From Drinking with Skeletons, Ditching Spotify (emphasis mine):
For now, I decided to switch to Apple Music – mainly because they gave me three months for free and they finally added an auto library transfer from Spotify.
Part of the reason that I’ve continued to pay for both an Apple Music and Spotify subscription is because I didn’t want to lose my music history in Spotify. This new feature solves that.
The easiest way I found to use this feature is to log into music.apple.com on the web, click on your avatar in the top-right, and select “Transfer Music”:
You’ll be prompted for the service you want to transfer music from—Amazon Music, Deezer, Spotify, TIDAL, YouTube—asked to authenticate, and then given the option to set what you want to transfer. The whole process then takes less than a minute.
One caveat: Spotify’s “Like Songs” playlist isn’t actually a “playlist,” so it won’t transfer when you do this. To work around this, create a new playlist in Spotify, and drag everything from Liked Songs into it. You can then, in Apple Music, mark everything in this imported playlist as a “Favourite.”
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Unfortunately I don't have…
Unfortunately I don't have this yet, it might be a regional rollout by Apple. I did get three months for the price of one a few weeks ago, so I decided to give Apple Music a try as well. I used FreeYourMusic from my Setapp subscription to transfer all playlists from Spotify to Apple Music. It's not the most elegant solution. Some tracks end up coming from different albums or even other artists, and the app inserts this ugly self-promotion into the description of each playlist: "Created with FreeYourMusic.com, where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, and others." So I might just wait for the native transfer method and try again, even though there is a risk of doubling tracks and making my playlists an even bigger mess.
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