Apple Music is today one of the most interesting and comprehensive streaming music services. Its catalog is monstrously large, Apple itself estimates it at more than 100 million songs. And since we’re usually talking about ordinal numbers, which can take a bit of work, let’s do a quick calculation of what that means. If we figure out that the average song length is three minutes (and I think that’s an understatement) and round that “Over a hundred million” to exactly 100 million, do you know how much time we’d need to be able to listen to all those songs at once?

Yes, it’s true that I didn’t consider leap years, but this is a quick approximation to help us get an idea of ​​what a catalog of these dimensions means.

But not everything is a catalog, There are many other important aspects in determining quality streaming music services. The key point is quality, of course, and in this respect Apple Music was the forerunner (although Prime Music joined almost immediately) in offering hi-fi quality in its standard plan, which also upset Spotify’s plans in this regard. sound quality, in a hit whose effects still resonate today.

Another differentiator of Apple’s service is Apple Music Classical, an application dedicated exclusively to classical music, which has been available for iOS since last year, and shortly thereafter for Android. And I’m not talking about his excellent editorial work, equally interesting collaborations like the one recently signed with Teatro Real… in short, whether you’re an opponent or a fan of Apple, or somewhere in between the two extremes, it’s undeniable that Cupertino is doing a great job with this service.

Apple Music 4.7.0-beta (1359) for Android – Apple x SongShift collaboration?
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On the other hand, the ecosystem of services of this type is very broad, and it is normal for users to consider jumping from one to another at some point. However, the longer we are users of one particular, It’s all the more difficult to make the leap, mainly because of the playlists we’ve created during that time. More than a year ago we told you how to move lists between services, although these types of services are usually paid and in some cases require certain actions from the user. This, of course, favors the contracted service and therefore harms the one that the user would switch to if it were easier.

However, it seems that Cupertino has realized this problem and decided to solve it. So as we read in 9to5Mac, Apple is testing the integration of SongShift into Apple Music. If you don’t know, SongShift is exactly one of those services that makes it easy to migrate playlists between platforms, though the integration into the service’s own API is no doubt intended to make the process even easier.

At the moment they are some beta users of the Apple Music app for Android those who discovered this new feature, although others who also have this version do not have it available, leading us to believe that this is a limited-scope test. And as we can see in the pictures and as we could imagine, it offers us its functions only in one-way mode, i.e. bringing playlists from other services to Apple Music.

This is a very smart move because substantially reduces the friction of the migration process itself from one streaming service to another. So it remains to be seen whether Spotify, Prime Music and others will forge similar partnerships, whether with SongShift or other similar services. It would undoubtedly be the most sensible thing to do.