Google is clear, if you want to compete with the big music platforms, Spotify and Apple Music, you have to make big changes in your own. We tell you about the improvements, in this article.
Google seeks to be all encompassing and run multiple services. One of the examples is Google Play Music, a music platform launched in 2011. However, Already since 2018 we knew that this had its days numbered.
They preferred to focus on YouTube Music as their titular service for all things music. Since then, tools have been provided to be able to transfer your music from one application to another. Now it is known that This transition is already taking place and it seems that users have not been very happy with the new change.
And it is that, these have complained about poor usability of offline mode, problems loading songs from local storage. To this should be added that they considered that Google was leaving behind functions as important as the search for songs or the classification by artists.
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Bearing this in mind, it seems obvious that this application will be relegated to third place (and not even that), falling behind big giants like Spotify or Apple Music. Nevertheless, Google is now struggling to turn the tables.
The company has detailed the rollout of a bunch of changes in recent months, but with a few more pleasant surprises. The most notable improvement focuses on the greater diversity of artists on song radios and playlists, offering a wider selection of songs from different artists every time you press the button on the radio.
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Another new option is the possibility of save a queue as a playlist. There’s also Some changes specifically designed for users of smart TVs and watches: Duplicates are no longer seen in the “Replay” section, and you can shuffle all the music you’ve downloaded on clocks.
For Premium subscribers, it is now possible to seamlessly switch between video and audio versions of songs. Furthermore, it is possible share what you’re listening to and even entire artist pages to Snapchat and there are big improvements to the add to playlist process, which is now just easier and more useful.
Knowing all this and seeing that it will be a background job for Google (it will be difficult to unseat those two big ones), If you haven’t used YouTube Music for a while after Google disabled Play Music, it might be time to give the service another try.
George is Digismak’s reported cum editor with 13 years of experience in Journalism