How to delete a playlist COMPLETELY?

[bgnguyen]

I deleted a playlist. It still exists. I want to delete it completely. Even if someone has subscribed, even if it's saved for offline on one of my devices, I don't care, I want it completely deleted and removed.

There must be a way to do this. 

[meahtenoha]

Hi bgnguyen - The best way to permanently remove the playlist for you and the followers is to:

1. Select all the tracks: Click the first track, then hold down 'Shift' while clicking the last track. Then Right Click > Delete. 

2. Then right click the playlist title and select Delete. 

The tracks will disappear for all followers and will be removed from your account page. 

[bgnguyen]

It still exists even without tracks: http://open.spotify.com/user/bgnguyen/playlist/0sfOohFFF1aVkKKYaGmPF2

and this one: http://open.spotify.com/user/bgnguyen/playlist/1rLc3Q08KVJ2lX3MzEAREc

[Greg]

Hi bgnuyen,

Once deleted, a playlist will still remain accessible if you keep the link or were following it originally.

If you're keen on making it as unavailable as possible I would also suggest renaming it " - " after removing the tracks. This turns it in to a playlist divder and then has no resemblance to your original playlist. 

Hope this helps! 

[bgnguyen]

Thanks Greg for taking the time to respond.

I'm looking for a complete solution, not a rename/masking. I want to invalidate the URL and delete the existence of the playlist. I understand that a lot of idiots people mistakenly delete their playlists even with a confirmation and this is a reason that playlists do not actually get deleted.

Still looking for a method of actually deleting playlists since they are showing up on my Facebook - About Me - Music

[Greg]

No problem 🙂

Currently there isn't a way to completely delete a playlist like you're after I'm afraid. 

To stop the playlists showing on Facebook, you can always right-click them and select 'Make Secret' though!

[CaliforniaJerry]

Has a complete solution yet been provided by the developers of Spotify? I would also like to completely remove a playlist from my account. When will this be fixed?

[Peter__]

Unfortunately not, the best thing you can do is delete all of the tracks from inside a playlist then delete the playlist and it is completely useless to anyone else then.

[CaliforniaJerry]

SOLUTION: (How to Delete a Private Playlist)

I just figured out how to delete a "secret" playlist..

Navigate to my user playlist page:
   >> https://play.spotify.com/user/<username>/

Click on "Playlists" in the left side panel.

Click on the playlist I want to delete.
At the Top of the page, under the playlist title, click on the ellipsis (three dots) and select "delete".

Done.

[Peter__]

Anyone who follows the playlist will still be able to see it though.

[Dsignosaur]

Go to the URL: https://play.spotify.com/user/yourusernamegoeshere

On the left, click on 'Your Music'.

Your playlists will show up. 

RIGHT click on whichever one you want deleted.

Click 'Delete'.

Done deal.

[cocchini]

+I simply wanted to delete a playlist which kept on returning after I played

another playlist.  In the "old" days you would uninstall Spotify and reinstall

and the problem would go away.  But with today's Spotify reinstalling would

return the same problem!!

So I tried reloading Spotify from a site other than Spotify's.

Here it is:  http://filehippo.com/download_spotify.  Spotify came back

without the offending playlist!!!!  Everything is back to normal, just as

in The Good ol days.

[ypinskiy1]

How do I delete playlists on my phone android it just says hide playlists

[bookwords]

To delete a playlist completely on a laptop( i have a mac), just go to the side where it says all of your playlists, then right click on the playlist that you want to delete. a menu should appear and at the bottom there should be a delete button. 

  im not sure if this only works for macs or if it works on other laptops/computers to.

  hope i helped!

[Ptomalley35]

When you hold down the playlist this should come up 

Just hit delete playlist 

[Rena98]

If you're on an iPad or something like that, you can go into the playlist section, click the edit button in the top right and then red and circles will appear, click them

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@bgnguyen wrote:

I deleted a playlist. It still exists. I want to delete it completely. Even if someone has subscribed, even if it's saved for offline on one of my devices, I don't care, I want it completely deleted and removed.

There must be a way to do this. 

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[JuliaU7000]

I don't like this course of action. We should be able to PERMANENTLY delete what we don't want linked to our account anymore.

[evedog10]

THERE IS A FIX!!!!! Click on the playlist keep holding down then a menu will show up.