topic Re: Why are my public playlists not showing up in search? in Content Questions

Why are my public playlists not showing up in search?

JosieBea — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 22:12:34 GMT

Hi, I have made a bunch of public playlists but when I search for any of them, even using the exact words they don't show up - if there's a playlist with the same name that shows up but then come the one's with one word or sound's like - and still mine doesn't show at all. Hence I don't have many follower! Not that that matters but making great playlists is a form of sharing is caring plus I might say to a friend just search for the title but they're not going to find it. Can anyone shed light? They are all marked public and they all show on my profile. Which is Josie Beatrice if anyone feels like investigating. Thank you!

Re: Why are my public playlists not showing up in search?

Yordan — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 11:11:45 GMT

Hi @JosieBea,

Welcome to the Spotify Community!

Unfortunately, not all playlists on Spotify are indexed. There are multiple factors that come to play in order for a playlist to show up in Search such as popularity, number of followers, uniqueness of name, etc. This post goes more in depth, so feel free to check it out for more info on the matter. For the time being, I recommend sharing the link directly with your friends.

The Community is always here if there's anything else you need assistance with.

Cheers!

Can't find a friends playlist

lizd027 — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 19:08:28 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

Device

(iSamsung and desktop

My Question or Issue

My friend has made some playlists and has given me the name of them to find but I can't. I actually haven't been able to for about the last year. Is there any reason for this and how would I find it OR has spotify changed something and this function is no longer available. Very confused

Re: Large playlists

TylerCorl — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 07:38:59 GMT

I'm also having this issue... I have a playlist with roughly 1700 songs on it. I share it with my partner and they have collaborative access, and it's definitely set as public. But I've tried finding it on various different accounts and even signed out, but to no avail. I just went through my emails and nothing shows up for this. Maybe it's a bug? Unsure. But it is really annoying 😞

Re: Public playlist not searchable

IngmarK — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 20:33:26 GMT

I have the same problem. What is the solution?

Re: My playlist is not coming up when searched by name

sirkala — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 07:41:26 GMT

Is there anyway to disable this behaviour? If not, I think the only option is to cancel premium, because this behaviour is getting to be so frustrating. I don't want to pay for this unusable nonsense.I want the first search result to be an exact hit, not anything that ~the algorithm~ has decided that I must want.

For a particularly egregious example, today I was looking for a playlist whose name was long and unique - and in English. Instead of giving me playlists of this name Spotify was showing me an endless variety of playlists whose names were in Finnish and save for one, not even remotely related to what I was searching for. This is getting ridiculous.

Re: Why are my public playlists not showing up in search?

carlosknoop — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 07:40:56 GMT

I have a feeling this is a contrivance to prioritize Spotify's AI junk playlists, by not letting people have searchable playlists.

Re: Public playlist not searchable

carlosknoop — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 07:46:15 GMT

I finally found one playlist that I couldn't find with Spotify's search feature, which I had tried on and off to access for over a year, usually just giving up flustered. It's a playlist that is mentioned frequently on a popular podcast so it should have been easy to find but was impossible through Spotify's useless playlist search engine. What I just did now that finally worked was typing in the name of the playlist to a Duck Duck Go search engine instead of through Spotify. This brought up a link that worked but I haven't tried it on more than the one playlist.