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Importing iTunes playlists?

greycobalt — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 06:52:38 GMT

I use iTunes to manage my music library, but I import my playlists into Spotify to listen from there. I've been doing this fine for quite a while. This week however, when I added new music to iTunes and tried to import the new playlists, the option was gone. It's not that I can't select it, it just doesn't exist anymore. I've tried reinstalling Spotify, relocating where the iTunes library is - everything I can think of. I've seen other people post about this issue as well, but no one has answered. Does anyone have any ideas about what might have suddenly changed?

Re: Importing iTunes playlists?

greycobalt — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 08:06:47 GMT

Welp, nevermind! They took it out. That really sucks, guess I'll have to stick to iTunes.

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wcramernc — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 10:56:54 GMT

Ok Spotify, that's the 2nd feature I use that you've take away. I've been back and forth between staying with Spotify or going to Apple Music. You are making my decision easier.

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suniidae — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 05:35:33 GMT

Wow. Well that is a deal breaker. This is part of the reason I upgraded to Premium so I will no longer pay for Premium since they took away a necessary function for me. If Spotify had an easy way to import music, then maybe....but it is clunky at best, and now I see absolutely no way to import local files. Sorry, some stuff still needs to be imported in order for any platform to manage all my music. Goodbye Spotify. Google Music here I come.

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7mky6fxc7ac3mwc — Sun, 25 Mar 2018 01:43:25 GMT

I'm really thinking of going back to Apple Music. Too many songs not available on Spotify or greyed out, now I can't import from Itunes!? What advantage is there for me to stay with Spotify? None.

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samvillagomez — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 22:33:45 GMT

I Cant believe this feature is no longer aviable, this is a mess, the way i have managed all my music is by using itunes playlist, this is a clomplete wth and dealbreaker for me, i would check itunes music

Re: Importing iTunes playlists?

hans-jürgen — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 05:23:13 GMT

Using external tools like Soundiiz, Spotlistr (Textbox), Playlist Converter (Text or M3U) etc. should still work.

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retocaffi — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 11:06:08 GMT

hi, i have the same issues as mentioned above and came across your post. but how exactly do you mean external converters might still work, if there's no 'import' option any more whatsoever? or am i overlooking something?

Re: Importing iTunes playlists?

hans-jürgen — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 20:29:26 GMT

External playlist converter tools use the Spotify API to automatically create a new playlist e.g. in the desktop app with the found tracks in the Spotify catalogue. So if you upload e.g. an M3U playlist or copy & paste a text version of an iTunes playlist into their textbox, they will add the new playlist automatically.

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retocaffi — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 18:46:49 GMT

Thanks! I was able to solve the issue using one of the mentiones applications.

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retocaffi — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 11:11:30 GMT

Michael, many thanks for the link to your app. I'd be happy to give it a try - but I run OS, not Windows. Pls contact me again once you should have a Mac-version out...

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joelzilla — Sat, 21 Apr 2018 00:46:31 GMT

I tried soudiiz and it only copied 195 out of the 262 songs in my playlist

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dmac1984 — Tue, 01 May 2018 19:45:09 GMT

GOODBYE SPOTIFY YOU ARE DESTROYING YOUR USER BASE

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Theothistle — Mon, 14 May 2018 14:54:10 GMT

WHY??? why do you keep removing useful features, like being able to view lyrics, and now, the ability to import iTunes playlists?

I keep wanting to ditch iTunes for Spotify, but find that Spotify keeps removing obviously useful features!

Re: Importing iTunes playlists?

mayzilla — Sun, 20 May 2018 00:03:38 GMT

Not taking away that feature would be a big improvement to Spotify.

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erd11704 — Sat, 26 May 2018 01:46:24 GMT

Bad move removing this feature. There is no benefit in removing this feature. This was THE reason why I went to Spotify as I have an extensive iTunes library that I have been slowly importing over to Spotify. So now, with this gone, looks like I'm going back to iTunes especially with their new features. Again, bad move. Very bad move.

what is Spotify's rationale for removing popular apps?

Theothistle — Sat, 26 May 2018 05:19:59 GMT

What I really would like to know is Spotify's rationale for removing popular features...They must realize their customers won't be happy about this, so why do they keep removing features?

Re: Importing iTunes playlists?

mijas1999 — Sat, 02 Jun 2018 11:09:00 GMT

OK - so now it is June 2018, and still no way to import playlists? Still seems to be missing from the menu!

Re: what is Spotify's rationale for removing popular apps?

Theothistle — Sat, 02 Jun 2018 14:10:18 GMT

anyone? i would really like to know why Spotify does this...

Re: Importing iTunes playlists?

gbolmsjo — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 09:46:41 GMT

Cool changes? Are you kidding me? you you need to grow up, boys (I guess you are somewhere around 15-18 years or so...) This is not cool and to fun either. Try out to do som useful work instead