Whatever your reasons for wanting to switch services, whether it’s due to the artists leaving the service, Spotify choosing to stand behind particular podcasts hosts orApple Musicoffering more of the features you want, you’re able to take your music with you. In fact, the same is true if you’re leaving for another provider likeYouTube MusicorTidal. The process generally works for all of the popular providers.
The process differs slightly depending on whether you want to transfer using your iPhone,Android phoneor a web browser. But regardless of how you want to do it, there is a method to ensure you may keep any playlists you’ve painstakingly collated over years.
There is one caveat there though: the three services we’ve found to offer this service don’t do it for free. At least, not if you have a considerable number of songs to switch across.
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Transfer Spotify to Apple Music on Android
The easiest method to use when transferring your playlists from Spotify to Apple Music on your Android phone is to use an app called Free Your Music. (It’s also available on iOS).
It’s worth noting, Free Your Music is free to try, but will only allow you to transfer 100 songs without paying. If you want to transfer more than that, you’ll need to purchase the premium in-app purchase.
It’s available as a one-time purchase of £10.99, or you can take a quarterly, annual or lifetime subscription. Which you choose depends on whether you see yourself needing to use it more than once. The one-time option is all you need if you just doing one big mega transfer.
This isn’t the only solution, however. you’re able to also use our ‘on the web’ tutorial below. It costs less, but obviously isn’t quite as convenient since you need to use a browser to do it.
One app that was originally free - but is no longer - is called SongShift. We showed you how to use it to switch fromApple Music to Spotify on iPhone already, and the process is much the same, albeit in reverse. There are various tiers of subscription for SongShift. You can pay £34.99 for lifetime use, £4.99 per month or £19.49 per year.
Now all you need to do is wait for the processing to finish and confirm the matches, then wait for it to finish transferring.
On the web
Now wait for the transfer to take place. The time it takes depends on how many tracks you’re trying to transfer to the new service.
What about other music services?
The good thing about all these transfer services is that they support pretty much all the major music subscription services. That includes Tidal, Deezer, YouTube Music and many others. So if you’re looking to transfer between other services, you can use the same methods listed above, just choose different sources and destinations.
If you’re not sure which music service is best,check out our comparison.
