When you’re done transferring your music, unlink these third-party services from music streaming accounts so they can’t continue to harvest your data. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t use these services, but there are trade-offs, as with almost all online activities. Music and podcast habits could be used to make assumptions about your political affiliations, sexuality, age, race, and more. Your music streaming could reveal more than you expect. You should know a lot of music transferring services share data with advertising companies, such as what songs you’ve saved on Spotify. (You know that’s a bad idea, right? Use a password manager instead.) The services we listed above let you simply link to your music streaming accounts, without handing over your log-in credentials. Do not do that, especially if you use the same password on different accounts. Some services used to ask you to give them your username and password. So once the transfer is complete, it’s smart to check your new music streaming service to make sure it worked.īefore you use any of the many playlist-transfer services available, you should be aware of some privacy and security issues. These music transfer apps also match up the wrong songs sometimes. The transferring apps let you know if there are songs that aren’t available. The popular music streamers have almost identical catalogs, but your new service might not have every single song you saved on your old account. If you have a lot of playlists, or playlists with a lot of songs on them, it will take a long time, about half an hour in my case. From there, all I had to do was head to Soundiiz’s Transfer tab, select the playlists I wanted to move, hit Confirm, and follow a few more steps. Then I tapped the Apple Music icon and logged in. (I could have used a smartphone app instead.) That opened Spotify’s log-in interface. I opened the Soundiiz website in a browser and tapped the Spotify icon. Here’s how it worked on Soundiiz when I tested the service by moving my Spotify playlists to Apple Music. FreeYourMusic offers more expensive subscription plans, or you can pay a one-time fee of $12. SongShift starts at $5 per month, as well. Soundiiz was the cheapest of these options, costing $4.50 per month-yep, it’s a subscription service, one that you can cancel as soon as your transfer is done. (SongShift works only on iPhones.) All three let you transfer a few playlists with a limited number of songs free of charge, but you have to pay to move multiple playlists, or bring along your liked songs and albums. I tried three of these tools: Soundiiz, FreeYourMusic, and SongShift.
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