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Apple Music adds a tool to import Spotify playlists and saved songs
Apple Music lets subscribers transfer Spotify playlists and saved songs into its library on iPhone, Android or the web. The built-in feature can make switching services easier for people who want to keep their music collection, amid renewed criticism of Spotify over artist payments, its founder’s investments and planned AI remix tools.
Users need an active Apple Music subscription, access to the Spotify account they are transferring from, and Sync Library enabled. They can choose which playlists or favourites to move; Apple Music then searches for matching tracks and adds them to the library. Unmatched songs may require review, and the review option remains available in Settings for 30 days.
In short
- Apple Music can import Spotify playlists and saved songs.
- Transfers work on iPhone, Android and the web.
- Unmatched tracks can be reviewed for 30 days.
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The case for
The import tool lowers the practical cost of leaving Spotify by letting subscribers keep much of the music they have organised and saved. That gives listeners more freedom to choose a service based on its features, values or policies without having to rebuild their collections from scratch.
The case against
The tool may make switching easier, but it does not resolve the wider concerns cited about Spotify, and some tracks may not match or may need manual review. Listeners may also reasonably prefer to stay with Spotify for its service, catalogue or other features, rather than treating criticism of the company as sufficient reason to move.
Explained simply
Spotify and Apple Music are subscription services for streaming music. People can save songs to a library and organise them into playlists, which are collections of tracks they can play together.
The two services have separate libraries, so moving between them can mean rebuilding playlists and finding saved songs again. A transfer tool can help preserve some of that collection, though it depends on Apple Music finding a matching track.
Spotify and Apple are both major music-streaming companies, and services compete for subscribers through their catalogues and features. Artists and listeners have also debated how streaming services pay musicians and how they use new technology.
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Originally published by Engadget as “The right way to transfer your Spotify playlists and songs to Apple Music”.