# How to stop "Global Playlists" from being shown for ever

**URL:** <https://community.roonlabs.com/t/how-to-stop-global-playlists-from-being-shown-for-ever/7716>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [February 6, 2016, 8:00pm UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/how-to-stop-global-playlists-from-being-shown-for-ever/7716 "2016-02-06T20:00:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Ludwig](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/ludwig/32/48293_2.png) [@Ludwig](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/Ludwig)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 8:00pm UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/how-to-stop-global-playlists-from-being-shown-for-ever/7716/1 "2016-02-06T20:00:04Z")

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I just made a playlist. My first in this installation.

The playlists screen is full of other playlists (6 pages-worth), which disappear when I unclick “Display Global Playlists”. I don’t know where they came from. They weren’t made by me or the other user.

How can I make them disappear forever?

Were they really meant to be there in the first place?

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**Author:** ![Greg](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/greg/32/48370_2.png) [@Greg](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/Greg)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 8:17pm UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/how-to-stop-global-playlists-from-being-shown-for-ever/7716/2 "2016-02-06T20:17:43Z")

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They should be Tidal playlists. You should see a Tidal logo.

Either right click or long press on the playlist and then select “delete” in the top right corner.

Cheers, Greg

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**Author:** ![mike](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/mike/32/48354_2.png) [@mike](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/mike)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2016, 12:58am UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/how-to-stop-global-playlists-from-being-shown-for-ever/7716/3 "2016-02-07T00:58:40Z")

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> [@Greg](#):
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> They should be Tidal playlists

They also could be M3U files – since those are imported from your hard drive, they’re not assigned to any user and are global.

You can delete them from your hard drive, or in Roon if your Core has sufficient privileges.

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**Author:** ![jayrammusic](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/jayrammusic/32/48405_2.png) [@jayrammusic](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/jayrammusic)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2016, 1:07am UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/how-to-stop-global-playlists-from-being-shown-for-ever/7716/4 "2016-02-07T01:07:05Z")

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Could they have come from itunes? I had 4 playlists in Roon that I never created. They came from itunes and I had to go into itunes to delete them. itunes seems to autogenerate them…

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**Author:** ![noris](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/noris/32/161230_2.png) [@noris](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/noris)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 8:55pm UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/how-to-stop-global-playlists-from-being-shown-for-ever/7716/5 "2025-01-02T20:55:07Z")

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Closed due to inactivity. If you are still seeing this issue, please open a new support thread.