That is correct, you can see unplayable tracks, but if they get completely removed (URIs deleted) they then totally vanish from existence.