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The most recent beta model of Apple Music for Android contains screens prompting customers to import their playlists from different companies, reminiscent of Spotify.
Music tracks themselves don’t transfer between streaming companies, in contrast to shifting previous iTunes libraries round. As a substitute, what has been doable if a little fiddly, is to maneuver playlists.
Apple seems to be trialling a way of serving to customers do that inside the Apple Music app, as a substitute of through hit or miss options. It seems to be doing this in collaboration with one of many extra profitable choices, a service known as SongShift.
At current, the function is barely within the Android model of Apple Music, solely within the newest beta of the app, after which seemingly just for some variety of customers. Not even everybody on the beta is seeing the function — and those who are say that it’s not working but.
Nevertheless, if the function makes it out of beta and turns into obtainable for all Apple Music customers on Android, it appears inevitable that it’s going to come to the iPhone too. It is uncommon to see an incomplete alpha take a look at and to not see it first on an iPhone, however Apple Music Classical did launch on Android before it got here to the iPad.
Individually, in 2020, the SongShift app behind this new function, was threatened by Spotify with having its entry to the service revoked. SongShift introduced it might drop Spotify transfers from its app’s model 5.1.2. however by model 5.2.3, the function was again.
