Spotify: Exit, Stage Left (with intact playlists)
January 27, 2022 4:55 PM Subscribe
Our household was already in the midst of untangling from Amazon Prime, but it's feeling like the right moment to recenter my music collection on a local device. Plenty of stuff on Spotify that I've loved and never owned, and will need to purchase.
The harder part is all the playlists I've created. Somewhere around 500, some with really obscure artists and multiple hours of music in each. I would like to export the playlists, but I don't think there's a way to do it in the app. Is there another way to access and save those as text files or xlsx? How about liked/followed artists?
The harder part is all the playlists I've created. Somewhere around 500, some with really obscure artists and multiple hours of music in each. I would like to export the playlists, but I don't think there's a way to do it in the app. Is there another way to access and save those as text files or xlsx? How about liked/followed artists?
You can download them as json arrays using the Spotify API.
posted by bricoleur at 5:48 PM on January 27, 2022
posted by bricoleur at 5:48 PM on January 27, 2022
I believe that's exactly what Spotlistr's export tool is doing under the hood.
posted by flabdablet at 5:54 PM on January 27, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by flabdablet at 5:54 PM on January 27, 2022 [1 favorite]
Seconding SongShift. I used it a few months ago to grab all my Spotify playlists, and it was pretty seamless. I paid for a one-month subscription because I had hundreds of playlists, and it was US $10 well spent.
posted by smich at 8:23 AM on January 28, 2022
posted by smich at 8:23 AM on January 28, 2022
I just unplugged from Spotify. I followed the guide that gingerbeer posted above, and signed up for a trial on Tidal. Using TuneMyMusic, all but 11 of my 1,000 songs in the playlists I transferred so far were matched and synced via this process. And I downloaded a csv of my entire catalogue for future reference.
posted by mephisjo at 10:33 AM on January 28, 2022
posted by mephisjo at 10:33 AM on January 28, 2022
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posted by flabdablet at 5:37 PM on January 27, 2022 [3 favorites]