How to create a collaborative playlist on Spotify
Maggie Tillman, US contributing editor · 15 October 2021 ·
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[Pocket-lint] - Spotify offers a collaborative playlist feature that makes it easy to invite others to join a playlist and add to tracks to it. Here's everything you need to know about collaborative playlists on Spotify, including how to make one.
How to create a collaborative playlist on Spotify
Spotify now lets you and your buddies collaborate on a common playlist. Here’s how to do it.
- By: Tech Desk | Mumbai |
- October 17, 2021 12:40:47 pm
Spotify allows you to not just listen to your music by streaming it, but also make music listening an interactive experience with your buddies with features like Group Sessions. Spotify also lets you and your friends make a playlist together with its Collaborative Playlists feature.
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The new feature lets you “team up” with your friends to create a playlist together that each one of you can edit, shuffle and add songs to or remove songs from. Users can also see who is contributing to the playlist and each song features the avatar of the user who added it to the playlist next to it.
Collaborate on playlists
You can let your friends add videos to your playlist. When you turn on this feature, anyone that you share a playlist link with can add videos to that playlist.
Before you start, create a playlist. If you need help, follow these steps to create a playlist.
About Collaborating a Playlist on Spotify
Making a playlist collaborative essentially opens modification options to the public. Anyone who reaches your playlist can add, remove, and reorder tracks in it. However, collaborative playlists aren’t visible in search results. This is a security measure to keep the playlist from falling into unwelcomed hands.
The owner of the collab playlist would have to share the link to the playlist. The link may be further circulated to invite more participants. A collaborative playlist opens to participation only via the playlist’s link. The owner can make a collaborative playlist non-collaborative at any time – and the participant’s tracks would become the owner’s.
You cannot have a collaborative playlist displayed on your profile. You cannot make a public playlist collaborative, as you’ll lose the option to make a playlist public when you make it collaborative. They’re mutually exclusive. This is most probably a feature to help protect a collaborative playlist from random participation.
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You can only make playlists created by you, collaborative.