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I'm assuming they'll just be rolled into Google Podcasts, which Google rolled out even before the mysterious shutdown announcement which they still haven't followed through on.

This is just the "YouTube Music experience for TVs" app. You're correct that the main app is still at 2.7

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.youtube.tvmusic

I highly recommend the app Retro Music Player. it's the same functionality as GPM with extremely better UI design and feel.

At this point, I'd appreciate it if they would NOT include podcasts at all. I think they blew it miserably with the implementation in GPM, and I'd rather they just focus on getting one thing right. I relied on GPM for podcasts for a loooong time - 3-4 years maybe? almost since their debut - but I finally abandoned the platform for a dedicated podcast app (Podcast Addict, has a premium/ad-free version and works great.)

In terms of features, the best one is just being able to queue up a few different pods - seriously can't believe that we still can't add podcasts to a playlist in GPM. Additionally, though, I no longer have issues with episodes not showing up - NPR's hourly newscast is no longer MIA when I go to my podcasts; also, I can add my own podcasts that aren't listed in GPM; and for a kicker, PA lets you play streams/radio stations - and again, it just fucking works.

Anyhow, not to trash Google/GPM - I love them mightily - but I think they've shown a tendency for technical "sprawl", if you will: features that don't work great, don't get much support/maintenance, and oftentimes wind up getting abandoned. So I'd be stoked if they would just not even start down the path of podcasts, and just leave it to someone else who's willing to do it right, rather than tacking on some garbage to an otherwise-decent service/app.

Lol just my two cents, didn't plan on writing a screed.

I used the free version of this tool: https://www.tunemymusic.com/

I went to my liked songs list in google music and transferred it as a playlist. Then I went to the playlist is Spotify, selected all, right-clicked and saved to my liked songs. It can take awhile and it will look like nothing is happening but they'll eventually get liked.

https://www.tunemymusic.com/

This should do the trick. Btw I would recommend reading around this sub before you fully switch over my friend. Google might be in the process of transitioning Google play music to YouTube music.

I think the solution is honestly more beyond just "Fuck Google and migrate" - we really do need to heed /r/stallmanwasright and start rolling our own solutions instead of relying on corporate-created ones. My brother and I are attempting to make use of my huge FTP server as a streaming media replacement, using a combination of Shuttle and a few other tools. Run that off of a little pi-controlled NAS, broadcast it... I mean, it's way more fiendishly complicated than any layperson would be interested in, but if we want to control our content, we kind of have to take the reins into our hands.

Google Play Music is going to continue until 2019. From what I can gather, it's eventually going to be phased out in favor of YouTube Music.

• YouTube Red is being rebranded as YouTube Premium
• YouTube is getting a revamp and redesign to become Google's premier music streaming service.

You're gonna wanna watch the YouTube Music website today.

I can vouch for that. All of the FLAC files that I uploaded to GMP came out sounding rather flat, despite the fact they were converted to the max CBR of 320kbps. My guess is that Google's transcoding scheme favors speed over quality and fidelity. I started personally transcoding my own FLAC collection, using LAME 3.100 set to -V 0 for max VBR. The difference is noticeable, especially on YTM (based on informal ABX testing). If you're seeking the highest quality sound/fidelity, I would recommend transcoding your FLAC files yourself to MP3, tagging those MP3s, and then uploading those files. I think the results are worth it.

My FLAC -> MP3 workflow is as follows (all using free software, Windows 10):

• Save all FLAC files to archive drive.
• Use fre:ac to transcode from FLAC to MP3 (using LAME MP3 Encoder v3.100)
• Use TagScanner and MusicBrainz to properly tag resulting files
• Upload and enjoy

One thing I noted about this with YouTube Music is that the embedded cover art needs to be of a certain size. I was starting to get a lot of uploaded albums without cover art and then realized my images were too large/high resolution. I set TagScanner to reduce the art size to 600x600, and every upload has been smooth since.

Feel free to msg me if you need any help with the above. Or, if you want me to go into further details about my process and the app settings, just let me know.

Nope, play store. Some people can search it but are unable to get more detail.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.music

You can still access the page via this link.

This is a setting within the unofficial Google Play Music Desktop Player, not within the Google Play Music service in the browser. It's a third-party desktop app, because Google won't make one.

https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/

I totally agree with you, I seriously don't want to go through all of my playlists and all of my music all over again, it would take me ages to get everything the way I like it again :/ I did find this site that claims to be able to transfer you songs and playlists from one service to the other, and the premium price is as low as $12.99 which is not that bad I think. But who know how well this works.

They can't give you .mp3's of songs you didn't pay for (excluding free/uploaded tracks), but yeah it would be nice if they let you download a .csv or .txt of all the music added to your library.

I used tunemymusic.com: individually transferring all my playlists to Apple Music, and then transferring all my "songs" from play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/all as a playlist, but it only got ~85% of 'em accurately (at least it does tell you all the songs with which it failed completely... iTunes Match also "matched" the wrong versions of songs here and there, which I'm having to fix manually song-by-song)

I'm not sure about CDA files, afaik they are just basically location bookmarks on the CD so the reader knows where each track is, not actual audio (PCM) data . Maybe what ever program you are using to rip just outputs the raw PCM data and uses .cda as a container, and perhaps Play Music doesn't like that since it isn't a "real" audio container.

Once again, its probably whatever ripping program you used messing up here, since you shouldn't get CDA files. I think you might be just copying the CDAs off the disk in which case there is basically nothing in those files! try checking the file size to see. I'd recommend using Exact Audio Copy to rip your CDs. EAC can rip the disk and transcode at the same time which is super easy. Personally, I'd transcode my files to FLAC as it losslessly reduces file-size and has the best compatibility short of MP3.

https://music.youtube.com/music_premium

Scroll and click where it says "Or save money with a family membership"

Note that if you switch you need to separately cancel the GPM subscription. Honestly, if you don't want to upgrade to YTP there is no benefit to switching right now.

The closet thing I know of is this: https://krmax44.de/playify/

A chrome extension that allows you to open Spotify links and playlists in Google Play Music. Check it out and let me know how it goes.

I moved our stuff to the extra space we had on Google Drive and now use this. Works great. Also have it backed up on a Plex server in the basement.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.doubleTwist.cloudPlayerPro

I honestly think part of the delay with moving our personal mp3s to YTM is that GPM was private. Whatever you uploaded was only accessible to you. YTM is just an extension of YouTube which means it's almost entirely publicly accessible. Anything that they allow you to move over would therefore need to abide by YouTube's licensing rules. Just my assumption..

When I had saved all my music locally on my phone, I used to use Shuttle, which someone else suggested. I also really liked Phonograph too.

I like shuttle player which seems to fit perfectly to what you require: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=another.music.player

It also has a reddit page: https://www.reddit.com/r/shuttle

hey OP. I bought this music player called PowerAMP.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.maxmpz.audioplayer

I cant express how beautiful, practical, easy to use it is. It just got a huge update and I love it even more. It is not really that similar to GMP but man its sooooo good. It has everything you asked for and even more. In the previous versions it also supported skins which im hoping it is still gonna support in this version soon. I think that upgrading to the pro version is very very very cheap and also super worth it.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.maxmpz.audioplayer.unlock

I have had this player for years and I only have good things to say about it. If you decide to try it out please let me know what you think. Hope I could help.

Disclaimer: I've only used it for a couple of hours (downloaded it and played around when I heard GPM was sunsetting).

I personally had no issues finding specific albums/artists, artists still have pages with their official discography. Searching specific songs also doesn't seem to be an issue so far, the top results look to all be relevant/official.

Here's an example search

I had to specifically add to my search to get covers

As for the YouTube connection, from my limited experience videos are better integrated into the app. You have the option to play music videos within the player instead of the sort of detached way it's done in GPM, though I mostly stuck with the sound only.

I also saw a few of my youtube playlists in my library so your youtube library is connected to some extent.

Anyways, sorry for the essay, hope this could answer some of your questions. I recommend taking a look at the app or site for yourself to get a feel. Assuming they implement the rest of the features missing from GPM and migrate my library I'm fine with the swap. I would be real unhappy though if I lose my uploads/playlists/saved music!

Google announced they're gonna redo GPM and call it YouTube Remix later this year (article).

Maybe stick it out with GPM until then and make decisions after the change?

Same. I switched to iTunes to buy music, and synchronize my playlists back to my android phone using the DoubleTwist app.

It lets me create my own playlists, and store music offline which is handy for camping and roadtrips.

It's a tad inconvenient having to go back to iTunes and sync but I refuse to subscribe to yet another streaming service when I already have three different video streaming services.

Everything has been working well for me. Do you have any extensions that may not be playing nice with it (like, trying in an incognito window to see what happens). Maybe try the unofficial desktop player? https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/

Not sure if this was suggested but all I can say is there is the desktop app someone made that has built-in dark mode. Not sure what the future will be once Google kills GPM in to "YouTube Remix."

I didn't quite get if you'd prefer not to use a desktop client at all, but if that isn't the case, I currently use this one, and it's really great! As far as I see it asks for no unnecessary permissions:

Link: https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/#! - It works for Windows, Mac and Linux

The point is, it also has an API for media keys and much more features. Good Luck!

https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/

This is one of the the main reasons I still use GPM almost all of my listening is done on PC while playing WoW. The Iphone app is horrendous, how the art work is displayed is frustrating, the constant music stopping and having to hit play and pause over and over to get it to start. I love YouTube Red that also keeps me around but my most of my YouTube viewing is done on PC with adblockers so that's not really an issue but it is very nice when I occasionally watch on the phone or roku.

https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/ It's an unofficial version of Google Play. It's a better option than the web browser but it still have it's limitation like not being able to listen to music while offline

No workaround on GPM that I know of, but you could easily achieve this by using Subsonic. You just need to have an always-on, always-connected computer to serve the music to you both.

Yes, I took advantage of 3 months of spotify for 9.99. I used this website: https://soundiiz.com

Edit: The site is super slow right now which is not normal. Apparently Spotify launched in Russia and the site is under heavy load.

Tidal HiFi with a USB DAC and a decent set of headphones is truly wonderful compared to compressed audio via Bluetooth.

https://soundiiz.com/ is well worth paying for to move/merge/manage your playlists from/to all the major players.

I have used Tidal before a few years ago and its really improved vastly. I’m enjoying discovering new music for a long time.

take a look at https://soundiiz.com/ which will sync various items across various platforms, GPM and YTM included. I used it for a month to get things initially synced then cancelled.

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one thing to watch for... I synced my GPM favorites to YTM, which was my main purpose for using the tool, and this worked fine.

However, I also synced from YT to GPM and 'ugly' things occurred... some non-music videos that I liked in YT somehow matched to tracks with GPM, and I had to go thru my favorites to weed them out.

Someone shared this service in another GPM thread. Haven't used it myself so I can't vouch but hopefully it can help you out.

You may need to get an mp3 tag editor, and fix the tags and then re-upload. I don't think the GPM tag editor shows all the tags.

https://www.mp3tag.de/en/index.html

The great thing about this app is you can open all the files, select them all at once, and change the artist, album artist, etc to whatever you want. Should be able to fix the issue on every track pretty quickly.

Im Using 'Musicolet'- (Free) You'll find it in the playstore. It's an OFFLINE player, meaning it just deals with the stuff that is already on your phone. It also has no ads either.

You sound like me as in you just want something simple that will play music you already own, and still play nicely with other stuff like android auto etc... Nice and simple to just listen, and plenty of features if you want to dig deeper and use them.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.krosbits.musicolet&hl=en_GB&gl=US

Check it out - you might like it :)

See my comment above: buy yourself a NUC, you don't need a lot of horsepower to run Plex...so a $300 model will be all you want. They also don't consume a lot of power, so you can leave it running all the time.

For the monitor, get yourself a headless HDMI dongle for a couple of bucks. Here's one here: https://www.amazon.com/Headless-Display-Emulator-Headless-1920x1080-Generation/dp/B06XT1Z9TF/ref=sr_1_1?crid=UNQBR2XJDGZY&dchild=1&keywords=hdmi+faker&qid=1607296071&sprefix=hdmi+fake%2Caps%2C245&sr=8-1

Set that dongle up as your "monitor" and then use VNC server on the NUC and VNC client on your phone or laptop to log into the NUC whenever you need to do maintenance.

Once it's all set up, spend the (well worth it) $20/year subscription to Plex+ which will get you a lot of nice features, including streaming outside the house.

Yes - there's some maintenance, and yes you have to cash outlay around $300-$350, but $20/year plus a few bucks extra a month for electricity... but that's it, and you're done. It's your music, your playlists...you've curated it over the years - so time to take back what is yours.

Streaming is fine for quick listens and music discovery, but I will *always* just by digital versions of the albums and tracks I want to have forever. No licensing bullshit, no company swapping services out from underneath you. Google, Microsoft, Apple and Amazon can all go pound sand.

I use MusicMate. The app can download music in my library. You can download by artist, album, song or playlist.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sapien.android.musicmate

What do you call the service at music.google.com, also accessed by the com.google.android.music app? Is that "ad-free music"? That is the service I'm interested in. I'm happy to pay a little more per month for more, but that service is what I need at a minimum.

Because I read that the YouTube Music and the GPM libraries will be different. I've also uploaded a bunch of my own music and non-music audio to that service and I need to be able to access that.

By the way - this whole confusion is because someone linked me to a YouTube Premium 90-day trial, and when I clicked the link, it told me I already had YouTube Premium, and it offered me the option to upgrade to a family plan. The only subscription I have is GPM, and I had been considering upgrading to family anyway, so I just went ahead with it. I only realised they're separate services (although that still seems unclear and I'm still not sure) after I finalised the purchase and got the confirmation email that made no mention of GPM.

Yes, GPM is an awful podcast player. I ditched it about 5 mins after I started using it. I'd suggest using Pocket Casts. Aside from it being a far superior functioning and looking UI, it also allows you to search from both Google and Apple's podcast library.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.com.shiftyjelly.pocketcasts

I just downloaded a generic UPnP/DNLA plugin for my Windows music player, and it can now stream to the speaker over WiFi. Windows Media Player can also stream to it via its network-sharing 'play to' capability.

 

For the Chrome browser and Android App, all Google would need to do is use the existing chromecast feature, and add in generic UPnP code, so that the UPnP devices display when you press the 'cast' button. There is no technical reason for them not to do this. It's not any harder than utilising bluetooth. In fact there are a few Android music players that can already stream to and from UPnP/DLNA devices.

There's a keyboard shortcut to remove a single option: http://osxdaily.com/2018/07/20/how-delete-chrome-autofill-suggetsions/

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tl;dr: shift+delete

Another update today.

https://www.reddit.com/r/YoutubeMusic/comments/bhr711/youtube_music_31352_4262019_release_on_apk_mirror/?

https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/youtube-music/youtube-music-3-13-52-release/

Another update today.

https://www.reddit.com/r/YoutubeMusic/comments/bhr711/youtube_music_31352_4262019_release_on_apk_mirror/?

https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/youtube-music/youtube-music-3-13-52-release/

Another update today.

https://www.reddit.com/r/YoutubeMusic/comments/bhr711/youtube_music_31352_4262019_release_on_apk_mirror/?

https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/youtube-music/youtube-music-3-13-52-release/

> So if I'm playing music by an artist can it use last.fm API to poll the similar artists and then display any matches in my collection? That would be the dream.

It's one-way right now, so you have to go into Last.fm to see your reccos.

> Also, does it work with chromecast?

Yes, from the mobile app.

> (edit: does it work will all cloud providers supported by rclone?)

It depends whether rclones list is based on some underlying standard like WebDAV. If so, and assuming the provider has a clean WebDAV implementation, yes. Otherwise, the Astiga list is shorter.

maybe getting an old nexus 7 would be worth it, like I found this one on Amazon for 69 bucks, but it's renewed: https://www.amazon.com/Nexus-Google-7-Inch-Black-Tablet/dp/B00DVFLJDS/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1I3DJKP5C0G0L&keywords=Asus+Nexus+7&qid=1641277477&s=electronics&sprefix=%2Celectronics%2C818&sr=1-1

To expand on this, Plex is a Media Server system. It's certainly designed to stream, but it can do loads more. It might be a good fit for you, depending on your situation.

To use Plexamp you'll currently have to be a Plex Pass subscriber, which is $5 a month, or $120 for a lifetime license, though it occasionally goes on sale for about $70. The reason for that cost though is that it gives you a lot more than just a media player, and unlocks a lot of extra features for the rest of the media server software. You can certainly get a Plex Pass and use Plexamp with local files, but you're missing out on a lot of the reason behind using Plex in the first place.

If setting up a personal media server sounds like something you'd like to do, check over at /r/Plex, or at their site at Plex.tv to get started and learn more. For what it's worth that's what I've moved my family to, along with Tidal to stream the stuff we don't own, and it works very well for us.

If as I suspect however that's not up your alley, I'd suggest either VLC or Poweramp for use on your phone with local files. VLC is the standard workhorse media player. Free, simple, plays damn near everything, no fuss, no muss. Poweramp is free to try with a one time $5 purchase to unlock the full version, and is extremely flexible, powerful, and well featured. If you're serious about mobile audio and tweaking, Poweramp is what you're after.

Both VLC and Poweramp have had Android Auto apps for over a year at this point, and I'm unaware of any major issues with either. A loaded SD card and VLC or Poweramp would be the simplest solution for you.

Best of luck mate.

You can download it off the official Portal 2 website and then reupload it to GPM. Kind of a hassle, but this is one of the cool things about GPM - if music gets removed from streaming, you can just reupload it to your own library to get around it.

https://vancedapp.com/

>Vanced, but for Youtube Music! This is relatively less feature rich compared to vanced but still features many things you come to expect like adblocking and background playback all inside Youtube Music!

I got into Spotify just recently, yes a different planet to GPM and YTM.
So much more to Spotify, lots of free and simple to use, playlist / mixtape curators and managers.
And to top it all there is JQBX

To migrate your playlist, you should try Musconv. This tool allows you to transfer all your playlists to any of your music service without any issues. You can even transfer your tracks from Apple, Google Play Music or spotify and also export the csv too.

how to transfer playlists from Spotify to Google Play Music? this question is wondering on the different forum, but cuold not get the reasonable answer.i started my search on google and finally succeeded to find a suit able tool to transfer playlists from Spotify to Google Play Music.Here is the direct download link for that tool.

https://musconv.com/

I haven't used it in years but pretty sure GPMDP (a third party app) had this as an option (toggle play or queue as primary action) but it seems to be abandonware now since GPM is long gone.

I use Google Play Music Desktop player & haven't had any issues at all playing the songs I want. I wonder if your Library transferred over correctly, or if you are blocking any necessary cookies/scripts on the browser or network side (e.g. blocking for privacy).

https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/ -- FYI They support YouTube Music and it's easy to switch to it from Google Play Music, with the click of a button.

If you're looking to use GPM on the desktop, and do it with a more native application, you can use Google Play Music Desktop Player. It has a dark mode and custom colors, in addition to using your own styling if you want. Plus it integrates with your media keys and such. The app is essentially a wrapper for the website, with added functionality.

Play Midnight looks like just a Chrome extension that gives you ability to theme. So it's simpler and you don't have to install any extra applications.

1) If you want to upload your own library to a free web service I don't think you have a choice (right?). So it doesn't matter, enjoy while it lasts. Anyway "it's going to be shut down next year" basically since always. The fact that the youtube music app isn't evolving much, probably means that google doesn't care about either of them at this point. I'd say it is in "if it ain't broken don't fix it" development cycle, until the next big thing comes along.

2) yes https://play.google.com/music/listen#/manager https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/

It looks like Google Play Music Desktop Player with a dark theme like https://github.com/MarshallOfSound/Google-Play-Music-Desktop-Player-UNOFFICIAL-/wiki/Themes

The problem you are describing seems to be on the file metadata. (Maybe on one album they have Album Artist or a different genre o a blank space in the end of Album Name). Select the album, the select Album Information and copy all all the information to the second album with the name. THIS ONLY CAN BE MADE ON THE WEBSITE. There's some apps like GPM Desktop Player but are kinda the same as the web.

https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/ supports Google Play Music and Youtube Music. This is a third party desktop application using Electron to access Google Music and Youtube Music as an API.

Source code for it: https://github.com/MarshallOfSound/Google-Play-Music-Desktop-Player-UNOFFICIAL-

You go into the desktop settings and change the service to Youtube Music if you want to use Youtube Music, to be honest they're basically the same thing, so implementing the difference is really simple. The only difference between the two music platforms is where the songs come from and how they're voted with popularity.

This is a feature of https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/, a desktop client for GPM. Here's a screenshot of how it looks.

It doesn't have the "Click to listen" thing like Spotify though, and there's no way to change that without Discord and Google working together on it

I know I'm pretty late to this party, but I thought google put out a free desktop client recently. Haven't tested, but looks pretty nice and seems pretty feature rich. GPM desktop client (full OS support for the curious)

The downloadable desktop client for GPM is made by a third party, so if you don't want to use the web player, I'd ping that developer (and maybe paypal donate?).

I think a big reason the desktop client for GPM (and now YTM, also everything else from inbox to keep) is web-based is for chromebook users? Sure you can use Spotify web on a chromebook but it's watered down, and if google were to water down their own services for their own OS, that would be a dick move for those who use their OS?

Are you talking about the web player, or this? For the latter, that's a third party app and I'd contact the dev. For the first, I would maybe note how long it's taking to load things and contact google support via the feedback option in the hamburger menu or on their support forums.

https://freeyourmusic.com/en

This is a app which lets you migrate your music from one streaming service to another. It requires premium to do a full transfer though.

I just tested it, migrating all my stuff from YTM to Apple Music, and it worked fine for me.

Once you decide on what platform you want to move to, it might work for you too?

Ah, Stamp is now called "Free Your Music": https://freeyourmusic.com/en

Presumably I'm grandfathered in having bought the standalone app a while back. But presumably the new app (subscription based) also has access to 'all songs'.

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I've been having a look at my tidal account and it appears to be populating my library of artists/albums successfully

I used Free Your Music (used to be called STAMP) when I first migrated to GPM from Spotify, and I've just recently used it to migrate to Apple Music.

Out of about 7500 tracks, it failed to match about 200, and I'd say there was maybe another 20 which were incorrect matches.

It gives you a list at the end of all the tracks it failed to match and I managed to manually match about 99% of them. There's a free version to try it out, and both subscription and buy-once options (the subscription keeps playlists on different services in sync, which is cool but not sure I'd ever have a use for that).

Free Your Music doesn't need your Google login, it just "connects" to your account in the way Google intends 3rd party apps to. I think they also offer a CSV import method.

I know you said you already checked out a few services like this, so maybe you already saw and disregarded Free Your Music - but hopefully this helps if not.

I feel the same way and YouTube Red is a great bonus. I decided that I didn't want to be beholden to a platform for curated and collected lists so went ahead bought a $10 one-time license to Free Your Music. This way, if I'm not happy with the service or terms then I can jump ship a lot more easily. (I'm in no way affiliated with that company, just pleased with how smoothly it went). Good luck!

It's $10 for one device to use Stamp - my wife and I are using it for both our accounts (logged in to the same computer) and it seems fine. I wasn't able to find a free one that seemed quite right.

From what I can see, your YouTube and YouTube Music playlists are synced now. If that's true, there are options for you to use to transfer playlists. Stamp (https://freeyourmusic.com/) and Soundiiz were both good options last time I checked, but there might be other options now.

I bought an app called STAMP that works great. I transfered 100s of playlists. They have desktop and mobile versions. https://freeyourmusic.com/ If you send me a link to a playlist I will be happy to convert it for you as an example.

Congrats! Now check out https://freeyourmusic.com.

Edit: alternatively, what I did was use a Spotify downloader using a Spotify API key to download all my songs, then manually upload them to Google Play Music. Then GPM matches my songs with those in their library. The songs persist even when my GPM subscription expires.

I moved to self-hosted Airsonic music server and Android client DSub. DSub had been abandoned and hasn't seen a release since 2015, but now that GPM is shutting down, it looks like development is picking up again.

https://airsonic.github.io/

https://github.com/daneren2005/Subsonic

I don't find the "all media" servers like Emby, Plex, or Jellyfin to be great for music. I started running a docker image of Airsonic about a month ago, and I've been pleasantly surprised.

https://airsonic.github.io/

I just switched to amazon. They offer lossless up to 24bit/192khz, bit rates up to 3730 kbps! That's 10x GPM highest quality stream.

https://www.amazon.com/music/unlimited/why-hd?ref=dmm_LP_WHYHD

Hi - I'm in a similar situation to you. I've spent a few years now building up my music collection on GPM, I'm not really bothered by playlists and the like so can't really see any upside to YTM.

I'm looking into Subsonic as an alternative, I'll need to purchase a large SSD - I have a raspberry pi at home I can use. It means downloading all my music from Google and hosting it myself but therefore will have ultimate control.

Could be an option for you also.

Use VOX. However, it is only available for Mac and IOS. Developers are working on releasing apps for Windows and Android in 2018. It lets you upload any music file you want and stores them as original. Flac, Alac, Wav, AAC, MP3 and so on. However, they have a monthly and yearly subscription.

https://vox.rocks/iphone-music-player

After ignoring the advice of others for a long time, I eventually broke down and subscribed to https://soundiiz.com/ and was shocked to find it's well worth it. I will keep my subscription around for awhile until I finally settle onto a new home. It will do exactly what you're looking to do....and much more :)

Hey, its this one: https://soundiiz.com/webapp/playlists

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Some songs might not transfer cause Spotify does not have all the songs that google has, in which case you might have to search and add manually. They will give you a report that says which all songs have not been added though, which should help with that.

There is a tool called Soundiz that can transfer across all your albums, artists, playlists etc out of GPM to a range of other streaming services (except Amazon Music). If you have a lot of material (I have 186 playlists) you do need to pay 4 euros though, but it does do a fairly reasonable job - not perfect but it will save you a lot of time

I've only used: https://soundiiz.com/ When I moved my .m3u playlists to try Spotify. Then later on I moved from Spotify to GPM and now I'm on YTM.

It costs like $5 for one month but it went smooth, at least 5 years ago when I used it. But I've seen other people recommending it too in this sub.

My plan is this https://soundiiz.com/tutorial/google-music-to-spotify I'd also like to know if it really works before I try it. It's not clear what you get on the free version or if paying a single month to get the job done is actually possible.

This app has a paid feature to migrate music between platforms. I've never used it but it looks like it will work. I just didn't feel like messing with it. I might still try to use it at some point in the future

https://soundiiz.com/login

Check out https://soundiiz.com/ to transfer your playlist, you’ll probably have to pay for a month at first ($4.50) to transfer larger playlist once that’s done the free version is fine you might not need to use them at all after the initial transfers. They support all music services so where ever you decided to go you’re all set.

It looks like 'tunemymusic' has been retired by the developer and replaced by soundiiz.com

Soundiiz does the same thing, in a slicker way but the playlist transfer functionality is now a 'premium feature' (£3/month)

I can’t speak for Chromecast but GPM is not doing any multitask windowing for me.

Sadly its just quickly becoming another unloved product for Google and the YouTube music replacement is shockingly poor.

I moved to Apple Music a while back and only have GPM becuase I have YouTube Premium.

If you are considering moving to another platform, https://soundiiz.com/ worked flawlessly for me.

Soundiiz might be worth checking out as well. It lets you transfer playlists and library info from one service to another. There's some limitations, but I think with premium you can export a csv or Excel file with all of your library info. I used it to transfer thousands of Napster playlists and artists to GPM. I think it was less than $5 for the month I used it.

https://soundiiz.com is the only reliable switch service I've used. I don't have access to it now but I'm pretty sure it has the functionality to export your playlists in various formats in addition to copying between services.

Try using the service tunemymusic

worked great with me, I transfer my like list to Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and Deezer, I'm still deciding which one will be my next service

https://www.tunemymusic.com/

https://www.tunemymusic.com/

Haven't tried it but /u/freddy_barker recommended it as a free alternative to soundiiz.com in another thread

https://www.tunemymusic.com/

Pro tip: instead of selecting a playlist to transfer, just click on your library and then the songs tab that lists every single song in your library and run the tunemymusic command and it will treat your library as one giant playlist and transfer everything to Spotify.

I tried messing around with these two free converters. Resulted with a few oddities, like when you have song title + Remastered or Radio Edit, throws up strange results, but most tracks convert ok.

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There are a few FREE Web apps like this https://www.tunemymusic.com/ that can copy/move Playlists from/to GPM, Spotty, plus between many of the other streaming services....

Don't know about soundizz, but I was able to transfer my playlists using https://www.tunemymusic.com/?share=unxgumewd7ke.

It is free and good for transferrring playlist by playlist. I only have 7 playlist. So it was fine for me.
It does have spotify as source. My transferring was in opposite direction though.

Also if we are focusing on YouTube Music, the artist Dizzy Wright's album sorting does not follow the guidelines you mentioned. https://music.youtube.com/channel/UCocpeKNjRRzdaiX9Ftw7WVA

We actually do have it but in the album list on an artist page we pick one version to show so that the discography isn't so crowded with multiple releases: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kF29VJwaRYoFn_N-Z-wF8EaqPFJMbOgHM

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That said, we are working on making it easier to jump between the different versions of an album. Stay tuned!

That's a great question. It seems like most of it is reasonable (Yours Truly is an EP), but the Forest Hill Drive clean version floating in the middle of the list feels like a bug. I'll take a look.

Out of curiosity, take a look at his artist page on YouTube Music and let me know what you think: https://music.youtube.com/channel/UC0ajkOzj8xE3Gs3LHCE243A Feels like it makes more sense in general (we hide the clean versions in the artist page list on YTM)

Is this from the search view? In the albums view in YouTube Music, we do reverse chronological order of LPs, followed by EPs: https://music.youtube.com/channel/UCprAFmT0C6O4X0ToEXpeFTQ

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When I look at the order in GPM on Kendrick's artist page, it seems more sane than what was shared above.

I voted Amazon Music before realising it doesn't let you upload MP3s anymore... I'll still probably still use Amazon Music to buy albums going forward though.

But unless they fix things like google home integration, ability to play songs offline with the phone screen off and remove those ads (for the music I purchased) I'm not going to use YTM.

If they didn't fix the above by the time the GPM is killed I'll switch to Cloud Player + Clemetine Player and have my music on dropbox or gdrive.

Google Play Music purchases are available to download via Zip files. Download to your computer, extract (I use 7Zip, but most operating systems can handle these files natively) and transfer to your Android device.

Ther may be a simpler method, but I haven't found it.

I have no idea where it would be, but maybe try an app like Diskusage could highlight the directory for you. Then you should just be able to navigate there and copy it off.

As for an app to use on your new phone, I wholeheartedly recommend Musicolet for local files. It's even got Android Auto support, and I quite like how it looks and works.