Repeatedly getting takedown notices

[DragonLis]

Email from Spotify:

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.

spotify:playlist:7lzP4XdJJ9udgbpwJpdpSE

Regards,

Spotify

Plan

Premium

Country

United States

Device

(PC)

Operating System

(Windows 10)

My Question or Issue

To whom it may concern,

I have a playlist that has piano music, ambient, movie soundtracks and other relaxing type music on it, it is not popular (only 18 likes) that is repeatedly being taken down for some reason. Everything on this playlist comes from Spotify itself, the picture is only the music albums auto populated by Spotify. It was originally named RPG Sleep, which I thought someone might not understand RPG in this case means "Role playing game" so I changed it to "Generic relaxing video game music title here" and it still got taken down. I do not believe I am violating any policies, so I feel like someone is trolling me. I've repeatedly reached out to Spotify multiple times for an investigation to see if someone is harassing my account and it has fallen on deaf ears. Can someone PLEASE help me figure this out? Many thanks in advance.

[prazkhanalofficial]

You can report it on the Spotify legal claim related to content:

Click here 

[DragonLis]

The way this form is worded, it looks as though I'd be reporting my own playlist to be in legal violation of something, which it is not. This does not solve the problem. 

[OscarDC]

Hey @DragonLis,

Thank you for keeping in contact, and sorry for the late response as we just came across this thread. 

The mail you received means that someone else has reported your playlist. This usually removes the title and cover image from the playlist, but you can rename it and upload a new picture that follows our "Profile and playlist user image guidelines" without any issue.

Also, the relevant team is already working on a process to decrease false reporting on playlists. If you want to show your support for it, we'd recommend adding your vote to this idea by hitting the "thumbs up" button. We'd also suggest checking its status for more info. Any relevant updates will be posted there.

Hope this helps. In case anything else comes up, the Community will be here for you.

[DragonLis]

Thank you for your response, but I have already both changed the profile picture and renamed the playlist to several different things several different times. I suspect someone who "liked" my playlist is also the one abusing the reporting. I have also already voted on the idea that was posted awhile back. Hope you guys can implement a solution soon. 

[WilliamLiu]

Yes! I have been having the same issue. It seems that Spotify does not have any penalties to the party making the false violation, resulting in me having my playlist reported EVERY DAY FOR A FEW MONTHS. Which is bullsh*t because Spotify doesn't even check on the complaint and automatically takes the playlist down!

[zsofins]

The same thing is happening to me with my Playlist Thai DJ, however, someone has also made a copycat playlist and stolen my image which is my original photograph.  Spotify is ignoring me yet my playlist name is being taken down every single day. What can we do? Why doesn't Spotify do anything? My reporting leads nowhere either.  REMIX https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3BwmuH1yE8sWFKcZYWiTSE

[yaktam]

Spotify has decided to go the "woke" route. If you don't like someone's playlist, you can report to have it TAKEN DOWN. Try it yourself. 

Lol. What a bunch of idiots.

Anyways, with another user's help and that of ChatGPT, I created a script that taps into Spotify's developer API and automatically renames and updates the description of a playlist of mine that was being targetted by some bozo, who didn't like it. And was reporting it. Daily. 

To get your playlist active again, as you might already know, simply login to Spotify using a browser. Then sort your playlists by alphabetical order. Your un-named (TAKEN DOWN) playlists should be at the top. Simply rename them and your back in business.

Problem was, I was having to do this manually at least once or twice a day.

Forget that. I automated a script to do that for me. It ran for about a month. Must have been SO demoralizing to the stupid moron who was reporting my playlist at random times every day, to see it come back up within an hour of his having the playlist being taken down (the script runs on the hour, every hour).

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Your-Library/Playlist-Takedown-Notification/m-p/5798414#M45099

Now if Spotify took that category out, 99% of us having this problem, would NOT have a problem.

So how about it Spotify? How about you "wake" up? And fix an abusive and useless category?

[chessbuzz]

Any updates on this. This is still happening, and it's a huge issue for curators with many likes.

[DragonLis]

At the time of writing this I can confirm that yes, someone who "liked" and followed my playlist was the abuser. I had tried several different tactics to figure that out including changing my playlist tile to "insert generic title here" and it still got taken down. I created a completely separate playlist (ID number has changed), completely different title with the same songs and it has not been taken down since. Unfortunately in order to stop the abuse right now, you have to empty your followers to take out the trash. This is not OK Spotify, if someone "likes" or follows a playlist they should not be allowed to report on it.

[WilliamLiu]

Yeah. Spotify doesn't care about curators.

[yaktam]

Your only hope is to outlast the abusers. By running an automatic script. Like the one I posited on here. 

Worked for me. Wore the poor **bleep** out.

[nicksaban]

This happens to me to, about 4 times a year, and it's for my profile picture that I took of myself. I've used different pictures, they all get taken down. Please, Spotify, do something about this. 

[yaktam]

Spotify is getting together as we speak. To figure out new ways to give the "woke" culture more power. 

Today, they can take down your playlist because "I just don't like that playlist." 

Tomorrow, it will be because "I might not like this playlist. Tomorrow."

Yet, as I wrote this, I double checked. Because that is my nature. Something has changed. The wording is different:

Content I don’t like

If you choose this option, Spotify may keep a record of your feedback, but the content will not be reviewed against Spotify's Platform Rules

Is Spotify becoming "unwoke?"

Only time will tell...