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The words 'archive' and 'Spotify' do not go together naturally! (Ditto any subscription service). From the title I was expecting something like "how I archived
by afandian 10mo ago
The words 'archive' and 'Spotify' do not go together naturally! (Ditto any subscription service).
From the title I was expecting something like "how I archived my Spotify memories in a plain text file".
- walthamstow 10mo agoIt's still valuable stuff. What I wouldn't give for a text file containing a list of everything I had on my iPod classic circa 2006.
- stared 10mo agoFortunately, there is a way to extract song lists - via API, official export, or even MCP. https://github.com/marcelmarais/spotify-mcp-server https://github.com/marcelmarais/spotify-mcp-server I recommend doing so, even as a backup.
- xdavidhu 9mo agoOh this is great, i might run this over my backups to retain the artists/titles as well.
- xdavidhu 9mo agoIt is relatively easy (currently) to take a playlist and back it up as a plain text file. CTRL+A, CTRL+C from web or desktop puts a newline separated plain text list of songs on your clipboard. Main risk is that the list is in the format of "https[:]//open[.]spotify[.]com/track/[song-id]", so Spotify may break the lookup of these IDs in the future.
- embedding-shape 9mo ago> so Spotify may break the lookup of these IDs in the future. Luckily, Spotify seems pretty good at backwards compatibility. `spotify:user:$username` still seems to work in the search-bar, must have worked for almost 20 years now, and given that artists themselves use those track URIs and IDs, I'm sure Spotify will be even more careful with those than search query syntax.
- fragmede 9mo agoAnna's Archive would disagree.