I can't save my liked songs to a playlist

[vitinho9]

Plan

Premium

Device

(Galaxy A13)

My Question or Issue

Hey this is my first post here. My problem is basically that I can't seem to transfer and/or save my liked songs anywhere else. 

For some context, I need to create a new account and really don't wanna lose all my liked songs (around 12k), so I looked through a bunch of Spotify support and community stuff and found out I could just use CTRL+A to select all the songs and then just drag and drop them in a new playlist, which I tried. Unfortunately, every time I tried this, Spotify gives me a red error message saying "something went wrong". I suspect that this might have something to do with the amount of songs I have, and I've tried all the basic stuff: restarting laptop (it is an admittedly shitty laptop), restarting spotify, trying another playlist, etc etc. 

I really don't want to lose 12k songs because of an account change, does anyone have any ideas on how to solve this?

[vitinho9]

This is exactly what it looks like a few seconds after I drop the selected 12k songs from the liked songs into "My Playlist #54"

[AlejaR · Accepted solution]

Hey @vitinho9,

Thanks for posting in the Community and welcome. 

Keep in mind that the Spotify playlist limit is 10,000. This means you can add around 10,000 songs to a playlist, so that could be the reason why you see the error you kindly mentioned. In this case, we'd suggest creating at least 2 playlists and adding half your Liked songs to one, and the other half to the other playlist.

To do this, select half of your Liked songs and add it to a new playlist to see how it goes. To select just a specific number of songs within a playlist, open your Liked Songs playlist from a computer. Then place your cursor pointer on the song number 6000 (more or less half of the playlist). Press Shift on your keyboard and click over that song. All songs until then should be selected.

Add the songs to one of the playlist you created by right-clicking on them> Add to the playlist. This should do the trick 🙂

Give it a try and let us know how it goes.

Keep us in the loop!

[vitinho9]

Hey @AlejaR,

Thank you very much for the reply.

I tried doing what you said but Spotify seems to not be able to load all the songs at the same time, and ends up just giving me like 700 songs instead of 6000, usually the first and last few hundreds of songs.

I could work with that (just slowly adding everything to a playlist until it reaches 10000 and then starting another one), but the command you mentioned always just selects all the songs until whichever one I clicked. I was wondering if there is a command where I can scroll-select the songs, which might take a while, but I can't seem to think of anything else.

Thanks for the help and let me know in case you get another idea!