Export YouTube Music Playlists With Artist and Duration
A bare list of titles doesn't tell you who made the track or how long it runs. Here's how to get the fields that actually matter for a music playlist.
Updated 26 September 2026 · 7 min readA YouTube Music playlist looks simple from the outside — a scrolling list of song titles. But the moment you try to actually do something with that list — build a spreadsheet, plan a workout mix around total runtime, or just see how many tracks by one artist you've collected — a title alone isn't enough. You need the artist, the duration, and ideally the view count sitting next to each track.
This guide covers exactly which fields a proper music playlist export should include, why artist and duration specifically matter for real use cases, and how the export tool tells a music playlist apart from a regular one automatically.
Why titles alone aren't enough
A lot of quick export methods — a browser extension, a script pointed at the standard YouTube Playlists API, a copy-paste job — return a video title and, if you're lucky, a video ID. For a regular playlist that's often fine. For a music playlist it throws away the structure that makes the data useful: who performed the track, how long it runs, and how many times it's been played.
A title is not the same as a track record
This isn't a niche complaint. Anyone trying to actually work with an exported playlist — rather than just glance at it — runs into the same wall: a spreadsheet of titles is fine for skimming, but it can't be sorted by length, grouped by performer, or checked for how heavily one artist dominates the list. Those are exactly the operations that depend on artist and duration existing as their own columns in the first place.
The fields a music playlist export needs
For a YouTube Music playlist, the export includes tracks, artists, durations, views, and a genre insight layer — everything below sits in one row per track, in the playlist's own order.
| Field | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| Track title | The baseline identifier — but not enough on its own, as above. |
| Artist | Lets you group, count or filter tracks by who performed them. |
| Duration | Needed for anything runtime-based — a workout mix, a set length, sorting short vs. long tracks. |
| View count | A signal of relative popularity across the tracks in the same playlist. |
| Genre insight | Added specifically for playlists detected as music playlists, on top of the fields above. |
Exporting with artist and duration in three steps
Paste the playlist URL
Let it pull the full track data
Download and open in a spreadsheet
What artist and duration data is actually for
- Building a runtime-aware playlist
Sort by duration to pull together a set that fits a specific length — a 30-minute workout block, or a run of short tracks for a transition.
- Counting tracks per artist
With an artist column, a pivot table or simple count shows exactly how concentrated a playlist is around a handful of artists versus spread wide.
- Sorting short vs. long tracks
Filter for tracks under or over a duration threshold — useful for separating interludes or edits from full-length songs in a large playlist.
- General library building
A spreadsheet with track, artist, duration and views per row is the raw material for any further sorting, filtering or migration work.
How auto-detection works
You don't have to tell the tool whether a playlist is a YouTube Music playlist or a regular one — it auto-detects that from the playlist itself. That detection is what unlocks the genre insight layer: it's only produced for playlists identified as music playlists, not for regular video playlists, since a regular playlist doesn't carry the same music-specific structure to draw it from.
Practically, that means you can paste a link without first checking whether it's a "regular" YouTube playlist or a YouTube Music one — the export adapts to what it finds. If you're not sure which kind a given playlist is, that's fine; the detection step is what the tool exists to handle, not something you need to work out yourself first.
How MyFreshTools Helps
What the tool does
YouTube Music Playlist Export turns a YouTube Music playlist into a CSV with tracks, artists, durations and views for every song, and auto-detects music vs. regular playlists so genre insight is added automatically where it applies.
Who it's for
- Anyone building a runtime-aware playlist who needs a duration column to sort by.
- Listeners who want a per-artist breakdown of a large music playlist.
- Anyone migrating or archiving a music library who needs more than a title list to work from.
How to use it
- Paste the YouTube Music playlist URL — the tool detects it's a music playlist automatically.
- Download the export with track, artist, duration, views and genre insight columns.
- Sort, filter or group by any of those columns in a spreadsheet.
Requirements and limits
- A free MyFreshTools account. No card, free credits on signup.
- Genre insight is produced only for playlists the tool identifies as music playlists — a regular playlist export won't include it.
- Detection is automatic; there's no manual toggle to force one mode or the other.
Frequently asked questions
Yes — the YouTube Music Playlist Export includes the artist alongside the track title, duration, and view count for every song, not just a bare title or video ID.
Yes, once it's in a spreadsheet. The export gives you a duration column per track, so sorting or filtering by length is a normal spreadsheet operation — useful for splitting a long playlist into shorter or longer runs.
It auto-detects music vs. regular playlists from the playlist itself, so you don't need to tell it which kind you're exporting. Genre insight is only produced for playlists it identifies as music playlists.
It's an added layer specific to music playlists, alongside the standard track, artist, duration and view fields. It isn't produced for regular (non-Music) playlists, since the detection step is what enables it.
Yes — with the artist column in a spreadsheet, a simple count or pivot table gives you a per-artist frequency count across the whole playlist, which a plain title-only export can't give you.
The takeaway
A playlist of song titles alone can't tell you who made a track, how long it runs, or how it compares to the rest of the list. Exporting with artist, duration, view count and genre insight attached turns a bare list into actual track data you can sort, group and build with.