Add all songs to playlist Apple Music

Already been enticed by a shiny Apple One subscription? Or has the delayed addition of Fitness+ finally forced a reassessment? Either way, Spotify users tempted to make the switch need to know how to rescue lovingly curated playlists and place them in a new Apple Music home. Thankfully, its pretty simple to do.

The solution, which Ive used myself to swerve the ever-increasing prices of streaming services by taking advantage of regular offers, comes from an iOS app called SongShift. This does exactly what you might expect. You simply need to give it access to your music subscriptions to easily shift your songs.

With a third-party app like this reliability may be of immediate concern. Your mileage may vary, as both Spotify and Apple Music feature an extraordinary amount of songs (many with different versions). However, in my experience, SongShift is extremely accurate, having only ever mismatched a single song.

While transferring from Spotify to Apple Music is the focus here, SongShift also supports YouTube Music, Tidal, Pandora, LastFM and more. The migration of songs can be made back and forth, too. So, if you end up wanting to switch back to Spotify from Apple Music, you can do that as well.

Download SongShift

First off, youll want to download SongShift from the App Store. Once youve got it, its as simple as selecting the supported music services youre wanting to transfer to and from, then logging into each via SongShift.

Transfer your Spotify playlists

Once youve downloaded SongShift, the next step is to sign into the accounts that you want to transfer your playlists between. In this case, youll want to sign into Spotify and Apple Music via the SongShift app.

Once youve signed into each, click "Setup Source" and choose the playlist youd list to transfer from Spotify. Then, select "Setup Destination" and choose Apple Music. Simply click "Im Finished" next and the transfer of your precious playlists will begin.

Review your transfer

You can now review SongShifts work to check if everything is in order. Select "Ready for Review" and you can then browse all the matches the app has made. If theres a mistake, simply select the problem match and you can re-match by searching for the correct song. Click "Confirm Matches" when youre all done and SongShift will create the new playlist in your destination.

Thats it. Youre switched. In an age of locked down ecosystems, it is admittedly surprising that there is still such a quick solution so use it and value it while its around.

Switching from Spotify to Apple Music

You can also send your latest playlists back the other way from Spotify to Apple Music should you ever change your mind. The switch may be something you're minded to do if you were a reluctant Apple Music user who jumped across to iOS to take advantage of things like offline listening on your Apple Watch. However, Spotify recently announced it'd be adding this very feature. It will soon be added to Wear OS for Android smartwatches too.

To switch your playlists back from Spotify to Apple Music, simply follow the above steps with the music streaming services swapped around and you'll get the same desired results in reverse. Just as fast and just as simple.

Alternatives to SongShift

While SongShift is our top pick, it may not suit everyone when it comes to switching streamers. Alternatives include the likes of Soundiiz offering an in-browser experience if you dont fancy downloading an app. The main advantage here is that Soundiiz has slightly more functionality if youre a user of multiple streaming services including transferring from many accounts at once.

There's FreeYourMusic, a popular choice that can be used across Windows, macOS, iOS, Android and Linux. It has a more modern design than SongShift and Soundiiz and has a particular focus on the management and promotion of your public playlists across multiple services. Some features are being a premium paywall though such as Smart-Links for sharing your playlists across different services, Auto-Sync for keeping your playlists up-to-date by refreshing every 15 minutes and dedicated support.

Making the most of your Apple One subscription

If youve recently got Apple Music because youve chosen to dive into a new Apple One bundle, youll likely have more available to you at your fingertips. Depending on which bundle you chose, youll be able to give Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, Apple News, extra iCloud storage and, for the most premium package, Apple Fitness+.

With the Individual and Family bundles, youll get Music, TV+, Arcade and iCloud storage for £14.95 and £19.95 per month respectively. The Family bundle gives you access to 200GB of storage compared to 50GB on the Individual, while it also lets you share all your app access with up to five other people a great money saver if youre a family of Apple users.

Fans of online workout classes or premium magazines, may want to stump up £29.95 per month for the Premium bundle. Youll get access to the new Fitness+, News+ and a whopping 2TB of iCloud storage and you can share this all with five other people, too.

Adam Speight is a product writer at WIRED. He tweets from @_adamspeight

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