In early December, the Google Play Music website and mobile apps officially stopped working for all users worldwide. It was the biggest milestone in the transition to YouTube Music, but there is still a final step. Today (December 31) should be the last day to transfer your Play Music library to the replacement YouTube service or download using Google Takeout.
Transfer or download your Play Music library
Visiting music.google.com or the Android and iOS apps today provides a “Download to YouTube Music” prompt. This is the easiest way to get out of Play Music and includes: shopping uploads, playlists, stations, albums / songs saved in your library, likes / dislikes and billing information.
Alternatively, there is an option to “Manage your music” excluding your music library and / or recommendation history. The third option is to download your music library using Google Takeout:
A list of tracks, playlists, radio stations, uploads and purchases in your Google Play Music library, as well as your play and search history.
Playlists, radio stations and track information will be provided in CSV format, while your previous uploads and purchases from Google Play will be available as MP3 files. You can choose to receive the download link via email for local storage or save it to Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive or Box. This will allow you to store audio locally or switch to another music application.
Play Music transfer deadline
In August, Google said the ability to download or transfer its Play Music library would become available for a short time after the app was closed.
But don’t worry, we’ll be saving items like playlists, uploads, purchases, likes and more until December 2020 to make it easier to transfer to YouTube Music. Users who want to transfer their music libraries from Google Play Music to YouTube Music, can do so until December 2020, after which their Google Play Music libraries will no longer be available.
However, the deadline for doing any of these things should be December 31, according to Google’s original timeline, and YouTube has not provided additional guidance beyond that. After that, the company plans to automatically remove all user data from Play Music.
It is possible that there is a grace period before the two export options are rendered impossible by exclusion. For example, other parts of Play Music – Desktop Music Manager application, Play Music store, integration with the Assistant speaker – have been gradually discontinued. But, for security, Google Play Music users must download or transfer today.
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