Showing posts with label AppleMusic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AppleMusic. Show all posts

Friday, September 1, 2017

How to Move your Spotify playlist to Apple Music

Both Spotify and Apple Music are online streaming music services. Users can subscribe the music service according to their own need.
However, Apple's service touts around 40 million songs, which is superior to Spotify's "more than 30 million" figure (though we're not sure by how much), and also outdoes newer contenders like Amazon’s paid streaming service and Jay Z's Tidal. Moreover, Apple has taken steps to secure more exclusives than the competition.
If you have some favorite Spotify songs, and want to transfer them to Apple Music, how to deal with this?
For the songs of Spotify are also DRM limited, like Apple Music. If users want to move music files from Spotify to Apple Music successfully, they need to decrypt DRM from Spotify and convert to the audio format like MP3 or AAC for Apple Music.
Here is a good news, Spotify Audio Converter is the tool to help you to solve the problem well, which can remove DRM from your Spotify songs and playlists with excellent output quality and fast conversion speed.
Follow the next guide, you will know how to convert and transfer your Spotify playlists to Apple Music as soon as possible.

Step 1, Go to download and install Spotify Audio Converter Platinum and run it.

If you are a Mac user, please download the iTunes Converter for Mac version.
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Step 2. Drag and drop the playlist from Spotify to Spotify Audio Converter.

Open Spotify application, check playlist you would like to convert, and then drag them to add window.

Step 3. Choose Output Format and Adjust Settings

Directly click setting button button on the program interface to open the Preferences window.
In the output settings, you could change the output folder as you prefer.

Step 4. Start Spotify to Apple Music Conversion

After the above steps, now click "CONVERT" button to start convertion.
When the conversion is finished, just find the converted files and transfer them to your iTunes playlist, and then you can enjoy them without limitations any more.
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Sunday, December 25, 2016

What does Apple Music really aim to?

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The New York Times recently published an interview with Apple Music executives Jimmy Iovine and Larry Jackson. During the interview, the executives discussed where Apple Music's position is in the current music landscape. "We have no interest in being a label," says Apple Music executive Jimmy Iovine. "But we do have interest in making our platform the one that’s best to communicate with the audiences."

Apple Music is known to the public for streaming tunes. But the whole platform is much bigger than that. By explaining to artists that Apple Music is also about marketing an artist, the service has been able to score exclusives on albums that eventually went on to top the charts. The part of the streaming service that the public doesn't notice is the part that sponsored Drake's 60-city tour this past summer, along with his promotional movie  "Please Forgive Me." The latter remains an exclusive for Apple.
Referral reading: Pros and Cons of Apple Music
While it is easy for the media to focus on how quickly Apple Music has added subscribers, the most impressive thing Apple has done is to cultivate a relationship with musicians who have capitalized on Apple's marketing prowess and technological strengths. Whether Apple planned this in advance, or stumbled onto this template, is not so important. By pointing to the success Apple Music has had with albums from Travis Scott, Future and DJ Khaled (all three debuted as number one on Billboard as exclusives to Apple Music), Apple can tell up and coming artists that this could happen to them if they give Apple Music an exclusive and allow them to promote their work. 
"We have real understanding of what these artists are trying to accomplish both aesthetically and commercially. We’re really getting there in merging these cultures — tech and the arts. And we’re trying to prove that we are the best place for an artist to fulfill their vision."-Jimmy Iovine, executive, Apple Music

If Apple does eventually overtake rival streamer Spotify, offering exclusives and getting in tight with the talent is how it will have to be done. Spotify already has 95 million users with 55 million using its ad-based free tier. While Apple does offer a one-time three-month free trial, it does not have a free level of service. Apple Music has 17 million subscribers at last count, and may never catch up unless it can continue to provide users with early access to music that Spotify can't play. For that to happen, Apple Music will have to continue focusing on its relationships with musicians and not pay attention to head count for another 24 months. At that point, it should take a breath to see how this strategy is working in relation to Spotify.
Referral reading: Apple Music VS Spotify

source: NYTimes