Google Play Music store is no longer accessible. This is part of the multinational tech company, Google’s process of giving its music streaming services to YouTube Music. The firm publicized that the Google Play Music application will halt functioning totally by the end of 2020. YouTube Music, in the meantime, is releasing the latest features to augment the application’s experience on TV sets, including Chromecast with Google television and Android television Operating Systems. Google is cheering users to handover their Play Music library and data to YouTube Music, or download songs via other ways.
On the mobile version, there is no longer a choice to Browse Music.
Amid the new-fangled features broadcasted for YouTube Music, users will now be able to effortlessly access their saved song lists and liked songs in the library section on the YouTube Music tab from within the YouTube application on a smart tube. YouTube has also modernized visuals to present albums and playlist artworks in their finest method.
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New-fangled features have also been presented for televisions running the Android TV. Users can upload melodies to their YouTube Music library from a personal computer and access them on television. There is also the latest playback interface that contains information like the name of the song and artist and a progress bar. Devices with Android television home screen features will get to perceive a new YouTube Music row to support users in finding the next music to play.
In the approaching months, users of the premium YouTube Music will be able to continue playing music in the background after leaving the application, unlike YouTube videos while watching it on mobiles.
It will automatically be accessible for devices running Android television once Google Play Music does not work. By the end of 2020, users will not have access to the Google Play Music application entirely. The tech giant, Google is concentrating on having 1 music streaming application and has been releasing features and enhancements to YouTube Music to make it as manageable as possible.
If users do not want to go to YouTube Music, they can download their data through Google Takeout, or remove it entirely via account settings of google play music. Play Music data that is not transmitted or uploaded will ultimately be obliterated.