With a paid subscription to Google Play Music, users received access to on-demand streaming of 40 million songs and offline music playback on the mobile apps, with no advertisements during listening and no limit on the number of track skips. Podcasts were also available for free to listen to for standard users in the US and Canada. Up to six songs per hour could be skipped when listening to curated radio. Stations were based on 'an activity, your mood, or your favorite popular music'. Standard users located in the United States, Canada, and India could also listen to curated radio stations, supported by video and banner advertisements. Songs could be downloaded on the mobile apps for offline playback, and on computers through the Music Manager app. Files could be up to 300 MB after conversion. Non-MP3 uploads would be converted to MP3. Supported file formats for upload included: MP3, AAC, WMA, FLAC, Ogg, or ALAC. Songs purchased through the Google Play Store did not count against the 50,000-song upload limit. Any files that were not matched were uploaded to Google's servers for streaming or re-download. The service scanned the user's collection and matched the files to tracks in Google's catalog, which could then be streamed or downloaded in up to 320 kbit/s quality. Users could listen to songs through the service's web player and mobile apps. Google Play Music offered all users storage of up to 50,000 files for free. Google Play Music mobile apps also supported offline playback of tracks stored on the device.įeatures Standard accounts Also, users could purchase additional tracks from the music store section of Google Play. A paid Google Play Music subscription allowed users to on-demand stream any song in the Google Play Music catalog and in YouTube Music Premium catalog and in several territories in YouTube Premium catalog.

Users with standard accounts could store up to 50,000 songs from their personal libraries at no cost.

The service was announced on after a six-month, invitation-only beta period, it was publicly launched on Novemand shut down in December 2020. Google Play Music was a music and podcast streaming service and an online music locker operated by Google as part of its Google Play line of services. For the former Chinese product, see List of Google products § Yinyue.

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