Find local songs in the Spotify database

[ufhhvhvjjcy]

Plan

Free

Country

 Canada

Operating System

Windows 

My Question or Issue

I made a friend of mine a playlist, first through iTunes, and then I imported that playlist - and the songs in it - to Spotify. As it turns out, as almost all the songs are local songs safe for the few I added afterwards, my friend doesn't have access to the whole thing. 

I know Spotify does not have every single piece of music in the world, but I'm positive that pretty much the whole playlist is made of songs that are in Spotify's catalog. Is there a way I can replace automatically the local songs into Spotify songs? In other words, make Spotify look for each song that I imported into its own catalog and replace the local version for the one online. Make so that instead of having the local version of xyz track in my playlist, it gets the online version, AKA the one that my friend in another city can also play.

If it was only for a few tracks, I could do it myself manually, searching in the database to find the song and add it into my playlist. However, we are talking about 100+ songs to search for manually.

My metadata is 100% clean and reliable: surely there should be a way to get around all of this. By "should" I do mean that it is 2018 and so many applications can do such tasks using only metadata (or, in Shazam's case, the actual sound of the song) to identify music. So I'd be quite shocked if it's impossible to do.

[Peter]

Hey @ufhhvhvjjcy.

Thanks for posting your question on the Community.

Unfortunately it is not possible to find Spotify songs that match your local files. We understand that this is an inconvenience for you, but the only way to do it is manually for the time being.

Let us know if you have any other questions! We'll be right here 🙂

[AeroZ]

Hello @ufhhvhvjjcy!

Thanks for reaching out!

It seems that what you want to do might be possible with STAMP. It advertises that it can move from CSV file to Spotify. But I haven't tried it myself so I can't guarantee if it'll work or not. You might be able to test it with 10 songs (limit for free).

Hope this helps 🙂

[hansenkd]

 Spotify has ALWAYS been able to match local files to songs in the database, as long as the metadata matches.  This was especially useful for unplayable songs with licensing issues, as you still got the album art, link, etc., on playback.  But a little over a week ago, this impressive and nifty functionality seems to have disappeared, and while local files are still playable, they are no longer matched to the database. I have yet to see an explanation for the loss of this feature, which has been functional in Spotify for years.

[Arkthur_US]

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@PeterPeter wrote:

Unfortunately it is not possible to find Spotify songs that match your local files. We understand that this is an inconvenience for you, but the only way to do it is manually for the time being.

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Are you kidding me? So you were not aware that you could match local files to Spotify catalog songs all this time? Like since the very beginning of Spotify you can do it. Don't play with us.

It's been for like two weeks or so that this beautiful feature has been broken. No more than that, and I (and, I bet, much more people) want a straight forward answer from someone who knows what did the last upgrade do to this feature and why is it not working anymore.

I believe it's not so hard to understand. If I didn't explain myself as well as I think I did, please, let me know 😊

PS: I'd like to know what did you mean with "for the time being". It appears you do know something.

[hansenkd]

Agreed.  Don't act like a standard feature that has worked for time immemorial is some new exotic request.  Don't act like this is some weird conception.  It's always been a core feature of Spotify's functionality and now it just stops working and all we can get is "it's not currently possible?"  Don't you see that this is not an acceptable answer when it's always been possible?  Give us a real answer, somebody who actually knows what's going on.

[Peter]

Hey @hansenkd.

Apologies for the confusion - it is indeed a Spotify feature.

@ufhhvhvjjcy - could you link us to the playlist in question? We'll take a further look.

Also, could you confirm that some songs on the playlist work, or do none of them work?

Looking forward to hearing back from you!

[darylfrompulse]

It still appears that none of the local files can sync with songs in the Spotify database.