Fortunately, there is a way to extract song lists - via API, official export, or even MCP. https://github.com/marcelmarais/spotify-mcp-server

I recommend doing so, even as a backup.

Oh this is great, i might run this over my backups to retain the artists/titles as well.

It 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.

> 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.

It'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.

Anna's Archive would disagree.