Google Play Music is currently officially dead

We’ve known for over a year that Google Play Music’s days were numbered. Its demise had even been officially declared, yet it’s presently truly real. Google has recently sunset the GPM application on Android and web, giving the take out hit to what in particular has been a somewhat short match.

Open the Android application now and you’ll probably be welcomed by a white splash screen with a Play Music logo that morphs into a YouTube Music one. Strong content discloses to you GPM is not, at this point accessible and clarifies that you can move your entire library to YTM.

Two catches are given beneath that, one to launch the exchange cycle and another to deal with your information. The last takes you to the GPM website where you can download and erase your full library, and erase your recommendation history.

Whenever you’re done, the application’s gadget ought to vanish without anyone else from your homescreen in the event that you had included it there.

It’s a clinical, irreversible demise. Until further notice, it doesn’t appear to influence everybody, except it’s gradually spreading to an ever increasing number of clients. Those of you puzzling over whether physically changing your telephone’s date would return the last blow, let me spare you some time: They attempted, it didn’t work.

The main workaround that appears to bring the application back for the individuals who lost it is uninstalling application updates and returning to a older version of GPM. At that point you need to turn off automatic updates for it in the Play Store, and cross your fingers and expectation Google doesn’t compel slaughter it in another manner.

What Google didn’t consider is a simple method to deal with your privately put away information on your telephone. In the event that you’ve downloaded music for offline listening, you can’t do that anyplace inside the application now, and that information will in any case occupy room on your telephone.

So you’ll either need to uninstall the application, or if your gadget doesn’t permit you to do that, you have to tap and hang on the application’s symbol in the cabinet, go to App Info, and afterward select Storage. There, you ought to have the option to clear the GPM’s cache and offline music.

In the event that GPM was your nearby music player of decision, and you couldn’t care less much about streaming, you can likewise move to YouTube Music for that.

Yet, we’ve additionally assembled elite of 8 incredible neighborhood music players on Android. You should locate an able substitution there.