How To Upload Music To "Google Play"

It's official: YouTube Music will fully replace Google Play Music this calendar month. This won't come as a surprise -- YouTube announced the change dorsum in August, and over the last few months, Google Play Music users lost the power to buy, preorder, upload or download music on the platform, or stream music from the app.

Merely don't worry -- you still take time to transfer your library to YouTube Music earlier Google Play Music shuts down completely. And YouTube Music has a tool that will aid you move your entire library, contour and playlists from Google's streaming service into YouTube's revamped one with just i tap. YouTube Music also recently got some new features that may make it a bigger competitor to streaming services such as Spotify and Apple tree Music.

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Y'all'll withal find your playlists, uploads, purchases and likes in Google Play Music until the end of the month, so y'all can make your transfer to YouTube Music. But your Google Play Music library volition no longer be available after December.

YouTube Music released a tool back in May to help y'all motion your music, playlists and preferences over to the platform, which nosotros'll explicate how to utilise below. Or yous can use Google Takeout to export a copy of your library while you determine what to do with it. If y'all haven't done either nevertheless, now is the time. If you lot don't transfer your account, Google will cancel your subscription at the end of the terminal billing cycle (you'll be notified ahead of time).

As of last twelvemonth, YouTube Music and Premium had 20 million paid subscribers, compared to about 130 million on Spotify. Where YouTube Music stands out from its competitors is in its deep integration with your YouTube and Google profiles, which translates into better recommendations for you, the companies say. Since many people utilise YouTube for music discovery, the Music app tracks your video searches and determines what you might desire to hear side by side.

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How to move your music from Google Play Music to YouTube Music

1. Download the YouTube music app, for iOS or Android. (Or, to do it from a desktop, get to music.youtube.com/transfer, and click transfer.)

2. You lot'll see a transfer push at the top of the screen in both Google Play Music and YouTube Music. Tap it from either app, and your uploads, purchases, added songs and albums, personal and subscribed playlists, likes and dislikes, curated stations and personal taste preferences volition all first moving from Google Play Music to YouTube Music.

3. Depending on how much music is in your library, the movement could take upwards to a few hours. You can close the app and employ your phone in the meantime, and open it support to rail the progress if you want to. You'll become a notification and an email when your music library transfer is complete.

4. Open YouTube Music and find your music in the Library tab, along with updated recommendations.

If yous listen to podcasts on Google Play Music, you tin also transfer your subscriptions and episode progress to Google Podcasts past going to podcasts.google.com/transfer.

wlbzut9g — Transfer your music from Google Play Music to YouTube Music through their apps or on desktop.
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What'south the bargain with YouTube Music?

YouTube Music works through an app and web player, offer more than 50 meg official tracks, albums, deep cuts, B-sides, live performances and remixes.

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YouTube recently added several new features, based on user feedback:

Playlist creation: Playlists can now have up to 5,000 songs (instead of the previous i,000). You tin can too do a quick search from within a playlist to add together a new song, and add together music videos to playlists along with songs. Stations from Google Play Music are now found in YouTube Music every bit playlists, and you lot tin can search through their tracks.
Uploads: Listen to your uploaded and purchased music from Google Play Music, after you transfer, or add up to 100,000 personal tracks to your library in YouTube Music (Google Play Music just allowed l,000).
Offline listening: Paying members can download whatsoever song, playlist or music video, or let a smart downloads feature (available on Android only for now) practice it for you.
Explore tab: A new Explore tab offers music discovery, including new music and playlists by mood or genre.

Some other cool feature: Toggle over to the lyrics of a vocal while you're listening to go karaoke-fix, or over to its music video, which plays in real-fourth dimension with the vocal.

How much does moving to YouTube Music price?

Right now, pricing is the aforementioned between Google Play Music and YouTube Music. Y'all tin can listen to an advert-supported version of YouTube Music for costless, or pay for YouTube Music Premium for $nine.99 (£9.99, AU$11.99) a month, which includes background listening, downloads and an ad-free feel. You lot can also subscribe to YouTube Premium to get those benefits beyond all of YouTube, for $eleven.99 (£11.99, AU$14.99) a calendar month.

Google Play Music Unlimited members volition automatically be moved to the equivalent tier of YouTube Music Premium or YouTube Premium based on their current subscription, at the same price.

For more, check out five tips and tricks to get the nearly out of YouTube Music.