Playlist Vault
A watchdog for your streaming playlists that snapshots what's in them, alerts you the moment a track disappears from Spotify or Apple Music, and helps you rebuild or legally re-acquire lost songs.
Music fans whose carefully curated playlists keep getting gutted by licensing takedowns
- Daily scan of your playlists with instant push alerts the second a track goes unavailable
- 'Lost track' archive showing what disappeared, when, and why (license expired, artist pulled it, regional block)
- Smart re-purchase links to Bandcamp, Qobuz, or 7-digital so you can permanently own what mattered
- Playlist provenance notes — original creator, mood tags, listening context — that survive even when the songs don't
Licensing churn on Spotify is accelerating and people are losing multi-year playlists overnight; a defensive service for music memory has clear pull.
Multiple Spotify Community threads and Reddit posts (e.g. r/spotify 'Spotify is still removing songs from my playlists') show recurring frustration with songs disappearing without notice, validating a real pain point though it's a niche within music listeners.Spotify is still removing songs from my playlists. : r/spotify ↗Why Do Some Songs Disappear from Spotify Playlists? ↗
Direct competitor Harken already offers daily playlist tracking, additions/removals reports, and playlist rewind via Spotify API; Spotify-Song-Tracker (GitHub) and PlaylistGo also cover backup/tracking, so the space is contested, not wide-open.Track Spotify Playlists & Never Lose a Song Again - ToolMage ↗Lulubellelll/Spotify-Song-Tracker - GitHub ↗
Harken validates a Free + Premium subscription model for this exact use case, but it's a niche, low-frequency event (occasional removals), so willingness-to-pay is modest and TAM is limited to power users.Harken Pricing, Reviews, Alternatives ↗Harken Reviews, Pricing, Core features ↗
Licensing churn between labels and DSPs is structural and ongoing (distributor takedowns, regional rights, catalog disputes), so a defensive archival need should persist as long as streaming exists.Spotify Removed Your Track Without Notice | CSP Music Group ↗
Proven buildable via the public Spotify Web API (Harken, Spotify-Song-Tracker, PlaylistGo all ship it); main risks are Spotify API rate limits/TOS and cross-platform coverage for Apple Music, which lacks an equivalent open API.How to Backup Spotify Playlist to a Local File | PlaylistGo ↗