This entry was posted in Playlists, Spotify and tagged firefox on Augby afront.Capaldi’s second album dropped on May 19 and now, less than a week since its release, it’s already grabbed over 68,000 chart sales and is on its way to trumping the rest of the British charts.Įd Sheeran is currently sitting at the top of the charts following the release of his new album Subtract, which dropped on May 5 and quickly became the fastest-selling album of the year so far. To search for specific entries, open the Bookmark Manager then search from there:ĭo you have any alternative ways to manage all your Spotify playlists? If so, please let us know in the comments! To browse, just use the toolbar folder as shown in the first image above. I asked the developer about this but he said he can’t take screenshots of an application easily from Firefox. Unfortunately it won’t get the album art from Spotify and there’s no way to add your own album art file to a bookmark: it insists on automatically getting a snapshot from the bookmarked site itself. This is so very nearly the killer add-on for Spotify playlist management. This adds image previews and cover flow to bookmarks. One other add-on you might want to check out is Bookmark Previews. The latest Google Chrome includes a feature like this built-in so you could always try it in there instead of Firefox. The Xmarks Add-on handles the backup, syncing, and availability of my playlists (as well as all my other website bookmarks). The Show Parent Folder Add-on makes the search results easier to read, as you can view the Parent Folder (or in my case, the genre) that the album belongs to. I blogged about this step in detail last month. I find this useful so that I can, say, search for all Metal albums released in 2008. I add a year tag to each album (just read the year from Spotify). Drag the shortcut to the Firefox Bookmark Manager (Bookmarks > Organize Bookmarks).This creates an Internet Shortcut which includes the artist and album name. Drag-and-drop an album (or any playlist) from Spotify to your desktop, then drag-and-drop it into the relevant folder in your bookmark manager. So now you’re ready to track all your music. Or maybe group by year with one called 2009, one called 2008 and so in. That’s how I did it, but alternatively you could group alphabetically and create a folder called A, one called B, another called C etc. Create some sub-folders, for example a folder for each genre.Ideally put this in your Bookmarks Toolbar to make it even easier to access. In the Firefox bookmark manager, create a New Folder for your music.This way I have a large, searchable, sortable list of all my albums that’s synchronized, backed-up, and available to me wherever I have Spotify (home, work, laptop, friend’s house etc.). My current preferred way to manage playlists though is to use my web browser’s bookmark manager coupled with a few plugins. I blogged about it here and recommend you give it a go (also glad to say that the custom playlist option is now working perfectly). This site also makes your playlists available to all, but it’s main emphasis is on creating a personal collection. There is however one site that’s designed for personal playlists: Spotify Collections. Most will let you bookmark a list of your own playlists, but the effort to add and manage lots of playlists is not worth it. Unfortunately these are all aimed at sharing with others. You can’t sort them, you can’t group them, the only basic hack is to create empty playlist dividers as a visual reference.Īnother option is to use one of the many playlist sharing sites that are out there. This is fine when you only have a small number of playlists or albums you want to track, but get above 20 or 30 and this becomes impossible to manage. One option is to just use the Spotify client itself. I’ve blogged before about the best way to manage your Spotify music collection, but I’ve fine-tuned things a bit since then (and Spotify have simplified playlist drag-and-drop recently) so here’s a refresher.
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