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Question

How to Transfer/Capture Playlists from Spotify?

by Sep 3, 2014 10:55PM PDT

Hi,

I am using Spotify since more than one year and I am using it a lot with building playlists and so on. That means I invested a lot of time into building these. Just recently I read a very interesting blog and it made me kind of nervous.
I am afraid that I might lose all my playlists and my music especially as I read that spotify is still producing losses. So I am asking here if there really is no way to safe my playlist and most important music on my computer? I fear that all my effort might eventually be lost...

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Re: playlist
by Forum moderator Sep 3, 2014 11:12PM PDT

A playlist is just a list, not the music. The music is stored on their server, and you rent it to listen to. If they go out of service, the rent ends, you don't pay any more and you don't receive anything any more. That seems a fair deal.

It's like renting a car. If Avis stops, you rent another car or you buy one. If Spotify stops, you rent your music elsewhere or you buy it (cd, download).
I see nothing wrong.

Kees

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by princeslillifee Sep 3, 2014 11:23PM PDT

I can see your point but..
I want to save the playlists I did because I put a lot of work in it and I want to keep them if I might eventually have to move. Okay I could write everything down in a word or something but that seems not really nice.
I don't think it is comparable to rent a car sorry, because this is music and I want to save what progress I did over the years. I don't want to be completely dependent on spotify that is the point.

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Sounds like you need to change rental companies.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Sep 4, 2014 2:13AM PDT

The last time I used Spotify it had text on screen for me to copy to a text file. But I'm finding folk that consider that programming today!
Bob

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Re: spotify
by Kees_B Forum moderator Sep 4, 2014 4:00AM PDT

Did you read their TOS before you signed up? It's https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/end-user-agreement/#s3

If the subscription ends (and it surely ends if they stop for some reason) your right to listen to the music ends. It's as simple as that. If you don't like it, rent your music elsewhere (where they have other terms of sale) or buy it.

Kees

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Record Spotify
by Sep 10, 2014 4:33PM PDT

Might that this is not what you originally asked for, but it is still possible to record music from spotify and like that also entire playlists.
I don't want to start any discussion about legal use of this music: of course you can only use it for yourself and shouldn't share this music but according to the threadstarter that should be fine.

There are tons of results when you type in 'spotify recorder' on Google. I have tested for example max recorder and snaplay. The best results I had with Audials Tunebite. You can test it for free, finally it is 20 bugs so not too expensive. But check it yourself.

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