Saving Playlists by Spotify

[Dell_Ray]

Plan

Premium

Country

U.S.A.

Device

Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra/Dell 15-3000/Dell 15-7000 2 in 1/Onkyo TX-NR6050/Samsung SU50TU8000FXZA (app)

Operating System

Android/Win10/Win11/Onkyo AVR UI/Tizen

My Question or Issue

Greetings, I have a question about saving playlists created by Spotify such as the Daily Mix series. It usually provides me with 6 different ones of various genres/themes. It had me stumped for a bit until the name actually sunk in. "Daily" mix. Meaning it changes daily which really bugged me several times as it would create this kick a$$ playlist that I absolutely loved but then I'd try to go back to it only to find that it was replaced with a bunch of other tunes that just didn't hit the spot like it had previously. 

My question is, since there doesn't seem to be a way to go back and find previous versions of these playlists, if I save them as playlists in my library, and/or download the entire playlist, will these songs be changed when the playlist changes again?

[Eni]

Hey there @Dell_Ray, 

Thanks for reaching out about this here in the Community. 

The Daily mix playlists update everyday. In this case, it's not possible to listen to the songs from the previous day, even if you downloaded the playlist, since it will download the songs that are in the current playlist.

However, you can create a new playlist and copy all the songs from the Daily mix you liked so you can have all those songs saved.

You can do it easily in the desktop app by following these steps:

• Go to your Daily Mix
• Select all songs using the keyboard CMD+A (Mac) or CTRL+A (Windows)
• Drag them to a new playlist

If you need a hand with anything else, the Community is here for you.

[noodlemaz]

I definitely used to save Spotify-created playlists, I have a few in a folder - a daily mix from a specific date that as you say was really good, so I just hit save. And it did.

But I sent a link to a mix which I'd saved recently and... the next day all the songs were different.
I did not want to save a LINK to the shifting daily mix. I wanted to capture it!

Apparently my mistake was doing 'save to library' on Desktop, which again, makes no sense - all the daily mix links are on the homepage, why would I just want a link in my library? I thought it would save the actual songs, static in that list, when I hit save.

Now, I guess, it's gone forever. I know what date it is, but presumably there is nowhere this huge amount of data is saved 😕

Really not liking the new interface, it's frustrating.

[noodlemaz]

This was changed wasn't it?
I have playlists saved from 2019 and 2020, I'm sure the default was Save As, not just Save a Link, which honestly is useless. The links are always accessible from Home. The default should be: Save as a playlist (by me) so that people can go back to the song list later.

[MihailY]

Hey @noodlemaz,

Thanks for reaching out.

Saving a playlist to Your Library does indeed save only a link to it for ease of access and not the current state of the playlist. To save the contents of a playlist, simply use the steps provided by @Eni above or the Add to other playlist action from the playlist context menu.

We hope this helps. Let us know if you have other questions.

[Beezkneez]

Idk what the new update is but nothing I add to existing playlists will save anymore. Check add playlist but there’s nowhere to ‘save’ the only option is to slide down and close the playlist list which then won’t save it. 

[OscarDC]

Hi there, @Beezkneez 

Thanks for reaching out!

Just to confirm, do you mean playlists created directly by Spotify (daily mix, some artist's radio, weekly discovery, recommendations)? If you mean those types of playlists, keep in mind that the "daily mix" and the "weekly discovery" ones change every day or every week, so you cannot save them exactly as they were the first time you listened to them. 

If you liked one of Spotify's created playlists a lot, you can add it to your own library with the (+) button. Or you can create a new playlist from your own profile adding the songs you loved from those playlists to it, like @Eni mentioned before.

If you're referring to playlists created by yourself and you are not able to save new songs there, you can share more details about it (the type of device you're using to save the content in your playlists with the corresponding OS version, and the version of your Spotify app).

Keep us posted!