Google announces online music service Google Play Music

Today, Google announced plans to kill online music service Google Play Music. Starting in September, users in New Zealand and South Africa will no longer be able to access this service. Starting in October, users in other regions of the world will not be able to access Google Play Music. By December, the service will be completely dead and users will not be able to transfer their content to other platforms.

In addition, starting later this month, Google will no longer allow users to buy music from the Play Store. These are major shifts, in order to focus entirely on Google’s YouTube Music service.

A few months ago, Google began allowing Google Play Music users to transfer data to the YouTube Music service. Including playlists, albums, singers, songs, purchased content, recommendations and uploads.

Google said it would notify users before the Google Play Music service officially closed completely, and remind users to transfer data to the new service. If you already have Android 10 installed on your smartphone, you may also see the YouTube Music app pre-installed to replace Google Play Music.

Google Play Music is an online music service, launched in 2013, currently with more than 40 million songs. Especially, users can upload 50,000 songs to Google Play Music and stream to others. The subscription fee for an account is 9.99 USD / month.

In May 2018, Google launched another online music service, YouTube Music. Google also confirms that YouTube Music will completely replace Google Play Music. YouTube Music also owns all the features of Google Play Music, and if you signed up for a paid Google Play Music account, it will continue to be maintained on YouTube Music.

Reference: theverge