By KELVIN CHAN, Associated Press

LONDON (AP) — Want to switch to Apple Music because you can’t find your favorite indie band on Spotify? Or maybe you’re on Amazon Music but saw a new subscriber offer on Tidal that’s too good to pass up.

There are a variety of reasons to change music providers. But if you’re thinking about it, and you’re worried about losing your library of saved songs and personalized playlists, fear not: there are ways to bring all of it with you.

Many music streaming services don’t make it obvious — often burying instructions deep in FAQs and making the process arduous — but they do offer options to help migrate your collection.

Apple made it easier last month when it quietly rolled out a new feature allowing users to import libraries from rival sites. Having Apple officially incorporate the feature might give reluctant users the confidence to move.

Some pointers to help you along with your musical migration.

Importing into Apple Music

The iPhone maker recently published a help page to walk users through the process of importing libraries into Apple Music.

The feature, buried in your settings, is provided by a third-party service called Songshift. It’s currently available to users in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Mexico, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.

To use it, you’ll need an Apple Music account and the latest version of iOS or the Android Apple Music app.

On iPhone, go to Settings, then Apps, then Music. Tap “Transfer Music from Other Music Services” to pop up a list of various streaming services. Android users can follow a similar process. Transfers can also be done through a web browser at music.apple.com.

After choosing a service, another screen appears, prompting you to log into the target account.

Now you get a menu with options to import “All Songs and Albums” as well as “All Playlists.” If you don’t want all your playlists, you can untick the ones you don’t want. However, you can’t pick individual songs and albums.

Apple Music will then replicate your library based on your choices.

Importing my Spotify library, with about 150 playlists, went fairly smoothly, although the process took about half an hour because the service also downloaded around 1,230 songs and albums to my iPhone.

I had assumed that ticking “All Songs and Albums” meant that Apple Music would mirror the handful of music I had downloaded to my Spotify app, but it also downloaded all 63 albums in my Spotify library and the 440 songs on my Liked Songs list, which I normally listen to via streaming. If you don’t want to download everything, unselect that option before you start.

Also note that Apple says playlists “created by the music service” can’t be transferred, so I couldn’t bring Spotify-curated lists like This is Taylor Swift or Alternative 80s with me.

It also meant that my Liked Songs list, which Spotify generates for every user — and a list I’ve been adding to over the years — couldn’t be replicated. Any downloaded songs were just dumped into Apple Music’s library.

After this story was first published, reader Linda Feaster wrote in with a workaround: create your own playlist and then add all the tracks from the Spotify playlist. It could be tedious if there are hundreds of songs but should do the trick.

If you’re tempted to try out the tool, note that it probably won’t work the same way with every service. Apple warns that what can be transferred is up to the source platform. Playlists made by others, such as BBC Music’s The Sounds of 1994, for example, did make it over.

After the move is done, you’ll have 30 days to review songs that aren’t available or don’t have an exact match in Apple’s catalog, and choose from any alternate versions.

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Working with other music platforms

Most of the other big music streaming platforms offer ways to transfer your library to their site. They mostly rely on standalone third-party services that have been around for a while, are free to use, and don’t need app integration to work.

Tidal and Deezer both direct users on their websites to one such service, Tune My Music, which works with popular platforms like Spotify as well as a host of lesser known sites.

Amazon Music’s webpage has dedicated buttons for Tune My Music and two similar services, Songshift and Soundiiz.

Google also advises third-party services for YouTube Music users who want to import or export playlists, albums, artists and tracks. However, for Apple Music users who want to move to YouTube Music, the process is different. You’ll have to sign in to Apple Music and request a transfer a copy of your data, then export it directly to YouTube Music.

“The transfer process may take several hours if you have many playlists,” Google warns on its support page.

Spotify says it’s currently testing a way for users to transfer their libraries and expects to provide more details soon.

Using a third-party service to migrate between platforms

It was super easy to move my Spotify library to Deezer using Tune My Music.

I clicked a button on the Deezer website that got the process started by prompting me to log in to my Spotify account. Then a menu came up with pre-ticked options on what I could migrate: my entire library, favorite songs, favorite albums, favorite artists and any or all of my 150 playlists.

I decided to move it all over, which amounted to more than 16,359 items. It took about five minutes. Unlike Apple Music, Deezer didn’t download any files, it just copied lists.

A few dozen songs went missing, Tune My Music said.

“It usually happens because the song doesn’t exist on the new platform, or it’s named a bit differently and couldn’t be matched,” it said, but added that I could download a list of missing tracks to look for them on the new platform.

After you finish transferring your music library, don’t forget that it’s still on the original platform and hasn’t been deleted.

Most third-party transfer services are free, but also offer premium levels with more features, such as instant syncing of libraries between multiple streaming sites.

AP Business Writer James Pollard in New York contributed to this report.

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A decade-long $600 million renovation at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport is set to be completed this fall.

The goal was to reduce congestion, increase capacity and improve passenger flow in the pre-security area in Terminal 1, according to the Metropolitan Airports Commission.

Here’s what’s new:

Renovations in Terminal 1

The Terminal 1 pre-security area was expanded by 17,000 square feet and security screening was consolidated from six checkpoints to two, according to the airports commission.

Eleven larger baggage carousels were installed to accommodate the current and anticipated number of passengers.

New baggage carousels that were built to accommodate the increase in passengers in the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. (Kari Jo Skogquist / Metropolitan Airports Commission)

The renovations also include additional seating and new restrooms equipped with accessibility features like adult changing tables.

The projects were funded through General Airport Revenue Bonds, passenger facility charges and the airports commission, according to Jeff Lea, the manager of strategic communications for the commission.

The renovations allow the airlines and the Transportation Security Administration to handle peak demand and perform efficiently, Lea said, as well as make more space for future increases in passenger numbers.

MSP is the 17th-busiest airport in the United States. The airports commission estimates that annual passenger numbers will increase from 37.2 million in 2025 to over 50 million by 2040.

Sixteen airlines operate at the airport and it’s the second-largest hub for Delta Air Lines. It also serves as the home base for Sun Country Airlines.

Future renovations

The South Aurora Sculpture in Terminal 1. (Courtesy of the Metropolitan Airports Commission)

Delta Air Lines partnered with the airports commission on a $242 million project to renovate six concourses in Terminal 1. This project is expected to be completed by the end of the year.

There’s also a $305 million project to expand Concourse G by 157,000 square feet to increase gate-seating capacity, add the airport’s first sensory rooms and provide more restrooms and art display space. This project is expected to be completed by 2028.

Airport satisfaction

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The study was based on 30,439 surveys completed by U.S. or Canadian residents who traveled through a North American airport between July 2024 and July 2025, according to J.D. Power.

The study measures overall passenger satisfaction across seven categories: ease of travel; level of trust; food, beverage and retail; terminal facilities; airport staff; departure experience; and arrival experience.

The airport ranked first, among mega airports, in all categories except ease of travel.

Today is Saturday, Sept. 27, the 270th day of 2025. There are 95 days left in the year.

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Also on this date:

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In 1939, Warsaw, Poland, surrendered after weeks of resistance to invading forces from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II.

In 1940, Germany, Italy and Japan signed the Tripartite Pact, formally allying the World War II Axis powers.

In 1964, the government publicly released the report of the Warren Commission, which concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating President John F. Kennedy.

In 1979, Congress gave its final approval to forming the U.S. Department of Education.

In 1991, President George H.W. Bush announced in a televised address that he was eliminating all U.S. ground-launched battlefield nuclear weapons and called on the Soviet Union to match the gesture.

In 2013, President Barack Obama and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani spoke by telephone, the first conversation between American and Iranian leaders in more than 30 years.

In 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that she was “100 percent” certain that she was sexually assaulted by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh when they were teenagers, and Kavanaugh then told senators that he was “100 percent certain” he had done no such thing. Kavanaugh was confirmed on Oct. 6 of that year.

In 2021, R&B singer R. Kelly was convicted in a sex trafficking trial in New York after numerous allegations of misconduct with young women and children; a federal appeals court upheld the convictions and his 30-year prison sentence in 2025.

In 2023, NASA astronaut Frank Rubio sets a U.S. record of 371 days in space, returning to Earth from the International Space Station with Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin.

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Looking at the country charts, it seems Keith Urban’s star has faded.

The first two singles from his 12th and latest album “High” sputtered their way to No. 18 and 12, while the four that have since followed didn’t chart at all. And this is a guy who, during the ’00s and ’10s, saw nearly every one of his singles make it into the Top 5.

Judging by the 57-year-old’s wildly entertaining show at Grand Casino Arena in downtown St. Paul Friday night, only a fool would count this guy out quite yet.

Going all the way back to his 2000 breakthrough “Your Everything,” the New Zealand-born, Australia-raised vocalist has blazed his own path away from his Nashville peers. He’s always had a pleasant, if unremarkable, voice. But he’s also always been a terrific guitarist unafraid to indulge in the sort of meaty, squealing solos rarely heard on country radio.

His singles are custom-made for arenas, with massive, cheery choruses reminiscent of peak ’80s MTV. And he performs most of them live like they’re the final song of the encore. Urban clearly loves entertaining and, Friday night, he radiated with gleeful, infectious energy.

Urban spent the ’10s experimenting with his sound and produced some of his finest work in the process, including “Blue Ain’t Your Color,” a highlight of Friday night’s show as well as every other local concert of his over the past decade.

“High,” meanwhile, was more of a back to basics affair and about half of it felt, well, half-hearted. Friday, Urban cherry picked the best moments from the record, including his high-energy show opener “Straight Line,” the similarly spirited “Chuck Taylors” (complete with the chorus’ lyrics flashing on the screens) and the autobiographical “Heart Like a Hometown,” which he introduced with a monologue about how he turned his lifelong love of music into a career.

The crowd of more than 11,000 ate up every minute of Urban’s two-hour show, singing along to “Somewhere in My Car” and “Somebody Like You,” cheering for every guitar solo and grinning with delight at his cover of Chappell Roan’s massive pop hit “Pink Pony Club.”

Country music isn’t as ageist as pop — as long as you’re a man, anyway — so it’s entirely possible Urban will regain his grip on the Top 10 with his next album. Friday, though, he proved he doesn’t need to keep scoring hits as long as he keeps turning in such memorable and highly enjoyable shows.

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