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If you’re a big Spotify user, and spent many years building carefully curated playlists, you’d naturally be hesitant about switching to a competitor service such as Apple Music. The thought of having to start all of those playlists all over again is just unpalatable. But what if there was a way to seamlessly move those playlists intact? Here’s how to transfer Spotify playlists to Apple Music.
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To transfer Spotify playlists to Apple Music (and various other streaming music platforms), use a software app called FreeYourMusic. The free version, which is available for both desktop and mobile apps, enables you to transfer up to 100 songs from Spotify to Apple Music. After 100 songs, it costs $11.99 to transfer the rest.
How to transfer Spotify playlists to Apple Music
After installing the software on your preferred operating system, click the Let’s Go! button to begin connecting to your source platform (the place you’ll be moving the playlists from). In my case, that’s Spotify. Log into Spotify in the software app.
Once Spotify is selected as the Selected source on the left, you now have to choose the destination. In this case, it’s Apple Music. So click on that and log into Apple Music.
You’ll now get a confirmation message that both services have been connected. Sometimes the connection fails and you have to try again before it works. But if you get the following message, you’ve succeeded.
FreeYourMusic will now load your Spotify playlists. You can choose between Playlists, Liked Playlists, or Albums. Either select them all with one click or select whichever ones you want to move over. Then click Begin Transfer.
You’ll now see it starting the transfer process. FreeYourMusic takes each song and tries to find the identical song on Apple Music. Then it builds your playlist. So the whole matching process is going to take a while, especially if you have over 700 songs in one playlist, like I do. Just leave it to run in the background, while you work on something else.
Pretty soon, if you check Apple Music, you’ll now see your music playlists coming through.
The software app transfers 100 songs for free. After that, you just need to pay a one-off fee of $11.99 to have the rest transferred over. Considering the amount of time and effort it will save you doing it manually, $12 is a bargain.
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FAQs
Can you use this to transfer music back to Spotify?
Absolutely. Just switch the source to Apple Music, and the destination to Spotify.
