How to create a collaborative playlist on Spotify

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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 tracks to it. Here’s everything you need to know about collaborative playlists on Spotify, including how to create one.

What is a Spotify collaborative playlist?

Spotify claims that with its Collaborative Playlist feature, you and other Spotify users can “team up to create the ultimate playlist”. You can make any of your Spotify playlists collaborative, just by letting your friends add, remove, and rearrange tracks. You can even see everyone who contributes to the playlist via their user avatars in the playlist header. Each track or episode added to the collaborative playlist will display the profile of the person who added it.

How to start a Spotify collaborative playlist

To create a collaborative playlist on Spotify, follow these steps:

Mobile device

1. Open the latest version of the Spotify mobile app.
2. Tap Your Library.
3. Tap Playlists and select a playlist you created.
4. Press the Add User button.
5. Tap Make Collaborative.
6. Share the playlist with your friends on Spotify.

Office

1. Open Spotify.
2. In the left panel, right-click a playlist.
3. Select Collaborative Reading List.
4. Share the playlist with your friends.

You can only invite people to collaborate on a playlist that you created. (The playlist will have a circle icon to show if it’s collaborative.)

Want to know more?

See the Spotify FAQ page for more details.

Written by Maggie Tillman. Originally published on October 10, 2020.