How To Transfer Your Music From Spotify To Apple Music
What Can You Transfer From Spotify To Apple Music?
Switching from Spotify to Apple Music doesn't mean you need to lose your music library. In fact, you can use third-party services, like TuneMyMusic, to transfer your entire library between music subscription services.
We'll show you how to transfer almost all your music from Spotify to Apple Music. That includes every playlist you have ever created, every album you have added to your library, and every song you have Liked in Spotify.
After the transfer is complete, you'll find all of this music added to your library in Apple Music, including your custom playlists.
How Do You Transfer From Spotify To Apple Music?
Neither Apple Music nor Spotify offers a built-in function to let you transfer music from one service to the other. However, a range of third-party apps and websites exist that do offer this service.
Most of these apps and websites work in the same way:
- Connect the transfer service to your Spotify and Apple Music accounts.
- Select the Spotify playlists, albums, or songs you want to transfer.
- Tell the service to add that music to your Apple Music library.
For this to work, you need an active subscription to Apple Music. You don't need a subscription to Spotify Premium though; the free plan works just as well.
Although SongShift gets talked about more often, in this article we'll show you how to transfer your music from Spotify to Apple Music using TuneMyMusic instead.
Unlike SongShift, which is limited to iOS devices, TuneMyMusic is a web app that works on any platform: iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, and even Linux.
How To Use TuneMyMusic To Transfer Your Music
Follow these steps to transfer your Spotify library to Apple Music. You can use any web browser to do this, but you need to make sure you have an active subscription to Apple Music before you start.
You also need to make sure Apple Music is set to Sync Library. Find this option in the Apple Music settings on your particular device.
Step 1. Connect Your Spotify Account
Before transferring any music, you first need to connect TuneMyMusic to your Spotify account. When you do this, TuneMyMusic requests permission to view and make changes to your library, which allows it to transfer the music.
From any web browser, go to TuneMyMusic.com and click Let's Start.
TuneMyMusic shows a list of potential music sources. You can use TuneMyMusic to transfer from a range of popular music streaming services, but for the purposes of this tutorial you need to click Spotify.
If prompted, log in to your Spotify account in the tab that opens, then Agree to let TuneMyMusic connect to your account.
Step 2. Select The Music To Transfer
After connecting to your Spotify account, it's time to select exactly which playlists, albums, or songs you want to transfer to Apple Music.
If you want to transfer Spotify's curated playlists, you need to get the URL for those playlists from the Spotify app. To do so, open the Share menu for the desired playlist in Spotify and select Copy Playlist Link.
Then paste that link into the text box in TuneMyMusic. You can only transfer curated playlists one at a time.
Alternatively, click Load from your Spotify account in TuneMyMusic to view a list of all the playlists, albums, and songs in your Spotify library. You can then use the checkboxes to select as many playlists, albums, or songs as you like.
To transfer everything at once, enable the My Spotify Music Library checkbox at the top of the page.
Once you're happy with your selection, click Select Destination.
NB: TuneMyMusic also shows the artists in your Spotify library, but it's not possible to transfer these to Apple Music.
Step 3. Connect Your Apple Music Account
Once again, TuneMyMusic shows a list of available music streaming services you can transfer your library to. Click the Apple Music option, then log in to your Apple Music account in the page that opens.
Choose to Allow TuneMyMusic to access your Apple Music account. You need to let TuneMyMusic make changes to your library for it to add everything it transfers from Spotify.
Step 4. Transfer Music From Spotify To Apple Music
Click Start Moving My Music to begin transferring your music from Spotify to Apple Music. A progress bar shows you how many tracks are yet to transfer.
Transferred music appears in your Apple Music library instantly.
Beneath the progress bar you can view a list of all the tracks TuneMyMusic tried to transfer, highlighting those that failed. This sometimes happens when a song from Spotify isn't available in Apple Music, but it's usually due to a mismatch in file metadata.
Click the Download icon next to the missing tracks notification to download a list of all the failed tracks. You can add them to Apple Music manually or use an alternative service, like SongShift, to transfer them one at a time.
Step 5. Sync Playlists With TuneMyMusic Premium
It's possible to make TuneMyMusic sync your playlists, albums, or artists from Spotify on a daily or weekly basis. This is especially useful for Spotify's curated playlists, which refresh every week.
To do so, click the Sync icon next to a playlist after the transfer completes. Then use the popup window to choose how frequently you want TuneMyMusic to sync this playlist.
To enable the sync service you need to sign up for a premium TuneMyMusic account.
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