What is this? While there are plenty of tools for creating playlists with individual songs, I’ve found few that make it simple to create playlists with all the tracks from specific albums. This is especially helpful at the end of the year, when I’m exploring “Best of the Year” album lists and want to dive into entire albums. By combining this tool with Spotlistr, you can transform album-artist lists into Spotify playlists that include every track from each album. I also blogged about this here.

Spotify Album ID Converter

How to Use

  1. Create a Spotify app and paste your clientID and secret into Step 1, then press authenticate
  2. Enter your album URLs or artist - album names into Step 2
  3. Click Convert to generate Spotify album IDs
  4. Click Copy to copy the generated IDs
  5. Go to Spotlistr's textbox search
  6. Paste the copied IDs into Spotlistr's textbox
  7. Click Search on Spotlistr to have it create your Spotify playlist with all the tracks from those albums

Step 1: Spotify API Configuration

To enable artist/album name search, you need to provide your Spotify API credentials. Get them from the Spotify Developer Dashboard. Simply register to use the Web API and set the redirect URI to localhost.

Step 2: Enter Albums

Enter either: