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[Playlists] Only selected Playlist Authors for Collaborative Playlist

Submitted by on ‎2012-11-18 11:27 PM
Status: Implemented

Hi!

 

Recently, me and a few friends have started to get this kick ass playlist together of the music we all share and like. Obviously Spotify is the best way to do this. However, a playlist can only be managed by one single user.

 

Wouldn't it be a great idea that the 'founder' of the playlist can assign co-authors?

 

Would love to hear the feedback!

Hey everyone,

We're happy to announce that you will soon have new options for managing collaborative playlists - they are rolling out to everyone over the coming weeks.

Users will have the ability to review who currently has access to individual playlists, share collaborative playlists with large public groups, or keep them small and private for that special tightly-knit group of friends.

You will be able to:
  • Pick your favorites. As a playlist creator, you can now invite or remove users from collaborating on your playlists, meaning there’s more control over who has access to editing the content you love.
  • Share privately. You can now set your collaborative playlists to private, so no one can view, search, listen to or share a playlist– except for those chosen few who have been invited or given collaborative access.
  • Change your mind? At any given time, a playlist owner has the power to see, add and remove who gets to collaborate and follow their playlists.
For details on how the feature works, see:

Because of this change, this other idea is also being implemented. 

If you don't see this yet, don't worry. Just make sure to keep your app up to date and it should be available for you soon. 

Thanks for giving us your feedback in the Community.
Comments
DoomNation
Roadie
2021-09-11 10:50 AM

It was quiet for a while but now we're getting problems from MORRISDOWN

https://open.spotify.com/artist/5oParbzZX2BrYABh4s7G8r?si=9QwaniuORrGpNcAgwHB_Zg&dl_branch=1 

who is on a delete/takeover playlist spree. 

Had to restore about 500 songs. Can you explain as to why you will continue to allow this?

It's really not fair for artists who are trying to get ahead with honest hard work rather than cutting corners and stepping over people,

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Yarnlvrmeow
Casual Listener
2021-09-22 06:08 PM

Why is this not a priority? Its super annoying to have random trolls/people ruin the playlist you enjoy with real people in your life. It takes away from how much we all enjoy Spotify.

 

I might accept this if I used the free version, but I pay for the premium account and expect better service. I would hope that addressing this obvious flaw in the service would be important to Spotify.  Do other paid streaming services allow clients curated playlists to be ruined? Please address this. 

Yarnlvrmeow
Casual Listener
2021-09-22 06:12 PM

.....and another thing;  Why is there no formal mechanism to address this obvious flaw?? Why am I prompted to send an "idea" in and then told that my idea has already been  and am referred to an idea that is almost 10 years old? Obviously this is something that people have brought up several times and have experienced the same annoying problem problem of random people ruining their playlists. DO BETTER SPOTIFY!

saturns
Newbie
2021-10-06 01:37 AM

I agree!

DoomNation
Roadie
2021-10-16 08:47 AM

MORRISDOWN hit one of my playlists again.  Spotify -  If you don't want to change the code to stop random people from deleting songs, aren't there rules against harrassing behavior? I think this qualifies as that. Making a playlist secret is not an option. It defeats the whole purpose of having them  in the first place. But you choose not to address the problem and have hundreds of your customers grieve and complain.  This type of negligence blows my mind.

_-ce4xi3i5
Newbie
2021-11-08 11:00 PM

I used to say Spotify Premium was the easiest $10 I spent each month...then this started happening to me.

 

The problem itself is awful enough, but the fact that a company with hundreds of millions of users / a multi-billion dollar valuation has deprioritized the very basic feature of being able to determine which users can collaborate on a playlist for almost a decade is so unbelievably ridiculous, it actually makes me want to cancel my subscription.

 

Beyond disappointing.

The_Orange_Frog
Newbie
2021-11-23 04:58 PM

I really think that this is something that should be prioritised. Almost as a safety and security feature would, this isn't anything like a new feature.

Levyn
Casual Listener
2021-11-24 12:26 AM

Love the idea. I don’t care for the chat function, but I made a playlist with my girlfriend, and somehow other people started adding songs to it even though we never shared the link with anyone. So yes, we need collaborative playlists where we can choose a select number of people who can add / remove / manage. Instead of making it public for everyone. 

DoomNation
Roadie
2021-11-24 07:19 PM

I was speaking to quite a few Collaborative Playlist Curators were have only been trying to use their playlisting activity to build community and engagement. A whole slew of them have been having MASSIVE problems with MORISDOWN (@morisdown, @morisdownmusic) what he does daily is go to the Twitter search bar and search the latest for Collaborative Playlist) he finds one that someone tried to promote, goes to the playlist and immediately deletes everything and replaces it with his own. Playlist, after playlist, after playlist..... Spotify just sees playlist adds for his artist profile and boosts his algorithms.  Rewards him for stealing basically. But you need to think about it. Do you really want artists to succeed for their talent and hard work  or because they know how to cheat the system by sabotaging other people's hard work? These people only come around one or two at a time. If you took care of these small handful of sociopathic thugs or would you let them  run the show and you get stuck with over 1000 people who are complaining over the actions of these few. Maybe you should mull over that. I personally don't care who ads what to my playlist, it's never a problem for me to clean it up so often, but by giving everyone delete right, there are those who will sabotage your playlists for retribution or just because they want to take it over. 

Yarnlvrmeow
Casual Listener
2021-11-24 08:56 PM

So frustrating! I dont have twitter but am considering starting an account with the sole purpose of @ing them about this issue. Also so detrimental to smaller artists who rely on streams.