Add support for CSV files as workaround for Spotify integrations on hold

[askabaz22]

Hi, you can consider adding support for CSV files as a temporary workaround due to the current hold on Spotify integrations, which is preventing new users from creating apps. Playlist CSV files can be easily generated using Exportify or other online tools.

Thank you for your work on this project!

[TypNull]

The issue isn't with fetching data from Spotify, it's with matching against MusicBrainz IDs. If I added CSV support, it would need to match against titles, which is currently much more buggy on the metadata server. So I don't think that solution would provide any benefits, as the import list would still fail.
Your best option is to export your Spotify playlists to ListenBrainz and use Tubifarry's ListenBrainz import lists.

[askabaz22]

Thanks for the explanation, that makes sense; I understand that a title/artist-only CSV would indeed be unreliable for matching against MusicBrainz.

My suggestion was specifically considering CSV exports that include ISRCs (Exportify should support exporting ISRCs), which could allow matching via MusicBrainz in a much more reliable way, closer to what you currently get from the Spotify API metadata.

That said, I’m not a programmer, so I’m not sure how complex this would be to implement or whether it would be worth the added maintenance effort. I just wanted to share the idea in case it might be useful.

[TypNull]

Oops, I totally messed up the repository, my bad! 😅
Yes, that should be possible, but I’m a bit swamped right now. It might take me some time to get to it.
But the testing credentials included should at least work a bit for now.