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Yep. Tidal pays artists triple the rate Spotify does per stream. Napster, ironically enough given its founding, pays the most of all.
https://freeyourmusic.com/blog/how-much-does-spotify-pay-per-stream
Here's the Google Music Playlist. And here is STAMP. Stamp makes moving playlists across all the streaming services smooth.
I used Stamp to originally move to GPM, then I used it to move back to Spotify when YouTube Music was announced. It works well but requires a one-time payment to do a whole move at once.
If you believe, as I do, that music streaming services in some form or another will always be around then you really don't need to sweat it. There are a myriad of services already that will take your "library" and port it to and from AM, Spotify, etc. https://freeyourmusic.com for example... Your music is just a list of songs, anyways - if you have downloads they'll all stop working eventually if you unsubscribe or AM disappears suddenly, so there's nothing worthwhile to back up.
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That said, I personally buy vinyl of any album I consider good enough to want to own in a permanent fashion.
I am in the same boat with spotify, I used this app https://freeyourmusic.com/ to transfer my playlists yesterday. It was worth paying for the upgraded version that does more than 10 songs. It matched 95% of the songs I transferred.
Let me guess, the paywall article is comparing Spotify’s premium payments to Apple Music’s? More than 50% of Spotify’s users are in their ad based tier.
Here’s some averages from a bunch of different sources:
Spotify: $0.0032 per stream Apple Music: $0.0056
https://soundcharts.com/blog/music-streaming-rates-payouts
Spotify: $0.003-$0.005 per stream Apple Music: $0.01 per stream for individual plans
https://www.makeuseof.com/do-music-streaming-services-pay-artists-enough/amp/
“Spotify offers better royalties for copyrights when Premium users stream music”
“It also owns all of the advertising revenue for Spotify Free” meaning artists don’t see a cent
“Spotify doesn't pay artists royalties based on streaming rates. The royalty payments that artists receive may vary based on differences in the streaming of their music or the agreements they have with labels or distributors.”
Spotify: $0.00437 per stream Apple Music: $0.00783
https://freeyourmusic.com/blog/how-much-does-spotify-pay-per-stream
Guess next time try more than 3 seconds googling
Have you ever looked at google play music? I can't find anywhere with an exact number but the limit seems to be 99,999 songs from what I can tell from this support forum.
It would be a pretty massive switch given how much music you already have in your library, but there are some services out there to help move from one streaming service to another.
There are a bunch out on the market. It depends on how much you want to do it yourself. This one is fairly automated and very easy to use, however cost money: https://freeyourmusic.com/ The one I used was a bit more manual, but still very easy: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Accounts/Import-from-Google-Music/m-p/1341084#M198540 Good luck! :)
Check out https://freeyourmusic.com/
I used this when moving from Google Play Music to Spotify but you can use it to move from Spotify to another provider.
Really worth the money.
Just letting you know /u/bezoing , your link is leading to a dropbox folder with logo (leading the way, 30 years anniversary). I think you wanted to paste something like portify (https://github.com/rckclmbr/pyportify) or stamp (https://freeyourmusic.com/move-from-spotify-to-google-play-music.html) ?
https://learn.g2.com/how-much-do-youtubers-make
YouTube average about 0.18c a view Spotify averages about 0.004c a stream Apple is about 0.01c a stream
https://freeyourmusic.com/blog/how-much-does-spotify-pay-per-stream
YouTube numbers definitely mean more than streaming numbers in the eyes of podcasters.
$5-10 each depending on a bunch of factors, The average Spotify pay per stream of $0.004. So you can extrapolate that a fan has to listen to a band 1,250 to 2,500 times ( or 73 hours to 146 hours if the song is 3:30) to equal the same payout as someone who buys a shirt.
https://freeyourmusic.com/move-from-apple-music-to-spotify.html
Also, it doesn’t move any of the music you have added manually to your library. So you would lose anything that you added from outside sources like mixtapes, etc.
I totally agree with you, I seriously don't want to go through all of my playlists and all of my music all over again, it would take me ages to get everything the way I like it again :/ I did find this site that claims to be able to transfer you songs and playlists from one service to the other, and the premium price is as low as $12.99 which is not that bad I think. But who know how well this works.
Check out https://freeyourmusic.com/
I used this when moving from Google Play Music to Spotify but you can use it to move from Spotify to another provider.
Really worth the money.
Isn't a simple way - there is a playlist I loved on Spotify and tried transferring it over to Google Music. Most of the songs matched but since it was a covers playlist sometimes it matched it to the original version.
Paid method: https://freeyourmusic.com/move-from-spotify-to-google-play-music.html
I used an program that helped me go from google play music to spotify and it was well worth the $5 it cost. Ik it could do others but I don't have it anymore an d I can't remember the name.
Edit. It's called Stamp https://freeyourmusic.com
Spotlistr has a textbox where you can simply copy&paste from your CSV file. It cannot handle very long lists with several thousand tracks, but several hundred should work. So you would have to split a large playlist then.
Stamp knows the CSV format as well now, but is not free for more than 10 tracks per session.
I was really hopeful when I saw your post about https://freeyourmusic.com/ but unfortunately Plex isn't one of the supported services. Shame. I definitely would have paid $15 for syncing Plex from with Spotify
You should check Smart Links by FreeYourMusic. You can share your playlists simultaneously on all major platforms. Then you just share one link that directs listeners to the music streaming service of their choice. Here's an example of such playlist: https://freeyourmusic.com/s/fym/demo-playlist1
I used FreeYourMusic to move from YTM to Deezer. It's a one time fee and you can use it forever. I tried the free version of Soundiz first but that didn't work at all for me, it couldn't find most of the songs in my playlists, maybe it works better for Spotify though. With FreeYourMusic I had 97% match, so pretty good.
Anyone looking to transfer their playlists either during the free trial or permanently, this is the best tool I've found:
Multi-platform client, has worked great between Spotify, Apple Music and Tidal for me.
Sadly, not free. There is a demo/trial mode though.
I have a question and I really don't mean that to be confrontational, I am just curious: why the brand loyalty? I was in the same situation as you and I switched to Spotify student as soon as I could. With tools like https://freeyourmusic.com/ you can easily move from one to the other so I see no reason to reward Google (as much as I like the company) for this kind of stuff.
There are some paid programs that claim to be able to transfer your library from streaming service to streaming service like stamp.
I've tried the free version, and it works, but is severely limited because you can only transfer 10 songs at a time.
I would recommend transferring to Deezer if at all possible, and then using SMLoader or similar to download.
You may have more luck posting in r/GooglePlayMusic
EDITed because I thought of more useful stuff
For Google Play Music, Spotify, Amazon Music, Tidal, and Pandora the paid version of STAMP should be able to transfer playlists and possibly your library between streaming services or accounts (if you use CSV as your middle man). The free version is very limited so don't expect to do it 15 songs at a time, it won't work sadly. Just remeber to download uploaded songs too!
There are also some free JavaScript snippets floating around places like gist.github.com to export your library from certain services.
All my playlists worth their salt have local music (downloads from my ticket stubs) which do not make it to the shared playlist.
But, I have heard great things about https://freeyourmusic.com/move-from-spotify-to-google-play-music.html if you found a spotify playlist youd like in Google Music
Just a suggestion -- why not just copy over your music library over to be on the safe side, plus it will make the transition a lot better as spotify will already start learning what you like to listen to.
You can accomplish this with a number of applications, below are some to get you started:
- Songshift - http://songshiftapp.com/
- STAMP - https://freeyourmusic.com/
I can't believe there is an actual app for that although I feel I probably should.
I knew of a nifty website that did what you were asking and thought it was fairly unknown but to my surprise there are multiple services offering this capability.
If you're interested in what I found I googled "from Spotify Apple Music"
There are two answers to this one depending on what you're wanting to do exactly. It you're just looking to move your playlists from one streaming service to another, there's a few services that will do this for you. I turned up this one with a quick google. If however you are looking for the less copyright friendly option of downloading the mp3s and importing them to iTunes there are also ways that can be accomplished with Deezer that you can find out about by searching around (yarrr matey). Honestly though it's a bit of a pain, and I would probably just go with using the Deezer app.
I did this like two weeks ago. Now a very happy GPM user!
There was a program doing it for me. Ill see if I can get it again and link it.
Edit: program was called STAMP. https://freeyourmusic.com
Euh WTF?
Check la charte, Apple c'est pas le top mais dans les mainstream c'est le meilleure option si tu veux supporter les artistes.
https://freeyourmusic.com/blog/how-much-does-spotify-pay-per-stream
I’d rather not announce my choice because I’m no expert and don’t want my pick to take over the conversation here.
If you’re an audiophile, [Qobuz](/r/Qobuz), [Tidal](/r/Tidal) & [Deezer](/r/Deezer) are the ones to look into (per my 30 minutes of research).
If you care about paying the artists, the best might be Napster, Tidal, Amazon Unlimited, & Apple Music top the streaming paygrades. More here.
Nb. I am not the last word. I'm sure this conversation is happening all over Reddit.
NP: Joni Mitchell "Another Melody" Archives, Vol. 2: The Reprise Years
To be fair none of the streaming websites pay their artists well like this article has a chart showing what's the revenue per stream . So in short if possible purchase albums if you can
spotify is also to blame. their payout model isn't just per stream, it's also through proportion to overall streams i.e.
"The system also concerns the share of one artist within all those streams. Spotify takes all of the money generated from users and divides it by the total share of streams each artist received. So let's say Drake is responsible for five percent of all streams, then five percent of all money has to go to Drake."
https://freeyourmusic.com/blog/how-much-does-spotify-pay-per-stream
it clearly benefits mainstream, popular artists.
Huh? Spotify pays the same or less per stream than most of the major streaming services. If you want artists to make money, switch to Tidal or Apple. https://freeyourmusic.com/blog/how-much-does-spotify-pay-per-stream
For anyone considering canceling a spotify membership, apparently you can transfer your music library to another service like Google music using this web service.
https://freeyourmusic.com/transfer-spotify-to-google-play-music
I am currently trying out a month trial of deezer, so I'll share my thoughts on it so far:
It basically feels like a Spotify clone, which has made transitioning very easy, as a longtime Spotify subscriber.
The music catalog is huge, I haven't encountered anything missing yet, and have even found some artists / albums that were not on Spotify. They pay more to the artist than Spotify ($0.0064 vs $0.00437 per stream) [1], cost less than or equal to Spotify depending on your plan ($7.49/month vs.$9.99/month if you pay annually), and they claim to be more privacy-focused. The flow feature (an endless Discovery Weekly playlist) is pretty cool too. It looks like there is tooling available for importing playlists from spotify as well.
Not OP, but just some reasons to consider (from a disgruntled Spotify user):
- All apps are bloated, slow, buggy and increasingly user-unfriendly.
- If you play music on a remote device, Spotify will not stop when the queue is done but instead insert more songs into the queue. This is a recent change and although it feels very much like a bug, the devs insist it's not. If you ask me, it's just a simple way to farm more ad money.
- Artists earn very little from Spotify streams.
- Scrobbling on Sonos devices is pretty janky in my experience: my songs played on Sonos only scrobble after I play something on my local device.
I don't know how it stacks up against other streaming services in terms of user-friendliness though.
O catálogo é realmente bem bom, já a busca eu acho meio ruim, a UX no geral do Spotify (no Android pelo menos) é beeeeemmm meia boca.
Sobre a primeira parte do comentário, não é isso, mas pelo menos encontrar alguma solução mais "ok", to dando uma olhada no Tidal, segundo esse artigo ele é o que paga melhor os artistas.
I am currently trying out a month trial of deezer, so I'll share my thoughts on it so far:
It basically feels like a Spotify clone, which has made transitioning very easy, as a longtime Spotify subscriber.
The music catalog is huge, I haven't encountered anything missing yet, and have even found some artists / albums that were not on Spotify. They pay more to the artist than Spotify ($0.0064 vs $0.00437 per stream) [1], cost less than or equal to Spotify depending on your plan ($7.49/month vs.$9.99/month if you pay annually), and they claim to be more privacy-focused. The flow feature (an endless Discovery Weekly playlist) is pretty cool too.
I anticipate signing up for a family plan once my free trial expires. It seems like a no-brainer to switch for me. I was already annoyed with how hard Spotify was pushing podcasts onto its users, and their recent decision to support voices in climate-change denialism / covid misinformation has made me more confident in my decision.
[1] https://freeyourmusic.com/blog/how-much-does-spotify-pay-per-stream
Apple is also a better platform for paying artists. Tidal and Napster are best overall i think, but none of them are great.
https://freeyourmusic.com/blog/how-much-does-spotify-pay-per-stream
Spotify is abysmal at paying artists. Of the $0.004 listed above, 70% goes to the rights holder, not the artist. And the amount they pay scales off how popular the artist is, so big names make more per play and smaller bands just starting out make next to nothing.
It can take 250ish plays to make a dollar on Spotify, whereas with Tidal it takes 80 and Napster it's just 53. I think Tidal and Apple are also better at giving a greater proportion to the artist than the other platforms.
I am currently trying out a month trial of deezer, so I'll share my thoughts on it so far:
It basically feels like a Spotify clone, which has made transitioning very easy, as a longtime Spotify subscriber.
The music catalog is huge, I haven't encountered anything missing yet, and have even found some artists / albums that were not on Spotify. They pay more to the artist than Spotify ($0.0064 vs $0.00437 per stream) [1], cost less than or equal to Spotify depending on your plan ($7.49/month vs.$9.99/month if you pay annually), and they claim to be more privacy-focused. The flow feature (an endless Discovery Weekly playlist) is pretty cool too.
I anticipate signing up for a family plan once my free trial expires. It seems like a no-brainer to switch for me. I was already annoyed with how hard Spotify was pushing podcasts onto its users, and their recent decision to support voices in climate-change denialism has made me more confident in my decision.
[1] https://freeyourmusic.com/blog/how-much-does-spotify-pay-per-stream
I am currently trying out a month trial of deezer, so I'll share my thoughts on it so far:It basically feels like a Spotify clone, which has made transitioning veryeasy, as a longtime Spotify subscriber.The music catalog is huge, I haven't encountered anything missing yet, and haveeven found some artists / albums that were not on Spotify.They pay more to the artist than Spotify ($0.0064 vs $0.00437 per stream) [1], cost less than or equal to Spotify depending on your plan ($7.49/month vs.$9.99/month if you pay annually), and they claim to be more privacy-focused.The flow feature (an endless Discovery Weekly playlist) is pretty cool too.I anticipate signing up for a family plan once my free trial expires. It seemslike a no-brainer to switch for me. I was already annoyed with how hard Spotify waspushing podcasts onto its users, and their recent decision to support voices inclimate-change denialism has made me more confident in my decision.[1] https://freeyourmusic.com/blog/how-much-does-spotify-pay-per-stream
This source has Spotify above Pandora, Deezer and Soundcloud but this one has Deezer above Spotify but claims that Amazon pays less than Spotify. I know that Tidal pays more than Spotify and I probably should think about using it.
At the very least they are not functional monopolies in music streaming and I'd like it to stay that way
Sure, but here it's actually worse. Most people don't have a "social connection" to their bank. But Spotify with their social media component makes it even worse to leave, or at least that's how people think.
I mean, moving your playlists etc. is pretty easy: https://freeyourmusic.com/
I even offered some people to help them move if they wanted to, but in the end it really came down to: "But then I can't share stuff with X anymore. 🤷♂️
There are a few apps that can migrate playlists to other streaming services, such as:
Some are free, others aren't. I've personally used both (free and paid-for) to transfer across Apple Music, Tidal, and Spotify, and they work well.
Ya streaming services do pay shit to artists, for sure.
Though for to note, in this case, they seem to pay a smidge better than Amazon Music: https://freeyourmusic.com/blog/how-much-does-spotify-pay-per-stream
You may find this interesting
https://freeyourmusic.com/blog/how-much-does-spotify-pay-per-stream
As for libraries, I would just check and see if they do, I'm not entirely sure how you would compare complete libraries as that seems enormous and tedious.
Not true, they actually pay each artist the same, the difference is that Taylor Swift already have a big fan base and gets more streams because of that, they still get paid the same per stream..
Also, it's not Tailor that gets paid, it's the label company that recorded the song, she got paid when she recorded it and ticket sales live.
Johnny made his songs on his laptop without a record label and get to keep his revenue, even if he only has 10 streams and get a nickel while Tailor has 20 million streams and the label record gets a million dollars..
The payout per stream does not depends on your fame bit rather what country you are from.
https://freeyourmusic.com/blog/how-much-does-spotify-pay-per-stream
I recently came across this and it looked handy!
Not for music discovery but leveraging the streaming apps discovery algo's, which are way better each in their own in different ways, and then bringing them all together into a central playlist for you.
Might be good for some inspiration? Anyone tried it?
Spotify’s - and others’ - primary focus should be fairer payment to artists. Tidal’s taking a step in the the right direction:
> That is why TIDAL is launched the fan-powered royalties system. In this model, the user pays only the artists to whom he or she listens. This will start in January 2022.
This further galvanises my support for Tidal.
I have also read artist complaints about how Spotify counts streams (with podcasts in play) but I can’t find more substance on this now.
Spotify source (actual figures are 0.003 - 0.0084 cents per stream): https://freeyourmusic.com/blog/how-much-does-spotify-pay-per-stream
Deezer source (quotes $4776 per million streams, equating 0.0047 per stream) - https://www.igroovemusic.com/blog/how-much-do-i-get-per-stream-on-deezer.html?lang=en
Tidal Source (quotes $11 per 1000 streams, equating 0.011 per stream)- https://www.igroovemusic.com/blog/how-much-do-i-get-per-stream-on-deezer.html?lang=en
Worth noting that this was only meant to be a bit of a joke, obviously the Spotify figures vary significantly between 0.003 and 0.008, and Deezer number are different depending on source.
You realize artists make barely anything from streams, right? Spotify pays less than a cent: about $0.003 to $0.0084 per stream, with an average payout of $0.004 per stream.
So in short, stream away, dude will be lucky to make $5 bucks...
The estate is more concerned with bootleg merchandise as that is where the really lucrative fraud is at
https://freeyourmusic.com/blog/how-much-does-spotify-pay-per-stream
I did, and as expected, it’s a bunch of fluff and mystification - which is expected because it is not in Spotify’s interest to make transparent that they, like many tech platforms, are simply rent seeking exploitative ventures.
but maybe you should read a source that’s not from the company that’s being indicted here for example here is a third party comparison of how poorly these platforms pay
Wasn't there a tool to move your library? Like you log into both with it, and it'll try to match everything up.
A random search gave me this, but I don't know how well it works. https://freeyourmusic.com/transfer-tidal-to-deezer
Spotify is a better quality product for the user because the song quality is better, but since artists make most of their money of merchandise, live music, other media usages (songs being used in movies, etc.) And licensing, the benefit/detriment is about the same. The average Spotify artist doesn't really make all that much, and the mega artists make about the cost of 40-45 concert seats per million streams. Seams negligible at best.
You’re only reading the Direct Artists Payout. There’s that and fan centric royalties and the usual cent per stream they get. There’s no need to get upset lol, I didn’t make tidal, I pay for it. Tidals always been one of the highest paying platform to artist and I’ll continue to support them :)
Maybe I am too old (47M), but I don’t “get” Spotify. I installed the app on my phone, but deleted it after a few months. I still have an iPod Classic that I keep connected to my car’s stereo system, and that works perfectly for me.
From what I understand, in the age of physical supports, artists would earn $0.50 to $1.20 per album sold.How Do Record Labels Turn a Profit?
With the iPod and iTunes Store, they were getting $6.00 to $7.00 per song, which was a much better business model Learn How to Get Your Music on iTunes and Collect Royalties.
Spotify seems to be a rental based business model, so artists get paid $0.003 to $0.0084 per stream, which is ridiculous compared to the above How much does Spotify pay per stream? Streaming payouts comparison [2021] - Blog - FreeYourMusic.com
I found this when I was googling that very question right before I found this thread. Idk how well it works but I'm interested in finding out
Can't comment on the app, but tidal sound on a PC is quite a step up from the other streamers including GPM (I've not used them in awhile as they're also expensive af) BUT for that cost they pay considerably more to the artists per stream than YM or most of the competition (Napster is the highest...) Source: https://freeyourmusic.com/blog/how-much-does-spotify-pay-per-stream
I compromise by doing Google music family plan (grandfathered to YouTube family at the same cost,) and buying a ton of merch from the artists I like...
Travis Scott's last album, Astroworld, has over 5 billion streams. At a conservative estimate of $0.003 per stream, he's still made millions of dollars just on Spotify. Sure, he won't be on the street but it'll still hurt him pretty badly especially if he no longer gets to go on tour, loses his endorsements, gets sued into the dirt, etc.
I was going to ask you about the playlist, so thank you. Also, if you want to make a playlist in Spotify or any similar app, you may need to use the freeyourmusic tool. I just wanted to let you know about this app.
> Yes, but you're trying to reach that audience in order to make new fans.
You use the platform you want to build your fanbase at to build said fanbase.
>If people aren't engaging with your content anywhere else, that's a sign that you aren't really getting new fans, people are listening to the music but they aren't converting into anything useful for you.
This is like arguing that radio is a worthless thing for artists, because there is no good way for an artist to redirect a radio listener to their different social media. You're just not grasping the difference between platforms artists use, and what purposes they serve.
>As for your other claim, Youtube Music pays around .008, Napster is ironically the highest at 1.9, and Amazon is a set .005 (at least, from publicly accessible numbers). And Soundcloud just changed their policy so that users' subscriptions are directly paid to the artists they listen to.
The numbers I'm getting from here lists Youtube at .002, which is less than half of what Spotify pays. You're right about Napster though, and also right about Soundcloud having an interesting new system (which I'm also participating in). However, I couldn't frankly care about services like Napster having higher payrates until they figure out a way to maintain such payrates AND simultaneously maintaining a userbase as large as Spotify does. A payrate means nothing to me when I know that using this service will make it exponentially more difficult for me to reach as many stream counts as I could on mainstream platforms (Youtube, Spotify, Apple Music).
We emulate mobile apps of services, so whatever limits you have as a user in your eg. Spotify app will also apply for our app, but besides this there are no really costs associated. The APIs we use are public accessible APIs, although mostly not publicly documented. So we are like Google scraping web or LinkedIn public profiles scrappers.
Google was awesome enough to grant us a lot of free quota for YouTube APIs, so you can make your Spotify into MTV via YouTube (my top use case for our app is playing my playlists on TV via YouTube!).
Spotify are bad guys that market themselves as the good guys (remember time to play nice campaign against Apple? Spotify are the ones that tried to block our app long time ago... https://freeyourmusic.com/en/blog/spotify-tries-to-hold-your-playlists-hostage )
Some services are nice, Apple provides official SDKs, most do not so we have to reverse engineer a lot. That's why the app is not free, it's not a public open API you use to build app once, we constantly have to update to work with latests API changes.
Life time is great for us because we get around 5 years of yearly payments up front, the idea is that this will allow us to build more revenue streams in future, kind of working as a credit user gave us. I think it's similar for other online businesses with life time license. It's also great for positioning your other prices as being cheaper, by comparison to yearly one. Psychology of pricing is pretty interesting topic.
@patio11 on Twitter, currently works for Stripe wrote shitload of articles about this, worth a read!
We try to stick with just showing WebView and capturing required cookies/tokens from there, it has the best reliability.
Deeplinks won't trigger user to get back to our app so they are not ideal.
Some services are much smoother, because there is official SDK, eg. Apple Music (suprise suprise, Spotify is one of the shitty players https://freeyourmusic.com/en/blog/spotify-tries-to-hold-your-playlists-hostage )
Sadly not a lot, most people just migrate once. We've added recurring plans only a year ago, most sales are single payment, and most non churned plans are yearly, so we will see in next few months how it goes.
We just launched SmartLinks feature that we try to sell (https://freeyourmusic.com/smart-links) and we hope this will become our recurring revenue source.
Do you know if there is a similar function on Apple Music. Because I tried Spotify, but I wasn't really happy with them. Mostly because all my imported playlists didn't contain the same songs as they did on Google Play. Or in other words:It was the same songs, but different recordings. I used a service from https://freeyourmusic.com/en
The easiest way is to use a third-party tool -> https://freeyourmusic.com/en/transfer-amazon-music-to-youtube-music FreeYourMusic is the only app that supports Amazon Music at this moment.
Depending on how you use GPM, you might find this tool useful https://freeyourmusic.com/en
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I rely a lot on my thumbs up tracks and playlists a lot, and I used that to transfer those to spotify. It was really bugging when transferring from GPM, so I actually made use of Google's automatic transfer to YTM, and then used that tool to transfer from YTM to Spotify. It wasn't perfect, but it mostly worked.
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Still trying to figure out what I want to do about my uploaded live/bandcamp music though.
This is a app which lets you migrate your music from one streaming service to another. It requires premium to do a full transfer though.
I just tested it, migrating all my stuff from YTM to Apple Music, and it worked fine for me.
Once you decide on what platform you want to move to, it might work for you too?
Ah, Stamp is now called "Free Your Music": https://freeyourmusic.com/en
Presumably I'm grandfathered in having bought the standalone app a while back. But presumably the new app (subscription based) also has access to 'all songs'.
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I've been having a look at my tidal account and it appears to be populating my library of artists/albums successfully
Spotify told a lot of these types of service to stop using their API as a source. So a lot of services can only export to spotify and not import anymore or face angry dweebo spotify lawyers.
The below guys are still allowing spotify as a source, though I think they might charge for it.
mods feel free to remove this if you don't think it's 100% relevant, but I figured there may be playlist curators on the sub that would like to know
this has been happening for a while sadly, services like FreeYourMusic have had to deal with Spotify being on their ass about playlist transfers out of the app for around two years now, but I didn’t think that they would keep this up and go after other apps. really a fucking shame because SongShift is by far and away the easiest one to use imo, and it seems like other sites are removing the feature in prep that Spotify sends a C&D on them too
You can use https://freeyourmusic.com/. Spotify tried to block us just the same two years ago. We stopped using their official SDK and switched to a different method of integration. Thanks to this, we can continue to support Spotify export.
Hey, I am a founder of FreeYourMusic. We have had the same issue with Spotify already 2 years ago.
https://freeyourmusic.com/en/blog/spotify-trying-to-lockin-users
They are so afraid of their competition that they have to do dirty tricks, outrageous.
You can see they are trying hard to stop churn and they will do anything they can to force users to stick to their platform. Crazy!
I used Free Your Music (used to be called STAMP) when I first migrated to GPM from Spotify, and I've just recently used it to migrate to Apple Music.
Out of about 7500 tracks, it failed to match about 200, and I'd say there was maybe another 20 which were incorrect matches.
It gives you a list at the end of all the tracks it failed to match and I managed to manually match about 99% of them. There's a free version to try it out, and both subscription and buy-once options (the subscription keeps playlists on different services in sync, which is cool but not sure I'd ever have a use for that).
Free Your Music doesn't need your Google login, it just "connects" to your account in the way Google intends 3rd party apps to. I think they also offer a CSV import method.
I know you said you already checked out a few services like this, so maybe you already saw and disregarded Free Your Music - but hopefully this helps if not.
I feel the same way and YouTube Red is a great bonus. I decided that I didn't want to be beholden to a platform for curated and collected lists so went ahead bought a $10 one-time license to Free Your Music. This way, if I'm not happy with the service or terms then I can jump ship a lot more easily. (I'm in no way affiliated with that company, just pleased with how smoothly it went). Good luck!
I actually had this exact requirement and came across STAMP. It's pretty decent, but is a paid app. I copied a bunch of Spotify playlists to Google Music with some good success and it supports Youtube and other platforms too.
You can move any playlist over to Tidal using a program like Stamp: https://freeyourmusic.com/ I search for playlists in Spotify, add them to my Spotify free account and then transfer to whatever I'm using at that moment, usually Amazon or Tidal. I think Stamp is a one-time $10 cost.
Search like: "spotify playlists jazz funk bass", or whatever music you like.
Google Music is on death row. Better to get it over with and switch. Either that, or use Apple Music (which doesn't solve your Galaxy Watch issue). I have Echo devices at home, which I believe are compatible with Apple Music. Hilariously, Apple's been doing a great job with their app on Android. Better than both Spotify and Google.
If you think you want to switch, here's what I used to move my music over from GPM to Spotify: https://freeyourmusic.com . It's a paid app/program, but it works as advertised.
But yeah, Spotify as a service is great. But their Android app is unreliable and a resource hog (battery and system responsiveness). I agree that it's broken.
PS: For Waze integration -- https://i.imgur.com/qaWv2xX.jpg
Not OP, but this is what I used. Got most of my stuff over, though some of my stuff (particularly things I manually uploaded) didn't transfer cleanly. Currently in the process of downloading all of that from Google using their Music Manager so I can host it locally for Spotify.
It's $10 for one device to use Stamp - my wife and I are using it for both our accounts (logged in to the same computer) and it seems fine. I wasn't able to find a free one that seemed quite right.
I've been looking at ways to pull my music out of Spotify, too. It's bad enough they killed the widget, but their response is to bury user feedback about that app. I'm considering Amazon Music and ran across this:
https://freeyourmusic.com/move-from-spotify-to-amazon-music.html
I ditched the local files added the songs to my Spotify library. I actually first replaced the local files in iTunes with they're Apple Music equivalents. Then, when I wanted to Switch to Spotify I used an app called Stamp to transfer everything over. The app was $10, didn't work so great, and there were probably better ways to do this, but I ended up with 95% of the library in Spotify, and could spot check from there.
Not having any local files to worry about is great. I don't need to store anything on my Mac, and can easily download whatever I want on my iPhone, and then browse only the downloaded music in the Spotify app, if needed.
Check this out. https://freeyourmusic.com They have YouTube listed, but I'm not sure if YouTube Music is supported yet. Quite Nifty. I'm from India and it was a huge help when I recently moved from Google Music to Spotify.
This worked exactly what I was looking for
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- Restore ~/Music/iTunes from the pre-delete to your desktop.
- Disconnect from the internet.
- Open iTunes holding down option, and open the library in the folder restored to the desktop.
- Select your entire library in the Songs view and hit copy. (Command-C)
- Paste the copy into Excel or Numbers.
- Save as CSV.
- Reconnect to the internet and download Stamp (you have to pay for a license if you want to do more than ten songs). Use the CSV option, and the Apple Music import option. Voila!
Yea, I moved from Spotify to Apple Music, when transferring music, I used a tool called STAMP (https://freeyourmusic.com/). It transferred most of my tracks. However i did have to pay
STAMP music is what you need. The free version is quite limited, but the paid version is the quickest and most effective way of moving music. I recently used it myself to transfer my GPM library to Apple Music.
As an alternative to soundiiz that is not monthly subscription model, there is also:
STAMP - Move from Spotify to Tidal
It works ok. Also, u/smoker05 will do this for free on his reddit thread I know that one is archived, but he'd probably still do it. I sent him a PM before I did I purchased STAMP.
You can get your Spotify playlists to Deezer with you. AND if you want, you could keep Spotify for the Discover Weekly or Song Radio and then just transfer the track with an app. Try Stamp to get your music across platforms https://freeyourmusic.com
Have you tried Stamp? It works on both iOS and Andy. If you ever feel like trying out a different platform, Stamp allows transferring music between them all:) https://freeyourmusic.com
From what I can see, your YouTube and YouTube Music playlists are synced now. If that's true, there are options for you to use to transfer playlists. Stamp (https://freeyourmusic.com/) and Soundiiz were both good options last time I checked, but there might be other options now.
I used this to move from Google Play Music to Spotify. It works with Apple Music as well: https://freeyourmusic.com/
If you have iTunes playlists on your PC/Mac with offline music, you can use this Google-made app to upload your music to Google Play Music: https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/manager
Interesting! I'd listen to a playlist of those tracks any day! I bet there would be quite a lot of people that would like to treat their ears to at least some of the tracks. If anyone put such a thing together, heres something that'll help everyone interested in checking it out. https://freeyourmusic.com/blog/moving-playlists-easier-think/
I might just have something for this as well!:) Actually, not me but something called stamp - they have this about offline music and how to get it, then switch to any other streaming platform in a jiffy: https://freeyourmusic.com/blog/platforms-let-listen-music-offline/
I might just have something for this as well!:) Actually, not me but something called stamp - they have this about offline music and how to get it, then switch to any other streaming platform in a jiffy: https://freeyourmusic.com/blog/platforms-let-listen-music-offline/
I bought an app called STAMP that works great. I transfered 100s of playlists. They have desktop and mobile versions. https://freeyourmusic.com/ If you send me a link to a playlist I will be happy to convert it for you as an example.
Someone posted this a while back. I haven't tried it, but I hope it helps.
https://freeyourmusic.com/move-from-spotify-to-google-play-music.html
https://freeyourmusic.com/move-from-spotify-to-amazon-music.html
Just an FYI in the future, you can export Spotify playlists to other services (or to another account). You'd have to use something like Stamp, but yeah just wanted to let you know if you're ever curious about switching.
STAMP is highly recommended. I have used it multiple times, works flawlessly for any way. Works with Spotify, Google Music, Apple Music...etc.
URL: https://freeyourmusic.com/
Just a heads up - it is not free. But worth the license if you are moving music around and testing different services.