diff --git a/apps/musicseerr/tasks.py b/apps/musicseerr/tasks.py
index 56ec05c..13f6f8f 100644
--- a/apps/musicseerr/tasks.py
+++ b/apps/musicseerr/tasks.py
@@ -275,31 +275,35 @@ def scrape_spotify_playlist(url: str, proxy_url: str) -> list:
     playlist_id = match.group(1)
     embed_url = f"https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/{playlist_id}"
     
-    proxies = {"http": proxy_url, "https": proxy_url} if proxy_url else None
     headers = {
         "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
     }
-    
-    logger.info(f"Scraping Spotify playlist via embed URL: {embed_url}")
-    try:
-        response = requests.get(embed_url, headers=headers, proxies=proxies, timeout=15)
-        if response.status_code == 200:
-            next_data_match = re.search(r'<script id="__NEXT_DATA__" type="application/json">(.*?)</script>', response.text)
-            if next_data_match:
-                data = json.loads(next_data_match.group(1))
-                entity = data['props']['pageProps']['state']['data']['entity']
-                tracks = entity.get('tracks', entity.get('trackList', []))
-                track_queries = []
-                for t in tracks:
-                    title = t.get('title', '').strip()
-                    subtitle = t.get('subtitle', '').replace('\xa0', ' ').strip()
-                    if title and subtitle:
-                        track_queries.append(f"{subtitle} - {title}")
-                    elif title:
-                        track_queries.append(title)
-                return track_queries
-    except Exception as e:
-        logger.warning(f"Failed to scrape Spotify playlist: {e}")
+    # Try with proxy first, then without proxy
+    for use_proxy in [True, False]:
+        current_proxies = {"http": proxy_url, "https": proxy_url} if (use_proxy and proxy_url) else None
+        proxy_desc = f"via proxy {proxy_url}" if current_proxies else "directly"
+        logger.info(f"Scraping Spotify playlist via embed URL: {embed_url} ({proxy_desc})")
+        try:
+            response = requests.get(embed_url, headers=headers, proxies=current_proxies, timeout=15)
+            if response.status_code == 200:
+                next_data_match = re.search(r'<script id="__NEXT_DATA__" type="application/json">(.*?)</script>', response.text)
+                if next_data_match:
+                    data = json.loads(next_data_match.group(1))
+                    entity = data['props']['pageProps']['state']['data']['entity']
+                    tracks = entity.get('tracks', entity.get('trackList', []))
+                    track_queries = []
+                    for t in tracks:
+                        title = t.get('title', '').strip()
+                        subtitle = t.get('subtitle', '').replace('\xa0', ' ').strip()
+                        if title and subtitle:
+                            track_queries.append(f"{subtitle} - {title}")
+                        elif title:
+                            track_queries.append(title)
+                    return track_queries
+            logger.warning(f"Failed to scrape Spotify playlist {proxy_desc}: HTTP {response.status_code}")
+        except Exception as e:
+            logger.warning(f"Failed to scrape Spotify playlist {proxy_desc}: {e}")
+            
     return []