Spotify iTunes Playlist Import??

m021478 wrote:

I noticed from under the File menu that Spotify allows you to import your iTunes playlists, but when I do so it simply imports the playlist names, but all of them are empty (no tracks appear within any of the playlists)...

I know this can't be right, so what am I missing here?

Not sure if this is relevant, but my iTunes library & media is stored on an external hard drive and my primary Home>Music folder is empty... iTunes and my Mac OS are completely up-to-date; I've run Cocktail to repair permissions and perform all sorts of maintenance routines on my machine, and I've even uinstalled and reinstalled Spotify in an attempt to get this working. I've had no luck with everything I've tried.

Spotify is counter-intuitive in the way it handles your iTunes music. I've just launched mine (the Free version) and all my iTunes playlists are there. The tracks that Spotify has are in white, and if you Play those you presumably are hearing the Spotify track. However, tracks which Spotify doesn't have are in pale beige. I just tried highlighting a track and playing it and got this message :

"This track was added as a Local file. If you have the file on your computer you can import it"

It looks as if you have to physically import to Spotify any tracks you want it to play, which it doesn't already have. Which kind of begs the question : if you already have iTunes, what's the point?