Spotify deleted my iTunes playlists!

[landers]

Hello there,

The playlists I had in iTunes, which went into Spotify all nice and easily, have now disappeared from iTunes.  I want them back.

If there is no way to get them back (which is REALLY annoying!) then can you please tell me how to export Spotify iTunes playlists so I can have them BACK in my iTunes.... where there should be!

Thank you.

[Taylor]

Hi, and welcome to the community!

Do you still have the folder with the iTunes .m4a files in?

If so, you can go to file>add folder in iTunes and add the iTunes music folder back again and they should appear again 🙂

Anthony

[landers]

Hi Anthony.  Thank you for the reply. 

I've deleted nothing.

All my songs are still in iTunes, it's just the playlists that have gone.  Where will I find this folder?

[Taylor]

Hi,

The iTunes music folder itself is at C:\Users\username\Music and the iTunes folder there.

But if your music is still there then that sounds like the organisation has gone. You can go to iTunes Media>Music in the iTunes folder in the above sentence and check the folders are still there. Did you ever export your playlists? If so you can go to File>Library>Import playlist and select the file.

Anthony 🙂

[landers]

No, have never exported my playlists.  Never had to becaus they were all working very well in iTunes!

There are no playlists in any of folders you mention.

How do I export the Spotify copy of my iTunes playlist?  Any idea?

[Taylor]

Hi,

Well Spotify imports iTunes playlists through the local files; so if you go to local files and find a song you had in iTunes and right click+select open containing folder; you will find the folder with your iTunes music in.

Unfortunately there is no way to export playlists as such; because Spotify takes them from local files so it can't really do anything except import. Feel free to submit this as an idea though!

Anthony 🙂

[landers]

*sigh*

Thanks for your replies.