It looks like to tool that Apple uses to transfer might work the other way round too - https://www.songshift.com/. I haven't verified it but based on their page it looks like it.
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Apple Music Transfer Tool Launches in Nearly All Countries, Simplifying Switching From Spotify
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If I transfer today from Spotify playlist, and later I add more to that playlist on Spotify, can I transfer again? Will it only transfer new music I add or the whole playlist? Will it create a lot of duplicates?
I am busy moving all my Apple Music to tidal. I got into the high end audio game and using a node icon as Apple refuses to left third party access to the high end audio. They need to wake up there’s no need to lock down Apple Music there lose.
These music streamers still can't distinguish among same name artists. If those were stupid enough not to be creative and find a unique name for themselves, the music hosters should at least differentiate; Discogs can do it but no one else can.
music streaming is everyting video streaming should've been.
All (well most) songs on all platforms; none of this exlusive to one service bs. Platforms compete on quality/price/other value adds, and not because they have a monopoly on LOTR or something.
I like to call out Apple where it's due, but you can transfer your music the other way around pretty painlessly with SongShift itself, which also powers Apple's tool. I just did it this morning because I like to keep Spotify updated just in case.
Presumably Spotify could do a similar partnership. If they don't, it's on them.
Apple provide a multitude of APIs to do this (Apple Music API, MusicKit, MPMediaLibrary) and anyone who joins their developer program gets to use them.
Spotify, on the other hand, only allows commercial apps to use their API if they can show 250k MAU. This is a recent change which (to all intents & purposes) excludes all independent app developers.
Apple haven’t implemented this new functionality. Under the covers it’s just SongShift, a third party app which has been around for years.
As ‘first’ user of iTunes, I still cannot reach my old imported cd-music in Apple Music. A 21 GB of data. All CD’s I have bought and loaded in iTunes. Also bought a lot of music of Apple in the store. The last is still available, the frist That’s so sad.
There are third-party services available
Soundiiz - Transfer playlists and favorites between streaming services
Convert playlists and favorites between different music platforms. Import your playlists and favorites from Apple Music to Spotify, TIDAL, YouTube Music, Deezer and many more!
soundiiz.com
It filters out duplicates. I used the tool to transfer my Amazon Music Unlimited to my Apple Music, and I had already done a lot manually. It skipped all the tracks I had already added, and just did the rest for me. Very helpful.
Well it was a nice try (in my case)... but Spotify has me locked... I listen to a lot of remixes, little known EDM, etc and Apple Music is more "for the masses" and doesn't have about half the stuff that's in my Spotify lib... after importing it wanted me to review over 2000 alternatives and after about 200 of them realized about 1/3 of them didn't exist in Applie Music (and didn't want to spend a few days scrolling through another 1800...
Side point: In going through the list I realized this is something AI could easily handle... but then again we're talking about Apple... and Apple and AI mix like oil and water.
Side point: In going through the list I realized this is something AI could easily handle... but then again we're talking about Apple... and Apple and AI mix like oil and water.
A Node Icon isn't 'high end audio', it's audiophile nonsense. I've got some £3000 speaker cables, you fancy buying them?
This is useful in the very rare occasions you swap music service (but obvs helps encourage people on the fence to swap from a sales POV).
But I wish you could just convert Spotify links on the fly, not your whole personal library. I've never changed music service, but the hundreds of times most of my friends send me links to songs they're spotify ones the large majority of the time. Often festivals or events may have a spotify playlist of artists there (and seldom Apple Music since more people are on spotify and it's going to be more popular by default for all the non-Apple-focussed Android users - i.e. most of the world). I wish I could just open those Spotify links someone sent me in messages or WhatsApp in Apple Music instead of my empty and ad-powered spotify account I don't use, or have toread the name and search for it in Apple Music (or similarly just convert that link to a spotify playlist to Apple Music on the fly).
Now THAT would be really useful to most Apple Music people I know when most people use Spotify.
But I wish you could just convert Spotify links on the fly, not your whole personal library. I've never changed music service, but the hundreds of times most of my friends send me links to songs they're spotify ones the large majority of the time. Often festivals or events may have a spotify playlist of artists there (and seldom Apple Music since more people are on spotify and it's going to be more popular by default for all the non-Apple-focussed Android users - i.e. most of the world). I wish I could just open those Spotify links someone sent me in messages or WhatsApp in Apple Music instead of my empty and ad-powered spotify account I don't use, or have toread the name and search for it in Apple Music (or similarly just convert that link to a spotify playlist to Apple Music on the fly).
Now THAT would be really useful to most Apple Music people I know when most people use Spotify.
Now for the sake of it, also lower the price to $10 a year for barebone music listening and we have a deal.
(I prefer basic music without adds, sharing, AI, and all kinds of fancy add-ons I hardly ever use)
(I prefer basic music without adds, sharing, AI, and all kinds of fancy add-ons I hardly ever use)
If you really want to curate a music collection you will have to go offline. No streaming service will offer you proper options to handle your collection.Thanks, Apple. What I'd like is a tool that allows me to transfer my data and playlists from the Music app to almost any other app that doesn't suck as much. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
I didn't mention streaming - I don't have a steaming service and don't plan to get one. I do have a crazy large collection of purchased and ripped music though.
Same here I don't mind paying but I do mind having no control.
