Music fans continue to ditch Spotify; its price increases, poor payments to artists, controversial moves by higher-ups and irritating AI features are all pushing subscribers to alternative streaming services, and by far one of the most highly thought of is Qobuz.
Qobuz is a legacy streaming service which offers a huge library of high-quality music; what it doesn’t have, is a confusing mess of extra distracting features. It’s a simple platform for music fans who want to hear all the details of their songs.
If you’re a Spotify subscriber, you might be reticent to make the move to an alternative service because you’ll lose all your playlists. But that isn’t the case! I’ve done it, and it’s easy to port over your mixes and lists.
Here’s how to switch your music from Spotify to Qobuz, really easily.
Tools & requirements
- A PC, phone or other smart device
- A Spotify account
- A Qobuz account
Quick steps
- Set up Soundiiz
- Set up the streaming services in Soundiiz
- Select your playlists and transfer
- Find your music in Qobuz
How to switch your music from Spotify to Qobuz
1. Set up Soundiiz
I’d recommend switching your music from Spotify to Qobuz on a computer, though there is a phone app which can replicate the process I’m about to describe. Make sure you already have a Spotify and Qobuz account, and are signed into both.
You’ll need to use a third service to convert your playlist: it’s called Soundiiz, and it’s what Qobuz recommends as the conversion app of choice. You can find it right here, and it’s free for its basic plan; this tier only lets you convert playlist with 200 tracks or fewer, and has limits on how many playlists you can move at a time. If you have an absolutely massive archive of playlists, it may be worth paying.
In Soundiiz, you need to connect both your Spotify and Qobuz apps. You’ll know you’re successful when the screen is a big list of all your playlists.
2. Set up your streaming services in Soundiiz
When you’re in Soundiiz, you’ll see a ‘Transfer’ button on the left of the playlist roster. You’ll want to select this button.
Next, you’ll want to select the streaming services. Select Spotify as the source and Qobuz as the destination (unless you’re being really cheeky and using this guide for other services than the ones we’re talking about). Next, hit the nice big green button: Start.
The next page might bring some confusion. On the basic tier, you can only convert playlists, though Premium subscribers can transfer albums, artists or tracks too.
Select Playlists, but then press the pen in the bottom-right of its tab.
This will bring you to a list of all your playlists, where you can choose what’s transferred. If you’re on the Basic plan, you can only actually select one; you’ll have to go through this process multiple times if you’ve got many lists you want to move over. Select the list / lists you want, press Confirm and continue, and then Confirm my selection.
You’ll be asked to reconfirm some details of the playlist for when it appears on Qobuz: what it’s called, what its description is, whether it can have duplicate tracks, and whether it’s public or private. Settings from Spotify will be automatically ported over, but you can change them here if you’d like. When happy, press Save configuration.
Now, you’ll be shown every song on the playlist, and can choose to deselect any you don’t want to move to Qobuz. If you have a playlist that’s too long for the Basic tier, here you’ll also have to drop a few to come under the 200-song limit. Make the changes, and press Confirm, and on the final menu, press Begin the transfer!
3. Finding the music
The transfer can take a varying amount of time depending on the size of your playlist, but for me, I barely had time to read the warning saying ‘this might take some time’, before my 170-song playlist had ported over.
Soundiiz will show you a pop-up letting you know any songs that weren’t transferred – this will have happened if Qobuz doesn’t have the song in its library. Make a note of any missing ones if you want to find alternatives, but there’s a good chance that you’ll have had a perfect conversion: Qobuz has a big library.
Congratulations: your Spotify playlist now exists in Qobuz. To find it, head over to Qobuz, press Playlists, and you’ll see it right there.
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