How to move your RateYourMusic ratings to another site
RateYourMusic will hand you a file with every rating you've made. Here is where to find it and which sites will take it.
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RateYourMusic lets you export your ratings as a CSV from the bottom of your profile page, with or without your review text. Logfolio, Record Club and Riffiter each accept that file. This post covers the export, what the file contains and what each site does with it. Checked on 11 November 2026.
You can take your RateYourMusic ratings with you. Scroll to the bottom of your RYM profile, click Export your data (or Export with reviews), and you get a CSV with every release you've rated. Logfolio, Record Club and Riffiter all accept that file. We make Riffiter, so read the comparison below with that in mind. Everything here was checked on 11 November 2026.
Is the RateYourMusic export still there?
Yes. You will find older posts saying the button was removed, and at least one person wrote a scraper to get their own ratings out. The export is on the profile page as of November 2026, and we still receive fresh files from RYM users. You don't need a scraper.
How do I export my ratings?
Log in on rateyourmusic.com and open your own profile. At the very bottom there are two links. Export your data gives you ratings only. Export with reviews adds the text of every review you wrote. Pick the second one if you've written anything you'd miss. The download is a single CSV file.
What is in the file?
One row per release. Each row has the artist, the title, the release date, your rating, whether you own it and in what format, and the review if you asked for it. Ratings are stored as whole numbers from 1 to 10, where 1 is half a star and 10 is five stars.
Your lists are not in it. If a list matters to you, copy it by hand before you go anywhere.
Expect a little mess too. Titles can arrive with HTML codes like & in them, and reviews keep RYM's [i] and [b] tags. A decent importer cleans those up, but read a few of your reviews after any import to be sure.
Which sites take the file?
| Site | What comes over | Cost | Worth knowing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Logfolio | Rated albums, reviews and wishlist | File imports are free | It tracks books, films, games and albums in one log. It is not a music community. |
| Record Club | Ratings. It also imports from Album of the Year, Last.fm and Discogs | Free, with a paid Supporter tier | We could not confirm whether review text comes across. Its help page has a section on the RYM import. |
| Riffiter | Ratings and reviews, on the same half-star scale | Free | Our catalog is smaller than RYM's, so some releases will not match on the first run. |
On Riffiter the import is under Settings, then Connections, then RateYourMusic. RYM's 1 to 10 is the same scale we store, so nothing gets rounded: a 3.5 stays a 3.5. Reviews land on the matching album, and the [i], [b] and [u] tags turn into real italics, bold and underline. After the run we tell you how many rows did not match. Those are usually releases we do not have yet. Upload the same file again later and it picks up whatever has been added since, without duplicating the rest. The full walkthrough is on our RateYourMusic page.
Do I have to leave RateYourMusic?
No. Exporting changes nothing on your RYM account. You can keep rating there and use a second site on your phone.
On Logfolio and Riffiter an import is a one-time copy of the file, so the two accounts will not stay in sync on their own. If you keep rating on RYM, export again every so often and upload the new file. Both sites skip the rows you already have.
The file is also a good backup. Export one every few months and keep it somewhere safe.
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