I’m thinking of ditching Spotify. I’m trying out Youtube Music and thought that I’d see if I can convert my playlists. Does anyone have a favorite service for this? I was about to enter my login credentials to Tune My Music, but felt a little angsty about it and thought that I’d ask.
I like SongShift and paid for lifetime access. I’m on Apple Music but most of my friends use Spotify so it’s great for sharing playlists. Merlin Mann also has shared a lot of great playlists on Spotify. I use it more than I thought I would.
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If you get a moment, I’d love to hear why. I’ve been on Spotify a long time and have only tried Apple Music as an alternative (did not like). I’d love to know what people find compelling elsewhere!
There is a link on reddit to a GitHub project that claims to do it:
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My initial thought was to cut out streaming and go back to listening to music that I’ve purchased. I’m trying out YouTube Premium which includes their music service. I don’t know if I’ll stick with it or not, but it may be compelling enough with the music bundled with it.
I had a three month trial of Apple Music a while back. I went back to Spotify after a few days. I couldn’t find a reason to switch.
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I’ve been a luddite for years and have kept mostly listening to music I ‘own’ - meaning having the actual albums / files I’ve ripped from my old school CD collection and other methods - which I manage via Apple Music (Free, not premium). I have spent a lot of time managing the music files, cleaning them up, moving them around, backing them up, ensuring they are on my iPhone, etc. And I pay the $25/yr to Apple for iTunes Match to ensure the music is synced to iCloud (tried cancelling this one year and it caused massive issues).
Both of my kids think I’m crazy and they just use Spotify premium. My youngest is finishing college this May and we may go to the Spotify ‘family’ plan and I may finally push my file based music collection to a secondary status. I feel that there is a lot of good music out there that I am not naturally discovering and that is a problem for me. 
There was a time when I thought that subscription music was a ridiculous idea. I caught on, though, and was amazed by how much music that you could listen to that was just a few keystrokes away. I’ve got a few hundred CDs, plus some downloads, and some vinyl. I’ve been thinking of putting the subs on hold for a while unless I can get it bundled with something else like Youtube Premium. I probably spend too much time watching Youtube. That’ll be the next thing to think about.
I used iTunes Match until it replaced some songs that I had purchased with inferior versions.
I did that for a long time, but I didn’t use Apple Music enough to keep subscribing. Then I subscribed to YouTube Premium to get rid of advertising, and didn’t even try try YT Music initially.
But, long story short, I have an acquaintance who tours with a major artist and I started listening to his music on YTM a few years ago, and still use it. The interface isn’t as slick as music.app but it didn’t take long to get used to it. It works with Siri, and I can upload my own files if needed.
It did that to me several times.
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I don’t think I’ve ranted about my seething anger with iTunes Match in awhile.
Grrrrr! That thing just never worked even close to what they claimed. Inferior versions, albums not being found even though they were still in print, all sorts of issues if you were subscribed to Apple Music at the same time.
Better they just never offered it at all.
Anyways, thanks. I should be good for a couple years now before I need to vent again.
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To be fair, Apple has never been accused of being good at search. 
I used https://soundiiz.com to move from Spotify to Tidal many years back. Worked well enough, and matched all that was available on the target service.
Be aware that matching of content probably won’t be 1:1 between any two services due to the horrible state of meta-data for music online. Un-matched albums or tracks may still be available, but using a slightly different spelling or categorisation.
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I’ve used Playlisty and it’s great.
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A few years ago I was reading about the dismal state of payments to musicians per stream. Tidal was the best but Apple Music was not far behind. I tried Tidal but then Apple rolled out the Apple One bundle so I switched to Apple Music since I was getting it anyway.
I’ve actually found the sound quality to be better (but who knows if my middle aged ears can really tell).
I also prefer to pick what I’m listening to instead of using generated playlists. AM is still more focused on albums than Spotify.
FWIW we still kept our Spotify sub as my kids would murder me if I cancelled it. And it is the easiest way to listen to podcasts through our Sonos.