Google Migrated Play Music Services To YouTube Music App

JAKARTA - Google plans to terminate the Play Music streaming service by the end of this year. Instead, Google will focus its music services on the YouTube Music platform.

This happens because Google's music streaming service is less attractive. Not to mention the many competing platforms of the same type, such as Spotify, Apple Music or Amazon Music, which attract more users.

According to Product Manager for Youtube and Google Play Music, Brandon Bilinski, the decision to close the service was not easy. However, the merging of this service is expected to improve the user experience while enjoying music.

"Over the last few years, we have improved the user experience of Youtube Music. For this reason, we officially migrate and transfer Play Music content so that it can be played to YouTube Music as a new home," Bilinski wrote as quoted by the official Youtube blog page.

Quoted from Mashble, Google has also embedded a transfer feature in the last Play Music update. So that users can move the music collection lists, playlists, and songs that have been downloaded on Play Music to the YouTube Music application.

But keep in mind, to transfer data, users must download the YouTube Music application first. For users who have subscribed to Google Play Music Unlimited, they will automatically receive the same services as YouTube Premium.

"We want to make sure everyone has time to transfer content and is familiar with Youtube Music. So we will provide lots of notifications before users no longer have access to Google Play Music later this year," he continued.

Google Play Music is actually a default application on Android phones. Meanwhile, YouTube Music is a music streaming application owned by Google which is similar to Spotify.

Actually, these two applications already have many users. But if Google Play and Youtube Music are combined, the number of paid users for this application can reach 20 million subscribers, as summarized by Tech Crunch.

To subscribe, YouTube Music Premium charges around Rp.49,000 per month. Meanwhile, Spotify and Apple Music both charge around Rp.178 thousand per month, where users can listen to music for free but are accompanied by advertisements.