Maybe you’re like me, and you’re interested in trying Apple Music. Maybe, though, you feel locked in to Rdio or Spotify, because over the years you’ve set up an extensive library of favorites and playlists. Favorites and playlists you count on.
Well, good news! Migrating your whole life to Apple Music is just $4.99 away.
New app Move to Apple Music will help you migrate all your music and playlists from Spotify or Rdio to Apple’s new service — with just a single click.
“Beyond importing your songs we also give you the playlists to import into iTunes,” the Move to Apple Music site says. “We don’t block your computer while transferring your songs, feel free to use it.”
It seems to work. While I have yet to try it myself, the Move To Apple website claims to have migrated 122,322 songs to Apple Music so far. Depending on how big your Rdio or Spotify playlist is, maybe you can help nudge that number up!
Source: Move to Apple Music
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John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
15 responses to “Migrating from Rdio or Spotify to Apple Music now takes just one click”
I still don’t understand why people pay for any of this. The free Spotify has so few ads and restrictions I don’t understand the appeal of the subscriptions.
I don’t want any ads ever, one is too many.
Plus you can download songs to your device for offline playing and easily buy music if you really like to support the artists. Apple Music’s interface is deep and takes time to explore, but I like it.
If I like the music enough I buy it, data isn’t an issue for me I have an unlimited plan. 1 or 2 ads every hour or so doesn’t bother me. If they did ads every 10 min or so that would bother me, but not enough to pay for a subscription, I would just buy music a bit more often. I don’t understand paying for music and not owning it.
I hope you don’t take this the wrong way, but you are exactly what is wrong with the music industry today. You want to be able to stream any song you want as many times as you want and that listening to 1 or 2 ads an hour is going to cover the cost to artists.
If Spotify did away with their free offering, or at least limited it to 3 months for a trial, then things could greatly improve for the industry and it would make artists and labels a bit more comfortable.
Nobody should be allowed to stream any song as many times as they want and not have to pay for it.
I disagree…I use Spotify as a radio for when I run. I don’t create playlists so I listen to whatever song they pick for me based off the genre that I choose. If it weren’t for Spotify I would simply stream the music that I do own and still only buy the music that I like enough to purchase. At home I either listen to my own music collection or the “radio” provided by DIRECTV.
Ok then. I will modify my statement to say that their “radio” feature can be free, just like Pandora. But if you want to stream on-demand or multiple times, then you have to pay. That shouldn’t impact you at all and still validates my original statement.
when was the last time anyone truly ONLY had “1 or 2 ads every hour or so”? I usually get 2 ads in a 20 minute span at the longest.
more convincingly for me to leave the free tier of Spotify is the way that they interject ‘suggested songs’ into your own playlist. if I build a playlist, it’s for a reason – to listen to the songs that I selected to listen to. I don’t want Spotify (or anyone, for that matter) to interject their own songs into my playlist.
thanks but no thanks. Apple Music has been a welcome change for me, personally.
I generally only listen when I run, so I usually only use it for an hour max and that time is generally only interrupted once. I also don’t use my own playlist, I use the genre radio.
I felt the same way but now after trying Apple Music my wife and I will be singing up for the family plan. I have always wanted to pay for a subscription just never wanted to go with a third party to do so. No good reason just didn’t want to. Apple Music is super simple for most but you can dig deep into it like Aannddyy said. I like that fact that I can look up any song at anytime to play it. Even my five year old son asks Siri to play songs for him. Crazy world. ADS SUCK. ;-)
If you listen to Spotify through a browser instead of the app and use an ad blocker you can listen ad free.
Aren’t there still audio ads?
Do Not Purchase – caused issues with my iTunes Library. I purchased this last night and did a trial run of a limited number of songs. It took many ‘likes’ to allow the import to finally begin – over 100 but it did. However the issue is that afterwards I was no longer able to delete songs or playlists from my library and add anything to a playlist. The only thing I could do was to add a song to my library but once there if I added it to a playlist it would disappear. If songs came over during the import that I didn’t want – as it was only a small test – I could not delete them. They did delete but within a minute or so they were back. I sent numerous emails regarding this to website – but over 12 hours later not a single response.
I think they may eventually get the app working correctly but until they do I would suggest to wait to hear more success stories before you try. It is one thing if the app does not perform as expected it is something entirely different if it damages your music library. Note: I was able to delele any local music and they stayed deleted but any cloud music – could not do anything with those – and I have had Apple Music since day 1 and no issues – this started immediately after I ran through one import with this app.
I just tried it out and this seems to only import playlists and the songs within those playlists. I was really hoping for it to duplicate my entire rdio library. And it is REALLY REALLY slow. If they don’t figure out how to speed it up and duplicate my entire library from rdio I am going to ask for a refund.
I wish Apple would just build an import tool already. Geez. This might be the difference between me continuing to use their service when the free trial ends. I have thousands of songs and artists added to my rdio library after using it for years.
For those who live outside US and want to access Spotify, you can use UnoTelly as I do to get around the geo block.
“It seems to work. While I have yet to try it myself”
It costs all of $5. At least the Lifehacker author who referenced this article was willing to forgo his venti mocha to provide a meager “it does work” (even the original article that CultOfMac references didn’t actually *use* it). Forget what’s wrong with the music industry, this is what’s wrong with journalism. :)