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[Music] Warning when a Track is removed from Spotify

I use Spotify to store the music i like - saving them on Playlists. Spotify adds music continuosly but also deletes other, by licence problems or whatever. But you Spotify must warn me in that circumstances, so I can get that music from another source. It s not acceptable that you quit music from your servers and from my playlist without any kind of warning. It s a disrepect to the user of your service. Please solve this problem as soon as it s possible.

Updated on 2019-01-11

Hey folks,



 

Thanks for coming to the Community, and adding your vote to this idea!



 

We're keeping this idea to 'Not Right Now', as this isn't something we have any immediate plans to implement. We appreciate you sharing your thoughts.

 

As before, you can show unavailable track by going to Settings -> Display Options -> Show unavailable tracks in playlists. This setting also works for saved songs.

 

If we do have any new info to share, rest assured we'll check back in here with a new status.

 



Thanks.

Comments
elovasz

I think it would be good to have the Spotify Software alert the user when/if a song has been removed from a playlist. 

Being a premium subscriber I must say I find it really aggravating to go into a playlist to play a specific song and it no longer be there. Having some sort of notification that tracks have been removed would be nice. 

 

An added benefit to have would be to have an explanation as to why it was removed for instance "song by artist has been removed due to label/artist licensing issues.

 

Thanks!

ojtg

I fully agree with this proposal!

ChrisAhlund

Any news about this?

Peter__
Status changed to: Up for Votes

Changed back to "new idea" status - once this idea reaches 100+ kudos (kudo requirement has been changed) the Spotify staff will review it again and decide on a new status. ~ Peter

NikkiJayne

Really brilliant idea.

Taylor

Sounds like a good idea to me! Would be helpful, lots of users have this problem

 

Anthony 🙂

Tomcore

Want to post the same idea, because I have a big Playlist...
Really important feature in my opinion!
Thumps up!

Cammyarrsxs

Kudos!

PR3M1UM

Yes!

shannonw6290

I'm a premium user and I put all of my songs in one giant playlist with about 3500 songs in it at the moment...I'm much too unorganized to make tons of different playlists! So, I've found that many times after adding some songs to my playlist, they later are grayed out and are unplayable. The thing is, when I search for the unplayable songs in Spotify, many times the songs are still available, perhaps on different albums. The problem is that since my playlist has so many songs, it takes forever to scroll thru and see which tracks are grayed out. This is a big problem for me and I don't have time to scroll thru my playlist all the time and clean up. My suggestions to Spotify would be:

 

1) Give us a notification when a track on one of our playlists becomes unplayable

2) If a track becomes unplayable but the song is still available on Spotify on another album, automatically replace it.

 

I would prefer the first option since I would want to know which songs are unplayable, even if there's not a playable version on Spotify to replace it with.

 

In the meantime, does anyone know if there's some sort of application that exists that will show you all your unplayable tracks? (Again, I know there's an option to make them visible on Spotify, but my point is to see them all without having to scroll thru the playlist) Thanks.