Web User - UK (2019-05-29)

Soundiiz lets you transfer playlists from
other streaming se rvices

Stream music from

Spotify while you’re

navigating the world

Listen to

motivational mu sic

with Nike Run Club

Control your Spotify music from the

Wind ows 10 Game Bar

Set an alarm and
wake up to your
favourite songs

44 29 May - 11 June 2019

Transfer playlists fromanother
service
If you’ve switched to Spotify from
another streaming service, you’re
probably drea ding the prospect of
having to rebuild all your pl aylists.
Fortunately, you don’t needto do this
manually because the free web app
Soundiiz (soundiiz.com) can do all the
hard work for you. Click the Start Now
button and either sign up for a new
account or sign in using Facebook,
Google or Twitter.
Log into the service and click the
‘Platform to platform’ link to transfer all
your pl aylists and favourites between
services including Apple Music, Deezer,
Tidal and Google Play Music. This
requires you to have a Soundiiz
Premium account, which costs $4.50
(£3.49) a month but if you don’t want to
pay, you can manually convert playlists
from one platform to another, one at a
time (up to a maximum of 200) for free.

Wake upto

Spotify

Google’s free Clock

app for Andr oid

(bit.ly/clock 476) lets

you add music from

Spotify as your

chosen alarm to

wake up to every

morning. Tap Alarm, Default Ringtone

and select Spotify. You can choose an

album or playlist, and Premium users

can specify a particular track.

Play musicthrough Google Maps

andWaze

Both Google Maps and Waze (which is

owned by Google) suppor t Spotify

integration, allowing you to play your

music through

the app when

travelling. You

can connect

Google Maps to

Spotify whil e in

navigat ion

mode or

through Maps’

settings. For

the former, tap

the bottom of

the map screen

and select Settings: on an Andr oid

device, select ‘Show media playback

controls’; for iPhone, choose ‘Music

playback controls’. Select Spotify on the

next screen. If you’re not in navigat ion

mode, open the main menuin the

top-left corner, then go to Settings,

Navigat ion and config ure things there.

Waze users can link to Spotify by

tapping Sear ch inthe bottom-l eft

corner, then opening Settings. Scroll

down to Audio Player an d enab le

Spotify there.

Control Spotify fromWindows

10’s GameBar

If you’re a gamer, you’re probably aware

of th e Game Bar that comes as pa rt of

Windows 10 and lets you easily

screenshot, record and stream directly

within a game or program. It can be

activated by pressing Win+G, and

config ured through Settings, Gaming ,

‘Game bar’.

Microsoft recently added the ability to

control music and podcasts on Spotify

directly through the Game Bar. You

needto instal l the Spotify Music app for

Windows 10 (bit.ly/spotwin476) and

have the Game Bar Beta. To get the

beta, open the Xbox Insider Hub on

your Windows 10 PC. If you don’t have

it, you can download it from the

Windows 10 stor e (bit.ly/xbox476) –

you don’t need anXbox for this. Select

Insider Content in the top-left corner.

Connect to the Nike Run Club app

If you’re a runner (or trying to be one),

the Nike Run Club app for Andr oid and

iOS (bit.ly/nike476)

can help motivate

you and improve

your performance.

It offers

leaderboards,

challenges, events

and guided runs.

You can connect

Spotify to Nike Run

Club by tapping

the music button in

the running section

and selecting

Spotify Premium

(it isn’t an option

for free users).

You’ll needto have

Spotify instal led on your phone.

You can also connect Spotify to the

Runkeeper app (runkeeper .com) for

similar bene fits.

ADD USEFUL NEW TOOLS

AppleMusic

bit.ly/apple476

Apple’s streamingmusic service is

the closest rival to Spotify. It costs

£9.99 (£14.99 for family) a month,

but you may be able to get six

months free from your mobile

network provider. It’s av ailable oniOS, Android, PCs and

Macs, and has a catalogue of more than 50 million songs.

Apple offers gr eatest-hits co llections (called Essentials) for

all major artists, as well as charts fromaroundthe world.

There are also lots of exclusives and the Beats 1 radio station.

YouTube MusicPremium

http://www.youtube.com/musicpremium

Google recently created a new

streamingservice which lets you

listen to music, or watch music

videos. It’s ad-free, and songs can

be enjoyed offlin e and with your

mobile screen locked. There are live versions and rare songs

not found elsewhere, too. It costs £9.99 a month (£14.99 for

a family account), but there’ s a three month free trial for

indi viduals. The free tier gives you everything, but includes

unskippable ads.

SPOTIFY ALTERNATIVESAlthough Spotify is the best known of the music streamingservices, there are several other opt