How to Get Back and Keep Your Deleted Spotify Playlists

Posted by Adam Gorden on Feb 6, 2023 5:00 PM.
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For keen Spotify users, one of the main frustration you have can be mistakenly deleting or removing a playlist you've been loving for years. Good news is that you have the ability to get it back. And more luckily, if you deleted it just now and are looking for how to undo the deleted playlist, you are also able to do the trick! It's exciting to recover or undo your deleted playlists, but there's more you need to be aware of.

In this post, we'd like to introduce your options to get a playlist back on Spotify. Even better, you can also have the benefits to keep your favorite playlists on Spotify forever.

Part 1. Can You Get a Playlist Back on Spotify?
Part 2. How to Save Your Playlists on Spotify for Keeping
Part 3. How to Recover Your Deleted Playlists on Spotify
Bonus Tip: How to Keep Your Spotify Playlists Forever

Part 1. Can You Get a Playlist Back on Spotify?

Once of the best features of Spotify is the ability to provide millions of playlists for you to save, create and organize in your library. If you delete/remove or lose a playlist from your library accidently, the good news is that you can get it back on Spotify. but you need to confirm the playlists are your own playlists - not the ones made by Spotify.

There're several types of Spotify playlists. Your own playlists are the ones you already create on Spotify platforms and are defined as Listener playlists. And those playlists that Spotify made for you are defined as Personalized playlists, thus effected easily by the algorithms. Personalized playlists are different for each listener, based on their unique taste and listening such as likes, saves, listens, shares, skips and preferences. You must make the personalized playlists yours when it comes to recover your deleted playlists on Spotify.

Part 2. How to Save Your Playlists on Spotify for Keeping

Most playlists update regularly to stay fresh, such as playlists made for you on Spotify, including your Spotify Mixes, Daily Mix, Discover Weekly, Release Radar, On Repeat and Repeat Rewind and more.

If you don't save the playlist to your library, you will lose the access to the one from above. Though you can't save a particular version of a playlist on Spotify, you can add some particular songs to an existing playlist or Liked Songs playlist for direct access at any time.

How to Save Playlist Songs to an Existing Playlist

Now pick your device to see how to add all tracks of a particular version of a playlist to your own playlist on Spotify.

To add a playlist to other playlists on desktop:

1. You'll need to prepare a new playlist or existing playlist in the side menu to add the tracks to that. To create a new playlist, right-click on the blank area of the playlists section > Create playlist. To rename your playlist, right-click on it and select Rename.

2. Now find and go into the playlist you wish to save to that playlist.

3. Click the More button > Add to other playlist. Find and select an existing playlist.

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4. All the playlist songs are added to the selected playlist. You can go into that playlist to check the added tracks.

To add a playlist to other playlists on mobile:

1. To save the desired playlist songs to other playlists, you'll need an already created playlist in your Spotify Library. To create a new playlist, head to Your Library and tap the + icon at the top right > Playlist. Then name your playlist and tap Create to continue.

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2. Now go to the playlist you wish to save to your library, such as your Daily Mix playlist.

3. When you're viewing the profile of the playlist, tap the More button > Add to other playlist. Choose any of your own playlists as a destination.

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4. All the tracks are added to the selected playlist. Return to Your Library to check it.

How to Save Playlist Songs to Liked Songs Playlist

Please pick your device to see how to save some particular songs to your Liked Songs playlist on Spotify.

To add a playlist song to Liked Songs playlist on desktop:

1. Go to the playlist that update regularly on Spotify.

2. Find the song you wish to save to your Liked Songs.

3. Click the Heart icon to like this song. Or right-click on the song or click the More button to the right of the title > Save to your Liked Songs.

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4. Click the Liked Songs tab in the side menu and find that song is saved to your Liked Songs playlist.

To add a playlist song to Liked Songs playlist on mobile:

1. Go to the playlist which includes the song you wish to save to your Liked Songs.

2. Find the song in that playlist.

3. Tap the More button to the right of the title > Like.

4. Go to Your Library > Liked Songs and check the song in it.

Part 3. How to Recover Your Deleted Playlists on Spotify

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If you mistakenly delete your playlist on Spotify, you can use keyboard shortcuts to undo it immediately. Or if you won't be able to undo the delete of your own playlist, you can also get it back within the last 90 days. Your options are as follows:

How to Undo Delete Spotify Playlist

Once you delete your Spotify playlist and wish to undo it immediately, please use these keyboard shortcuts for Mac or Windows.

For Mac: Cmd+Z
For Windows: Ctrl+Shift+Z

Please Note: If another device is in use to consume the Spotify contents (at this time the Spotify Connect is enabled), these keyboard shortcuts are not available on your device to undo something you deleted. Please ensure to disable Spotify Connect and select your device to make a difference.

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How to Get Back Your Deleted Playlists on Spotify

As stated, you have the ability to recover your playlists that you deleted for a while (within the last 90 days). Since Spotify allows you to do the trick with an option to recover deleted playlists. You can get it back easily.

To recover deleted playlists:

1. Log in to your Account page.

2. Click Recover playlists in the menu on the left.

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3. Find the playlist you want to recover below the Recover playlists section. Click Restore next to the title of the deleted playlist.

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4. Open Spotify and find the restored playlist at the bottom of your playlist collection.

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Bonus Tip: How to Keep Your Spotify Playlists Forever

You can always choose to save and recover your deleted playlists on your Spotify Library. If you're on Premium, the download service is available for you to download your playlists for offline play. Just ensure to go online at least once a month so Spotify will keep all your downloads. But once your subscription is ended, canceled, or expired, you'll lose the direct access to your downloads.

Here's the best solution for both Free and Premium users to keep your Spotify playlists forever. If you wish to keep a particular version of a playlist on Spotify - for either Personalized playlists or Listener playlists, you can download it and keep them on all of your devices. All you need is a powerful Spotify Music downloader. Even you stops paying the subscription fee, your Spotify downloaders won't disappear.

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