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Favorite albums sometimes turn into playlists

I was surprised when about 1/5 of my favorite albums in Tidal were turned into playlists in Apple Music instead of albums. It turns out that when FYM doesn't find an exactly matching album in the destination service it creates a playlist instead. This behavior does make sense, but it would nice if the app warned the user when it was doing it and gave the option to not make the conversion.

Accuracy in matching tracks in playlists is okay but not great. A source playlist containing a set of tracks from a single album will often turn into a set of tracks from different albums by the same artist. About 10% of the time the track is completely different - e.g., a jazz tune from 1958 turns into a song by Drake.

For $10, I’d expect better.

While the app does transfer songs pretty fast, it does it in the most lazy way. It creates a separate playlist for the songs you transferred, so if you’re part or the majority who’s “library” is technically “liked songs”, prepare to spend time going through and re-liking all your songs. While this could be helpful if you’re trying to get rid of some songs, there’s a further point I’d like to address. For the most part it adds songs that were in your library, however I have also noticed that some of my songs were replaced by remixes of the same song. If you’re someone like me who listens to a substantial amount of EDM, you’ll understand how frustrating it is finding that perfect remix for you, which is just partially why this was such a frustrating process. In addition, about 1/4 of my library wasn’t even added!!!

In conclusion, if you’re looking to quickly move the majority of your library fast, and have a spare $10, I’d recommend this program. However, buyer beware, you’re going to have a subnational amount of slack to pick up.

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Love this app!

I subscribe to two music services and one for free. My musical tastes are very distinct and varied and it confuses the algorithms so I keep things separated in order to get deep cuts in different genres. However, some playlists I discover usually only exists on one of the platforms. This app is a lifesaver! I don’t have to manually recreate playlists to port them from every service. It’s amazing.

My only gripe really has nothing to do with this app but more about the labeling on the various services. Sometimes obscure titles get confused with more “popular” songs. But this is easily corrected. I really like having an exported list of songs that weren’t matched. It helps with any manual look ups and purchases of songs not streaming.

Thanks again!

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Thanks for sharing your insights and your recommendation! Happy transferring :)