What Happens When You Delete a Spotify Playlist?

When you delete a Spotify playlist, it means that the playlist is no longer available for streaming and can’t be accessed from any other device. All of the songs within the playlist are removed from your library, and can no longer be played from any other device linked to your account.

The songs that were in the deleted playlist may remain in other playlists that you had created or subscribed to, but any songs which were exclusive to the deleted playlist will be removed from your library entirely. If any of those songs were on an album or in a larger compilation, they will still be available elsewhere but only if you go back and add them manually.

If someone else had shared the deleted playlist with you before it was deleted, they will still have access to it and can listen to it without any issue. However, they won’t be able to edit or add new tracks to that particular copy of the playlist anymore. Additionally, if someone else has subscribed to the deleted playlist, they won’t be able to access it either and will need to find a new one.

When deleting a playlist on Spotify, all of its contents are immediately removed from your account and any linked devices; however, if you have any offline copies stored on your device such as an mp3 file or a CD rip of one of the tracks on the list then those will remain unaffected by the deletion process.

Conclusion: When you delete a Spotify Playlist, all of its content is removed from your profile and any linked devices; however offline copies stored on your device remain unaffected by this deletion process. Furthermore, those who had shared or subscribed to this particular version of a Playlist will no longer have access to it either.