I have a collaborative playlist that someone is spamming unwanted music in daily

[noahboardman]

My friends and I have been working on a collaborative playlist for a while (about 2 years) and just within the past few weeks a user has been spamming songs every day. This user's name is "SPOTIFY". We have no idea where they came from or how they found the playlist, considering it has stayed within our group for the past couple years. This user has been adding songs that are in Spanish to the playlist (not that there is anything wrong with that, we just don't understand it). Every day I delete the songs and sometimes twice a day they're added again. All songs are by the same artist, **bleep** Hernandez. We also think this user also deleted a bunch of our songs, which I had to recover through Spotify's customer service. Is there a way that I can stop this from happening? I made the playlist private but it is still happening. 

[Emilia_8 · Accepted solution]

Hello @noahboardman, 

Thank you for reaching out here in the Community!

When a collaborative playlist is public on any profile, other users can edit it. 

Keep in mind that of other users follow this playlist or have a link, they still will be able to edit it, even if the playlist is secret. 

The best way to get rid of the unwanted user, would be to create a new secret collaborative playlist and move all the tracks to it.

The easiest way to do it is in your desktop app, you can follow the steps below:

1. Open the playlist you'd like to copy
2. Select all tracks contained in the playlist - you can do this using ctrl + a (on Windows) or cmd + a (on Mac)
3. Right click on the selected tracks
4. Select Add to Playlist > New Playlist

Then you can also share the link with your friends.

Make sure to keep the playlist secret on all profiles and not share it with other users, so only you will be able to edit it. 

You might also be interested in adding your +VOTE to this Idea. 

More details on how your feedback reaches Spotify can be found here. 

I hope you'll find this helpful!

[noahboardman]

Thanks for the help!

[Emilia_8]

Hi @noahboardman, 

You're welcome and thank you for accepting my answer as a solution!

Have a great day 🙂

[27157aster]

Unfortunately I have the same issues. I wish Spotify would allow us to report users like this, it's becoming a serious issue.