Type in your question below and we'll check to see what answers we can find...
Loading article...
Submitting...
If you couldn't find any answers in the previous step then we need to post your question in the community and wait for someone to respond. You'll be notified when that happens.
Simply add some detail to your question and refine the title if needed, choose the relevant category, then post.
Before we can post your question we need you to quickly make an account (or sign in if you already have one).
Don't worry - it's quick and painless! Just click below, and once you're logged in we'll bring you right back here and post your question. We'll remember what you've already typed in so you won't have to do it again.
We've read all the posts about lost playlists, and its very frustrating when it happens. Here's a simple way to back them up.
Using a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, just drag each playlist into a cell. You not only see the original playlist name [sortable in Excel], each cell has the link embedded so you can click on it to open the playlist.
Other programs like Wordpad will save the links, but not the title.
Solved! Go to Solution.
I've also written a simple tool to make this easier:
https://github.com/watsonbox/exportify
It uses the Spotify Web API to export playlists to CSV format and will not store any private data (or any data at all in fact).
Handy information @Rollo_ !
Thanks for sharing!
Peter
Peter
Spotify Community Mentor and Troubleshooter
Spotify Last.FM Twitter LinkedIn Meet Peter Rock Star Jam 2014
If this post was helpful, please add kudos below!
Man, I adore you, a thousand thanks for sharing this trick!
That sounds like it will take forever. I have thousands of playlists.
With spotify's new api it is possible to automate some of this, I threw together an app so you can download playlists in csv (which you can import into excel):
@jai278- This is a great feature- however, it only saves up to 100 songs 😕
@inkedwithstars - thanks, glad you enjoy it! if you hit the 'more' button at the end of the list, it should load 100 more songs (and you can keep on hitting more until all the songs are loaded); also, after you load all the songs that way, the playlist download should include all of them as well.
At some point I plan on automating that (so it fetches all the songs all at once); and also perhaps a way for you to automatically download all of your playlists at once/
This sounds like a great idea @jal278 but I'd feel more comfortable if I could just paste a playlist URI rather than logging into spotify through a third party site 🙂
I can understand the concern, @jwylot -- that would be better. But as far as I know in order to access playlists through the spotify API you have to log in. There may be an unofficial way to 'scrape' a playlist from just a URI, but it would be more fragile because the code might have to change every time spotify does an update on how they display playlists.
I've also written a simple tool to make this easier:
https://github.com/watsonbox/exportify
It uses the Spotify Web API to export playlists to CSV format and will not store any private data (or any data at all in fact).
So far, from need of backupping my years of playlist work, this is by far the most satisfying solution.
Suggestions for improvement:
Keep the good work going! Hope to hear form you soon at https://github.com/watsonbox/exportify
How many playlists do you have though, I have thousands upon thousands and Im wondering if this will work. Other methods I have tried always time out.
http://joellehman.com/playlist/ is much easier, you can easily change your password afterward if that's a concern.
Hey there you, Yeah, you! 😁 Welcome - we're glad you joined the Spotify Community! While you here, let's have a fun game and get…