The time has come where for many, Google Play Music has seen its last sunset. We’ve known for a long time this has been coming so it shouldn’t surprise anyone. The transition hasn’t been perfect with many features not available or buggy in the early stages of the YouTube Music migration.
An increasing number of users are now seeing that Google Play Music is no longer available in the Play Store. Many who already have the app are seeing a warning that “Google Play Music is no longer available” in their installed app, being encouraged to transfer their library to YouTube Music. If you’ve still got access to GPM, you’ll find a persistent warning that it’s going away soon.
This is the final phase of the process to Sunset Google Play Music following a flurry of work in recent times to get YouTube Music to parity with GPM. Longer-term this should be — hopefully — a single, long-lasting product for streaming services. Now if only they’d do the same with messaging…
