Apple Music Transfer Tool for Switching From Spotify Now Available in US and 8 Other Countries

[IJustWannaTalk]

I think can do that with SongShift (the app, that is).

It can. I've done so for a while. Super convenient, as Spotify is better at new music for me, but I prefer to use Apple on my devices. The app is really handy.

 

[turbineseaplane]

Are we getting it yet?

They basically just work on things that support increasing subscription revenue somehow.

Tim, I would subscribe to a new iPhone mini…

 

[Agent007]

All this but they still wont let you put FLAC files on a phone

Since the PowerPC era I've used XLD to convert FLAC to Apple Lossless. I can convert hundreds of songs in a minute on an M1 Air.

 

[justanotherdave]

You’re doing it wrong.

It’s only OK for companies to have unfettered access to Apple’s ecosystem. It’s never OK for Apple to access someone else’s platform.

Bad Apple. 😉

 

[dd93]

Would be nice if an export to Spotify would also be enabled.

You can wait for Spotify to implement the feature.
Oh wait a minute, they‘ll throw a big fuss and then never implement it, like lossless audio or native HomePod playback (remember Spotify through a big fit for HomePods to be opened for third party services, only to not implement the feature to this day).

 

[ryanmp]

I changed my region from the UK to the US end of last year and everything in my Apple Music Library transferred over fine, only thing that went missing was a few purchased movies. I just made sure to backup my library before I did the change incase it got messed up but I never needed to use it luckily.

Interesting...

I had read this https://support.apple.com/en-us/118283 and thought that "cancelling" would mean losing the library.

 

[MrRom92]

Since the PowerPC era I've used XLD to convert FLAC to Apple Lossless. I can convert hundreds of songs in a minute on an M1 Air.

That is fantastic and I am very happy for you, but they are not equivalent formats and therefore conversion is not an appropriate solution. You are far from the first person to ever mention that this is an option, I understand it is simple and “works” but this response ignores the actual issues at hand and excuses Apple’s blatant anti-consumer practices.

 

[svish]

Good to see this. Hopefully it will be in all the markets soon. It will also be beneficial if Apple allows easy transfer from and to all other music services.

 

[John.B]

Would be nice if an export to Spotify would also be enabled.

This would be on Spotify to implement but, like higher bit rate music files, they refuse to do anything about it. Daniel Ek is just there to take your money, he doesn’t care about music or Spotify users.
There are apps like SongShift and others that will convert Apple Music playlists to other streaming services if you really want that and are not just posting rage bait.

 

[John.B]

Good to see this. Hopefully it will be in all the markets soon. It will also be beneficial if Apple allows easy transfer from and to all other music services.

They do offer playlists transfers from the major music streamers via SongShift?