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Comment by tjoff | Hacker News Reader

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

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

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

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

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.

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.)

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

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.

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.

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

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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