Collaborative playlists
A couple of weeks ago we talked about the excitement of getting music recommendations and inspiration from our friends and our ongoing search for delicious things.
I found myself making a kick-ass playlist with house music and sent it to my friend Eric, since he’s my great source of inspiration when it comes to music. I believed the playlist would haven been even better if he could have helped me by adding a few favorites and edit the playlist. The more the merrier, right?
Anyway, here at Spotify we believe that sharing is the golden path. Therefore we released collaborative playlists today. That means that not only are you able to share playlists with others, you can let them edit the shared playlists as well. We would love your input on it so try it out and let us know what you think!
In order to turn on collaboration for a playlist, right-click (or Ctrl-click on the Mac) the list and select Collaborative Playlist. Then copy the link to the playlist and send it to a friend.
When your friend clicks on the link, it opens in Spotify and your collaborative playlist is added. Now you can both make changes, which will appear on both of your screens instantly. You can identify a collaborative playlist by the unlocked padlock icon next to it.
You can share the playlist with any number of people, but remember that anyone who gets the link will be able to alter your playlist, as well as pass the link on to others. There is currently no way to give only specific users the right to alter a collaborative playlist, other than by controlling the access to the link. The link is the key to the playlist.
You can, however, turn off the collaborativity of the playlist the same way you turned it on. Then only you will be able to alter the playlist, but everyone who has got the link will still be able to view and play the list.
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spotify:user:nouhad:playlist:72SapzIZOsg5bIIE35Fmcg
Hey there, there’s my shared Playlist. Would appreciate if you could drop in some recommended music into
Thanks!
spotify:user:kottereal:playlist:5EB9M9v8JAuw7ySI4MbFJi
spotify:user:kottereal:playlist:27Woe32id3UeHpztex9RSS
Feel free to post them on http://www.spotifylists.com
Is there a way to do this in Linux?
I have Ubuntu Linux and run Spotify through Wine.
spotify:user:an:playlist:6chZUVdWneeCnmmrEAmp5N
test:http://open.spotify.com/user/an/playlist/4KcSXbVhEO7OjxZv3khEuZ
test again: http://open.spotify.com/user/an/playlist/0HtH2aJKZk8PuSsjHueVAp
It’s not very clear weather it’s the URL or the http-link you are supposed to copy. Nevertheless, I can’t get none of them working. We both have Spotify but I get the error message: Invalid option: spotify:user and so on. I have chosen spotify.exe as program to open with. Can someone please make a step by step instruction?
Amazing!!! Really great feature!
I hope some of the suggestions in the improvement area are implemented to make it even better!
I love Spotify!
/Bengt
Great!!!!!! really cool i can share all my music with my friends
doesent seem to work instantly, the times i have tried it, it takes 5-15 minutes before alterations show on the list.
I don’t seem to be able to get this to work with my friend. I’ve set it as collaborative, sent him the link but he can’t get the link to work… :( any ideas?
spotify:user:penando:playlist:2ZofDhmUjFURNd7Hs5UX3s
This is my link but yours dont exist ;(
Ni i Spotify-gänget är så häftiga det är fanimej inte riktigt klokt. Kan bara önska lycka till i fortsättningen. Världens drömjobb är inte på Hamilton Island - det är på HGG20.
This doesn’t seem to be working very well at all. So far I’ve managed to get in to one collaborative playlist, about 20 minutes ago … now, if I try again, it tells me “playlist not found”. And that’s exactly the message I’m getting when I try pretty much every other shared-playlist link — ones other people are obviously having no problems with. Hey ho.
Superb feature! Would be even better if one could see who added a certain track to the playlist…
Great job!
This is amazing. Just what I’ve been looking for for years!
I am also having problems using the collaborative playlist, i’ve tried a dozen times, with various links that people have pasted on this blog, but I have the same problem as a few people above, the playlist starts to load then a message appears “playlist not found”? Can anyone shed some light? does it work with the free version?
Thanks
yeah it would be great to know who added tracks to the playlist :p
Neat function!
A feature for the collaborative playlists would be to have a function automaticly matching up users with quite alike playlists but then adding or suggesting tracks from the two lists the users might like.
Response to Grandgroove:
Yes, it does work with the free version… Me and my dad worked it out perfectly well!
Super awesome feature i love it.
Just logg in and there are a few new songs everytime ^^
spotify:user:jontesjoberg:playlist:4iSP4D71o41ksAudJaJWZt
Very nice feature. What would be even nicer though is oif it would be marked what user added what song. :)
BR
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spotify:user:dr_horror:playlist:1zzMngb37B9I6DgSQYkWRY
Here’s one of my playlists. Feel free to add more music if you like it:
spotify:user:poizonivy:playlist:7zwZo8GJmrmnjwpf6vyc8M
Is this feature available to those of us using the free version of Spotify or just subscribers? Collabarative Palylist isn’t highlighted when I right click
it would be nice if there was a colume in wich the Nickname of who have added the specifik song, so i know who have added so i can talk to that person and comment the song chosen..
Collaborative playlists are great!!! This is a nice feature. It would be good if permissions can be assigned (read for everybody / write for selected users). Also a column with the nickname who added the song would be excellet.
Thanks for listening our suggestions Spotify team!!
“Is this feature available to those of us using the free version of Spotify or just subscribers? Collabarative Palylist isn’t highlighted when I right click”
Same here, incredibly frustrating.
Can someone tell me how to get credits for sending invites to friends i know alot of my friends have herd about spotify and have asked me to invite them
Loving your work :) x
this is myn spotify:user:charlex93:playlist:40NwA7hpbIVSQNyqvUlOWv
Wow, superb, we’ve just told everyone at our dance class about Spotify so they can listen to all the awesome swing tunes our teacher plays, and now I can make a collaborative playlist for us all to listen to & add to.
Thanks Spotify
Cool feature. So therefore I am adding one of my playlists. How about some hairmetal? :-)
spotify:user:espenfj:playlist:17CnUwSQcC8UcXmIunS6hI
For those using wine and have trouble adding playlists, just copy the spotify:user resource and paste it into the search bar.
How can I invite a friend to be member of spotify
spotify:user:petethebeat:playlist:6Uuo7gWNwmy80YIyZ8H3NI
spotify:user:petethebeat:playlist:2Y7UvaO8zN1Fp2uHqa02QQ
spotify:user:ayeare:playlist:6G7cSTW0nwWDKQTynGW3TD
When i shall collaborative my playlist it just wont work. A box apear “Could not synchronize playlists. Retrying…” Why is this?
I am also tryin to setup and establish a collaborative playlist and am experiencing the same problem i.e “could not synchronize playlists.” Why is this and how can it be solved? Thank you
mine will not even find the playlists i have made on another comp let alone other peoples playlists :(
what could cause this? is it a firewall prob or something like that?…
A great feature - would be great to be able to leave a little note with each track on a playlist, as you might do if you were making a mix-CD for someone.
I would be nice to know who has added a song to a collaborative playlist… ;-)
Please, help me add some good music
spotify:user:rogerandersson:playlist:6dONiea9s4JrNPLcqa0yyL
Need some help, I use spotify on 2 computers. I’ve done my playlists on one of them, but when i log in on the second comp there’s no playlists at all? how do i get them? copy the adresses on the first one and enter them on the second?
plz help me!
I’m just getting a “Playlist not found” error message in Spotify whenever I try to access a collaborative playlist. As are my colleagues. Not working…
Seems there are some issues with playlists at the moment. Right now, https://www.spotify.com/en/help/service-status/ says: “We are currently experiencing some problems with playlists”. Seems it’s been going on for a looong time though ): Love the service though.
How do i upload music onto spotify?
spotify:user:kornely:Playlist:6d4Kt1yb1mzBsnSKuL0vyl
Thanks everyone, I’ve got a bunch of colabs in my window playing right now! Just make sure you back yours up with a private playlist so that if some jerk deletes all the music in it, you can still put it back up. Thanks again!
Possibility to comment added songs would be welcome as well.
Great feature, we’re using it to soundtrack a party. What would be ace is if there was a de-duplication button so any duplicates get taken out.
Otherwise, we have 20 Beyonce Single Ladies to scroll though. Ace though it is, we’d be exhausted after all that dancing.
My playlist has stopped playing with an error message saying “My song will play after the commercial message”. It has been like this for over an hour. Is this normal or is there some problem?
http://open.spotify.com/user/mr.bordell/playlist/4jIi9To3KbXoHvsd00I0JD Just testing
How do i get to send invitations?
spotify:user:ltwee:playlist:46GbJCgS1j3YiWTfTs7kCy
Can I share music with my friends?
Yes, you can drag and drop any track, album, artist or playlist to your email or instant messenger which creates a link to your favorites that you can send to your loved ones. They need to have Spotify to listen, though. Read more about sharing and collaborative playlists in our blog.
Sounds brilliant! I’ve already sent mine to some friends. I’ll let you know about it.
Fantastic! Spotify, you rock…
d-.-b
hej hej the best list ever
Please, try to keep your shared lists not too much long, please. I can spend 30 minutes to upload on my computer some people’s lists, if they have more than 100 songs inside.
Greetings to everybody from Barcelona…
here is mine… spotify:user:flanaghann:playlist:1BZ5P67LsK6HrOA9HHz3Ih
Any suggestion will be heard, and some of them will like and some will not, thank you for every one and each one of your comments…
spotify:user:simondymond:playlist:2SRkPVRiJ2O4v9K2Gwx87c