Where it starts
Open Playlists and select Import Playlist. The screen then asks where your music comes from. Three manual ways are covered below, and three services have their own entry on that screen: iTunes, Anghami, Setlist.fm. The import page gives the shorter tour.
From a web link
Copy the share link of the playlist, choose From Web URL, and paste it. Soundiiz reads the page, shows you the tracks it found, and lets you pick a destination.
The playlist has to be reachable without signing in, which is what a share link is for. About twenty sites are recognized on sight and read by a reader written for them, including Bandcamp, Beatport, Setlist.fm, Serato, VirtualDJ, ListenBrainz, BBC programme pages, KCRW, Spinitron, NetEase Cloud Music, XMPLAYLIST, Anghami, and Gaana.
Anywhere else, the page is searched for YouTube and Spotify links. A blog post or a radio page that embeds its songs therefore works, as long as that service is connected to your Soundiiz account, since Soundiiz reads each track through it. Without that connection the import stops on an error, and connecting the service is what unblocks it. A page that prints its titles as plain text is not read this way, and copying the list into the text import is quicker than fighting the link.
An import copies the playlist once, as it stands today. To keep it in step with a page that keeps changing, feed a synchronization with the same link instead, in Auto Sync from Share Link URL or JSON File.
From a list you paste
Choose From Plain Text and paste one song per line. The text import page recaps the four steps if you want them side by side. The artist first, then the title, separated by a space, a hyphen, and a space:
Daft Punk - Get Lucky
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
A track link on its own line works as well, from Spotify, Apple Music, or another supported service, and it is the most precise of all since it names one exact recording. Naming the artist is what makes the difference on everything else: a title alone can match a dozen songs.
The reading is more forgiving than it looks. The line is cut at the FIRST hyphen surrounded by spaces, so a title carrying one of its own, as in Bob Marley - No Woman - No Cry, comes out right. A long dash works as well as a short one, two spaces in a row do the job on their own, and a track number in front, 1. or 01), is dropped before anything else is read.
A line holding nothing but an ISRC, the industry code of a recording, is recognized as such. And a line that fits none of these shapes is taken as a title on its own, which is still worth a search.
From a file
Choose From File and drop it in. Twelve formats go through, and each one has its own step by step guide: TXT, CSV, XLS and XLSX, JSON, XML, XSPF, M3U and M3U8, WPL, NML, PLS. One file at a time, up to 2 MB.
Two of them have a page of their own, because their contents are yours to write: the CSV format, which a spreadsheet produces and which also imports favorites, and the XML format. The others come out of a music tool and go in untouched.
Creating, adding, or replacing
Once the tracks are read, Soundiiz asks what to do with them at the destination.
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Create a new playlist
A playlist is created and filled with what you imported. You name it and pick where it goes. -
Add to playlist
The tracks land at the end of a playlist you already have, and nothing in it is touched. -
Replace in playlist
What the playlist held is swapped for what you imported. The previous contents are gone.
Why some songs are not found
Nothing is copied from one service to another. Soundiiz reads what you gave it, then searches the destination catalog for the same recording, using the title, the artist, the album, and any code it has. A song can be missing because that catalog does not carry it, because it is restricted in your country, or because it is filed there under a slightly different name.
Which is why the review screen is worth the minute it takes. Every match is shown before anything is written, and a wrong one is removed with a click.
Frequently Asked Questions
My file was refused. What do the messages mean?
Three of them can show up. Only ONE file accepted means you dropped several at once, so send them one after the other. Invalid file type means the extension is not in the list above. File too large means it goes over 2 MB, and splitting it in two solves it.
Can I import favorites this way, not just a playlist?
Yes, favorite tracks, albums, and artists each have their own import action. They accept fewer formats though, plain text and CSV for all three, plus spreadsheets for tracks.
Does importing take anything from the source?
No. Nothing is deleted, moved, or changed where your music came from, and no audio file is downloaded. What travels is the list.
Is there a guide for my music service?
Very likely. The tutorial directory holds step by step instructions per service, per file format, and per destination, screenshots included.