[Music] Import & Export Music

[user-removed]

I love my playlists. I've added to my starred playlist for about two years now, and I always wonder what I'd do if my playlists were somehow wiped. So how about something that would rest my mind, the ability to back up your playlists to say, a text file containing all your songs, and then you can import your playlist if it somehow goes missing! This would be an ace feature as I see some people are having issues with duplicate accounts and their playlists being wiped.

This would also making sharing playlists between friends even easier!

TL;DR: Let us export our playlists to a text file, and then import our playlists whenever we like.

[karamarinas]

Question is how can we export all playlists for itunes on both mac and windows? That's what I wanna know....

[stevemaher]

There is an need for an open standard for exportable/importable playlists. If Spotify develops one that is useful it will be a darling.

If not Spotify, someone will do it. It is an inevitability. And I can't wait for it to happen.

[jfsee11]

There are various workarounds, but direct import of m3u playlists for local files is a no-brainer feature to add.

[loosedrag]

I read thru the comments but didn't see this obvious option: I went to my spotify playlist, selected a song within the list, then selected "all" (as with any text document), copied it, then pasted it into a plain text file. Done.

[hans-jürgen]

Should work with Soundiiz, because you can upload/drag & drop .m3u files there as well. Another one would be PlaylistConverter, UseSpotify and Ivy which can import plain text lists as well as iTunes playlists and CSV files. I admit that I did not test this myself though, but here are the necessary links:

http://soundiiz.com/#/converter

http://www.playlist-converter.net/#/

http://usespotify.com/

http://www.ivyishere.org

[hans-jürgen]

double post, sorry

[hans-jürgen]

You can use Soundiiz.com for this as well, it offers a lot of options to export Spotify tracks to different streaming sites if you wish so, or simply create a text file from the clipboard after copying & pasting the content of a Spotify playlist there or rather to Notepad or Excel. See also my explanation here:

http://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Linux-Mac-and/What-happened-to-the-stars/m-p/782949#M85...

[GlutAn]

For all of you Linux users out there:

I created a script that can parse Spotify URIs and save them as a CSV file.

For everyone else: I found this Chrome extension while working on my script. It didn't work on my machine but it might work on yours. It's certainly worth a try.

[jal278]

I wrote a little webapp that can export playlists into a format you can import into excel:

http://joellehman.com/playlist/index.html