Shouts out to the YT Music team

I must admit, I was a bit of a skeptic when Google announced that Google Play Music was going away in favor of Youtube Music awhile back. Then I remember when Google said that your music library will be transferred over from GPM to YTM. I immediately thought, oh no. How can this be done without error for millions of users? Yet they seemed to have pulled it off. I had no issues with transferring my music over and everything was there right where I left it in GPM.

If you haven't already I suggest making the switch and transferring your music from GPM to YTM if you intend to. Google gave notice to it's GPM users that you will no longer be able to make transfers after February 24th, 2021. Making the transfer is easy and is done in the background. Check out the community post here.

As far as features and how YTM compares to GPM I would say that it's pretty much on par. For me, the main features are there and I like how the improvements YTM has over GPM. The cool thing is that Google is constantly making changes and improvements to YTM so me listing some current features right now probably would not age well. I suggest checking out YTM and trying the service if you haven't already or take another look if it's been a minute since you’ve tried it.

Again, a huge shout out to the YTM team on a job well done.

That's it for this one and don't forget to transfer your music!

Peace!

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