Support

Locking track positions

Lock a song to a specific position on your Spotify playlist so it stays put, even as other songs come and go. Useful for anchoring a playlist's opening song, a featured track, or anything you want to keep in a fixed slot.

How to lock a track

On your playlist's Tracks view in SubmitHub, every row has a lock icon.

• Open padlock = unlocked. Click to lock at the current position.
• Closed padlock = locked. Click to unlock.

Locked tracks get highlighted in purple so you can spot them at a glance.

How enforcement works

Once a track is locked, SubmitHub keeps it at its position automatically:

• If someone (or something) moves it to a different position, we put it back
• If the track gets removed from the playlist, we re-add it at the locked position
• Enforcement kicks in on every playlist load, after every share or removal, and during sync passes

The system also handles gaps intelligently. If locked tracks would collide (two songs trying to be at position 3), we process them in order and shift the rest accordingly.

Limits

• Maximum 20 locked positions per playlist
• Locked tracks can't be removed through SubmitHub's scheduled removals. If a removal is queued for a locked track, it won't fire until you unlock the song first.

If a track keeps slipping

The most common cause is editing the playlist directly in the Spotify app rather than through SubmitHub. That's fine, we'll re-enforce on the next sync pass. If something stays out of place even after that, reach out at our support ticket page and we'll have a look.