Switching between music streaming services do so

Switching between music streaming services do so

Tech May 23, 2016 09:39

- Competition between streaming services for music has erupted some time. They are now unfortunately all own ecosystem with no official ways to export your playlists or import between services. We put the unofficial options set.

In this article we give you the ability to switch between the three most popular music: Spotify, Apple Music and Google Play Music. You can do some unofficial ways, your playlists, so you can take from one service to the music to another service. Moreover, we explain how the different services dealing with your local music catalog and how to integrate with the streaming service.

If you'd like to try and want to take your current music collection from the other service with another streaming service, arrange for some overlap between the different services. To export the playlist, it often requires a current subscription to the old service, something that applies to all three popular services. there is a detour possible only with Spotify. If you happen to be someone who knows Spotify Premium has, you might ask if he or she wants to join your old playlist and you can still take as the music that way. To subscribe to the playlist in Spotify someone else, find that person and go to public playlists. Click on the three dots in the playlist when you use the mouse goes over it and choose Tracking.
  
    
     
      
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Furthermore watching good deals. If you have a Chromecast, chances are you'll Spotify and Google Play Music for free for three months to try, so that's six months free listening. To claim the offer, you just need to download the Chromecast app. Furthermore, there is not much to watch when you move.

01 click Follow to import the playlist of another.
  
  
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If you want to switch from Spotify to Google Play Music, is therefore a useful and free javascript called Portify. JS. The script has been tested by the developer in Google Chrome, so make sure you're ready to browser. Before you begin, turn off extensions block ads temporarily and also put other privacy extensions: These disturb the functioning of the script. For example, we had to Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin Disable to continue.

You can check all extensions in Chrome by clicking the icon with the three stripes (top right) and select More Tools / Extensions. An extension can switch by clicking Enabled next to the checkmark. It is also necessary to set up Google Play Music here in English. To do this, click on your user icon top right and then click My Account. Choose Language input tools, and then click Language. Click Add a different language, select English from the list and click OK. Click the up arrow next to English in order to set the language as default.

02 Ensure example uBlock and Privacy Badger are turned off before you start.

Then go to this page, click under the heading Instructions (For Chrome) and drag the link Portify. JS to the bookmarks bar. Do you they do not like, you are able to show by opening a new tab in Chrome and clicking on the bar just below the address bar, right. Now choose Display for bookmarks bar. Then you drag the link to go there.

Now you go to this URL and click on the newly added link. It opens a dialog box asking for a so-called OAuth token. This script can later retrieve your Spotify playlists. Click HERE to go to the Spotify website and click on Get OAuth token. Check with Relevant scopes the top option playlist read-private, and click Request Token. It is now necessary to log in Spotify, then click OK to continue. OAuth Token field is now filled with random characters. Select the entire field and copy the value.

03 Applying for a Spotify API token Portify. JS needs to access your playlists.

Go back to Google Play Music and click on OK. Paste the token and click OK again. Now click on My Spotify Playlists if you want to transfer your playlists. You can now enter a prefix to your playlists, so you know what comes from Spotify. You can also leave this field blank. We supplement spotify- prefix and click OK again. The playlists are now indexed.

There again, a message appears asking if you want to skip any playlists or simply want to import everything. Click Yes to choose a playlist and you can now specify whether you want to include by clicking Copy IT or skip to Skip It. Once finished, the script goes to work and makes it automatically to the playlists. Searching Next to each number and is automatically added to the list. Click anywhere on the page so as not to disrupt the process. If you change tab, the whole is paused. In the end, a dialog appears that the process is completed, then the total time it took. The whole takes about 1 second per song, so that's pretty long.

04 Portify. JS gives the possibility to add a prefix to the name of the imported playlists, so you can find them easily.

If you want to switch from Spotify and Apple Music, then the best option for this purpose a program called Stamp. Unfortunately, the free version of this firm or restrictions, so you can only 10 numbers and one playlist each from one to another department session transfer. If you want to convert all, it is necessary to lay-off seven euros. The only alternative is the program 'Move to Apple Music ', but that software supports fewer services and is only for OS X. Stamp supports alongside Spotify and Apple Music also Google Play Music as a service to import to. It can also import music from YouTube and Deezer. If you are exporting to Apple Music, make sure that you have iTunes installed on your computer and login to the account that was subscribed to Apple Music.

05 different services Stamp supports to import from.

You download Stamp here. Click the green button Download. Run the downloaded file and click Install. After installation, click Finish and then Stamp opens automatically and you can start. First you choose the service from which you want to export. In our case we choose Spotify by clicking on the logo. You will be asked to log in, click Sign in to Spotify. Enter your username and password and click Login to continue. Then click OK to Stamp access to your playlists on Spotify. Now select the service that you want to export.

In our case we choose Apple Music, so click on the logo of the service. Stamp has a cookie requires iTunes used to Stamp to access your Apple music playlists so that music can be added. If you already have iTunes open, it now closes while. Then click on the button Look for a cookie and iTunes opens. We assume that you are already logged in with your Apple account in iTunes. Go to a song, no matter what, and click on the heart next to the song. Return to Stamp, where the message is displayed, we got a cookie from iTunes and click Yes, I have internet connection, if that is the case (see box 'Internet Problems? ').

06 We need you here to sign in to Spotify in Stamp to see the playlists.

Google Play Music sign in with your Google Account. Make sure that authentication is disabled in two steps and access for less secure apps permitted by which to turn here. Remember this setting is not reset when you're all set! YouTube is no need to change anything, because before official APIs to gain access to your playlists.

Are the playlists once on screen, check the ones you want to transfer and click Next. Now begins the transfer, and the numbers by about half a minute delay in iTunes appear. Then the message to export the playlists. So far Stamp fact alone has added music to your Apple Music Collection. Stamp can not create your own playlists. To import the playlists, click Click here to export playlists Stamp and choose a convenient location to store the music on. Then you open iTunes and press the Alt key to display the menu bar. Now click on File / Import Library / Playlist and select the file in the form of playlists- [random letters and numbers]. xml and click Open. You'll see the new playlist.

07 Stamp itself can not export the playlists that you should still do just themselves. The music is only added to your Apple music library.

All three music streaming services (Spotify, Apple Music and Google Play Music) take into account your local music collection. Apple Music, it is necessary to import the music into iTunes. To add music to iTunes, it is necessary to import the music in it. Have you done this before, you do not have to do anything. To add your music to iTunes, press the Alt key and click the Add menu now appeared File / Folder to Library. Now browse to your music folder and click Select Folder.

In order to match the numbers with the Apple Music variant, it is necessary to turn the iCloud music library in iTunes. It may be that this standard is already done, but to us that it was not the case. You turn it on again by pressing the Alt key and select Edit / Preferences. Put on the main tab Tick iCloud music. Behind it is the email address of the person from whom the iCloud music library is: Make sure that your e-mail address, otherwise the music go to another.

Make sure that your local backup keeps your music library (preferably in a different folder or on any other media), because Apple Music after uploading delete the local files (!) And in case something goes wrong when matching. Click OK to apply the changes. What happens next is that numbers less than 200 MB or 2 am in the format aac, wav, aiff or mp3 uploaded. The songs in AAC and MP3 format must meet 'certain quality requirements, but what they are exactly, is unclear. The maximum number of songs that can be uploaded is 25. 000. Moreover, top right in iTunes, you can follow the progress of the upload process.

08 Uploading to the Apple Music Cloud is now underway.

Google Play Music has a special application to your local music collection upload for you. The so-called Google Play Music Manager allows you to upload 50. 000 numbers which are then stored in the cloud and available on all your devices.

You download the Music Manager to download via this link by clicking the Music Manager. Run the downloaded file, after which anything is downloaded and the Music Manager is then started. Click Next and sign in with your Google Account. Select at what do you do? the option to upload songs to Google Play, and then click Next. Select the location of your music venue, you can choose from iTunes, Windows Media Player, the My Music folder 'Windows, or other folders where you can choose a folder on your computer. \x3d 'Http: gt;

We opt for other folders, but you can quietly select another option. By Other directories click Add Folder and browse to the location of your music. Then click Next. The Music Manager indicates how many numbers have been found and how many you can upload yet. Click Next. You can now choose to future numbers will automatically be added to your online library Google Play Music. Click Yes if you want to use this feature and click Next to begin the upload. Click Close and the process continues in the background.

09 In the notification area of ​​the Windows taskbar, you should see a Google Play Music icon. Double click to open the main screen of the Music Manager.

Spotify works differently than the other two services. Here it is necessary to import the music in the Spotify app and then manually synchronize. For this you open Spotify on your PC. Links to Your music is the option Local Files. To put music on here, go to Edit / Preferences. then scroll down to the section Local Files.

By default, sources here as iTunes, Windows Media Player, select Music from Windows and more. Click Add a source and then you can browse to the location where it is stored your music. Click OK to add the folder. If you go back to local files, the music has been added. To see if the PC is open Spotify music now get on your mobile device, open your Spotify on Android or iOS, and you ensure that you are connected to the same network. Then put the local music in a playlist. Which playlist you make then available offline on your mobile device, and Spotify music syncs automatically.

If it does not work, it could come through your firewall. Make sure that Spotify has all access to the network and also make sure that network discovery is enabled on Windows. For this you open the Control Panel, go to Network and Internet / Network and Sharing Center and click on the left of Advanced sharing settings. now concern that one of the profiles behind state current profile option is selected, the option Network discovery and click Save Changes to activate the changes.

10 The Spotify app retrieves local files include iTunes and Windows Media Player.

If you'd like your music to match your local music collection into Spotify, you can use http: // soundiiz. com. This website can handle Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud, Deezer, Napster, Microsoft Groove Music and local playlists in several formats, including m3u. The site matches music to the playlist on the streaming service. In this case we want to move our music from a M3U format locally to Spotify. On the website, click the first right Start converting and then the service where you want to import more.

In our case is that Spotify, so click Connect to Spotify. Log in with your username and password, and then click OK to Soundiiz consent to your playlists. Back at Soundiiz you appear your playlists. In order to get local playlist in Spotify, click on the red block Import playlist file, select the appropriate playlist and click Open. Soundiiz should just load and then asks you to select the target location, so click on Spotify. You now have the option to name the playlist. These can be changed as required. Then click Convert. Converting then begins after you get to see what numbers are and which could not be imported. Click Close to close the window and to import other playlists.

11 You can convert playlist Soundiiz itself to name the over.

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