Backing Up Spotify

Re:Backing Up Spotify by tjoff on Saturday December 20, 2025 @04:36PM (#46339860)

I just want to be able to backup my playlists. Maybe thats possible but last time I looked I could only find sites that wanted your login, not gonna happen.

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Re:Backing Up Spotify by lelandfe on Saturday December 20, 2025 @05:04PM (#46340068)

https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/referenc...

I bet you can whip up a super simple script with an LLM to do this!

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Re:Backing Up Spotify by Spivak on Saturday December 20, 2025 @05:20PM (#46340178)

Not that using the Spotify API directly is all that hard but the spotipy library makes it even easier.

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Re:Backing Up Spotify by hn111 on Saturday December 20, 2025 @06:04PM (#46340522)

This works nicely: https://github.com/spotDL/spotify-downloader

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Re:Backing Up Spotify by crazygringo on Saturday December 20, 2025 @09:06PM (#46341602)

This is where ChatGPT shines. Just ask it to write you a script, it'll give you all the instructions.

I've used ChatGPT to write a whole bunch of playlist logic scripts (e.g. create a playlist that takes tracks from playlists A, B and C, but exclude tracks in playlist D.)

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Re:Backing Up Spotify by emsixteen on Sunday December 21, 2025 @07:59AM (#46344524)

I worry about potential bans from scraping files through this sort of thing.

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Re:Backing Up Spotify by crazygringo on Sunday December 21, 2025 @09:32AM (#46345093)

No files are involved. It's about backing up the metadata -- your playlists, liked songs.

So you can recreate the playlists on another Spotify account or another music service.

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Re:Backing Up Spotify by venturecruelty on Monday December 22, 2025 @03:51AM (#46352359)

You can also do this with your human brain, which doesn't require 1 MWh or a thousand gallons of water to write a script to pipe API results to jq.

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Re:Backing Up Spotify by RickyLahey on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @05:50PM (#46380140)

right but i'd rather watch rupaul drag race for the 100th time than write boring code

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Re:Backing Up Spotify by Eckter2 on Sunday December 21, 2025 @04:06AM (#46343361)

There are a few tools that can export your spotify playlists into folders of audio files. That's what I used a few years ago for my initial spotify -> navidrome migration.

But they're not that good. They look for the songs on youtube, and the versions uploaded there are often modified (or just very low quality). And I've had some issues with metadata. I'd say about 5% of my songs had some issues, and 1% were completely off.

Once they release the actual torrents and not just the metadata, I'm assuming that new playlist export tools will soon show up, and they'll use these new torrents as source instead of youtube. They'll be a lot more reliable. I'd wait for that to happen. In fact I may end up re-exporting my old spotify playlist.

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Re:Backing Up Spotify by emsixteen on Sunday December 21, 2025 @07:57AM (#46344510)

Exactly the same here, I just wanna back up my playlists and liked songs, in an organised and tagged manner, at a non-potato quality.

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