Random users keep adding their own music to my playlists

[hisforhannah]

I recently made a private collaborative playlist for my friends to send me music to listen to while away from them.  I sent the link to them and only them.  We are all USA, using premium, yadda yadda.

After about a week, several random users from other countries started adding their own songs to it, some of which were un-verified artists adding their own music to the playlist in some sort of self-promotion? When I click on their profile, the Report button is shadowed out so that I cannot click it or report them.  After scanning the community boards I couldn't find any true solutions to this problem.  

I've made a copy of the playlist just in case the randoms start deleting songs, but is there any sort of privacy feature I could instate to get rid of the randoms and block them from adding their own music?

I've attached a screenshot to try to illustrate the problem.

[mclovin976]

You say Spotify is working on this, but it's been a problem for nearly 2 years and nothing has changed. Really a terrible, terrible user experience. Between this and Joe Rogan, it's time to finally switch to Apple Music.

[Buscus_dude]

I tried Apple Music, sadly Spotify is the best we have right now. Im hoping YT music will turn it around, but thats Google, they’ll also find a way to make everyone angry. We live in an age where maybe going back to the Walkman and Mixtapes is the better option.

[Buscus_dude]

I think if the name of your playlist is nonsensical l, like some random Russian letters or something, it might be harder for people to find it and join, so maybe try that?

[15d2eomchxxk8e5]

NO RESOLUTION AFTER 2 YEARS. This is still an issue. It just happened with my boyfriend and I's shared playlist AGAIN. Spotify is being useless about it, and you can't even report users for constantly spamming. When either of us tries deleting the songs these spammers add to our playlist they DON'T EVEN DISAPPEAR. What's the point of using this then? I'll just go back to buying and downloading. Support your favs directly because Spotify screws them over too.

[Dell_Ray]

I'm right there with ya. Can only hope that millions of others will get sick of their uselessness and do the same. Maybe when nobody wants to use their service because they did nothing for them they'll realize that maybe they should have been a bit more receptive to us and our wishes. Those of us who pay for premium should be treated a bit better in the conversations at the very least. They're greedy, lazy, rude, and just plain LAME!

[Dell_Ray]

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@awarenai wrote:

I'm having this issue as well. Just bc of random people I had to delete all of my collaborative playlists. I think the links should be for single use like in the Discord or the way to create them should be changed.

And I DON'T KNOW how they just get access to my playlists, I never shared the link except for my friends!

I hope the Spotify Team will do something about it. 

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Don't worry, they won't do anything about it. They don't do much of anything besides take your money, shut you off real quickly if it's not there spot on time, make sure you're all living in the same house, whether you're related or not, and shut down good ideas. Spotify used to be pretty good a few years back but they got big, so now their $h1t don't stink and yours still does so they aren't doing anything for the users except being complete a$$e$. But they are working real hard at promoting expansion into areas that don't give a **bleep** save for 10 users that probably won't ever sign up for a premium account. It's the way to do things these days don't you know? Nobody cares about anybody anymore. If you think they do, you're just falling for the fakeness that's rampant with the selfishness. Get with the program or you're in for a long hard road to disappointment.

[Julian · Accepted solution]

Hey folks! 

We want to thank your for your patience. We've listened to your feedback an 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. 

This means that the following ideas have changed their status to IMPLEMENTED:

• Only selected Playlist Authors for Collaborative Playlist

• Limit Editing Access in Collaborative Playlists

For details on how the feature works, see:

• https://support.spotify.com/article/playlist-privacy/
• https://support.spotify.com/article/collaborative-playlists/

If you don't see the changes now, don't worry as this should be available for everyone in the coming weeks. Just make sure to keep your app up to date. 

Thanks for visiting the Community!

[jennygreen]

Someone is hacking my Spotify playlist.  How do you stop people from hacking your Spotify?

Thanks,

Jennifer Green

[Alex]

Hey there @jennygreen,

Thanks for the post.

If you think that your account has been hacked, please follow this Guide to secure it.

If this is happening to only one playlist, describe what's going on in more detail and we'll offer more relevant advice.

Cheers.

[Dell_Ray]

Well, this wasn't one of my issues but it's nice to see that they have at least stepped up to take care of one that must be a pain. (insert half hearted hand clap) Now if they'd only either, change the name of the family plan to "household" or "same address" plan, or actually offer a family plan, which would include actual family members regardless of address instead of anyone who lives at one address we'd be getting somewhere! Also bring back balance control and a visualization platform option. Being able to keep the music we download would be out of this world too much to expect for a pay service, but it sure would make a music service complete!