Can random people add to a collaborative playlist on Spotify?

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.

What happens when you make a playlist collaborative?

Team up to make the ultimate playlist. Make any playlist Collaborative to let your friends add, remove, and reorder tracks. ... Share the playlist with your friends.

Are Spotify collaborative playlists private?

One drawback of this feature is that public collaborative playlists will allow anyone on Spotify the ability to add songs to it. ... A playlist can be made private by right clicking the playlist title or using the ellipses button and selecting "Make Secret."

Are collaborative playlists private Spotify?

One drawback of this feature is that public collaborative playlists will allow anyone on Spotify the ability to add songs to it. … A playlist can be made private by right clicking the playlist title or using the ellipses button and selecting “Make Secret.”

Why is my Spotify collaborative playlist not public?

Keep in mind that it’s not possible to make a collaborative playlist public using the desktop app. However, you can do this in the mobile app by tapping the three-dot menu in the playlist and selecting “Make Public”. Hope this helps.

Do collaborative playlists show up on your profile?

Anyone who reaches your playlist can add, remove, and reorder tracks in it. However, collaborative playlists aren’t visible in search results. … You cannot have a collaborative playlist displayed on your profile.

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What happens if you make a playlist collaborative on Spotify?

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.

Can my followers see my collaborative playlist on Spotify?

Just tested this, you can’t set Collaborative playlists you follow to public on your own account either, they are always private.

Can anyone join a collaborative playlist on Spotify?

As the name implies, anyone can add songs to a Collaborative Spotify playlist — all they need is a link to it. Any song that gets added will show up for everyone, meaning no one ever misses an update. Here’s how to make a Collaborative playlist on Spotify, send it to your friends, and start adding music to it.

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