As an extra filter I eliminated anything on the App Store that hadn’t been updated in the last 6 months. My target for round one of this test was to cut that total down to a manageable 5 using recent reviews on the App Store or recommendations from social media (mostly Reddit). I stopped counting at 10, and that’s just on the iOS App Store. There are a LOT of products in this space. It’s my intention to get this done for free, if at all possible. There’s one final thing I absolutely will be considering though: cost. I have no idea which product is best at this - I’m afraid it’s not something I need. For example, many of them can regularly synchronise playlists between services. There are other functions that many of these tools have which, for the purposes of this test, I ignored. I’m afraid I didn’t do those tests because it wasn’t relevant to the job in-hand, sorry. If you want to go from Apple Music to Spotify, or Deezer to Amazon, the “what’s best” answer will be different. But in the event we didn’t even get close to that: it ended-up being a slam-dunk.Īlready you’ve seen the huge caveat to my test: I’m only talking about transferring from Spotify to Apple Music. In the event of a tie, I intended to give extra credit for speed & ease of use because they matter to me. Ideally I’d want all the artists I follow to be copied over as well, but all of the tools are unanimous on that one: it can’t be done. I want all my “liked” tracks copied over too. I want all the albums I “liked” in Spotify to end up in the albums section of Apple Music. If my playlist has a description then I want to see that description in Apple Music. If a match isn’t great, I want a chance to fix it. That means all the right tracks, in the right order. This formed the basis of my test: if one tool copies Spotify objects over to Apple Music more accurately than another, I judge it better. Spoiler alert: none can ever give you 100/100 all the time because sometimes the right track just isn’t there to be found. So a tool which delivers all 100 is objectively “better” than a tool that only delivers 95. What’s not subjective is accuracy: if you’ve spent days creating a 100 track Spotify playlist for a special occasion, it’s safe to say you’re going to want to see the same 100 tracks in Apple Music after transferring. Me, all other things being equal, I’d prefer a tool that does it in 10 minutes. For example, you might love the idea of an involuntary digital detox as you plug your iPhone into a charger for an hour and a half while it chews through your playlists. To spare you from having to go through the same process I’m sharing what I learned. …I spent several hours trying these products out and I now know far more than I ever wanted.
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