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Google Music shutdown starts this month, music deleted in December

Google Play Music has been given the death sentence by Google, and today the company has announced a bit more detail about how its execution will be carried out.

If a user has somehow missed all of those, two months with no streaming at all will hopefully be enough to get them to research what happened to Google Music.

The other option is Google Takeout, which will wrap your entire music collection in a zip file and send you a download link.

Whichever option you choose, make sure you do something before December because, after that, there will be no way to recover your music.

It's been the primary way to play music on the Google Home smart speakers, and it offered music purchases, monthly streaming radio, and podcasts. Google Music has been neglected for years, though, and like the company often does, Google decided to make a second, competing music streaming service instead of maintaining the first service.

The app does away with music purchases and won't even let you stream your own music to your Google Home speakers without paying the monthly fee.

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