Google Play Music Will Officially Be Dead by December, but It Will Stop Working Long Before

I need you to baby-sit down . Take a few deep breather . This news will be tough to hear , but it will be alright with clock time . I prognosticate you we ’ll get through this together .

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OK . Google Play Music is go out this December . We knew Google planned to phase out its streaming euphony inspection and repair , replacing it with YouTube Music , but now we have more details about how the next few months will shake out . Google Play Music is dying a slow , striking death to give mass more metre to embrace YouTube Music ( or finally switch to Spotify , which variety of seems like the move here , but I ca n’t recount you what to do ) .

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Here ’s how it will work : You have until December to move your Google represent Music library to YouTube Music before you mislay everything . ( Here ’s how to do that . ) However , Google Play Music will kibosh function before December . In October , you ’ll no longer be able to practice or rain buckets medicine from the Google Play Music app . ( For substance abuser in South Africa and New Zealand , that ’s happening in September . ) And at the end of this month , the ability to pre - order , grease one’s palms , upload , or download music using Music Manager is operate away .

essentially , the only reason Google Play Music is stick by around until December is because Google hope that , alternatively of jump ship , you ’ll just hop on over to YouTube Music . The company has made that process highly easy : Just open YouTube Music and bankrupt the transfer push . you could move over your full library . you’re able to also download your library from Google Play Music usingGoogle Takeoutif you do n’t want to switch to YouTube Music .

If you presently pay for Google Play Music ( which is $ 10 / month ) and decide not to switch over to YouTube Music , Google will call off your subscription for you in October so you wo n’t keep to get charged for a Robert William Service you do n’t apply or do n’t want .

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