Through a new joint initiative, Google and Apple are making it possible to transfer playlists between Apple Music and YouTube Music in either direction using the “Data Transfer Project.”
This new option arrives via Google and Apple both using the “Data Transfer Project” stack which was developed by the two companies as a part of the Data Transfer Initiative, of which both Google and Apple are members. This same ongoing partnership has also previously delivered the photo-sharing tool used to transfer photos and videos from iCloud to Google Photos.
In a blog post, the Data Transfer Initiative (DTI) teases that other services may join in time, saying:
Portability is a hard problem, and no tool can be perfect. But at DTI, our ambition – shared with our partners – is to build and ship best-in-class offerings for direct portability. We believe we have accomplished that goal with this newest DTP-powered tool, and we’re proud that users of Apple Music and YouTube Music can now transfer playlists between those services, free of charge, with a high quality experience. We hope and anticipate that other services will join us in this journey over time
To this day, no music streaming app has been as good as Google Play Music. I miss the professional human curated playlists too.
professional human curated playlists too
I believe Apple Music still has those. But overall feature-wise, I agree, GPM was the best. YTM was borderline unusable for everything that I wanted from streaming at the time they transitioned from one to the other, and it seems it didn’t get much better since.
I find the Samples (what I’m assuming you’re referring to by saying “shorts”) feature actually kinda useful for discovering new music. I flip through it every few months to hear snippets of recent hits or what YouTube might think I’d be interested in without committing to listening to an entire song.
Rhapsody back in the day beat that. You could use All Music Guide info to build amazing custom playlists. Custom options like “Music featuring electric guitar with no vocals made between 1950-1957 with a tempo between 90-120” and it would shoot out a whole playlist
I miss the app they bought out and created Google play with. I can’t remember the name, but it was amazing
Same. I have been trying to remember the name for years. All I can remember is that some magazine called it “a warehouse in Brooklyn full of music obsessed hipsters”. Best curated music lists ever. I discovered so much new music with it.
I think it may have been songza. That’s a word bubbling to my brain.
Still in agreement though. Google music was top tier. They’re the only streaming app that organized my library in a sane way. I just want the organization from the ipod touch, but Spotify wants their weird homogenous shit.
Finally implementing something pirates have taken for granted since the first digital cross-platform audio file format (1983?)
Rare corporate W
This would be a time saver if Spotify was a part of the initiative because currently I’m migrating from Spotify over to YouTube Music.
What a unique and useful feature. That makes it totally worth it.
To bad Google will kill it off in a month
