Playlist Takedown Notification

[lukesp_]

Plan

Premium

Country

Brazil

Device

(Samsung Galaxy A71, Windows 10)

Operating System

(Android)

My Question or Issue

I got emails saying my playlists had been taken down. Below is the text of one of the emails:

'Hello,

We have found the following content to be in violation of our content policies, and we have removed it. Please see our Spotify Terms and Conditions of Use for more information.

(Playlist url code)
Regards,

Spotify'

The big question is: What is it about? What was the violation and why am I allegedly in breach of Spotify's Terms and Conditions of Use?

I've been using Spotify on the Premium plan for years, and that's just now (and with my biggest playlists). They lost their name and photo. My playlists have become the second largest in the category they are in, so I have strong suspicions that the takedowns are due to malicious reports.

I humbly and kindly ask for an explanation of what happened and why it happened and a solution.

Sincerely,

Lucas.

[yaktam]

Good luck w that.

Your request was blended in with our thread (playlist takedowns) because Spotify has delegated customer support tasks to a single line of code. So if you think someone from Spotify will be giving you specifics, good luck.

Back over a year ago, my playlist was taken down. For no apparent reason. It was then that I found out, that a Spotify user had the ability to "report" someone else's playlist. For several different reasons - copyright infringement, sexual content ( I know, right?), violence, racism, etc. But here's the thing. You can also "report" a playlist "just because you don't like it."

To re-establish your playlist, simply rename it. Even the same title you had before. As it is likely that a single individual has targetted your playlist, most likely for competing "likes."

It finally dawned on me and likely others, as to why Spotify would have created a such a category as "I just don't like it". If AI was doing the "takedowns" AI could simply reply to your email. And give you exactly the reason it was taken down. The reason why you'll never find out is much simpler than that.

Cost cutting.

They simply have a single line of code attached to the "repor"t function of Spotify. With absolutely NO humans or AI following up.

10 If "report" = (a, b, c, d, e or f) rename "target playlist" to "NULL"

20 goto 10

Only die hard "haters" of your playlist will re-report your playlist to have it taken down again. In which case we've created a Python script for you to automate it's renaming. For Spotify's linited API allows you to do that. But luckily, it does not let you automate reporting. My "hater" took 39 days to finally give up. Hopefully yours is a lot less.