Digital music management - RIP Google Play Music

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If you're a music lover that prefers to own their music than subscribe to a music streaming service, be it on vinyl, CD that you back up digitally, or that you buy digitally, you may have been disappointed yesterday to hear that Google Play Music is swapping to YouTube Music. While YouTube music is ok, it's not quite the same as Google Play Music.

Google Play Music simply offered 50,000 song storage capacity and a pretty neat app that allowed you to stream that entire library to your mobile devices. There are apps for iPad, iPhone, Android phone and tablets. It was ok. Sometimes it would muddle up your library and put songs in the wrong album, but hey iTunes used to do the same. Currently the You Tube app doesn't let you stream music in the background though, without a subscription, which is pretty lame. You also can't 'buy' music through it, you can only subscribe to the service, like Spotify, that lets you have access to all of the current music in their entire library. Sounds great, but I still prefer to buy music and own it.

Google yesterday announced that they were going to include a transfer button, to switch everything across from Play Music, to You Tube Music, but despite the promo videos, in the App, nothing has appeared yet, plus, the inability to play in the background without a subscription, is already too much of an inconvenience.

So today, I've set about finding an alternative, and I am pleased to say, I think I have found something that's better than Play. The solution seems to be iBroadcast and the process for switching seems convenient as all of the hardwork is done by hardware! If you have a digital library with Play, you'll need to follow all of these steps, if you just want a convenient way to access your digital library from your mobile, follow steps 6 onwards.

Step 1 - Login to Google Play on your computer.
Step 2 - Check you have sufficient storage space for downloading your entire library.
Step 3 - Create a Folder and name it something like 'Google Play Library'
Step 4 - Go to settings, find your download folder and hit Download entire library
Step 5 - Wait for entire library to download.
Step 6 - Visit iBroadcast and sign up, confirm your email address
Step 7 - Download Media Sync Lite from iBroadcast and sign in
Step 8 - Locate your Folder with all of your songs and upload.
Step 9 - Wait for upload to complete
Step 10 - Download iBroadcast app on your mobile device, sign in and listen.

Have you found something better than Google Play Music or iBroadcast, if so what is it?


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