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Licensing Issues?

Posted by miester861 28 weeks 12 min ago

While I respect the events of two or three months back, and recognise that it wasn't the fault of Playlist...

I have to lift a massive 'What the HELL?' to you guys when EVERY SINGLE song, from my playlist of one-hundred-twenty-something tracks, is blocked and greyed out.
Considering that it includes songs from most genres, with a wide variety of artists, how does this happen? Especially since I doubt that a HIGH SCHOOL of all things would be after you for licensing reasons.

As the error message says something about playback in my country (UK) I'm guessing this may be some sort of server malfunction?

If this could be fixed quickly, that'd be great, if not, I'd like an explanation.
Thanks!

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Destinii Haruya said,
27 weeks 6 days ago

I have songs from well-known artists, songs from totally unknown Japanese groups, even NON-PROFIT remixes from fans. It isn't licensing. Heck, I have Vocaloid songs on there.

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zZenom said,
27 weeks 6 days ago

This absolutely sucks, just come on to play my daily playlist and it's blocked, screw proxys im going over to spotify!

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RedBabyUK said,
27 weeks 6 days ago

In reply to pulsecode

At least i was able to save my precious playlist-datas (containing all the original URLs) into .ASX-Files b4 they might dissapear completely. And i would recommend to everybody else who had spent a lot of hours to build up her/his playlist(s) to do so too, if you should want to build up similar ones on an other free music-portal (if playlist.com might "deceased" one time...)!
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Best regards
- by pulsecode ;)

There is no way I am going to switch a proxy server on and off to allow me to play my music, which will them conflict with most MMORPGs and not allow them to run simultaneously!

Thanks for the tip but the customers finding loopholes isn't a solution to this, PP needs to sort out licensing issues PDQ!!

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queenhippeh said,
27 weeks 6 days ago

I'm seriously pissed off, I worked on making a good few long playlists for myself to enjoy listening to everyday. I'm in the UK...so what the fuck?

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miester861 said,
27 weeks 6 days ago

A request to the mods out there...

I realise that you've been given a set response to give us, but could you at the very least, either tell us what sort of legal licensing stuff is going on, or, preferrably, just tell us when you're expecting services to be running again.

If you don't feel confident to explain yourselves, could you possibly post a link to something relatively useful, following the example of Pulsecode.

(Btw, Pulse, thank you for said links. I had wondered what was going on back then.)

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Deleted User said,
27 weeks 6 days ago

(inserts Grrr face here) evil site! =/

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miester861 said,
27 weeks 6 days ago

Not really. Evil corporate dudes.

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JdotRex said,
27 weeks 6 days ago

How can every song, even the ones by european artists be blocked due to licensing restrictions?

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miester861 said,
27 weeks 6 days ago

I think it's a blanket block of all songs, until they work out what they're allowed to stream.

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bimpstons said,
27 weeks 6 days ago

Bloody stupid always had music playing on my blog..now nothing! Licencing problems as everyone else - to the Moderators of this site it would be good to let people know if you expect us to ever get our music back!!! Courtesy and all that us British like that.

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LoneET2 said,
27 weeks 6 days ago

Lawyers at work

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miester861 said,
27 weeks 6 days ago

Whose?

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W166LES said,
27 weeks 6 days ago

What a load of BS!!!
So why are my controls disabled? can't even listen to tunes by british and other NON US artists.
And what about classical music...? who owns rights to Beethoven Handel and Vivaldi etc? Nobody, that's who!
Sort it out or i'll find another pop-out player to post on my sites.

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Moonshine Angel said,
27 weeks 6 days ago

Ok. This is absoloute bull....
Videos work with music, yet the songs dont. Absoloutely crap. They apparantley arent in some liscensing problem, or we'd be unable to listen to the videos. This is just rubbish, all of my playlists are completely greyed out

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miester861 said,
27 weeks 6 days ago

We KNOW.

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Jeannette-Anna said,
27 weeks 5 days ago

"tracks may be unavailable for playback
in your country."

I hope you can change this problem into a solution for every country wanting to play the playlists.

Much greetings by Germany,

I want to hear the earth-song again by Micheal Jackson perhaps...!

Jeannette-Anna

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Jeannette-Anna said,
27 weeks 5 days ago

The problem doesn`t exists if you use the creating for a new video playlist. May be another solution.

Have a nice weekend ;-))

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hellomegans said,
27 weeks 5 days ago

this sucks.
i have 3 playlists pretty much full and none of the songs work.
i'm in scotland, why the vaj cant i listen to music because i'm in a certain part of the world?
it should matter where you are.
this is so stupid.

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xxkathrynxx07 said,
27 weeks 5 days ago

This is ridiculous, anyone know of another site? because Im done with playlist O.o

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CemeteryxDrive121 said,
27 weeks 5 days ago

WTF, I would like my playlist to work again please :(