How to Recover Deleted Playlists on Spotify

Nicky is a music student in California. She loves to listen to different kinds of music compositions. What could be a better medium for her than Spotify? It brings the world’s music to her fingertips. She can carry her favorite playlists for different music genres and access them ‘on the go’ on multiple devices.

But, one day, while sorting her Spotify playlists, she by mistake deleted her carefully curated African-American Blues collection! A gaffe, which she couldn’t afford.

Did you also accidentally delete your Spotify Playlist like Nicky? Or has your playlist disappeared from Spotify?

Apart from deletion, Spotify songs may simply disappear from the Library due to a technical glitch.

No worries…here we bring the easy ways to get back the lost and deleted Spotify Playlists.

Spotify is a music streaming service. With Spotify, you can play millions of songs and podcasts for free. You can also listen to the songs and discover your love for music from all over the world. There are multiple choices for browsing.  You can search through the interface by artist, album, genre, playlist, record label, and direct searches.

How to Recover Spotify Playlists

Spotify has a playlist recovery feature in the users’ account options. You can use it to recover Spotify songs that were deleted. Further, an Undo command is helpful when you immediately use it after deleting the songs from your Spotify Library.

If this doesn’t work, contact the Spotify team to get help regarding the lost tracks.

Methods to recover Spotify Library/Playlists

1. Recover songs with your Spotify account
2. Use the Undo command.
3. Contact Spotify Support

1. Recover songs with your Spotify account

To recover songs on Spotify, the music platform has a ‘Restore’ feature. Use it to get the deleted songs and playlists back in Spotify Library.

What you have to do:

• Sign in to your account in the Spotify app or webpage. If you are on Spotify web player, click on the down arrow next to your name in the top right corner. Select ‘Account.’

It will direct you to the Spotify web page. Now, log in again.

• On the left pane, click Recover playlists.

• On the right pane, find your deleted playlist. Click Restore in front of it.

2. Use Undo command

If ever you delete the playlist and immediately realize the slip-up, undo your mistake quickly there and then.

Hit Ctrl+Z on the keyboard (for Windows PC) or Cmd+Z (for Mac). Your last action, i.e., Spotify playlist deleted, will be undone.

Note: This method will not work on Spotify’s web player.

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Recover the lost and deleted audio recordings with the help of DIY software, Stellar Photo Recovery.  It’s an advanced audio recovery tool that can restore unlimited audio file formats without affecting the original quality.

3. Contact Spotify Support

Spotify Support Team is quick to respond to the complaints directed to its Twitter account. If you are unable to recover deleted playlist with the ‘Restore’ feature, tweet the problem to @SpotifyCares.

Downloaded Spotify songs for offline listening are missing!

• It’s probably because you didn’t go online with Spotify for 30 days! Spotify wants you to access it online at least once in 30 days, or else any music track that you have downloaded to listen to offline is removed from your device automatically.
• Check if your Spotify subscription is active or not. Offline access to music is a feature, especially for Spotify Premium users. When your Premium plan expires, you also lose access to any offline music, podcast, etc., downloaded with the Premium account. You can stream those tracks from Spotify online.

Does it get difficult to find songs from your several playlists? Follow this Tip to manage your Spotify playlist

Place your Spotify playlists into folders. This makes finding them easier. Click on the three dots on the top and follow File >New Playlist Folder. Next, a folder is created under the Playlists. Give a name to it and move your desired playlists into it.

Note: This option is only available on the desktop version of Spotify.

Benefits of Music Streaming apps –

• Music streaming apps are easy to access; you can listen to them offline as well as online on both Mobile and on System.
•  It provides you with a large catalog of Music, the best playlist Recommendation, and a variety of plans (More Music, less trouble).
• It saves music from piracy.
• You can make your own playlist and share it with other people.
• The sound quality is way better.

Also read: How to Recover Deleted or Lost Music Files from SD Card

Deletion of Spotify Playlists is a common issue. Spotify’s Recovery feature rescues in such cases. However, if your songs have vanished from Spotify without tapping on the delete button, it could be due to a technical fault. You may contact the Spotify team for help.

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Sumona Chatterjee

Sumona is a tech blogger, avid photographer, & technogeek with vast experience in writing about media file recovery tips and tutorials. She has over 10 years of experience in media file recovery/media file repair technology. She is passionate about Photography, Creative Designing, Music, and Exploring lesser-known destinations.