Smart Spotify playlists that keep up with your likes

No. Playlistation works with any Spotify account, free or Premium, on every plan.

No. Playlistation only changes the playlists you create with it. Once a day it reads the list of your playlists, only to notice when you delete one of its own in Spotify. It reads what is in a playlist you own only to back it up, and never changes it.

Yes. Playlistation keeps dated backups of your Liked Songs and of the playlists you own, with the date you added each song, and you can download any of them as CSV or JSON on every plan. How the backup works.

Playlistation does not have access to your Spotify login information.

To sign in, you go to the Spotify website, where Spotify asks you to let Playlistation manage your playlists and access your library.

Once you accept, Spotify sends you back to Playlistation with a token. We use that token to talk to Spotify, so we never see your Spotify password.

You can find more information in the Spotify API Documentation • Authorization.

Yes. Spotify provides the Spotify Web API so developers can build apps around Spotify.

You fill a regular playlist by hand and keep it up to date yourself. A smart playlist made with Playlistation updates itself.

You create a playlist and add filters, such as the artist, a genre like metal or house, the language a song is sung in, its release year, its tempo in BPM, like 180 BPM for running, or the day you liked it.

Playlistation then fills the playlist with the songs from your Liked Songs that match these filters, and keeps checking your Liked Songs. Unlike a song and it leaves your smart playlists. Like a new one and, at the next update, it joins every smart playlist whose filters it matches.

Spotify lets you sort and search your Liked Songs, but it doesn't keep a rule. Playlistation saves your filters and re-runs them, so each new like joins every playlist it matches.

Each playlist updates on a schedule set by your plan: once a day on Free, every hour on Plus and in under 30 minutes on Pro. Before each update, Playlistation checks your Liked Songs, so a new like lands at the playlist's next update. Pro can also sync on demand.

Create a playlist or change its filters in Playlistation, and it queues an update right away.

Change the playlist image in Spotify and Playlistation picks it up on the next sync. The title is different: rename a playlist in Spotify and Playlistation keeps showing its own name, then writes that name back over yours the next time you edit the playlist here. Rename it in Playlistation instead.

Songs you add or remove by hand don't stay. At the next update, Playlistation takes out a song that doesn't match and puts back a matching one you removed. To change what goes in, edit the filters.

You can delete a playlist within Playlistation. You then choose between keeping it on Spotify with its current tracks, or deleting it from both Playlistation and Spotify.

You can also delete the playlist in Spotify like any other. Playlistation notices within a day and removes it from the app.