Copying playlists from Android to Spotify. I’ve pulled out most of my hair….please help me to stop!

[andy22000]

Yes, I’m going crazy trying to copy my Android playlists into Spotify. I’ve tried multiple “solutions”, and none of them worked so far. Pleeeeeease, can I get some solid advice?

Here are the details. I have about 1,500 tracks/songs allocated to 14 playlists in my Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 tablet 10.1 GT-P5100 (Android  4.0.3). The playlists, without the audio files, have been captured in the BlueMuze app as m3u files, backed-up in my PC (Windows 7) as separate files for each playlist.

I first tried to directly transfer the playlists from Samsung to Spotify. No chance. Spotify wouldn’t even to talk to Android; it would only import playlists from iTunes and WMP. Then a bit of surfing led me to various apps proclaiming to have the powers to get all sorts of playlists into Spotify. After much downloading and signing-up, I discovered that apps like “Ivy” and “Ubuntu” have bitten off more than they could chew. Translation: no good!

Finally, I thought if we can’t go direct, let’s go indirectly by first copying the playlists from Android to iTunes, and then in  a second stage, import from iTunes into Spotify. Logical: yes. Feasible: No. iTunes didn’t want to touch the Android playlists, unless I brought the audio files in with the playlists. And frankly, if I’m going to individually select 1,500 audio files, I might just as well create new playlists in Spotify manually laboriously.

Or do you have a better solution? Let me know quick….I’m nearly bald! Thanks in advance.

Andy   

[Joe]

I don't think there's an easy way to do this, sorry. Ivy seems to be your best bet but it does seem a bit temperamental at the moment. I managed to get it to work by hacking an m3u playlist using a text editor (regular expressions make this a lot easier) so that I just ended up with a list in the form of "artist - title" but I couldn't get the dropdowns to work. However adding a first line containg literally "artist - title" made it work without having to use the dropdowns.

Hopefully your hair will grow back quickly 🙂