SongShift matched 214, an impressive 95% success rate.

The first playlist I imported is my playlist of 223 favorited Spotify songs. A handful of the 300+ songs I added to Apple Music were not the same version as I had in Spotify, but these instances were few and far between.

I tested three playlists of varying lengths and the match rate was over 90% in each case. Even with a playlist of over 200 songs, the process took less than a minute. In my tests the matching and importing process was fast. Importing songs from Spotify to Apple Music.Īfter you choose where to put your imported songs, SongShift gets to work.

It’s a small change, but it removed one of the biggest friction points in SongShift. Previously, if you didn’t already have a playlist set up to receive the songs imported from Spotify, you had to go to Apple’s Music app, create an empty playlist, and then import using SongShift. The new Apple Music playlist will have the name used in Spotify. With an update released late yesterday, SongShift gives you the ability to create a new playlist from within SongShift when importing into a playlist. You pick a playlist to import, choose to import the songs into your Apple Music library or a playlist, and that’s it. When you open the app, you are prompted to log into your Spotify account. SongShift’s power lies in its simplicity. In my tests, SongShift did a solid job matching songs between Spotify and Apple Music, but because it is an import utility and not a sync service, it is a little cumbersome to use as a way to keep up with playlists you follow on Spotify that are frequently updated. It worked reasonably well, but not great. At the time, I found a script that logged into both services, tried to match the songs, and replicate the playlists on Apple Music. I wasn’t on Spotify all that long, but I did have a few playlists I wanted to take with me, including a big one with all the songs I had favorited. When Apple Music debuted last summer I switched to it from Spotify.

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