YouTube Music Archives

Wear OS smart watches to lose Google Play Music

09/08/2020

Wear OS smart watches to lose Google Play Music in the next few weeks with no date for its replacement by YouTube Music. In a support note Google made the following announcement: “In the next couple of weeks, users will no longer be able to use or download Google Play Music on their Wear OS by Google smartwatches. Google is investing heavily in improving integrated music services through all of your connected devices with YouTube […]

Google Play Music starts phased shutdown

04/08/2020

Google Play Music starts phased shutdown with YouTube Music replacing Google Play Music by the end of 2020. Google Play Music users have been able to transfer their music libraries, personal taste preferences and playlists to YouTube Music since the beginning of the year. The shutdown of Google Play Music will happen by December 2020 and users of the service will have transfer their music libraries by that time. In the coming months, Google Play […]

YouTube Music adds 14 new countries

17/06/2020

YouTube Music adds 14 new countries making a total of 95 countries where YouTube Music Premium and YouTube Premium are now available. In addition to rolling out these two services in Egypt, YouTube have added a Student Plan in that country and removed family plans from Belarus. The 14 additional countries are: American Samoa Aruba Belarus Bermuda Cayman Islands Egypt French Guyana French Polynesia Guadeloupe Guam Northern Mariana Islands Papua New Guinea Puerto Rico U.S. […]

How to move your library from Google Play Music to YouTube Music

17/05/2020

Google have announced that Google Play Music will close during 2020 and users will be able to move their music library and playlists to YouTube Music and continue listening at no additional cost. The process has been made pretty straightforward but unless you, the user, move your content it will get lost when Google Play Music shuts down. The migration process is available now and how much notice Google will give on the shutdown in […]

Google Play Music is to close this year – Official

13/05/2020

Google Play Music is to close later this year and users are being urged to transfer their music to YouTube Music according to a recent blog posting by the streamer. This has been some time in coming when it announced in 2017 that Google Play Music would be merged into YouTube Red, the predecessor of YouTube Music. When launched YouTube Music was a pale imitation of Google Play Music (GPM) but the upgrades which have […]

YouTube Music gets new Explore tab and song lyrics

08/05/2020

YouTube Music gets new Explore tab and song lyrics and is rolling out these features to both its iOS and Android apps for both free and paid subscriptions. In the Explore tab you can find new releases and browse playlists by mood and Song Lyrics to sing along to your favourites. Both these features have been available to a small subset of users for a couple of months but have now been released to all […]

YouTube Music launches in Nigeria

14/03/2020

YouTube Music and YouTube Music Premium launches in Nigeria as part of its continuing worldwide rollout to replace Google Play Music. Google has been under criticism that YouTube Music is less feature rich and less available than Google Play Music and this has seen a flurry of additional countries and features deployed on the YouTube Music platform. Recent additions have been the ability to upload and play your music collection with the YouTube Music app […]