How To Make a Collaborative Playlist
September 29, 2020
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Over the past six months, music and podcasts have brought people together like never before—especially when it comes to playlist collaborations. That’s why starting today, we’re giving our Collaborative Playlist feature an upgrade, so users around the world can continue feeling close to their friends and loved ones through the power of music and podcasts, even from afar.
Collaborative playlists are a great way to swap podcast recommendations, share your latest music discoveries, and build the perfect playlist—together. Look out for four fresh new updates, including a new Add User button in the playlist header [to easily invite others to contribute]; a list displaying user avatars in the playlist header [to see who else is contributing]; and finally, new user avatars in front of each track or episode [to see exactly who contributed what, and perhaps make fun of their questionable choices].
Getting started is easy, whether you’re creating from scratch or inviting friends to weigh in on an existing playlist.
- On your phone or tablet, tap Your Library.
- Go to Playlists, and select the one you want to collaborate on [keep in mind you can only do this for playlists you’ve created]
- Tap the Add user button in the header to make the playlist collaborative
- Start inviting others to add songs and podcast episodes on social media, messaging apps, or simply by copying and pasting the link
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Now that your masterpiece is created, try listening together in real time with Spotify’s Group Session beta feature. Now that’s teamwork.
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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.
How to make a Collaborative Spotify playlist
You can make a Collaborative playlist in both the mobile and desktop apps. You don't need a Premium subscription.
1. Open Spotify and start a new playlist, or open one you already have that you want to make Collaborative.
Quick tip: You have to be the playlist's owner to make it Collaborative. Playlists that others made but you added to your library won't work.
2. Click or tap the three dot icon underneath the playlist's name and picture, then select Make Collaborative or Collaborative playlist.
Open the playlist's options menu and select the "Collaborative" option.Spotify; William Antonelli/InsiderYou've now got a Collaborative playlist. If you ever want to make it private again, just go through the same steps.
Once your playlist is Collaborative, you can share it with other people.
3. Click or tap the three dot icon again and select Share, then pick how you want to share it. The simplest option is just Copy Link, which lets you share a direct link using whatever app or messaging program you want.
All you need is a link to the playlist.Spotify; William Antonelli/InsiderWith names like "COVID-19 Quarantine Bangers" and "Corona Virus Playlist for the End of the World," those of us "Flattening the Curve" have finally discovered what individuals on house arrest have known all along — when you're stuck indoors, you're probably going to make a Spotify playlist.
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But you're not a DJ. Hell, you might not even have good taste in music. How are you possibly going to make a playlist anyone else is going to want to listen to?
Easy. You get your friends to make a "Collaborative Playlist" with you.