{"id":1981333,"date":"2025-08-26T22:08:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T22:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1981333"},"modified":"2025-08-26T22:08:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T22:08:25","slug":"apple-music-now-allows-users-to-import-playlists-from-spotify-and-other-streaming-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/apple-music-now-allows-users-to-import-playlists-from-spotify-and-other-streaming-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Music Now Allows Users to Import Playlists from Spotify and Other Streaming Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-id=\"1508350\" data-title=\"Apple Music Now Allows Users to Import Playlists from Spotify and Other Streaming Services\" data-url=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/08\/apple-music-import-playlists-spotify-other-streaming-services\/\" data-page=\"1\" data-pages=\"1\" data-total-posts=\"1\">\n<p>Look out, Spotify: Apple Music is introducing a new tool that allows users to import playlists from other streaming platforms.<\/p>\n<p>After being beta-tested in Australia and New Zealand in May 2025, the playlist importing tool is now available in the US, UK, Mexico, Canada, France, Brazil, and Germany. As reported by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/08\/26\/apple-music-transfer-tool-6-more-countries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">MacRumors<\/a>, the tool can be found in a new Music settings menu called Transfer Music from Other Music Services. That\u2019s where users can sign in to another streaming service and select items to import. Apple\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/118249\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Support page<\/a> has more detailed instructions, as well as an alternative method via your web browser.<\/p>\n<p>This new Apple Music importing tool lands during a wave of artists leaving Spotify altogether. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/06\/deerhoof-spotify-daniel-ek-ai-weapons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deerhoof<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/07\/king-gizzard-remove-music-spotify-ai-drone-tech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">King Gizzard &amp; the Lizard Wizard<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/08\/godspeed-you-black-emperor-pull-music-from-streaming-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Godspeed You! Black Emperor<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/07\/xiu-xiu-removing-music-from-spotify\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Xiu Xiu<\/a>, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/08\/hotline-tnt-remove-music-spotify\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hotline TNT<\/a> are among the acts pulling their music from the platform. The primary reason for the mass exodus: Spotify CEO Daniel Ek\u2019s investments in Helsing, a German company specializing in AI military software.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA PSA to those unaware: Spotify CEO Daniel Ek invests millions in AI military drone technology,\u201d King Gizzard &amp; the Lizard Wizard <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/07\/king-gizzard-remove-music-spotify-ai-drone-tech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shared<\/a> on Instagram recently. \u201cWe just removed our music from the platform. Can we put pressure on these Dr. Evil tech bros to do better? Join us on another platform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Related Video<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are currently working to take all of our music off of garbage hole violent armageddon portal Spotify,\u201d Xiu Xiu posted on Instagram. \u201cIt is taking longer than we had hoped due to procedurally complications but will be completed soon,\u201d adding, \u201cFor all the reasons you already know \u2014 PLEASE CANCEL YOUR SUBSCRIPTION WITH SPOTIFY.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In July of this year, Spotify <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/08\/spotify-face-scan-age-check-uk-users\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rolled out<\/a> a controversial face-scanning age check for users in the UK.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source consequence.net \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look out, Spotify: Apple Music is introducing a new tool that allows users to import playlists from other streaming platforms. After being beta-tested in Australia and New Zealand in May 2025, the playlist importing tool is now available in the US, UK, Mexico, Canada, France, Brazil, and Germany. As reported by MacRumors, the tool can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1981334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1981333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Apple-Music-Now-Allows-Users-to-Import-Playlists-from-Spotify.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1981333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1981334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1981333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1981333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1981333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}