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Can you save a playlist as for backup purpose?
Is it possible to save a playlist for backup purpose? If you delete it by accident, it gone :(
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@Lars: don't be stu***.
For those interested, until there's a more automatic way, here's a manual procedure to backup a spotify playlist:
- select all songs in the playlist (Ctrl-A)
- drag and drop into an html editor (gmail works well)
(this will give you 'artist - track name' on each line, linked to the spotify track)
To restore, it's a bit more tricky:
- in the firefox bookmarks manager: import the html page (or email), you'll have all links from the page as bookmarks. (Maybe other browsers work too.)
- copy & paste these bookmarks into Spotify.
Works on Mac OS and Windows.
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Inappropriate?You can always create links to your playlists. Then paste them into a text document and save.
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How would that help? Playlists are saved on a Spotify server (a good thing since it makes them available from any computer) and if you delete them from that server your links would point to nothing. That's my theory anyway. :) -
Inappropriate?If you copy the link to each song it works fine. Copy the links to all songs in a playlist to a notepad file. I.e. one file with links for each playlist. -
Inappropriate?So you're supposed to manually copy X hundred links to have a backup of your playlist? And keep this linklist updated as you add more songs to the playlist? Excuse my french, but that's bulls***.
You can delete a carefully created playlist by missing slightly on a mouse click (I'm sure there's a hotkey for it to, just praying I never hit it).
Devs: If you haven't already, give us some safety net here or at least a way to export the lists (without having to rely on a friend).
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Inappropriate?@Lars: don't be stu***.
For those interested, until there's a more automatic way, here's a manual procedure to backup a spotify playlist:
- select all songs in the playlist (Ctrl-A)
- drag and drop into an html editor (gmail works well)
(this will give you 'artist - track name' on each line, linked to the spotify track)
To restore, it's a bit more tricky:
- in the firefox bookmarks manager: import the html page (or email), you'll have all links from the page as bookmarks. (Maybe other browsers work too.)
- copy & paste these bookmarks into Spotify.
Works on Mac OS and Windows.
I’m loving the flexibility of Spotify's ecosystem
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Inappropriate?If you want to manually backup a playlist in a way that makes it easy to restore, but don't require the backup to contain the track names, you can use this method I discovered (I've mentioned this before, but this seems to be a more suitable place):
To backup:
1) Select all the tracks in a playlist (Edit > Select All).
2) Right-click and select "Copy Spotify URI" from the right-click menu
3) Paste into a text file
The text file will then contain the Spotify links for all the tracks in the playlist.
To restore:
1) Open your backup text file.
2) Copy the list of Spotify links from the text file.
3) Create a new playlist in Spotify, and make sure the new playlist is selected.
4) Paste the Spotify links with Edit > Paste
This will add all the tracks into the new playlist.
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Inappropriate?I just use Firefox's bookmark manager: it acts as both a playlist manager and a backup. Here's a demo:
This way I can sort all my playlists into folders, sync them across multiple machines (via the Xmarks plugin), save and share my collection with friends, and be safe in the knowledge that I have a local backup.
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Inappropriate?steven R, that doesn't work, you can paste the links into for example a word document, but when I try to paste them into a new playlists again, it just says : you cannot paste the current contents in this view. why? -
Inappropriate?English is NOT my main spoken language but ill try the best i can :P
I know that this is an old question, but i have a solution...
In win explorer go to:
C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Spotify
copy the folder called Storage
paste it to an USB memorystick (or another folder for backup)
When you need to restore play list, just copy/paste back to
C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Spotify
It works. I have just done it from a windows xp to a new windows 7 installation.
Enjoy!
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Inappropriate?My <profile>\Local Settings\Application Data\Spotify\Storage folder is 14 GB big (with 3333 offline songs).
Imho, playlist info is stored in folder <profile>\Application Data\Spotify\Users\<username>-user, in files like metadata.bnk and playlist.bnk.
Also, imho simply copying these files is not enough to back them up, because next time Spotify connects to the Internet, it may sync the playlist from the spotify servers, overwriting the restored files.
But maybe the .bnk files could be parsed, to make automatic backups? (Ie: get what you get today by manually copying/pasting, see above.)
The APIs or the Despotify client might also help...</username></profile></profile> -
Inappropriate?If its a shared Playlist and you don't want someone else to screw it up or delete it, why don't you select all and Save to a copy of the playlist which isn't shared, then just periodically copy/update unshared list.
