Trackhop
Save Discover Weekly before it changes
Discover Weekly is gone every Monday. Release Radar is replaced every Friday, and a daylist changes several times a day. If you did not save the songs you liked in time, they are gone with it. Trackhop copies these playlists into a playlist that belongs to you, by hand or on a schedule, so nothing slips away. It is free and open source, and it works with a single Spotify account: no second service needed.
Two ways to keep them
| You want | Set the sync to | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Every song ever suggested, piling up week after week | Add only (the default) | One playlist that only grows: each run adds the new songs, nothing is ever deleted |
| A copy that follows it, on the same or another service | Mirror removals + Playlist that changes by itself | The target becomes the new version each time, with its title and, on Spotify, its cover |
Most people want the first one: a growing archive of everything Discover Weekly ever gave you.
How do I save Discover Weekly automatically?
- Install Trackhop on Android (download), or use Trackhop Desktop on Windows, macOS or Linux.
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Connect Spotify with the quick sign-in: Accounts → Add connector → Spotify (web), and sign in on Spotify’s own page with your usual account.
Why “Spotify (web)” and not the other Spotify connection? Trackhop has two ways to reach Spotify. The official one, with your own free developer key, can no longer read the playlists that Spotify makes for you (Discover Weekly, Release Radar, daylist): Spotify stopped allowing it at the end of 2024. With that connection those playlists look empty or are missing; that is Spotify’s rule, not a fault in Trackhop. The quick sign-in goes through Spotify’s own web player and sees them. It is not an official interface, so read its notes first. On the Google Play version it comes with the free Trackhop Bridge plugin.
- New sync: Syncs → New sync. As the Source, pick Discover Weekly from your Spotify playlists.
- As the Target, pick Spotify again and Create a new playlist, for example “Discover Weekly archive”. Source and target can be on the same service.
- Leave Mirror removals off. That is the Add only mode: the archive keeps every song, even after Discover Weekly has dropped it.
- Automatic schedule: Weekly, or On chosen days with Tuesday ticked and a time of your choice, so the run comes after Spotify’s Monday refresh.
- Save, check the preview, and tap Run now for the first copy. From then on it runs by itself.
Since version 1.13 there is a clearer way to say the same thing: when the source is a playlist that changes by itself, the editor offers Keep every track (archive) under the source. The target then only ever grows: nothing is removed from it, whatever Discover Weekly does, and new songs go at the end.
Each week the card shows how many songs were added. Tracks already in the archive are not added twice.
Release Radar and the daylist
The same sync works for any playlist that renews itself:
- Release Radar refreshes on Fridays: pick On chosen days with Saturday ticked.
- daylist changes through the day: Every 6 hours catches most of its moods, Every hour catches nearly all of them. In Add only mode you get one long playlist of every daylist.
- Your Mixes, Daily Mix, On Repeat: same steps, any schedule you like.
A copy that follows it, title and cover included
If you would rather have the current Discover Weekly also as a playlist of your own (to share it, or to listen to it on another service), turn on Mirror removals. A second switch appears: Playlist that changes by itself. With it on, the target becomes the source’s new version every time, even when most tracks change, with no confirmation to give. A daylist’s new title follows along, and on Spotify its new cover too, unless you gave the target a name of your own.
Without that switch, Trackhop treats a playlist that loses most of its songs as a possible mistake and holds the removals back for you to confirm: the right thing for your own playlists, not for Discover Weekly.
Can I keep one playlist per week?
Yes, by hand: Tools → New playlist from… → Copy makes a one-off copy of this week’s Discover Weekly as a new playlist, untouched afterwards. And if you turn on the automatic backups, every backup also keeps a dated copy of Discover Weekly as a file, so you can look back at the last few weeks.
Does it work with only Spotify?
Yes. Everything above stays inside one Spotify account. If you also use YouTube Music, TIDAL, Deezer, Apple Music or your own Navidrome, Jellyfin or Plex, pick that as the target instead and your Discover Weekly lands there.
Is it safe for my account?
You sign in on Spotify’s page, and the sign-in stays encrypted on your phone. Trackhop has no server and no account of its own. A weekly sync reads one playlist and adds a few dozen songs: the same thing you would do by hand, once a week.