Apple Music and YouTube Music introduced a new feature allowing users to easily transfer playlists between the two platforms. Apple Music and YouTube Music have their own processes, depending on who you’re transferring from. Each is incredibly easy to use and only requires a few buttons to export over.
You’ll need to follow the Google Takeout process to transfer any playlist from YouTube Music. You’ll have to pick YouTube Music, then pick Apple Music as the service you want to move it to and confirm for the data to be copied over. All you have to do is make sure you’re signed into the accounts you want to transfer, but otherwise, it’s very simple. To transfer from Apple Music to YouTube Music, You’ll need to head to their Data and Privacy page and sign in. From there, you’ll have to scroll to find the ‘Request to transfer a copy of your data’ button to see an option to transfer Apple Music playlists. From there, pick YouTube Music and wait through the process.
You’re not transferring the Music itself; instead, you’re transferring the data that tells the service what songs your playlists have. From there, the service will create the playlists again but with the speed of a computer. The amount of time each process takes will vary depending on how many playlists you have and how much content is in them. Thanks to this improvement, there’s no need to remake playlists on Apple Music. This is great, but this transfer is limited to playlists. There is still no way to transfer other data like music libraries, listening history, or liked songs. Users will have to wait and see how far this partnership will end up going.
Unfortunately, despite being a major music-playing service, Spotify does not offer this feature. This is likely due to the competitive nature between Apple and Spotify, as simplifying a transfer of data would only help users drop a service entirely. There’s little hope that an agreement can be reached to facilitate playlist transfers between these two services as well. We’re more likely to see a deal between YouTube Music and Spotify before we see one between the former and Apple.
Source: 9to5Mac
