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How to Transfer Your Apple Music Playlists to Spotify

• Pranay Parab

  @prawnay

Music streaming services make it a little difficult to move your favorite songs when you decide to change your preferred service. If youre moving from Apple Music to Spotify, well show you how to take your playlists with you.

How to Move Playlists From Apple Music to Spotify

As much as wed love to show you a native way to migrate your Apple Music playlists to Spotify, its just not possible. Thats why were going to enlist a third-party tool to get the job done.

That tool is called Tune My Music, which is a simple website allowing you to move your songs from one streaming service to another. They offer paid plans, but its free tier allows you to move up to 1000 songs at a time from Apple Music to Spotify. If you have more than 1000 songs to move, you can always repeat the process to port your entire library.

To get started with porting your playlists, open Tune My Music in any browser and select Lets Start on the home page.

Tune My Music will now ask you to select the source service. Since were bidding adieu to Apple Music, thats the one well select. So, go right ahead and hit Apple Music.

After selecting Apple Music as the source service, youll see a pop-up asking you to connect your Apple Music account with Tune My Music. Enter your Apple Music credentials [which is essentially your Apple ID email address and password] and sign in. On the next page, Apple will ask you to confirm if you want to allow Tune My Music to access your Apple Music library. Click Allow.

Once Tune My Music has access to your Apple Music library, itll show you all the playlists in your account. You can scroll down to the Playlists section and uncheck the playlists you dont want to transfer. If you select all and try to transfer your massive music library in one go, be aware that it takes a long time to move everything from Apple Music to Spotify.

When youre done selecting the playlists to transfer, click Next: Select Destination.

On the next page, select Spotify from the list of music streaming services, since thats where were sending our Apple Music playlists.

Youll see another pop-up asking you to sign in to your Spotify account. Once youve logged in, you can read what Tune My Music will be allowed to access, scroll down, and click theAgreebutton to proceed.

This will take you back to Tune My Music, where you can check how many songs are being moved from Apple Music to Spotify. When youre done, click Start Moving My Music.

Now you can sit back, relax, and fire up your favorite playlist while you wait for Tune My Music to complete the transfer. When its done, your Apple Music playlists will show up on Spotify. Tune My Music will mark some missing songs in red during the transfer. Its worth pointing out that sometimes these songs may have a slightly different name on Spotify, so you may be able to locate them after all.

As we mentioned before, you can repeat this process on Tune My Music multiple times, until youve brought all your music to Spotify. Discovering new music on Spotify is easy as well.

In case Spotify isnt working for you, heres how to move your playlists back to Apple Music.

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