How to Find Your Time Capsule (Your Playlist in a Bottle) on Spotify

As a musical surprise in January 2023, Spotify is launching a timely user experience to help you capture the moment by the time January 2024 rolls around - Your Time Capsule (Playlist in a Bottle).

Spotify's latest Playlist in a Bottle is an interactive, in-app experience that captures who you are musically right now. You can now see how it work and make your Playlist in a Bottle. If you are interested in it, don't delay to make your Playlist in a Bottle because Spotify will cork the experience when January 31 comes to a close! If you can't access it on Spotify, we'd like to share some workarounds to help.

Part 1. Your Time Capsule on Spotify - How Does It Work?

Similar to Spotify Wrapped, Your Time Capsule is your personalized playlist with songs to take you back in time to your teenage years. For both Free and Premium users across iOS and Android devices, you can make it work for you.

Spotify's Your Time Capsule feature is a playlist in a bottle. It asks you questions, to which you reply with a song. The playlist is then locked for a year like a time capsule. All Spotify users can get different prompts and you are able to choose which prompts you want to answer.

You can now follow this guide to go through all the prompts and answer them. However, please noted that you won't be able to change your answers because the playlist will be locked in for a year, which means Your Time Capsule playlist won’t be available until next year together with your Spotify Wrapped 2024.

Part 2. How to Make Your Playlist in a Bottle on Spotify

To make your Playlist in a Bottle, you'll need to ensure that you are using the latest version of the Spotify app for mobile. Just go to the Google Play Store or App Store to search for Spotify app to check for an available update. Once updated, follow these steps to access this feature!

Step 1Click spotify.com/playlistinabottle form your mobile device or scan the QR code.

Step 2Select your time capsule of choice - you can pick from a bottle, jean pocket. Gumball machine, lunch box or teddy bear.

Step 3Answer a series of song-inspired prompts. For example:

Step 4Digitally seal your musical time capsule and send it off!

Step 5Share a personalized card to your social channels, such as Instagram Stories with the tag #PlaylistInABottle.

Step 6Come January 2024, if you made a Playlist in a Bottle, you'll receive your personalized time capsule reminding you what you were listening to one year prior.

Part 3. How to Find Your Time Capsule on Spotify

There's a chance that it might show an error message like "Aw Snap!" when you try to find Your Time Capsule on Spotify on Google Chrome. If you are not able to find the direct link but wish to find Your Time Capsule playlist on Spotify, you can either use the direct link to "Playlist in a Bottle" or use the search tool to get it.

Note: Please confirm the Spotify mobile app is up to date.

Option 1: Use the link to "Playlist in a Bottle"

Your Playlist in a Bottle: spotify.com/playlistinabottle.

Option 2: Use the Search tool for the result of "Your Time Capsule"

1. On your mobile device, open the Spotify app.

2. Go to Search. Enter "Your Time Capsule" in the search bar and go into the top result.

3. You can now access Your Time Capsule playlist on Spotify.

Option 3: Use the Search tool for "Your Time Capsule" under Made For You

1. On your mobile device, open the Spotify app.

2. Go to Search > Made for You.

3. Scroll to Uniquely yours. You'll find Your Time Capsule under it.

If you are using the desktop app, you can also find it under Made For You.

Option 4: Use Google Search for "Your Time Capsule"

If you can't get Your Time Capsule playlist on the Spotify platform, you can use Google Search to get it.

1. On your device, use a browser to go to Google.

2. Enter "Your Time Capsule + Spotify" in the search bar and search for it.

3. Go into the top result of "Your Time Capsule - Spotify". You'll be redirected to timcapsule.spotify.com.

4. Press on the "GET PLAYLIST" button. To continue, please log in to your Spotify account.

5. Back to timecapsule.spotify.com, press on the "GET PLAYLIST" button again. You'll be redirected to the page of Your Time Capsule playlist's profile on the Spotify Web Player.

Now you can do more things with Your Time Capsule playlist. You can choose to share it to your friends, download it, save it to Your Library or embed it to your Spotify website player. This is how it looks like if you add Your Time Capsule playlist to your Spotify profile.

Bonus Tip: How to Keep Your Time Capsule Playlist from Spotify

If you wish to keep your Time Capsule playlist from Spotify forever, you can always have the benefits to this ViWizard Spotify Music Converter to download it to your devices - with no Premium subscription required.

Added with the DRM-removal feature, ViWizard Spotify Music Converter is designed for both Premium and Free users to download the selection from Spotify into 6 audio file formats: MP3, AAC, M4A, M4B, WAV and FLAC. Just as import, it's hard to go wrong with this tool and it works fine on both Windows PC and MacBook. Just download the correct version.

Adam Gorden is an experienced writer of ViWizard who is obsessed about tech, movie and software.