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Apple Music now lets you easily transfer playlists to YouTube Music

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Apple Music subscribers can now transfer their playlists over to YouTube Music, according to a recent support document spotted by MacRumors. Up until now, Apple did not offer native tools for transferring playlists to rival music services, making YouTube Music the first.

There are some caveats, however. Only songs available on YouTube Music can be transferred over, which means you won’t be able to migrate audio files like podcasts or audiobooks. You also can’t transfer curated or non-collaborative shared playlists, music files, or the folders you’ve created to organize playlists in Apple Music.

To move your playlists over to YouTube Music, you must have an active ‌Apple Music‌ or iTunes Match subscription, as well as an active YouTube…

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