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.

[user-removed]

Plan

Premium

Country

India

Device

iPhone 11

Operating System

iOS 17.x

My Question or Issue

One of my oldest and fondest playlists has suddenly been taken down by Spotify. It was named “Hindi Chill” and there was nothing in it that went against community guidelines. This is so frustrating.

[PowerfulSystem]

Plan

Premium

Country

Argentina

Device

(Samsung S23 Ultra

Operating System

Android 12

My Question or Issue

Hello. I've received a report stating that one of my playlists was taken down for not following the rules. However, the playlist only contained hardstyle music. I've been a Spotify user for a very long time, and this has never happened before. I'm unsure of what steps to take. Please help me. I want to get back my playlist : (

[yaktam]

It has now been 19 days since the last takedown notice. 
Script is working its magic. 
The person who was manually trying to takedown my playlist, has gone onto more rewarding ventures (dumpster diving perhaps?).

[tom101]

Best wishes, was on a holiday so I couldn't start with this earlier. Getting less errors... or others 🙂 
But I still have issues when running the script.  I now get: INVALID_CLIENT: Invalid redirect URI in the browser.

I checked my account in the development environment in spotify, and the client_id and client_secret are correct.

In the script:
<tab>auth_url = f'https:%%accounts.spotify.com%authorize?client_id={CLIENT_ID}&response_type=code&redirect_uri={REDIRE... }'

I changed the last part of it to REDIRECT_URI.. otherwise the script comes back with the message pop up: f-string: invalid syntax. Perhaps you forgot a comma?.

I think I'm almost there.

[musicloft_ch]

We're supporting Popmusic in our country through podcast, acoustic session and our weekly instagram release radar. For that Release Radar we built a weekly updatet playlist on spotify.

We've receveid a mail from spotify, including this text:
Spotify has determined that your account has engaged in unauthorized use of the Spotify service in violation of the Terms of Service. As a result, Spotify has removed the ability for one or more of your playlists to be publicly available.

Our Playlist got removed from public and we can't get any further informations from spotify.
Has anyone ever had any similar problems or does anyone know how we could get our playlist back?
Thx!

[yaktam]

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[yaktam]

Hi Tom,

I think I see what is happening.

That line is getting chopped up by this community's message editor. It is actually a long line of code, but Spotify's Community editor chopped it off in my original post. At the end of the line.

Please blend the 2 following lines into 1 line in your Python script:

<tab>auth_url = f'https:%%accounts.spotify.com%authorize?client_id={CLIENT_ID}&response_type=

+
{CLIENT_ID}&response_type=code&redirect_uri={REDIRECT_URI}&scope={scope}'

Note the overlap. Remove one of the redundant "{CLIENT_ID}&response_type=" and you'll be good to go!

Also, remember to change the percentage (%) signs to forward slash (/) signs!

Regards,
yaktam

[yaktam]

Give us the URL to your NON Public Spotify list. To see if we can see WHY that playlist is being targetted.

1. Login to Spotify on the web
2. Goto your playlist
3. In the top address bar, you'll see something like this:

https:%%open.spotify.com%playlist%0exb4xn8UnO4xY5FZz6mfO

You'll notice in my example above, I've replaced forward slashes (/) with % signs. So I can post this example here. Otherwise, Spotify removes your post.

Regards,
yaktam

[hanaleann]

I don't mean to be rude but this is isn't helpful. False reporting is rampant and Spotify does nothing to stop it. 

[yaktam]

Why isn't it helpful?

We already know that Spotify is turning a blind eye to the false reporting. This is a way on stopping that false reporting by wearing out the person that is doing the reporting. Because while we can automate the RENAMING of our playlist, they have to manually report the playlist. Its time consuming for them everyday. With an automatic script, you just have to put in the time once. And then sit back and enjoy the show - repeated emails about being TAKEN DOWN at random times of the day with your script doing the automatic renaming. As often as hourly. The people doing it to me must have been frustrated as **bleep**. Finally gave up 3 weeks ago. 

It's a game. Within a game called life.

We can complain. And luckily, in this case, we can do something about it.

I personally love complaining.

But I love fixing things even more.

The fix is here. You just have to roll up your sleeves and get messy. Believe me. It's worth it.

PLUS. If it happens to a different playlist of yours, you simply change the playlist ID in the script and WHAMMO! Another bad guy down for the count. 🙂

[gccengineering]

Yes, it's not helpful, that's why when I make an extra playlist they
will be set as private and they will share a copy with the ones I
would trust to share it with. It seems that Spotify hates seeing my
public playlists, so they remain private for now on.

[gccengineering]

The playlists are set to private, and not public anymore. Problem solved.

[musicloft_ch]

Thanks for your response. It's this playlist: https:%%open.spotify.com%playlist%2xJwClc54WikWHn0qWo1Nt

[yaktam]

Just open up a browser version of Spotify. Then browse your playlists. Its in there. Its just greyed out because it has NO NAME. Rename it and you're up and running again.

Of course, if you are getting targetted by a malicious user "reporting" your playlist, then you'll need to read the rest of this thread. 🙂

[yaktam]

Nope. Can't see it, as it is private. 
So at this point, I would experiment. 
Create two playlists.
Break up the songs and put half of them in one playlist. Half in the other. And wait for Spotify to tell you which list is the offending one (if any).
Then rinse and repeat.

[Amber35]

I have had it twice today and they keep removing the name of my playlist. I have had it for 6 years and it absolutely violates NO rules at all. It's called "Happy Office Playlist"  A few days ago I had a "content creator" private message me and ask me if they could buy my playlist and I ignored it, and now this keeps happening. I'm positive it is a false report. What do I do now?  I have over 3500 likes on it.  So it's affecting all of those who follow it. Thank you.

[yaktam]

Read this thread.
Learn how to use Python (super simple).
Use my Python "rename" script.
Get it to work every hour by using Task Scheduler (Windows).
And let those that are targetting you, cry in their keyboards at the sheer futility of their enterprise.

[Elia_bergh]

Plan

Premium

Country

The Netherlands

My Question or Issue

My carefully curated playlist (3.9k followers) has been unfairly removed multiple times, despite adhering to Spotify's community guidelines. Each time, I receive an email notification stating that my playlist has been reported, but no explanation is provided.

I have renamed the playlist several times in an attempt to resolve the issue, but the playlist kept being taken down. I have also reached out to Spotify Live Chat for assistance, but my interactions with seven different agents have been repeatedly cut short after they said they would "take a minute to check.", which is frustrating

I believe that my playlist complies with Spotify's guidelines. Please help me get to the bottom of this issue and get my playlist to stop being taken down 🙏

Here is the link to the playlist : https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6l4Mna6cyGQB0L8nFIbQTW?si=1e7cc672415b47a0

[chessbuzz]

Any updates? This is a huge problem.

[yaktam]

The only update that I have, is that I wore out the abusers, by running my script every hour for about 3 weeks. I can't imagine the sheer frustration on the abuser's part, of reporting my playlist, watching it go down, and then come back up within the hour. They finally gave up and slinked off into a dark corner of the web. 

So in final analysis it works!