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Comment by nickthegreek | Hacker News Reader

What is the reason for not jumping ship to one of their competitors?

Podcasts in the Spotify app drove me to try Apple Music. Apple Music has even more UX problems. In particular around their music podcasts/shows. Like Elton John has one called Rocket Hour. This may have changed but there was no way to bookmark or favorite Rocket Hour or keep track of which episode you listened to last or even to get back to it without searching for it. Other users literally suggest keeping a notes doc with the link (https://music.apple.com/us/curator/rocket-hour/993269779) and then just tapping that.

I dunno if the space needs more competition or what but UI/UX does not seem to be a priority for the main players.

Lookup Marvis app. It's an Apple Music replacement UI meant for heavy album listeners, really improved my everyday music listening experience

Marvis is my music app of choice, but it doesn’t have a way to save or bookmark Radio Shows, which is what OP is hoping for

Playlists. I can migrate them to Apple Music but the order in which I added each of these songs is important to me and the last time I tried to export them, such an order was lost.

I know I might be the minority but that's what happened to me the last time I wanted to try something different from Spotify.

If it's only the order that matters, I wonder if you could write a script to add the playlists to Apple Music one song at a time?

Apple requires you to sign up for their developer program ($99/yr) to use the Apple Music API, so you'd either have to pony up some money or do something fancy.

If you can get your data out of Spotify and into a CSV file, I think you could use Shortcuts to create the playlists and populate them.

Look up SongShift app, might be of some use. I was able to successfully migrate my playlists out of Spotify and into AppleMusic seamlessly.

It gets the order but there’s no way to preserve date information. I like having the dates because I can use my playlists as a sort of sonic journal.

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