SoundMachine is Easy to Use with Spotify Playlists

Posted on by Aaron

In this day and age, streaming is the main way that most people consume music. However, there is a difference between listening to music for personal enjoyment and playing music in your business for your customers. 

Most of the big music streamers are licensed to play music only for personal use. There is no “Spotify for Business” subscription, and as written in Spotify’s terms and conditions, it is for “personal, non-commercial use only.” As such, in order to play music legally for customers who come into their businesses, companies should subscribe to a business music provider like SoundMachine, which will license their music for legal use in their business locations.

However, that doesn’t mean the playlist you’ve spent hours curating on Spotify will go to waste. With SoundMachine, you have the ability to import your playlists from many different sources, such as Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and more.

Importing Playlists from Spotify: All the Customizability Without the Legal Problems

SoundMachine has partnered with third parties like Soundiiz that allow you to import playlists from Spotify and other music streamers directly into your SoundMachine account. The process is quite simple:

Importing Playlists from Spotify Step 1
1. Once you’re logged in to SoundMachine, select “my stations” and then “import your own stations
Importing Playlists from Spotify Step 2
2. Then select “import your own stations.”
Importing Playlists from Spotify Step 3
3. You will be taken to a new page that explains SoundMachine’s requirements for imported playlists, which include artist diversity and track count requirements. You can use either Soundiiz or TuneMyMusic to transfer the playlists into SoundMachine.
Importing Playlists from Spotify Step 4
4. Scroll to the bottom of the page. 
Importing Playlists from Spotify Step 5
5. With Soundiiz, select “Playlist Transfer” on the top left of the Soundiiz webpage. 
Importing Playlists from Spotify Step 6
6. Choose the service you’d like to import from and sign in through the portal.
Importing Playlists from Spotify Step 7
7. Agree to Soundiiz terms and conditions.
Importing Playlists from Spotify Step 8
8. Select “Transfer” from the left menu. (*Note that there are multiple ways to transfer your playlists.) 
Importing Playlists from Spotify Step 9
9. Select the type of category you’d like to import into SoundMachine. (Categories other than Playlists require a premium Soundiiz account.) 
Importing Playlists from Spotify Step 10
10. Select the service you’d like to transfer your playlist from. Notice that there are multiple music services that you can use to do so. We are already logged into Spotify, so we don’t need to log in again. 
Importing Playlists from Spotify Step 11
11. Select the playlist(s) you’d like to import, then select SoundMachine as the destination. The import will happen automatically and appear in your SoundMachine account under your saved stations. Remember that we recommend a playlist with at least 100 songs, and a single artist should make up no more than 10% of the playlist. (Note that in order to import multiple playlists at once, you must have a premium Soundiiz account.) 
Importing Playlists from Spotify Step 12
12. Configure your playlist. A title is required, but a description is not. 
Importing Playlists from Spotify Step 13
13. Confirm your tracklist. (Note that to import a tracklist of more than 200 songs requires a premium Soundiiz account.)
Importing Playlists from Spotify Step 14
14. Select your destination (SoundMachine).
Importing Playlists from Spotify Step 15
15. You will see a success screen.
Importing Playlists from Spotify Step 16
16. Once the playlist is imported, SoundMachine’s website will let you know if it meets the requirements mentioned in step 11. If it doesn’t, then you will need to adjust the playlist from its source platform to fit the requirements and re-import it. In the screenshot below, you can see that this playlist did not meet the requirements
Importing Playlists from Spotify Step 17
17. We repeated steps 8–15 and selected the “Awesomeness” playlist to import, which meets SoundMachine’s requirements. You can see that “The Time” playlist still does not meet the transfer requirements, but now we have one playlist that does!

Once your playlists are imported into your SoundMachine account, they will be licensed for commercial use through SoundMachine and will be as usable as any other preset station in SoundMachine. While there may not be a Spotify business subscription, SoundMachine’s partnership with Soundiiz allows you to get all the convenience of the Spotify app while ensuring that the tracks are licensed to use as background music for business customers. The same is possible for many other streaming services.

Below is a video you can watch which explains importing playlists from Spotify.

Do You Want to Handle Everything from One Place? That Works too!

If you don’t want to import playlists into SoundMachine, you don’t have to. SoundMachine has everything you need to prepare the music experience for your business from its website alone.

  • Is making playlists not your forte? SoundMachine has 500+ curated stations that are ready for use.
  • Are you not finding what you’re looking for? Work with a designated music specialist to help you find exactly what you need.
  • Do you want to schedule what time and what day your different stations play? You can easily create a schedule through SoundMachine’s “schedules” tab.
  • Do you want to schedule messages or ads for your business to be played at opportune moments? You can do that through the “messaging” tab.
  • Manage all locations from one centralized account. It doesn’t matter if you have locations in both the Deep South and Washington; your centralized account will allow you to maintain consistency in your brand, no matter where it is.

SoundMachine has everything you need and more. So what are you waiting for? Sign up for a free trial with SoundMachine today!