We’re living in a wonderful era for music lovers, as music streaming services, like Spotify, are taking over the world (not literally, but with AI technology steadily advancing, you never know). Now we can discover new songs, share songs with our music-loving friends, create playlists… you get the idea. Music streaming services have evolved a lot since their start and they continue to evolve in order to keep up with the times.
Let’s face it, we all love the convenience that comes with getting things done as quickly and as easily as possible, especially when we want to just start listening to our favorite tunes to fit whatever environment we’re in at the time. The last thing we want is to waste time trying to figure out how to create a playlist or how to copy or transfer a playlist to another place. Fortunately for you, this article will explore the music streaming trailblazer known as Spotify and explain how to create a playlist and multiple ways to copy your existing playlists so you can enjoy them whenever you’d like.
So next time you’re worried about losing that collaborative playlist you’re a part of on Spotify or simply want to transfer any of your existing playlists from one music streaming service to another, take a deep breath and relax! You’re about to be fully equipped as to how to continue to enjoy those beloved playlists without fear of losing them.
- What Is Spotify?
- Creating a Spotify Playlist
- How to Copy Spotify Playlist (slow method) – Desktop Computer
- How to Copy Spotify Playlist (slow method) – Mobile Device
- Fastest Way to Copy a Spotify Playlist
- How to Merge Playlists on Spotify Using TuneMyMusic
- Conclusion
What Is Spotify?
For starters, let’s educate you on what Spotify actually is (in case you’re unfamiliar). Spotify is one of the existing digital music streaming platforms that gives you access to a wide array of songs (over 100 million, to be more precise). The streaming service is meant to be used while online. Spotify streams music to anyone with an account and access to the internet. Unless you have a premium subscription, then you can download playlists and podcasts for offline listening
Since Spotify was initially founded in 2006, it has continued to be at the top of the leaderboard in terms of popular music streaming services. Competing platforms, like Apple Music, Tidal, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, and Pandora have tried to match Spotify over time in terms of features they offer and subscription pricing.
If you’re interested in seeing side-by-side comparisons of Spotify with these other worthy opponents, simply check out our comparison articles so you can decide which service is best for you.
Some of the most loved features that Spotify offers include music streaming (of course), personalized and curated playlists, podcasts, social sharing, offline listening, cross-platform availability, FREE and premium subscription plans, collaborative playlists, and the promotion of music artists.
Creating a Spotify Playlist
First of all, before you can copy a playlist, you’ll need to have an existing playlist to copy. If you’re not familiar with how to create a playlist on Spotify, you can follow these steps, depending on which device you’re using at the time.
Create Spotify Playlist – Mobile Device
- Step 1 – Open the Spotify app. Select “Your Library”.
- Step 2 – Tap on the plus sign in the right top corner
- Step 3 – Two options will appear to choose between creating a normal playlist or a Blend, which you can know more about Spotify Blend feature here. Tap on “Playlist” to create a regular playlist.
- Step 4 – A pop-up window will appear so you can enter the name of what you would like to label your playlist. After choosing a name, tap “Create”.
- Step 5 – You will have an empty playlist with no songs. Now it’s time to add songs to it. Tap on “Add to this playlist” to search and add tracks. Step 6 – From here, you will have the option to search for songs by artist, song title or musical genre. Add as many songs as you would like and organize them to your liking (EX: all songs from one artist, a collection of songs in the same genre, or songs that suit a particular mood.)
Create Spotify Playlist – Computer
- Step 1 – Open the Spotify app on your PC or go to open.spotify.com.
- Step 2 – On the left of the left menu bar on the home screen, click on “+” that it’s next to where it says “Your Library”.
- Step 3 – Click “Create a New Playlist”.
- Step 4 – Click on the name of the playlist that automatically appears: EX: “My Playlist #6”. Enter the name of what you would like to label your playlist, add description and even a cover for your playlist.
- Step 5 – Push “Save”.
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Now that you know how to create a Spotify playlist, you can create the playlists that will suit your needs for every occasion!
But what happens if you discover a playlist that someone else has created and you fall in love with it, wanting to have access to it whenever you’d like? This is the perfect scenario in which you’d want to know how to copy a playlist on Spotify.
Next, we’ll mention a few methods in which you can copy those playlists from Spotify!
You have the manual and slow method of copying a playlist and you have the fastest way. First we explain the slow method that it’s using Spotify itself to do so, but in case you don’t have much time and want’s to jump straight to the fastest way, you can click here to jump the section explaining it in details.
How to Copy Spotify Playlist (slow method) – Desktop Computer
Now, let’s talk about how to copy a playlist on Spotify when using a computer. There are ways to manually do this by copying the songs from one playlist and pasting them into another (although this is an option, it can be a little more time-consuming than another option, so there’s a much faster way described later in this article). If you’re interested in trying out this method, though, here’s how:
- 1) Open the Spotify app on your computer.
- 2) Find the Spotify playlist that you wish to copy.
- 3) Start “playing” that playlist.
- 4) Click on one of the songs within that playlist.
- 5) Press “Ctrl + A” (Windows) OR “Command + A” (Mac) on your keyboard. This should highlight all of the songs in that playlist.
- 6) Right click on one of the songs within that playlist.
- 7) Select “Add to playlist”. STEP 8 – Select “Create playlist” to add the copied playlist to your new playlist (OR you can add that copied playlist to another playlist you already have created).
Alternatively, if you wish to just copy some of the songs from an existing playlist, rather than the entire playlist, follow these steps:
- 1) Open the Spotify app on your computer.
- 2) Find the Spotify playlist you wish to copy some songs from.
- 3) Start “playing” that playlist.
- 4) From your keyboard, press and hold “Ctrl” (Windows) OR “Command” (Mac) while selecting all the songs from that playlist you wish to copy.
- 5) Right click on one of the songs within that playlist.
- 6) Select “Add to playlist”. STEP 7 – Select “Create playlist” to add the copied songs to your new playlist (OR you can add those copied songs to another playlist you have already created).
How to Copy Spotify Playlist (slow method) – Mobile Device
Again, when you find yourself asking how to copy a Spotify playlist, but you want to do so from a mobile device, here’s what you can do:
- 1) Open the Spotify app on your mobile device.
- 2) Find the Spotify playlist you wish to copy songs from.
- 3) Start “playing” that playlist.
- 4) Tap the three-dots icon located below that playlist name.
- 5) Select “Add to other playlist”.
- 6) Select “New playlist” to add the copied playlist to your new playlist (OR you can add that copied playlist to another playlist you already have created).
Remember when we mentioned earlier that this process can be time-consuming? Well, here’s when this reigns true… If you wish to just copy some of the songs from an existing playlist, rather than the entire playlist, you will have to do so ONE SONG AT A TIME when using a mobile device. Here’s what you will need to do in this case:
- 1) Open the Spotify app on your mobile device.
- 2) Find the Spotify playlist you wish to copy songs from.
- 3) Start “playing” that playlist.
- 4) Tap and hold the song you wish to copy.
- 5) Select “Add to playlist”.
- 6) Select “New playlist” to add the copied song to your new playlist (OR you can add that copied song to another playlist you already have created). STEP 7 – Repeat these steps for each individual song that you wish to copy elsewhere.
Fastest Way to Copy a Spotify Playlist
While the above methods will all work for helping you copy a Spotify playlist, they are slow and might consume a lot of your time if you have an extensive playlist or big music library to copy. So, there is a much easier and faster way to do so, thanks to TuneMyMusic.
TuneMyMusic is a web-based service that allows music lovers to quickly and easily transfer, copy, and sync playlists between two different account or music streaming services. Consider this to be your ultimate Spotify playlist merger and manager. With this convenient tool, you can copy your playlists from one streaming service to another in just a few easy steps (rather than having to walk through the lengthy manual process and steps we mentioned above). Check the tutorials below to know more how to use TuneMyMusic to copy playlists from Spotify.
How to Copy a Spotify Playlist Using TuneMyMusic: Using a Spotify account as the Source
To copy a playlist from Spotify using TuneMyMusic, you can follow these steps:
- Step 1 – Go to www.tunemymusic.com and click the blue “Let’s Start” button.
- Step 2 -Select Spotify as the source to copy the playlist from. (EX: Spotify).
- Step 3 – Select from which account you want to copy the playlist from.
- Step 4 – Select “Load from Spotify account” method to load your playlists
- Step 5 – Select the playlists you want to copy to the other Spotify account and hit Choose Destination.
- Step 6 – Select the target you wish to copy to (e.g., Spotify*, YouTube Music, Apple Music, etc.) to copy the first playlist you have selected in the previous step. You can choose Spotify if you own more than one Spotify account and want to copy a playlist from one Spotify account to another (in this case, you’d need to allow TuneMyMusic to access both of your Spotify accounts*).
- Step 7 – Confirm if everything is ok and click “Start Transfer”.
*It’s possible to manage and link more than one Spotify account with just one TuneMyMusic subscription.
And done! The playlist will be copied to another Spotify account or any other music streaming platform you have an account on.
How to Copy a Spotify Playlist Using TuneMyMusic: Using Spotify URL Link as the Source
If you aren’t the owner of the playlist and still want to copy it to your account, you can do so by copying the Spotify playlist’s URL and using TuneMyMusic to copy it to your account. To do it, you will need to:
- Step 1 – Go to the playlist you want to copy and save the URL. To copy the playlist URL link, go to the playlist screen you want to copy, click on the three dots next to the download icon, select Share, then click on “Copy link to playlist” (for desktop) or “Copy link” (for the mobile app).
- Step 2 – Go to www.tunemymusic.com web app and click on “Let’s start” button.
- Step 3 – Scroll down and select the last option “URL” as the source. This is great when you don’t have a Spotify account but wish to copy a playlist that comes from Spotify.
- Step 4 – Past the playlist URL link you have copied from Spotify and hit “Load playlist” button*.
- Step 5 – Select the Spotify account to access the playlist, or log into your Spotify account.
- Step 6 – Confirm the song you want to transfer. You can choose which songs you wish to copy from that playlist and the ones you want to leave behind. Then hit “Choose Destination” button.
- Step 7 – Select the destination you want to copy the playlist to. You can select Spotify to copy to your Spotify account or any other music platform you may have an account.
- Step 8 – Confirm your choices and hit “Start Transfer” and your transfer will start. Soon the Spotify playlist will be copied to the account or destination of your choice.
*Important to note that it’s not possible to copy a private playlist or a playlist created by Spotify.
How to Merge Playlists on Spotify Using TuneMyMusic
The last two methods taught you how to copy a Spotify playlist to add songs to a new playlist, but what if you want to add a Spotify playlist to an existing one (by merging the two playlists together)? Here’s how to do so:
- Step 1 – Go to www.tunemymusic.com.
- Step 2 – Click the blue “Let’s Start” button.
- Step 3 – Select Spotify as the source from where you wish to copy from (EX: Spotify).
- Step 4 – Enter the URL link for the Spotify playlist you wish to copy (check the section below on how to copy the URL of a Spotify playlist).
- Step 5 – Select the target playlist you wish to merge the playlist to (it can be Spotify or any other playlist in a different music platform).
Additionally, there’s another very helpful feature that you will want to use from TuneMyMusic, the sync feature. With the TuneMyMusic feature, you can automatically sync two different playlists from two different music streaming services. Guess what that means? Any time you add a song to one playlist (for example, from Spotify), it will automatically add that same song to your other synced playlist (for example, from Apple Music).
This is the fastest way to copy a Spotify playlist to use on a different streaming platform and keep them synchronized. Follow these simple steps to sync two playlists from two different music streaming services:
- Step 1 – Go to the TuneMyMusic’s Sync page.
- Step 2 – Set up your sync preferences (choose between either mirror sync or add only sync).
- Mirror Sync: With this method, the playlist you set up for sync from one music platform will automatically sync with the playlist you have synced from the other music platform. Any new tracks added to one of your playlists will appear on the other playlist as well. Similarly, any songs that you delete from one of your synced playlists will automatically delete from the other synced playlist as well.
- Add Only Sync: If you choose this method, any new song you add to one of your synced playlists will automatically be added to the other synced playlist. However, the two playlists will NOT be synced when deleting songs. So you would have to delete the songs manually from each synced playlist, as needed.
- Step 3 – That’s it! Your two playlists from two different music platforms should now be synced! (We told you it was easy!)
Conclusion
Yay! Now you can easily transfer your entire playlist from one music streaming service to another, since you know how to merge spotify playlist.
There you have it! By now you should be a connoisseur when it comes to creating and copying playlists from Spotify. So start familiarizing yourself with these various methods. Try each method out, if you choose, and find out which one works best for you. In the meantime, create those playlists so you have plenty of content to copy later on.
If you liked this tutorial and want to learn about how to make more out of your Spotify experience, check out the How-To pages with how content so you can enhance your music listening experience to the best.