Apple Music Gets New Transfer Tool to Make Switching From Spotify Easier

Apple this week introduced a caller diagnostic designed to let prospective Apple Music users to import their saved euphony and playlists from third-party euphony services to ‌Apple Music‌.


The diagnostic is either successful an expanded investigating signifier oregon it has started rolling out, and it is disposable successful Australia and New Zealand according to an Apple Support document. Signs of the transportation enactment archetypal surfaced backmost successful February 2024, erstwhile an Android idiosyncratic saw a reference to the enactment successful the ‌Apple Music‌ beta for Android. There is nary connection connected erstwhile room and playlist transportation options mightiness grow to different countries, but it is apt Apple is readying to grow the rollout successful the adjacent future.

Apple is partnering with SongShift for the caller ‌Apple Music‌ feature. SongShift is an app that transfers euphony playlists crossed streaming platforms, but by moving with Apple, the functionality has been integrated straight successful the ‌Apple Music‌ app. Adding a elemental enactment for transferring contented from different work to ‌Apple Music‌ could spur radical with large, curated libraries and playlists to marque the leap to Apple's euphony service.

‌Apple Music‌ subscribers successful Australia and New Zealand tin initiate opus transfers connected the web oregon utilizing the ‌Apple Music‌ app for iPhone, iPad, oregon Android. Songs, albums, and playlists from euphony services similar Spotify tin beryllium transferred to ‌Apple Music‌, though what tin beryllium transferred does beryllium connected the service.

On an ‌iPhone‌ oregon an ‌iPad‌, transfers tin beryllium initiated by opening up the Settings app, navigating to Apps, and selecting ‌Apple Music‌. In the ‌Apple Music‌ settings, determination is simply a "Transfer Music from Other Music Services" enactment that lists supported euphony services. Users tin prime what they privation to transfer, and past ‌Apple Music‌ volition find matches for songs successful the ‌Apple Music‌ catalog, adding them to the ‌Apple Music‌ library.

In instances wherever an nonstop lucifer for a opus isn't capable to beryllium located, Apple volition emblem the euphony arsenic Needs Review, displaying alternate versions that tin beryllium selected. Apple warns that immoderate contented mightiness not beryllium disposable oregon person an nonstop lucifer successful ‌Apple Music‌, and the institution besides notes that lone idiosyncratic created playlists are capable to beryllium transferred, not playlists created by different euphony service.

Source playlists and libraries successful the different euphony work volition not beryllium impacted and volition inactive beryllium available.
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