Tips & Tricks

Looking for privacy/data questions instead? See the FAQ.

Getting better matches

• Use the exact format Artist — Track with an em dash or hyphen. The parser splits on —, –, or -.
• Include the artist name — Track Down searches track:"Paranoid Android" artist:"Radiohead" which is much more accurate than just the track name alone.
• If a track doesn't match, try adjusting the artist name. "The Beatles" vs "Beatles, The" can return different results.

Last.fm sources

• Top Tracks — uses your Last.fm username. Pick a time range (7 days up to all-time) to match the mood you're going for.
• Recent Scrobbles — uses your Last.fm username. Raw chronological history, not ranked like Top Tracks — your actual last plays, in order, deduplicated.
• Loved Tracks — uses your Last.fm username. One of the most reliable sources.
• Tag — genre tags like "electronic", "jazz", "hip-hop" work best. Niche tags may return fewer results.
• Similar Artists — enter one artist name. Returns one best-matching Spotify track per similar artist.
• Artist Top Tracks — enter an artist name. Returns their top tracks from Last.fm.
• Track Radio — enter one or more "Artist — Track" lines as seeds. Expands each into similar tracks and blends the results, deduplicated. Great for starting from a couple of anchor songs.
• Flashback — enter your Last.fm username and pick how many years back. Pulls your actual scrobbles from that week — needs enough listening history on your account to have data for that period.

For the reasoning behind these sources — what scrobbling is and how to use it for discovery beyond one streaming platform — see Guides, especially the full conversion workflow.

Large playlists

Spotify's API limits playlist additions to 100 tracks per request. Track Down handles this automatically in batches. The save progress bar shows you how many batches have completed.

Private browsing

Track Down uses sessionStorage to persist your Spotify token across page refreshes within the same tab. In private/incognito mode, sessionStorage is cleared when the last tab closes. This is by design — there are no server-side sessions or cookies.

Toolbox shareable images

• Playlist Cover — choose a background and accent color, then customize the title and subtitle text.
• Now Playing — make sure something is playing on your Spotify account first. Click "Refresh" if nothing shows.
• Stats Card — pulls your top 5 artists and tracks from the last 6 months. Only available if you've been using Spotify enough to have data.
• Last.fm Grid — enter your Last.fm username. If album art doesn't load, try a different username or check that your profile is public.

Toolbox playlist utilities

Sort, Shuffle, Dedupe, Duplicator, Join, and Split all read one or more of your own playlists and save the result as a new playlist — your original is never modified. Export is read-only and works on any playlist you can view, not just ones you own. Playlist Replace is the one exception: it edits an existing playlist's tracklist directly and asks you to type the playlist's name to confirm before doing so.

• Playlist Sort — saves a new playlist reordered by date added, title, artist, duration, or popularity.
• Playlist Shuffle — saves a new playlist in a true random order; use "Shuffle again" to reroll before saving.
• Playlist Dedupe — turn on "flag similar versions" to also catch remasters, singles, and re-releases of the same song, not just exact duplicates.
• Playlist Duplicator — makes a true 1:1 copy under a new name; the original is never modified.
• Playlist Export — read-only. Turns any playlist you can view (not just ones you own) into a plain "Artist — Track" text list, the same format Textbox and File read back in.
• Playlist Join — combines two playlists into a new third one; turn on duplicate removal to also catch songs shared between them.
• Playlist Split — breaks one playlist into several new ones by track count; every track lands in exactly one part.
• Playlist Replace — overwrites a playlist's tracklist with another's in place, keeping its URL and cover image. The only playlist tool that isn't reversible within Track Down, so it requires typing the playlist's name to confirm.