Google Play Music is now officially dead

We've known for more than a year that Google Play Music's days were numbered. Its death had even been officially announced, but it's now really, really real.

Open the Android app now and you'll likely be greeted by a white splash screen with a Play Music logo that morphs into a YouTube Music one. Bold text tells you Google Play Music is no longer available and explains that you can transfer your whole library to YouTube Music. Two buttons are provided below that, one to kickstart the transfer process and another to manage your data. The latter takes you to the Google Play Music site where you can download and delete your full library, and delete your recommendation history. Once you're done, the app's widget should disappear by itself from your home screen if you had added it there.

What Google didn't think of is an easy way to manage your locally-stored data on your phone. If you've downloaded music for offline listening, you can't do that anywhere within the app now, and that data will still take up space on your phone. So you'll either have to uninstall the app, or if your device doesn't allow you to do that, you need to tap and hold on the app's icon in the drawer, go to App Info, and then select Storage. There, you should be able to clear the Google Play Music's cache and offline music.

If Google Play Music was your local music player of choice, and you don't care much about streaming, you can also migrate to YouTube Music for that.

The web client at music.google.com is gone too. It just offers the same options we saw above.

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