Can No Longer Upload Music to Google Play Music

abril 16, 2022 Enviar um comentário

Google announced a migration tool for taking your library from Google Play Music library of uploaded songs and getting them onto its new YouTube Music service back in May. At present, it's rapidly condign more than widely bachelor beyond the globe. It'south not immediately intuitive what the tool volition and won't preserve, though, and the benefits and drawbacks of taking your deject music library over to Google'southward new music streaming platform. In this guide, we'll evidence you the ins and outs of the tool and everything y'all need to know about using information technology.

Before we dive into the procedure, exist warned that information technology might take a while until library migration is available to you. Since all of your data needs to be copied over, Google is probably fighting with limited server capacities, so it's rolling out the tool in stages based on your location. You should come across a popup or toast in Google Play Music when it arrives on your account, and the visitor will send you an email.

Using the Android (or iOS) app

To get started with the migration, y'all need to install YouTube Music on your phone. Make sure it's at to the lowest degree version iii.65. If it's not available to you on the Play Store just yet, you tin become the latest version from APK Mirror.

Left & Middle: Switch banners. Right: Transfer workflow.

If the tool has rolled out to you, you should meet a message on the app'southward homescreen, telling you that Play Music is going abroad and that y'all can kickoff the migration. Tap the "Let's go" button and you're taken to a screen showing you in which order your items will be moved over. If yous're a Play Music subscriber, your subscription will as well exist rolled over, and the cost volition remain the same — even if y'all're grandfathered in on the $7.99 plan or the family subscription. When you lot're ready to start, tap "Transfer." A imprint volition popular up, telling you that the migration is in progress and that you can explore YouTube Music now.

The tool will outset import your recommendations so you tin can showtime listening to personalized mixes on YouTube Music before the full transfer is finished. You can tap a banner below the top bar to see how far your migration has progressed.

You can commencement exploring YTM while the migration is in progress.

You lot'll receive a notification and an electronic mail once the transfer is finished, which tin have a few minutes or multiple days depending on how many songs you've uploaded. When I made the switch myself, I noticed that a few songs in some former Play Music playlists were however grayed out and unavailable afterward getting the notification, simply that issue fixed itself after a few days.

Using the web app

If yous'd rather use your computer to boot off the migration, caput to music.youtube.com/transfer. Like the app, this website shows you which data it'll transfer in which lodge. Click the "Transfer" button to get going. You lot can then explore the YouTube spider web app, and a banner volition permit your render to the transfer overview so yous can see your progress — the procedure is basically the same as in the Android app.

What if I go on using Play Music later the switch?

If you yet continue using Play Music after making the initial switch, don't worry: You can sync your libraries equally frequently as you desire to by clicking or borer your profile movie in the acme right corner and heading to settings, where you'll find an option to kick off the migration tool once more. That can be done both on the spider web and in the Android app.

Where are my uploads and stations?

YouTube Music organizes some things differently from Play Music. Your uploads sit in a separate section of the app, sealed away from the platform's streaming service aspect. When you lot browse your library or search results, you'll notice that there are ii tabs at the summit, one for YT Music and one for uploads. It'due south self-explanatory plenty, but yous need to exist aware of it if you can't find some of the albums y'all thought you'd uploaded. Nosotros've got a granular comparison of how YouTube Music handles uploads compared to Play Music.

Stations aren't a thing in YouTube Music, and then information technology converts all of your stations to playlists. Their content is identical — the but difference is that you tin can actually see all the private songs within a playlist, which you couldn't with stations, at least without playing them. YouTube Music also has curated and AI-generated playlists that replace things like Play Music'southward New Release Radio or the Feeling Lucky station.

I'm missing some songs. What'south up with that?

All of your uploads and purchases volition be transferred, but since YouTube Music has different licensing deals than Play Music, yous might not find the same pick of songs as bachelor on Play Music's streaming service. Google says these cases should be few and far between, and some songs that take disappeared from your Play Music library due to rights or licensing might even reappear in YouTube Music eventually.

Can I make the switch if I'm a gratis user?

Aye. YouTube Music lets y'all play your uploaded songs in the background, and you can download them. Casting capability is express, though — equally far equally I tin tell, you lot can't enquire an Assistant-equipped speaker to play uploaded songs, so you need to cast your music via the Android app.

In contrast to Play Music, you lot tin can likewise access the streaming service of the platform for free, but you'll accept to endure ads, and yous need to leave your phone'due south screen turned on and the YouTube Music app in the foreground while you listen. The background limitation doesn't apply to the spider web app, though.

I already use YouTube Music. Will my library be overwritten?

That's the situation I constitute myself in, and as far as I can tell, no data got lost when I made the switch. Instead, your libraries will be combined intelligently. I uploaded a few albums to YouTube Music already in my Play Music library prior to the migration and there were no duplicates. A few identically titled playlists beyond the two services were retained every bit separate lists, instead.

What well-nigh podcasts?

Some people use Play Music to listen to podcasts, just YouTube Music doesn't support that format. You can instead export your episode progress and subscriptions to Google Podcasts. In one case the migration tool has rolled out to you, you lot can head to podcasts.google.com/transfer to kick off the separate transfer.

The podcast role player is available on your Android telephone every bit function of the Google app (but search for a podcast you're interested in), only you can also go a dedicated launcher icon from the Play Store if you prefer. In that location's besides a web interface.

While some people might wish to have more than granular control over which songs and playlists to transfer, the tool is as straightforward and easy to utilize equally it tin get, which was Google's goal. The YouTube Music team knows that in that location are still some significant differences between the two services, so it wanted to brand the transition as smooth and painless as possible.

If you're interested in how such a switch pans out for someone who has used Play Music always since it became available, check out my editorial on my feel with YouTube Music (written before the migration tool rolled out).

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