Import Shazam To Spotify
When you decided to switch from Apple Music to Spotify, you probably want to also transfer the playlist over. Don’t worry. I get you covered. In this article, I will show you 4 methods to transfer Apple Music playlists or songs to Spotify using free tools.
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Move Apple Music Playlist to Spotify online without restrictions
The best choice would be a web-based tool which allows you to transfer playlists on many music streaming services including YouTube, Deezer, Spotify, Tidal, Amazon Music etc. since it is a web tool, you can use it on all of your devices with a web browser.
Whether you prefer Android or iOS, you can use this online service to transfer a playlist to another platform. It does not require you to sign up or download anything. What’s more, you can transfer as many playlists as you want.
When opening Shazam, make sure that you've connected your Spotify account to the app. To do this, follow these handy steps put together by Shazam. This should link your account to Spotify. If the tracks are available on Spotify, they should automatically be saved into a new playlist called 'My Shazam Tracks', for you to revisit later. Download the Spotify Android playback library zip and Spotify Android auth library zip from GitHub and unzip them. In a file explorer (not Android Studio), drag the unzipped spotify-auth-version.aar and spotify-player-version.aar files into the /app/libs directory in your project’s root directory. Nov 28, 2020 Now, go ahead install and open the Shazam app on your iPhone and open the Shazam Settings page by tapping the gear icon on the top left. Here you would find an option to connect your Spotify account. Tap the Connect button next to the Spotify icon and proceed to authenticate the request by tapping the Agree button on the Authorize page.
Sounds great? You can refer to the steps below to get started.
Step 1. Go to the website: www.tunemymusic.com/. Click Get Started.
step 2. Select Apple Music. Then Login to your Apple Music account or import your playlist from iTunes XML, which is pretty neat.
Step 3. Then you select the playlists, library songs, library albums, and library artists that you want to transfer as you can see from the screenshot.
step 4. Select Spotify as the Next Destination and login to Spotify.
Step 5. View all tracks from the playlist if needed. If no problem, click Start Moving My Music to start transferring your music playlist from Apple Music to Spotify.
When the transfer is done, it will generate a playlist link that allows you to share your Apple Music playlist with others. For those who want to find a way to share my Apple Music playlists to others who don’t have Apple Music subscription, this is the way.
Very simple, as you can see. You can transfer all playlists, artists, or the entire music library. I am pretty impressed by this free service. I can also export my Apple Music to a txt or csv file as a backup.
Convert Apple Music to Spotify on iOS
If you like to use a mobile app, then SongShift is a great choice for transfer playlist from Apple Music to Spotify. SongShift allows you to transfer music playlist agony many music platforms including Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube, Tidal, Deezer, Pandora, Discogs, Lost.fm, and Napster.
If you don’t upgrade to the paid version, which is $3.99, you can connect only two music streaming services. It is enough for you to move Apple Music playlist to Spotify. Let’s see how it works.
- Free download SongShift from Appstore.
- Open the app and follow the steps to grant it access to your Apple Music account and Spotify.
- Tap on the Apple Music and select a playlist that you want to transfer Spotify. For free users, you need to wait for a few seconds while the ads running.
- Select Spotify as the destination. You can create a new Spotify playlist or select an existing playlist to receive the songs.
If you ever want to transfer music playlist to another music service, just disconnect Apple Music and connect another.
Move Apple Music Playlist to Spotify on Android
Import Shazam To Spotify Account
Unfortunately, it is only available on iOS providing a free and paid version. If you use an Android phone, then you can use Stamp, which also comes with a free version. Well, the free version only allows you to convert 10 songs from a playlist.
If that’s not a problem for you, you can download it free from Google Play to get started. When connecting Apple Music, it will redirect you to a web browser to authenticate. The next time when you want to transfer music from Apple Music, you have to do it all over again.
I really don’t like its experience, but that’s the only free app that I have found on Android. if you have a better solution for Android users besides Tunemymusic, the free online service, let me know in the comments.
Move Apple Music Playlist to Spotify with Siri Shortcuts
Shortcuts is a great app for task automation on iOS. You can use shortcuts to convert Apple music link to Spotify. I have created a shortcut that allows you to convert a playlist from Apple Music to Spotify. If you are interested, follow the steps below to set it up.
- Get this Apple Music Playlist to Spotif by opening the link in Safari. Run the shortcut to get started.
- When running it for the first time, you will be lead to a Safari web page and from there, login to Spotify, and click the “Agree” button. Then copy the code from the URL (everything after “code=” until “&state=…” and then go back to Shortcuts app. You only need to do this once.
- Now, you can select a playlist that you want to transfer to Spotify. Depending how many tracks you have in that playlist, it may take a while.
- Select a Spotify playlist to add all tracks from the Apple Music playlist you chose.
As you know Shortcuts app is provided by Apple, it is totally safe to use. If you like to use Shortcuts to transfer playlists between two music services, you can also convert Spotify playlist to Apple Music.
This shortcut is using Spotify official API. To learn more about it, you can open your web browser and go to developer.spotify.com to enable Developer access. Go to Console, request the Uauth Token. Be sure to select Playlist-Modify-Public and Playlist-Modify-Private scopes.
From here, you will get an Spotify Access Token. This Token will expire in 1 hour. My shortcut will generate a new access token each time you run.
Actually, if you modify this shortcut, you can also transfer a few songs from your music library to Spotify. Just change the Action Get Playlist to Get Gongs. If you get to know more about Siri Shortcuts, you would find it out it can do more than you can imagine. For example, you can use this 5 shortcuts to download free music on iPhone.
All these three free methods can help you convert Apple Music to Spotify. Now it’s your turn, which of these methods do you like the most? Share your experience on how to transfer music playlists.
The Spotify integration in Shazam gives you the power to:
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- Keep track of your Shazamed songs by automatically adding them to your personal “My Shazam Tracks” playlist in Spotify
- Play full audio tracks in Shazam
- Easily add any song that you see in Shazam to any of your Spotify playlists
Note: A paid subscription to Spotify Premium is required to use Spotify with Shazam.
- Tools used: Spotify Web API, Spotify iOS SDK, Spotify Android SDK
How To Import Shazam Into Spotify
For iOS, the iOS SDK was used to integrate playback and manage playlists. On Android, the Android SDK was used for playback and the Web API was used to manage playlists.