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. Before February 24, transfer your Play Music library to the replacement YouTube service or download it 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 exit 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 Play 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. It follows other parts of Play Music – desktop music manager application, music store and integration with Assistant’s speaker – gradually being discontinued
On February 24, 2021, we will delete all of your data from Google Play Music. This includes your music library with all uploads, purchases and anything you’ve added from Google Play Music. After this date, there will be no way to recover it.
According to the original Google schedule, the deadline appeared to be December 31, 2020, but several additional weeks have been provided. In early February, Google announced three weeks ago (via email) that it plans to automatically remove all user data from Play Music on Wednesday, February 24th.
In the message, Google identifies users who have already been transferred to YouTube Music to give them “the option to transfer again to [their] the music library is up to date ”if they made changes to the GPM.
If you want to download your library and data from Google Play Music, you can do so with Google Takeout before February 24, 2021.
Updated with deadline
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