The added controls allow you to pause and play music from multiple devices and is really intuitive. It also manages to provide probably the best outright app experience across all of your devices. Spotify has one of the biggest libraries, the most active communities, and really neat playlist features that make it so popular with millions across the globe. The most obvious Google Play Music alternative available is the world’s biggest dedicated music streaming platform. To create this list, we spent time looking at just what they offer, any core similarities and analyzed the overall library size before collating them so you have a starting point when looking for a dedicated replacement. We’ve collated seven fairly solid alternatives that you might be forced to consider now that Google Play Music is truly dead, dead. Subscribe to 9to5Google on YouTube for more videos You’ll likely miss out on library upload features, but at the end of the day, you now no longer have the option to keep using GPM - which makes switching all the more painful. Transferring almost a decade of audio has been difficult at the best of times and frustrating when it has been accrued, catalogued, and refined over this period.Īlthough I will say outright that YouTube Music has come on leaps and bounds, it still is nowhere near the full Google Play Music replacement that it ought to be at this stage of 2021. I managed to transfer a decent-sized 10,000-track library of over 1,000 albums and numerous more playlists. I was a subscriber reluctant to fully move over and switch to YouTube Music but did so in an attempt to ease the pain of switching ahead of the inevitable shutdown.

I, like you, already miss Google Play Music.

It’s really hard to let go of such an awesome music player, one that at least in terms of features was still way ahead of where YT Music is right now. Some of the core features like the ability to upload your offline library was really a killer addition that made it such a fantastic streaming app and endeared it to millions of hardcore fans around the globe. Unfortunately, while Google Play Music was ultimately flawed, it was still one of a kind. With Google Play Music now double dead and even fully disabled on devices in favor of YouTube Music, if you’re simply not a fan of the replacement, you might be looking for some serious audio alternatives.

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