Spotify to YouTube Music
Paste your Spotify playlist URL and the tool recreates it on YouTube Music. ISRC lookup handles exact versions; fuzzy matching covers the rest.
1. Choose source
Where are the tracks coming from?
Connect Spotify
You need to authorize read access to your playlists.
2. Choose destination
Where should the playlist be created?
Spotify to YouTube Music: Why Track Matching Is the Hard Part
Spotify and YouTube Music share most of the same catalog, but they index it differently. Spotify identifies each recording by an internal track ID tied to its metadata. YouTube Music surfaces tracks through its general video search, with music content living on auto-generated "Topic" channels (for example, "Daft Punk - Topic") rather than a dedicated track database. That difference is why bulk transfers fail silently on most tools: a simple title search returns music videos, covers, and fan uploads alongside official audio, and the tool picks whichever comes first.
This tool addresses that by biasing search results toward Topic channels. When a search result's channel name ends in " - Topic," the tool weights it more heavily in the match score, since YouTube auto-generates these channels specifically for catalog audio. According to YouTube's own documentation, Topic channels contain only official, rights-holder-licensed audio content. A match on a Topic channel is a strong signal you have the studio version rather than a cover.
The YouTube API Quota Reality
The YouTube Data API v3 charges 50 quota units per playlistItems.insert call, and there is no batch-insert equivalent (unlike Spotify, which accepts 100 URIs per call). Your default daily allocation is 10,000 units. That means a 200-track transfer exhausts your full daily quota. The tool calculates this estimate before you confirm and shows it prominently. If the quota runs out mid-transfer, YouTube returns a quotaExceeded error reason the tool catches and surfaces clearly, so you know exactly where to resume the next day rather than discovering missing tracks after the fact.
What Happens to Tracks Not Found on YouTube
Independent releases, catalog tracks with limited digital distribution, and niche genres are more likely to be absent from YouTube Music than from Spotify. When the fuzzy matcher finds no result above the confidence threshold, the track is marked "not found" and excluded from the transfer. After the transfer completes, the tool shows you the full list of unmatched tracks so you can search for them manually or skip them. Nothing is silently dropped.
For your other Spotify tools, our Spotify Playlist Manager handles deduplication and sorting within Spotify itself, and the Spotify to Deezer transfer is significantly faster because Deezer supports ISRC lookup directly.