![]() The only real difference in terms of structure is the naming of the Google Play Music/ YouTube Music directory. ├── Alice Cooper - The Best Of Alice Cooper(001)Poi.mp3 ├── Al Bano _ Romina Power - Pop Giganten - Ur(002).mp3 ├── 2raumwohnung - Pop Giganten - Urlaubshits(020)3.mp3 ![]() ├── It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career.mp3Īll files are in one folder - music-uploads - with no sub directories. The structure of the Takeout archive is the same for both YouTube Music and Google Play Music: $ tree Once downloaded, it’s time to open the archives and see what we’ve got! Takeout X-ray To request only your music related data, click the All YouTube data included button and make sure to choose just music-library-songs and music-uploads (the former includes music library stats and spreadsheets of the structure of your music library, the latter is the files you have uploaded themselves). Once you get to the bottom of the list and find YouTube you’ll also realise, of course, that YouTube extends to much more than just your music library. First, you have to scroll through all of the Google services listed this includes Drive, Chrome, Photos and many, many more. Via Takeout, you can request your YouTube data to be exported. Let’s take a look at a Takeout music export broadly, the same findings apply both to YouTube Music’s exports and Google Play Music’s. Let’s get to the bottom of this and provide a little clarity on Takeout exports. So long as you have the tags you can identify your music easily, and restructure it as you require. On the upside, reports suggested the files are tagged which is probably the most essential thing. In addition, many reported missing tracks although it appears that simply trying again can sometimes make the missing tracks appear in subsequent attempts. Seriously Google? You force me away from Google Music, and then the damn takeout download has ALL MP3 files in a single directory, not grouped into albums? Some bemoaned the lack of structure in the resulting export: Unfortunately, the reactions to the exports generated by Takeout were not wholly positive. And, up to October, GPM also allowed your library to be downloaded in the same way. ![]() ![]() Takeout can be used to export YouTube Music libraries, including the actual music files and some playback statistics. Google offer a service called Takeout which is a way of exporting data from different Google services. Google offered an easy transfer from one service to the other.īut for those not interested in moving to the new service (many preferred GPM) or those that gave YouTube Music a try and had decided against using it, how were they to retrieve their music library now? They needn’t have worried YouTube Music stepped into that gap. With other streaming services like Spotify not allowing uploads, some were worried they wouldn’t be able to secure a cloud-based home for their music libraries. It was a music locker, which allows certain advantages an existing music library, lovingly built, can be backed up securely online. Although still a streaming service, Google Play Music (GPM) permitted uploads of existing music files. The closure of Google Play Music in October 2020 was met with disappointment by many music collectors. If you have any other tips for moving between music services be sure to drop them into the comments.The techniques in this article also help Google Play Music users handle their exported music libraries, because the exports are in the same basic format. You'll still have to act quickly, of course, because once Groove is gone, it's gone. Microsoft makes it easy to move to Spotify, but for a small outlay Stamp can easily move you to any of the other leading music streaming services. Unless you have a massive library, it shouldn't take more than a few minutes.Īny songs it can't export, for example, because they're not in the library on your new service, Stamp will tell you and allow you to export a list so you know what will be missing. Stamp will now begin moving your playlists across services and it'll tell you at every step how long is remaining.
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