If you want to read more about what music streaming services are worth attention in 2020, read our post on the blog where we’ve described all the most important features of the most popular music platforms. YouTube brand is much stronger in the music industry and has millions of fans who may want to go with it instead of Google Play Music. The solution is to create one big streaming platform for music as well as videos, because… why not have both at the same time? Imagine Netflix and Spotify combined in one service-enter YouTube Music. They are making everything to hold users on its side and they want them to stay. The information about closing Google Play Music was announced for the first time in May 2018, but no big steps were made to REALLY do something about this since this time.Īs you probably know, Google owns YouTube so for sure they don’t want the users to go for competitor’s music streaming services such as Spotify, Tidal or Apple Music. In the meantime, I will probably switch back to Alexa (as the native support for Google's own music services was the primary reason I was looking to switch to Google Assistant).Google Play Music is shutting down in 2020 and its resources are going to be transferred to YouTube. Also, Sonos would have access to their user usage statistics and Google Play Music access issue statistics (gathered from Sonos usage data, this forum, and other sources), which would put them in the best position to best represent the user community in discussions with the provider.Īnyways, crossing fingers that our voices are heard. If this is indeed the case, it would still seem that Sonos is still in the best position to potentially address the issue with the service provider, given their already established relationship with the firm (contacts already established in previous licensing and sharing discussions, etc.). But then, after numerous user complaints, it was "fixed". In fact, I seem to recall a few years ago, that the same issue on Google Play Music access came up with Google Home as well.
I would not be surprised if this is indeed the case - that the limitation is imposed by Google.
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