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Apple Now Lets Users Transfer Apple Music Playlists to YouTube Music And Vice Versa
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Songshift is great but not at $60!
Playlisty is awesome and is designed specifically for moving over Spotify to Apple Music. You can also move over Release Radar and Discover Weekly to Apple Music and set them to update every week.
Playlisty is awesome and is designed specifically for moving over Spotify to Apple Music. You can also move over Release Radar and Discover Weekly to Apple Music and set them to update every week.
This is true on so many levels.
Apple Music is far from perfect, but it is far superior to all the other music services if you're a true music fan. Tidal is probably closest, but there's still a lot that Tidal doesn't do very well.
Apple has really invested into making Apple Music fantastic. They don't do enough to talk about killer features like iCloud Library or the fact that their algorithm, in my opinion, has surpassed Spotify for discovery now. Every since Spotify started letting artists take a lower payout for increased algorithmic exposure, it's been a bubble of the same artists/songs appearing everywhere there now.
Yeah, I started listening to YouTube Music as a result of getting a premium YouTube account so my kid wouldn't see ads when she's on there. Shockingly, I think I might even prefer it. Apple uses remixes too often and *always* recommends 'music' I have told it countless times I do not, nor will ever have any interest in. The only thing that kept me here were the playlists and the ease of use with HomePods. I'm running out of reasons to keep Apple Music going.
The elephant in the room: Why are they facilitating switching to a competing service?
„…the strategies Apple has employed to date are not the only ones Apple can use to achieve its anticompetitive and lucrative ends. As technology evolves, Apple continues to evolve and shift its anticompetitive behavior to protect its monopoly power. For example, in recent years, Apple has increasingly moved into offering its own subscription services, including news, games, video, music, cloud storage, and fitness subscriptions that could be used to keep users tethered to the platform. These subscription services and other ancillary fees are a significant part of Apple’s net revenue. These subscriptions services can also increase switching costs among iPhone users. If an Apple user can only access their subscription service on an iPhone, they may experience significant costs, time, lost content, and other frictions if they attempt to switch to a non-Apple smartphone or subscription service.“
Oh yeah, the DoJ‘s lawsuit against Apple monopolising smartphone and digital markets.
Probably a smokescreen to defuse regulatory action.
And if anyone, let consumers switch to their good, colluding friends at Google.
„…the strategies Apple has employed to date are not the only ones Apple can use to achieve its anticompetitive and lucrative ends. As technology evolves, Apple continues to evolve and shift its anticompetitive behavior to protect its monopoly power. For example, in recent years, Apple has increasingly moved into offering its own subscription services, including news, games, video, music, cloud storage, and fitness subscriptions that could be used to keep users tethered to the platform. These subscription services and other ancillary fees are a significant part of Apple’s net revenue. These subscriptions services can also increase switching costs among iPhone users. If an Apple user can only access their subscription service on an iPhone, they may experience significant costs, time, lost content, and other frictions if they attempt to switch to a non-Apple smartphone or subscription service.“
Oh yeah, the DoJ‘s lawsuit against Apple monopolising smartphone and digital markets.
Probably a smokescreen to defuse regulatory action.
And if anyone, let consumers switch to their good, colluding friends at Google.
I also like this service as a SongShift alternative for Android, but I would be cautious, because they may hit you with an International transaction fee from what I remember.
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
Free for any amount of playlists under 100 tracks. $4.50/month for everything over that.
Works for pretty much every music service there is.
I just wish Spotify & Apple Music links were universal and could be opened in either service. Loads of friends send me links to songs or albums on spotify. I then can't use the link (unless I want it to open in ad-supported Spotify and then not be able to save to my library), so have to manually type the name in the link into Apple Music. Similarly, I know there's not much point in me sending most of my friends Apple Music links when I know they'd have to do the reverse.
Would be great to be able to send song/album links to friends where it just opens in whatever their preferred music service is (presuming it's on there).
I guess even better if it worked for Tidal or Pandora or whatever other ones there are, although the large majority of people I know are on Spotify, with some on Apple Music, so kinda less fussed.
Would be great to be able to send song/album links to friends where it just opens in whatever their preferred music service is (presuming it's on there).
I guess even better if it worked for Tidal or Pandora or whatever other ones there are, although the large majority of people I know are on Spotify, with some on Apple Music, so kinda less fussed.
But does it let you go in the opposite direction?
I've been a YouTube music subscriber for years and am somewhat new to apple music. Can I use this same process to copy all my YouTube playlists over to apple music?
I've been a YouTube music subscriber for years and am somewhat new to apple music. Can I use this same process to copy all my YouTube playlists over to apple music?
- I've said it before and I will say it again: A playlist is just a list of songs. Not the song files themselves. We need an open source standard for playlists so all the music streaming companies use one method of saving it or, allowing a user to save a list automatically anywhere they want. What if you are in military and away for a stint or a researcher on a remote island or Sahara desert and just want to suspend Apple Music or any service and not come back 1-12 months later to your playlists wiped out when you start up again? Third party, $ure. But this should be simple and standard, like JPEG or whatever. It's a file, a list of songs, nothing more.
- I also contend that, this would increase loyalty for returning. If I leave Apple now, and my playlists will be wiped, I will never come back. Why would I?! Keeping playlists with the Apple user is just good business!
- Also, Apple is one of the best for sound quality (I only play to Airplay v1 devices so it is always 16/44 or USB direct or Atmos from ATV4K to AVR). YouTube is one of the worst sounding. So this is super strange… maybe related to some other deal with Google Apple made? It certainly is not to make the user's life easier. Otherwise, we would also see Spotify and Tidal too, at the very least.
Maybe this is a tip toe to some kind of consolidation? Spotify will make a playlist conversion deal with Tidal, Qobuz and Deezer. Leaving Amazon the odd man out… or maybe Pandora, Apple, YouTube, Amazon will make a playlist deal…
- Privacy? I guess some people want their music picks hidden but, I am fine with anyone seeing what I play. I worked in a record store so, I listen to everything!
- I also contend that, this would increase loyalty for returning. If I leave Apple now, and my playlists will be wiped, I will never come back. Why would I?! Keeping playlists with the Apple user is just good business!
- Also, Apple is one of the best for sound quality (I only play to Airplay v1 devices so it is always 16/44 or USB direct or Atmos from ATV4K to AVR). YouTube is one of the worst sounding. So this is super strange… maybe related to some other deal with Google Apple made? It certainly is not to make the user's life easier. Otherwise, we would also see Spotify and Tidal too, at the very least.
Maybe this is a tip toe to some kind of consolidation? Spotify will make a playlist conversion deal with Tidal, Qobuz and Deezer. Leaving Amazon the odd man out… or maybe Pandora, Apple, YouTube, Amazon will make a playlist deal…
- Privacy? I guess some people want their music picks hidden but, I am fine with anyone seeing what I play. I worked in a record store so, I listen to everything!
It is not really switching. If your spouse has another service and you want to give them a playlist. Stuff like that.
My sister is on Pandora. Ugh. But I wish I could share my playlist with her… I also have a Pandora account (my oldest streaming) but rarely use it since Apple is my main one. I only recently set up a YouTube paid account for videos (and have now stopped it due to terrible recommendations it is giving lately). I never bothered to try or change tp YouTube Music. Why would I? Apple Music is better all around. Even now, for a split second, I thought, maybe. But I don't want the mess of lost songs and some playlists, etc, that cannot go over.
But I do still want a way to not have Apple destroy years of playlists because I just want to take an Apple Music break, for any reason.
Songshift is limited. Is only available on iOS devices. I have used tunemymusic for years, and it is much better to transfer and sync playlists between music apps.
I regularly copy playlists of ~700 tracks between Apple Music, Tidal and Qobuz with Soundiz. Well worth the $36 yearly fee. Supports transfers beween more than 40 sources.
I noticed that quite a few apps have had their lifetime prices balloon in the past few years (attendant, lookup, just to name a few). Good for those who managed to buy in before the developer decided to jack up their prices.
Spotify is the leader in music streaming. If anything, they should be the ones facilitating their users migrating to other streaming platforms, rather than the other way around.
In what way? In terms of subscriber numbers, depending on how you interpret them, in the U.S. they are very close.
Spotify vs. Apple Music: Who Has More Subscribers?
Spotify now tops 50 million paying subscribers in the US. But Apple Music is actually bigger in the most critical subscriber category.
www.digitalmusicnews.com
Interesting how competition between Apple and Spotify plays out but I have found my ways with third party like Musconvtool when transferring my playlist
If you're still looking for a way to transfer playlists, you might want to try TracklistPro. It supports Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and more. Worked well for me when I switched services