How PlaylistSafe works

Playlists you own or collaborate on and, on Premium, your Liked Songs. For each one we save its name, description, cover image link and the full ordered track list: every track and artist, plus the date it was added.

We do not store audio, your listening history, podcasts or albums you follow, or playlists you only follow (someone else’s curation).

Free: whenever you press "Back up now" (at most once every 10 minutes), for up to 3 playlists you pick.

Premium: automatically once a day at a fixed hour assigned to your account (the dashboard shows when), plus on demand.

A backup is a run: one moment when we checked your library. A snapshot is one saved version of one playlist.

If a playlist has not changed since the last run, the new run simply points at the snapshot we already have instead of storing a duplicate. That is why a snapshot shows two dates: when that version was first captured, and when we last confirmed it was still current.

Once a day we remove backup runs older than 7 days (Free) or 30 days (Premium). A snapshot is deleted only once no remaining run points at it.

Your most recent successful (or partly successful) run is never removed, however old it is, so you can never come back to an empty archive. And every run points at the last good snapshot of every playlist it covers, so keeping that one run keeps a copy of everything.

One of two reasons. Either that run is your most recent successful backup, which is always protected, or the playlist has not changed since then, so every newer backup still points at the same snapshot. A snapshot keeps the date it was first captured.

Once a newer run completes, the old run leaves your history at the next daily cleanup. Snapshots that are still current stay; only versions nothing points at anymore are deleted.

Some playlists could not be read completely: Spotify returned errors, or the playlist changed while we were reading it. We never store a half-read playlist.

The playlist keeps its last good snapshot and is retried on the next run. Even if one playlist keeps failing for weeks (a very large playlist Spotify keeps erroring on, say), its last good snapshot stays in your archive.

It moves to "Deleted on Spotify" in your dashboard. We keep its last snapshot for 90 days after we last saw it, on every plan, so you can restore it.

We stop backing it up. Its existing snapshots are not deleted right away; they expire with the 7-day history window.

Restoring always creates a new private playlist with the snapshot's tracks, in their original order. Your existing playlists are never edited.

Local files and tracks Spotify has removed from its catalog cannot be re-added; we tell you how many were skipped. Liked Songs restore as a playlist.

Yes — that is what Spotify itself can’t do: it restores deleted playlists, but has no version history for playlists that still exist. Every backup that finds a playlist changed stores a new version, and any version in your history can be restored as a new playlist.

Yes. Each snapshot shows what changed since the previous version: songs added, songs removed and whether the order changed. We store every track’s name and artist, so you can see what a removed song was even after Spotify drops it from its catalog.

Yes. Every snapshot can be downloaded from its page as a CSV file (position, track, artists, Spotify URI and date added — opens in any spreadsheet) or as a JSON file with everything we stored.

Your browser never receives a Spotify token. The connection is stored on our server as an encrypted token (AES-256-GCM) that is used only to read your library and to create restored playlists.

You can revoke access at any time from the Apps page of your Spotify account.

Automatic backups pause and your existing snapshots are kept. Premium members get one email about it. Log in with Spotify again to resume.

You keep Premium until the end of the period you paid for. After that, automatic and Liked Songs backups stop, and your history shrinks to 7 days at the next daily cleanup. Your latest backup is still protected, and you can keep backing up 3 playlists of your choice for free.

Yes, but only free ones that have gone completely quiet: no login and no manual backup for 365 days. Their snapshots and Spotify connection are then deleted. If we have your email address, we warn you 30 days before, and simply logging in cancels it.

Accounts with a subscription are never deleted for inactivity — their daily backups count as use.

Settings → "Delete account & data". It deletes every snapshot and the Spotify connection immediately, and cancels any subscription.

Use the contact form (Contact, at the bottom of every page). If you are logged in, your message is linked to your account so we can look at your backups directly; otherwise leave an email so we can reply. Error pages have a “Report this problem” link that includes the error reference.

No. PlaylistSafe is an independent service built on Spotify’s official Web API; it is not affiliated with or endorsed by Spotify.