Ivy – Automatic Spotify playlist generator
As a freelance web developer I sometimes create applications for other people who want to accomplish something. However, once in a while I have an idea of my own that I want to make reality. My latest (and first!) creation that is developed in-house is Ivy.
Ivy is a webservice that is built on top of Spotify. If you don’t know Spotify yet, read this blogpost of me from a couple of months back. Ivy enables you to import your current playlists (from iTunes for instance) and convert them to Spotify playlists. That way you don’t have to search for all your tunes again when you want to use Spotify to listen to your music.
Ivy currently supports iTunes XML files, CSV files (comma separated values) and free text / copy & paste input. It is all very basic for now, but as time advances so will the feature set of Ivy. I’m planning on supporting YouTube and Last.fm as well for instance, improve the search mechanism, and many other things.
Ivy remains free for everyone, but if you feel the service has been of value for you, please consider donating. You can find the donate button on the Ivy website.
Below is a screencast I made to explain how Ivy works and what you can do with it. I’m planning on improving that as well 
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Please let me know what you think of Ivy in the comments!
Visit Ivy at ivyishere.org
Looks nice, but this service already exists: http://playlistify.org May I kindly suggest you google in the future before you built another exact the same service?
Hi Coen,
Graphically it looks very nice. It also seems a lot like a copy of http://Playlistify.org which I started developing 3 months ago. Maybe you are familiar with the service?
Playlistify.org is the tool for converting playlists originating from sources such as Itunes, Winamp, Free text copy+paste, Youtube, Last.fm to Spotify and online playing. First Playlistify offered Winamp + iTunes conversion for ‘a cent per track’, however since you released a competing service I also switched to a free model.
I read in your announcement that you are also going to support Last.fm and Youtube. These are exactly the two missing services which Playlistify.org already supports since it’s launch.
To me it seems like you have been inspired by Playlistify.org, but ofcourse I can be wrong.
Good luck with developing the service! Checkout http://playlistify.org once in a while for more inspiration
First of all, Ivy is not intended as a copycat of playlistify. Believe it or not, development of Ivy was already a long way when playlistify first came to my attention, somewhere around the 27th of january. I have no idea for how long playlistify is open for the public though…
Of course I do a bit of investigation before I devote my time to such a project and could not find a service that did the same as Ivy at that time. I suppose it’s a matter of ‘great minds think alike’. And when I saw a tweet about playlistify I hesitated to continue development. I decided to continue, because I saw room for improvement and wanted to complete my first in-house application, for the experience.
I still believe a little competition amongst this type of services is only a good thing. Just as there are a lot of Spotify ‘share your playlist’ webservices, for instance. Just to make this all fair, even Ivy and playlistify are not the only services out there that allow users to import their playlists to Spotify. Each do it in their own way though.
They are not identical, Playlistify requires me to fill in data about me, publish the list etc – overly complicated when I just want to lookup a bunch of songs then add them to a playlist in my own Spotify.
So IMHO Ivy is much better in that respect, thank you for the service.
But Playlistify is a better searcher; it finds 15 of these songs, if pasted like this song list (including sequence numbers etc) – but Ivy finds only 9:
http://www.rollins-archive.com/2010/may-2010/397-20-may-15-2010.html