FAQ

How do I move my playlists over from another service?

Start from the button at the top of this page and sign in — or open a fresh account, which takes about a minute. Pick the provider you are leaving from the list, tick the playlists worth keeping, and Portage copies them across with their track order, cover art and descriptions intact. Already listening with us? The same tool sits under Settings in both the desktop and the mobile player, and it will pick up where a half-finished transfer stopped.

Can I bring across a library built in a desktop player?

Yes. Export your playlists as plain text or a standard playlist file, drop the file into Portage, and we match each line against our catalogue. Anything we cannot find is listed at the end so you can hunt it down by hand.

What happens to albums I saved on my old provider?

Saved albums, followed artists and liked tracks all travel with the playlists — they land in your collection in the order you first saved them, so the shelf still reads like a history rather than one long alphabetical dump.

Is moving my collection with Portage safe?

It is. Portage only ever reads from the account you are leaving, never writes to it or deletes anything, and the connection is dropped the moment the copy finishes. Nothing on the old service changes.

Does Portage cost anything to use?

No. The transfer is free on every plan we sell, including the ad-supported one, and you can run it as many times as you like while you make up your mind about switching.

What does Portage do with my listening data?

Track names and timestamps are used to build the match list and to warm up your first set of recommendations. The connection tokens are discarded within 24 hours and the match list is never sold or handed to an advertiser.

Can I pull from more than one provider at a time?

One source per run, but you can queue a second run the minute the first finishes. Duplicates are folded together automatically, so a playlist you kept in two places does not arrive twice.

Is there a cap on how many tracks I can move?

Nothing you are likely to hit — the largest library we have carried across ran to 62,400 tracks. Very big collections are moved in batches, and you can close the tab while it works.