How to ditch Spotify, and move your playlists and music library to another streaming service
Time to create a new musical home
Tune My Music(Web) – Free
I’m recommending this service first, because it’s free, it’s dead-simple to use, and it works really well — save for a few glitches.
Free your music(Web, Android, iOS) – $14.99 for bundled access to all three platforms
This is one of the proven services to move your playlist from one service to another. It has a free tier, but it only allows you to transfer 10 songs in one session, so that’s a bummer. You will have to shell out some money to sync all your songs in one go.
It took around 25 minutes for Stamp’s Android app to transfer all of my Apple Music’s playlist, and I think that’s reasonable given it has over 3,000 items.
The price mentioned above is suitable if you’re transferring your songs once in a while, you can opt forother plansstarting from $4.17 per month to get features like auto-sync of all albums, and playlist back up in the cloud.
SongShift(iOS) – Free to transfer a single album or playlist, $4.99 per month to transfer everything in one go
This is a well-made iOS app to transfer your songs, albums, and playlists between two music streaming services. It’s free to use if you’re fine with transferring one album, song, or playlist at a time. That’s useful when you have only a handful of songs in your library.
This app is pretty quick to transfer songs, and it even maintains a record of what you’ve transferred. I’d definitely recommend this if you’re an iPhone user.
If you don’t want to pay a monthly fee, you can pay $19.99 per year or $39.99 for a lifetime purchase.
Soundiiz(Web) – Free to transfer one playlist at a time, $4.5 to transfer your entire collection
One of the prime reasons I’m including thing service is support forJioSaavn– a popular music streaming service in India.
The service provides a handy dashboard that shows the library of all of your connected services. So it’s mighty easy for you to transfer songs, albums, and playlists to another service.
What’s more, in the premium tier, Soundiiz allows you to schedule sync between playlists of two different music services. That way, you can enjoy a continuously updated/live playlist of one service in the primary music streaming app you use.
Houdini(iOS) — $0.99 per month for unlimited transfers and auto-sync
If you’re using an iPhone, Houdini Playlists is one of the nifty solutions to transfer your music. It charges you $0.99 per month to transfer all your playlists, and even turn on an auto-sync option so your collection is always updated.
The app is simple and fast to use, and you can always buy a one-month subscription to get your playlists in order, if you’re using multiple music streaming services. While I wish there was a way to transfer albums and individual songs, it’s not a deal breaker.
These are some of the best tools out there to move your music between services and start a new musical journey. Happy listening.
Update(28/02/2019): Added instructions for Soundiiz.
Story byIvan Mehta
Ivan covers Big Tech, India, policy, AI, security, platforms, and apps for TNW. That’s one heck of a mixed bag. He likes to say “Bleh.“Ivan covers Big Tech, India, policy, AI, security, platforms, and apps for TNW. That’s one heck of a mixed bag. He likes to say “Bleh.”
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