Can I Rip Music I Uploaded On Google Music Player

Google Play Music is going away at the terminate of the twelvemonth, leaving YouTube Music as Google'due south only streaming music service. But earlier that happens, you've got the gamble to transfer over your music library, recommendations, purchased songs, and personal uploads to YouTube Music with simply a few taps. This will ensure that you won't lose any content when Google Play Music is somewhen shut down.

The transfer procedure can be done with an Android device, iPhone, or from the spider web. No thing which method you cull, all of your stuff gets moved over in the background, and you lot'll be able to heed to YouTube Music and use the app like normal.

With an Android phone or iPhone

The process is the same for mobile devices regardless of whether you lot're using Android or iOS.

Make certain you've got the latest version of YouTube Music installed from Google Play or the App Store
Open YouTube Music. You might become a popular-up ad YouTube Music Premium. Just ignore that for at present.
On the main home screen, y'all should see a imprint that says "Transfer your Play Music library." If you lot head to the app's settings, you'll also observe a new "Transfer from Google Play Music" choice, which is a 2nd mode of initiating the process. If y'all can't notice either method, Google might not have rolled out the transfer feature to your account nevertheless, so check back.

Tap on "Let's Go." YouTube Music volition and then display everything that you're most to drift over from Google Play Music, including songs, albums, playlists, purchases, uploads, your personalized gustatory modality profile / recommendations, and your liked and disliked songs.
Hit "Start Transfer" at the bottom, and the procedure will brainstorm. (Notation: past completing this step, you lot're like-minded to YouTube's terms of service, stored music policy, and Google'southward privacy policy.) If y'all choice "Non Now," you lot'll render to the chief YouTube Music domicile screen, and the banner virtually transferring your content volition withal be there.

In one case the process gets underway, you lot'll see a persistent "transferring your Google Play Music library" status bar at the top of YouTube Music. Depending on the size of your library and how many other people are currently doing the transfer process, the migration could be done in minutes or last as long equally a few days. Things like playlists and your taste preferences will transfer over about instantly, with uploads and purchases taking the longest since Google is making a directly copy of those files.

When the transfer is complete, you'll receive both a notification in the app and an email confirming that you're all set

After information technology's all done, take a look around and make sure everything successfully made the trip over. You should as well at present see a "go along listening from Google Play Music" row on the home screen to make the transition a piddling more seamless every bit y'all familiarize yourself with the YouTube Music app.

From a web browser

You tin besides initiate the transfer from YouTube Music on the web — both on mobile and from a desktop browser. The below video goes over that process, which isn't too far off from the mobile process.

Get to music.youtube.com/transfer
Click "transfer," and your content volition start being moved over

If you continue using Google Play Music, you'll need to transfer again

Google Play Music remains available for now, and you'll be able to continue accessing the service even afterward migrating your library to YouTube Music. But if yous brand changes to playlists or some other part of your library on Google Play Music, y'all'll need to do some other transfer for them to be reflected on YouTube Music. The 2 services do not sync content.

Thankfully, Google just transfers whatever's been changed or is new during subsequent transfers and won't try to copy your entire library all over once more. The text will read a picayune differently, too, and should say something like "transfer your latest Google Play Music additions."

More questions answered

I really beloved Google Play Music! How much longer exercise I have to keep using it?

Google hasn't yet announced exactly when Google Play Music volition become offline, but it's scheduled to happen sometime subsequently this year. Moving forward, y'all can expect to meet letters like the one beneath in Google Play Music.

Since YouTube Music doesn't let you lot purchase music, what's happening to the albums and songs I purchased from Google Play Music?

Any music you've purchased will now appear in the uploads section of YouTube Music, which tin can exist institute in the right-side tab when browsing your library or viewing search results.

What about podcasts?

Google Podcasts is at present the company's preferred player for podcasts, so that'due south what y'all can use later on y'all move on from Google Play Music.

Is it possible that I'll lose some songs on YouTube Music that I could previously stream on Google Play Music?

Yes, in that location might be cases where this happens. The music catalogs of YouTube Music and Google Play Music are not a perfect i:1 match. If a rail is unavailable, YouTube Music will prove it as grayed out in a playlist. It does this so that if the company acquires rights to that song subsequently on, it'll show up in the places you lot await it automatically.

But go on in mind that your personal uploads will all transfer over. And if you eventually detect that a track is missing from YouTube Music's streaming catalog afterwards the migration, you can just upload it from your computer if you've got information technology handy.

Uploads? How do those work?

YouTube Music finally added personal uploads a couple months agone — and the limit has been doubled from Google Play's limit of 50,000 and is at present 100,000 songs. I call back this is i of the best aspects of the entire service. But at that place'southward no longer a desktop app for sending your files to the cloud; you've go to upload them using the YouTube Music website.

How will my Google Play Music subscription transfer over?

Google analyzes your current Google Play Music subscription benefits during the transfer process to YouTube Music and gives y'all the equivalent subscription. For case, if your plan previously included ad-complimentary YouTube access, you'll keep that. If it didn't, you'll just get YouTube Music'southward standard programme. The price yous pay each month and your billing engagement should remain the same.

I nevertheless take that really cheap $vii.99 subscription plan that I got when Google Play Music "All Admission" first launched in 2013. Volition I become to keep it with YouTube Music?

Somewhat unbelievably, the reply to this question is yeah. Google is doing right past customers and letting them maintain that promotional rate from years agone even after switching over to YouTube Music. And if yous live in a market place where the $7.99 also got y'all advertisement-gratuitous regular YouTube, you'll exist keeping that, besides. New customers can't get anything even close to that sugariness of a deal. Bask.

What about family unit plans?

Family unit plans also transfer over to their YouTube Music equivalent, and Google tells me that users who do the migration process will be grandfathered into the Google Play Music family program rules. YouTube Music requires all customers on a family plan to live at the same address — I'm not sure how strict nigh this the visitor is — but Google Play Music never had this rule, and so existing customers won't accept to worry about information technology.