Spotify

After getting everything downloaded from Google Takeout, I unzipped everything and figured out what we have from the exported playlists. In the unzipped Takeout folder, there is an archive_browser.html file that lists all of the stuff that was downloaded. To start, I’ll just get my Thumbs Up playlist (which had a nice property in Google Play Music where you could have all of your liked tracks downloaded to your device automatically - I don’t see that in Spotify).

Google Play Music is going away. I’ve been a subscriber for a number of years and I liked the service but they are changing it to YouTube Music which I don’t like as much. So I decided to make a change to Spotify. People seem to really like Spotify and I like that they have a Linux client and a decent family plan ($15 per month). All good. Except that I’ve got years of playlists on Google Play Music that I’d like to bring along.