Trackhop
Sync Spotify playlists to YouTube Music
Trackhop copies a Spotify playlist (or your liked songs) to YouTube Music and then keeps it in sync: add a song on Spotify and it shows up on YouTube Music at the next run, by hand or on a schedule. It is free, open source and runs on your Android phone: no account, no subscription, no website that sees your playlists.
What you need
- Trackhop on an Android phone (8.0 or newer), from F-Droid, Obtainium or GitHub. No phone? Trackhop Desktop does it on Windows and Linux too.
- Your Spotify and YouTube Music accounts.
Step by step
- Connect Spotify. Accounts → Add connector → Spotify. The quick route signs you in on Spotify’s own page, nothing to create; the official route uses a free developer key in your own name and the app walks you through it.
- Connect YouTube Music the same way. The quick route has no daily limit; the official route (YouTube’s API) allows roughly 200 added tracks a day, and a bigger playlist carries on by itself the next day.
- Create the sync. Syncs → New sync: source Spotify, the playlist (or Liked songs); target YouTube Music, create a new playlist. Leave the name empty to keep Spotify’s.
- Open the preview. It shows what will be added before anything changes.
- Run it, then pick a schedule (every hour, every 6 hours, daily or weekly) to keep the two in step.
Tips
- Mirror removals also removes on YouTube Music what you remove on Spotify. A run that would remove a large part of the playlist stops and asks first.
- Keep the source order puts the YouTube Music playlist in Spotify’s order after adding.
- Tracks Trackhop could not find with certainty go to the review: pick one of the suggestions or paste a link, and the choice is remembered for next time.
- Music videos, live versions and remasters: the matcher compares title, artists and duration, and prefers the official audio.
- With Spotify’s developer key, Spotify only lets an app read the playlists you created or collaborate on. For a playlist made by someone else, use the quick route, or copy its tracks into a playlist of yours first.
The other way round
The same steps work from YouTube Music to Spotify, or both ways at once: a two-way sync keeps the two playlists the same whichever side you edit.