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Apple Music Gets New Transfer Tool to Make Switching From Spotify Easier
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Apple Music is weird. I saved my playlists from Apple Music befire my subscription ended. When I re subscribed, I uploaded the same playlists and it can’t find half the songs and lists the songs as unplayable. the songs are there in the service as you can manually find them. Weird.
Also it wants to sync my iTunes music which I won’t let it messes up my owned local music in iTunes (when I did it the past). The whole syncing with the local library makes the service all a mess.
Also it wants to sync my iTunes music which I won’t let it messes up my owned local music in iTunes (when I did it the past). The whole syncing with the local library makes the service all a mess.
The thing that would make it easiest to switch is to make music discovery on Apple Music better.
That’s how I lost my collection that I had when I was using iTunes, I have uploaded many of my own CDs and my own digital music and where does the transfer from one operating system to another on a Mac Apple claim them as if they were their owners and they won’t let me play unless I put the passcode from the previous Mac which I didn’t have so I lost all of that and now I’m reading what you’re saying. I think Apple is notorious of doing that so I do not recommend for anyone to transfer from one service to the other for music.
I used the app Playlisty back then to transfer all my playlists from Spotify to Apple Music—literally hundreds of them, and it worked flawlessly. I haven’t regretted the switch at all. First of all, you get more value for your money: the family plan is slightly cheaper, and the audio quality is significantly better. I wouldn’t want to miss out on Dolby Atmos anymore. On Spotify, you’re paying slightly more for just 320kbps—honestly, that’s underwhelming. Plus, the overall look and UI of Spotify feels way too chaotic and playful, clearly targeted at a younger audience. It’s just too much of everything.
Or sync between them.
I use both - Apple for Atmos, because it's part of a membership and because it works better on a standalone Apple Watch (*) , Spotify because the app and music discovery is so much better.
You are right. Bookmarking a playlist is one of my most wanted feature for years. My second most wanted feature would be a “remove from playlist” button on carplay. Sometimes your taste change and you want to kill a song forever
Why should One switch to Apple Music ?
For me here is no reason to do that.
For me here is no reason to do that.
Price and quality, no doubt about that! But don’t knock it if you haven’t even given it a try.
Imagine when Spotify cost will be X and the same inside the garden will be X+30% ahah...
Apple this week introduced a new feature designed to allow prospective Apple Music users to import their saved music and playlists from third-party music services to Apple Music.
The feature is either in an expanded testing phase or it has started rolling out, and it is available in Australia and New Zealand according to an Apple Support document. Signs of the transfer option first surfaced back in February 2024, when an Android user saw a reference to the option in the Apple Music beta for Android. There is no word on when library and playlist transfer options might expand to other countries, but it is likely Apple is planning to expand the rollout in the near future.
Apple is partnering with SongShift for the new Apple Music feature. SongShift is an app that transfers music playlists across streaming platforms, but by working with Apple, the functionality has been integrated directly in the Apple Music app. Adding a simple option for transferring content from another service to Apple Music could spur people with large, curated libraries and playlists to make the jump to Apple's music service.
Apple Music subscribers in Australia and New Zealand can initiate song transfers on the web or using the Apple Music app for iPhone, iPad, or Android. Songs, albums, and playlists from music services like Spotify can be transferred to Apple Music, though what can be transferred does depend on the service.
On an iPhone or an iPad, transfers can be initiated by opening up the Settings app, navigating to Apps, and selecting Apple Music. In the Apple Music settings, there is a "Transfer Music from Other Music Services" option that lists supported music services. Users can select what they want to transfer, and then Apple Music will locate matches for songs in the Apple Music catalog, adding them to the Apple Music library.
In instances where an exact match for a song isn't able to be located, Apple will flag the music as Needs Review, displaying alternate versions that can be selected. Apple warns that some content might not be available or have an exact match in Apple Music, and the company also notes that only user created playlists are able to be transferred, not playlists created by another music service.
Source playlists and libraries in the other music service will not be impacted and will still be available.
Article Link: Apple Music Gets New Transfer Tool to Make Switching From Spotify Easier
Same thing happened to me with my iTunes playlists. So annoying.
That said, I've tried both Spotify and Apple Music and AM works better for me so I have stuck with it, happily.
The same thing happened to me. I had several playlists where I had spent hours and hours over 10 years getting the order exactly right and Apple Music trashed them and I couldn’t get them back.
I gave it a try again recently , yes the sound quality is good but then I saw some albums split in half God knows why , some with twice the same songs , or songs that I saved a couple of weeks ago from a particular album are now replaced from some compilations....
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Streaming 😴😴😴
I wish Apple would show some support for syncing and managing our purchased music.
It just ruined my wife’s music library and I’ve had to spend a full day rebuilding and re adding music and all the metadata.
Now it’s done we will have to work around the stupid quirks and bugs to make sure it doesn’t happen again!
I wish Apple would show some support for syncing and managing our purchased music.
It just ruined my wife’s music library and I’ve had to spend a full day rebuilding and re adding music and all the metadata.
Now it’s done we will have to work around the stupid quirks and bugs to make sure it doesn’t happen again!
I've tried Apple Music twice and given up. I used song shift as well and had similar results, maybe it was just me but at the time it seemed to find my "liked" songs I had to make a filter and mess about. I went from WinAmp to iTunes to Spotify and I see no reason to leave.
Who in their right mind would ever want to switch TO Apple Music from any other music platform?
Apple this week introduced a new feature designed to allow prospective Apple Music users to import their saved music and playlists from third-party music services to Apple Music.
The feature is either in an expanded testing phase or it has started rolling out, and it is available in Australia and New Zealand according to an Apple Support document. Signs of the transfer option first surfaced back in February 2024, when an Android user saw a reference to the option in the Apple Music beta for Android. There is no word on when library and playlist transfer options might expand to other countries, but it is likely Apple is planning to expand the rollout in the near future.
Apple is partnering with SongShift for the new Apple Music feature. SongShift is an app that transfers music playlists across streaming platforms, but by working with Apple, the functionality has been integrated directly in the Apple Music app. Adding a simple option for transferring content from another service to Apple Music could spur people with large, curated libraries and playlists to make the jump to Apple's music service.
Apple Music subscribers in Australia and New Zealand can initiate song transfers on the web or using the Apple Music app for iPhone, iPad, or Android. Songs, albums, and playlists from music services like Spotify can be transferred to Apple Music, though what can be transferred does depend on the service.
On an iPhone or an iPad, transfers can be initiated by opening up the Settings app, navigating to Apps, and selecting Apple Music. In the Apple Music settings, there is a "Transfer Music from Other Music Services" option that lists supported music services. Users can select what they want to transfer, and then Apple Music will locate matches for songs in the Apple Music catalog, adding them to the Apple Music library.
In instances where an exact match for a song isn't able to be located, Apple will flag the music as Needs Review, displaying alternate versions that can be selected. Apple warns that some content might not be available or have an exact match in Apple Music, and the company also notes that only user created playlists are able to be transferred, not playlists created by another music service.
Source playlists and libraries in the other music service will not be impacted and will still be available.
Article Link: Apple Music Gets New Transfer Tool to Make Switching From Spotify Easier
I’ve been using SongShift for this so far, but something from Apple would be great!
Apple this week introduced a new feature designed to allow prospective Apple Music users to import their saved music and playlists from third-party music services to Apple Music.
The feature is either in an expanded testing phase or it has started rolling out, and it is available in Australia and New Zealand according to an Apple Support document. Signs of the transfer option first surfaced back in February 2024, when an Android user saw a reference to the option in the Apple Music beta for Android. There is no word on when library and playlist transfer options might expand to other countries, but it is likely Apple is planning to expand the rollout in the near future.
Apple is partnering with SongShift for the new Apple Music feature. SongShift is an app that transfers music playlists across streaming platforms, but by working with Apple, the functionality has been integrated directly in the Apple Music app. Adding a simple option for transferring content from another service to Apple Music could spur people with large, curated libraries and playlists to make the jump to Apple's music service.
Apple Music subscribers in Australia and New Zealand can initiate song transfers on the web or using the Apple Music app for iPhone, iPad, or Android. Songs, albums, and playlists from music services like Spotify can be transferred to Apple Music, though what can be transferred does depend on the service.
On an iPhone or an iPad, transfers can be initiated by opening up the Settings app, navigating to Apps, and selecting Apple Music. In the Apple Music settings, there is a "Transfer Music from Other Music Services" option that lists supported music services. Users can select what they want to transfer, and then Apple Music will locate matches for songs in the Apple Music catalog, adding them to the Apple Music library.
In instances where an exact match for a song isn't able to be located, Apple will flag the music as Needs Review, displaying alternate versions that can be selected. Apple warns that some content might not be available or have an exact match in Apple Music, and the company also notes that only user created playlists are able to be transferred, not playlists created by another music service.
Source playlists and libraries in the other music service will not be impacted and will still be available.
Article Link: Apple Music Gets New Transfer Tool to Make Switching From Spotify Easier
Err, that’ll be me 😂 I can’t be bothered with anything else and as I’m paying for Apple One+ don’t really see the benefit.
And here I am, like a Joe Shmuck, just listening and swearing at Siri on my own, when AM's playlist consistently has no idea what I am interested in. Sure, I like Elvis Costello, but not every 10th song.
Of course we bitch about it, because it's continually bad and they have never fixed it. I like Apple, but it is baked into the culture. New is sexy and attractive to the bower bird developers, but improvement of exisiting products is constantly neglected. It has ever been so, but we live in vein that the centimillionaires who run their divisions will actually fix it. Go on Apple, I dare you, double dare you, to fix it.
"Here's what I found on the web for W Air."
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but on Apple Music I can combine offline MP3s and the streaming songs to make a unified library.
But on Spotify it seems to segregate offline music into its own playlist with Premium songs in another list. Is this still true or has it been improved?
But on Spotify it seems to segregate offline music into its own playlist with Premium songs in another list. Is this still true or has it been improved?