Spotify is a music streaming service that offers users the ability to create and manage collaborative playlists. Collaborative playlists are a great way to keep your music library organized and easy to access. To create a collaborative playlist, you first need to create a Spotify account and sign in. Then, you can click on the “Collaborative Playlists” tab on the left-hand side of the main Spotify screen. Next, you’ll need to create a list of songs. You can either type in all of your songs or just select a few from your collection. Once you’ve selected your songs, click on the “Create playlist” button. Now, you’ll need to provide some information about your playlist. You can name it whatever you want, but make sure it’s unique enough so that other people can’t easily join it. You also need to provide some information about how people should use your playlist: by themselves or with others. Once you’ve provided all of the information needed for your playlist, click on the “Create playlist” button again and wait for it to be created! Once it’s created, you can use it as desired!
Got a big party coming up, but don’t want to leave the DJ duties to just one person? Thanks to Spotify’s collaborative playlist feature, you can be sure that no matter what taste in music might suit the mood best, everyone will get their say.
To start a collaborative playlist, begin by opening up your Spotify client on a PC, Mac, or a compatible mobile device. Next, you can either create an entirely new playlist from scratch, or take an existing playlist and add more people to the fray.
Create a Collaborative Playlist
In this example, we’ll be creating a new playlist designed for our upcoming “party”:
After the playlist has been created, right click on it in the sidebar and choose the option for a “Collaborative Playlist”.
If the process was successful, the new collaborative playlist will be denoted by a small circle seen just above the playlist’s name in your sidebar that looks something like this: .
Invite and Share With Your Friends
To invite new users to add their own songs, right-click on the playlist one more time, and open up the share prompt by clicking the “Share” option.
Once here, you can either add friends from your Spotify account, or if your Facebook handle is attached, anyone who’s linked to that account.
After it’s been shared, anyone with access will now have the option to add, delete, or modify the order of any songs contained within that specific playlist!
Collaborative playlists can be a fun and easy way to share, create, and coordinate with friends on what you think the best music of the moment might be.
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