That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t use these services, but there are trade-offs, as with almost all online activities. Music and podcast habits could be used to make assumptions about your political affiliations, sexuality, age, race, and more.

Your music streaming could reveal more than you expect. You should know a lot of music transferring services share data, such as what songs you’ve saved on Spotify, with advertising companies. (You know that’s a bad idea, right? Use a password manager instead.) The services we listed above let you simply link to your music streaming accounts, without handing over your log-in credentials. Do not do that, especially if you use the same password on different accounts. Some services used to ask you to give them your username and password. So once the transfer is complete, it’s smart to check your new music streaming service to make sure it worked.īefore you use any of the many playlist-transfer services available, you should be aware of some privacy and security issues. These music transfer apps also match up the wrong songs sometimes. The transferring apps let you know if there are songs that aren’t available. The popular music streamers have nearly identical catalogs, but your new service might not have every single song you saved on your old account. One 11-song playlist took just a few seconds to transfer, but Soundiiz cautions that larger playlists may take longer. From there, all you have to do is head to Soundiiz’s Transfer tab, select the playlists you want to move, hit Confirm, and follow a few steps. Then you tap the Amazon Music icon and log in. (You can also use the service’s smartphone app.) That opens Spotify’s log-in interface. Here’s how it works on Soundiiz, which helped us move Spotify playlists to Amazon Music.įirst, you open the Soundiiz website in a browser and tap the Spotify icon. FreeYourMusic offers more expensive subscription plans, or you can pay a one-time fee of $15. Yep, it’s a subscription service, one you can cancel as soon as your transfer is done. Soundiiz is the cheapest option at $4.50 per month. (SongShift works only on iPhones.) All three let you transfer a few playlists with a limited number of songs free of charge, but you have to pay to move more playlists or bring along your liked songs and albums. Consumer Reports tried three of these tools: Soundiiz, FreeYourMusic, and SongShift.

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