Tip: Transfer Your Playlists to a New Music Service For Free

There are an uncountable number of services that will transfer your playlists between music services, but most are paid or only transfer a limited amount of songs before asking you to pay. But I came across a service that will transfer all of your playlists for free and, as good, it appears to work quite well.

It’s called FreeYourMusic.

And, yes, there is a paid version called FreeYourMusic Premium that provides other benefits, like playlist sync between services, additional playlist management tools, and more. But if all you want to do is transfer playlists from one music service to another, perhaps because you’re switching to the second service, this looks like an excellent option.

I’ve paid for a service called SongShift to do this work, and it does work well. But SongShift is only available as an app on the iPhone and iPad, and it requires a $6.99 monthly or $29.909 annual subscription.

Generally speaking, copying playlists between music services is straightforward for most, especially if you stick to Spotify, Apple Music, and most other services. But I use YouTube Music and often add video-based content to my playlists, which this service lets you access like songs, and these two things introduce some issues. Most playlist copying services support YouTube, not YouTube Music–which isn’t a huge issue as your YouTube Music Playlists anyway–and none of them handle the video-based entries in playlists well.

That’s part of the reason I had been using (and paying for) SongShift. And it’s why I’m now recommending FreeYourMusic. It handles songs it can’t identify perfectly about as well as is possible. It also understands when the same playlists are already available in both of the services you’re transferring between and identifies them so you can transfer any missing songs.

I connected my YouTube Music and Apple Music accounts to FreeYourMusic to test how well the service works. And having transferred several playlists so far, it’s good enough for me to switch and recommend that others at least try it out as well. This combination of functionality and free is difficult to beat.

You can learn more on the FreeYourMusic website.