How do you guys handle massive Spotify client playlists right before a weekend gig? (Built a tool to fix my own workflow)
Fair cop on the numbers — a few of you called it out. Honest correction: the longest list a couple has ever sent me is 80 songs, not 200–300. Still a lost evening matching those by hand, which is the actual point of the post.
Curious how other working mobile/wedding DJs handle this, because it was driving me insane.
Every week, I get clients sending a 200–300 song Spotify playlist a few days before a wedding. I'd spend hours manually digging through my external SSD, making crates, and figuring out what tracks I actually owned versus what I needed to hunt down on record pools. Tuesday nights turned into pure admin dread.
Since I have a background in development, I finally got fed up and coded a desktop utility for myself to automate it. It takes a plain text/CSV playlist (I usually convert the Spotify URL via TuneMyMusic), scans my external SSD, and automatically builds a Serato .crate or VirtualDJ .m3u right where it needs to go.
Even better, it spits out an HTML report of the tracks I’m missing so I can just batch-download them from my pool instead of searching one by one.
I’ve been using it for my own gigs the last few weeks, and it's shaved hours off my prep time. If any other mobile/wedding DJs deal with this same bottleneck and want to check out how it works, let me know in the comments, and I can drop the info (don't want to spam links here).
How are you guys currently tackling client playlist imports without losing your minds?