Transfer into an existing playlist, Rebuild (Force recreate), and playlist names

By default Free Your Music makes a new playlist on the service you move to. You can also send the songs into a playlist you already have there, rebuild a playlist from the source, and see why very long playlists are split.

New playlist or existing playlist?

When you choose what to move, open the options of a playlist. Under "Where it goes" you pick one of these:

• "New playlist" (the default): Free Your Music makes a new playlist with the same name on the new service. Nothing you already have there is touched, also when you already have a playlist with that name. You can change the name.
• "Add to existing", then "Add the missing songs": Free Your Music keeps the songs the playlist has and adds the new ones at the end.
• "Add to existing", then "Replace all songs": the playlist becomes an exact copy of your source playlist.

A playlist that already syncs to that service shows "Already syncing to" the service.

Free Your Music never adds songs to a playlist only because it has the same name. When you do not pick a playlist, you get a new one. Later syncs of the transfer go into that new playlist, so a second one is not made.

What happens when I use an existing playlist?

With "Replace all songs", Free Your Music empties the playlist you picked once, then adds the songs of your source playlist. With "Add the missing songs", nothing is removed. In both cases the playlist itself stays: its name and link do not change.

With Keep in sync, Free Your Music does not empty the playlist again. Songs you add to it by hand after the transfer stay.

Some services do not let apps remove songs. On those, Free Your Music cannot empty the playlist: it adds the songs of your source playlist next to the songs that are already there. For a clean copy on such a service, choose "New playlist".

Liked songs, albums and artists never go into a playlist. They are added to your library on the new service.

Rebuild a playlist (Force recreate)

Rebuild writes every song of the transfer again from the source, in its order. Use it when the destination playlist got out of shape, for example after many edits by hand, or on a service that adds a picked song only at the end.

• When Free Your Music makes a new playlist, the old playlist stays on the service. Delete it there if you do not want two.
• When Free Your Music empties the playlist and fills it again, the playlist keeps its link and name, and songs you added by hand are removed too.
• Songs you fixed with Rematch stay the way you picked them.

Why was my playlist split into two?

Some services limit how many songs one playlist can hold. When your playlist is longer than that, Free Your Music fills the first playlist up to the limit and puts the rest into more playlists with a number after the name: "Road trip", "Road trip 2", "Road trip 3".

These are the playlist limits Free Your Music knows about:

The extra playlists belong to the same transfer, so you manage them in one place.

Frequently asked questions

Playlist not ending up where you expected? Contact support and tell us both services and the playlist name.