Populating Spotify with my own library

[avant_gardener]

I'm keen to move away from self-hosting mp3s/FLACs on a dedicated server, for ease of sharing among my friends, streaming on any device, and myriad other reasons.

What I would like to know, though, is... is there a way of automatically populating Spotify with the data from my own collection so that I can essentially replicate the collection in Spotify, without having to search tens of thousands of albums manually and make playlists in the same manner?

Is that possible? Because if it is I will sign up right away.

[AeroZ]

Hey @avant_gardener!

Thanks for reaching out on the Community!

Spotify should be able to match your local files with the ones in Spotify catalogue if the metadata of your local files match Spotify's. Though I've read that some peole have problems with that feature in latest versions of Spotify.

I'd suggest to just try it out yourself. Download Spotify and enable local files. Note that Spotify supports mp3 and mp4 music files only. Next step is to add all of those local files to a playlist. After that you can check if any of the songs that are in that playlist are clickable aka tapping on an artist or song takes you to the artist, song or album in Spotify. Or if any of those songs are become available on another device where you haven't synced any of the local files.

If all else fails then there's an app named STAMP which should be able to transfer a playlist in CSV format into Spotify.

Hope this helps 🙂

[MariaSmith23]

You could use MusConv.com