# Is there a way to gift a music playlist these days?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** music\
**Created:** [December 5, 2020, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-gift-a-music-playlist-these-days/927327 "2020-12-05T21:21:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2020, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-gift-a-music-playlist-these-days/927327/1 "2020-12-05T21:21:43Z")

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With Christmas approaching I thought it would be neat to gift some people with a music play list.

I am not asking how to pirate anything. Quite the opposite. I would like to pay for the music and gift someone a cool jam tape (so to speak in this digital age).

But for the life of me I can’t see a way to do it.

I could string some YouTube URLs together but I want this to be something they can play wherever, whenever.

Is there a way to do this these days?

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**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2020, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-gift-a-music-playlist-these-days/927327/2 "2020-12-05T21:23:38Z")

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Thanks to the mod for switching the tag…I didn’t know that was there…I’ll try to remember to do it in the future.

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**Author:** ![Nicest\_of\_the\_Damned](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8baadc/32.png) [@Nicest\_of\_the\_Damned](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nicest_of_the_Damned)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2020, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-gift-a-music-playlist-these-days/927327/3 "2020-12-06T01:05:20Z")

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You can buy mp3s of individual songs on Amazon. You could put them on a thumb drive or maybe just send them download links. Or burn a cd if you want to go that route. As long as you don’t keep copies for yourself it should be legit.

You might not be able to get absolutely any song but I have found some pretty obscure stuff there.

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**Author:** ![Nicest\_of\_the\_Damned](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8baadc/32.png) [@Nicest\_of\_the\_Damned](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nicest_of_the_Damned)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2020, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-gift-a-music-playlist-these-days/927327/4 "2020-12-06T01:12:26Z")

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Also, I am pretty sure they let you send book downloads as gifts. They might allow that for music as well. They are not expensive so you could try one and see.

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**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2020, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-gift-a-music-playlist-these-days/927327/5 "2020-12-06T02:48:07Z")

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If they have Spotify you would have the option of sharing a Playlist with them.