Hey YouTube, I'm Tristan from Smart
Home Point.
My first ever YouTube video covered how
you can play completely free music with
no ads whatsoever on the Google Home
lineup of products. Now if you've read
the news recently, you would have seen
that the Google Play Music service is
actually shutting down
in December 2020 - at the end of this year -
and that was one of the key methods in
my first video
Uhm but thankfully although Google Play
Music is shutting down,
YouTube Music is taking its place his
build has been better than Google Play
Music,
so I wanted to film this video and look
at some of the features of this and see
whether
the free music with no ads method that I
spoke about in my first video
still holds true for YouTube Music. Okay
then,
so you can see right here if you Google
"Google Play Music you can see
YouTube Music is making it simple to
transfer from
your Google Play Music library. Uhm
so the key thing here is I want to see:
can I actually end up
migrating to Google Play Music and play
music there?
And actually a quick Google search would
suggest
you actually can't play it on...
[Music]
You can't actually do it. Uhm which I hope
is not true, but
that's the purpose of this video... is to find
out... see somebody's actually asked
'how do I play my YouTube Music library
from my Google Home Mini'.
Uhm, this person's very recently - a few
months ago - was saying
unless you actually pay for YouTube
Music you can't play specific
ones, even in your library, which would be
completely rubbish.
But let's actually test that out. So
YouTube Music
does migrate from my old account...
blah blah blah... Google Play Music can
easily transition over with just one
click.
With all this you get your uploaded and
purchased songs, so if you remember in my
first video I actually had a single song
so see if that comes over. 'How to
transfer'.
Just visit that and click transfer, oh
it's so easy. Obviously you don't have
much choice because they shut it down!
Uhm I'll just sign in here.
Okay there you are, transfer your Google
Play Music account.
Transfer that transform a playlist. I
might upload some purchases,
and obviously since I've purchased music -
or uploaded music - it would seem sensible
I can use it, but I'm not
convinced I will be able to. Start
transfer.
And again I could hold off until
December but what's the point because
they're going to close it anyway.
Transferring may take 24 hours, which is
fair enough.
Obviously in my case I've got a lot less...
I've only got one song, but if you've got
a lot more then it obviously would take
longer.
Anyway while I wait for that to actually
happen, pick five artists. You...
should I be serious or not? Or should I
just,
yeah why not, probably not going to use
this much. But oh, that's pretty cool, so
as you choose people,
it obviously changes. Yeah bit of Sia, why
not.
One Republic... who else
and then Foo Fighters, why not,
and Led Zeppelin, Green Day, Metallica.
there we are - fine,
that's five people. A bit of a random
collection there, but there we are.
See your library transfer progress.
That's complete, there are... that's pretty
good then, because I have one song, this
is good that they actually
have done that quickly. Okay so
everything's transferred over, so whilst
I can play
specific music, um, on this account at
least.
Uhm, or I can shuffle and build a song
radio like Spotify,
especially when you're logged in... um I'll
go to my library and just check that
song transferred over.
Yep which it has, which is great, and then
after that auto plays on
and it'll just keep playing similar
songs.
Well actually it's not similar songs, as
it's just songs based on what I've said I
liked, but that's fine.
Okay so the next thing, very easily is to
see whether or not I can play this song
with my Google Mini device after firstly
setting YouTube Music to be my music
provider.
If you can then great, if not I think it
makes
it's a big disadvantage of the whole
transfer process, so let's find out if
you can or not.
Okay so before I move over to my Google
Nest Mini device and actually see
whether I can play
a specific song in my YouTube Music
library - which is the all-important
question -
I need to actually launch my Google Home
app and just check that.
I'll configure Google Play Music to be
my music provider.
Let's go to settings, scroll down to
music,
and then - there - you've got different
music services. At the moment - as you can
see - I just got Spotify Free
active, uhm, because I don't pay for any
monthly subscription music.
Uhm, as you remember in my previous video -
or my first ever video - was using Google
Play Music
to actually play free music with no ads
whatsoever.
Let's see if we can do the exact same
thing with YouTube Music.
And you've got it right there: "YouTube
Premium membership is required".
YouTube Music requires a YouTube Music
Premium Membership to play on Google
Home.
You can sign up... blah blah blah blah...
which is stupid,
that's really pointless, because you
could do it previously with Google Play
Music.
You know you could buy your own songs,
you could have hundreds of MP3s, and then
you could just play them through your
Google
Mini Device... um, or any Google Home device,
but it doesn't look like you could do
that at all with YouTube Music, which is
terrible: it's a big backwards step.
Obviously remember on the Amazon
platform you can buy MP3s, although you
can't upload your own, you can buy MP3s
through uhm, Amazon Music, and then
play them on any of your Echo devices.
So instead of paying ten pound a month -
or ten dollars a month - for a music
subscription,
you could just buy a couple of MP3s for
a couple of dollars
and then you can actually play that for
free, you know with no recurring monthly
fees thereafter.
But obviously you can't do that now on
the Google Home platform,
which is rubbish. All you have as an
option is Spotify Free
where you can't play specific songs, you
can just play song radios
based on what you've requested. Uhm, and
there's obviously adverts
so it's really bad that you actually
can't...
"free service available". Yeah that's
really stupid.
Yeah so 9.99 a month was... right that's
basically ten dollars - ten pounds - a month.
Yes that's really stupid, so what happens
if I do try and...
what's going on... okay, got it, so if I just
leave that
what actually happens?
Go back to music, okay so it does say at
least
free service available. I'm not convinced
though that anything good will happen,
because obviously
it's giving me the warning saying I have
to have a premium membership.
Uhm, but at least it's let me select it,
so I'll just go to my Google Nest Mini
device now and actually see
what - if anything - I can do now that this
is selected.
"Play Skies and Shadows by Ryan Sheeler".
"All right check out this for always
station on YouTube Music".
Stop.
Okay that's not the song I wanted, that's
not the song I uploaded,
and that's not the song that worked on
Google Play Music! Let's try again.
"Google, play Skies and Shadows.
"All right check out this catch me
outside station on YouTube".
Stop.
Let's try again, I don't think it'll work,
but
"play my uploaded songs".
"Okay music on YouTube Music, here you go".
Stop. So again that's not my song either!
"Play Skies and Shadows from my library".
"Sure check out this someone to you
station on YouTube Music".
Stop. Again,
that's not what I asked for. Clearly as
the app said, and as
the internet said, you can't
unfortunately play your own music that
you've uploaded to YouTube Music.
Okay there you have it: so it's not
possible unfortunately.
My first ever YouTube video shown how
you can use Google Play Music
to play your MP3 collection - music that
you own -
on your Google Home range and your
Google Nest devices,
and obviously Google don't allow this
anymore by this move to
YouTube Music. They've made it easy to
transfer which is good,
and if you pay a monthly subscription
then it's just as good
as Spotify... probably, I'm not really
interested in subscribing to it to be
honest.
But if you just want to play your music
collection on your Google Home range you
can no longer do that
by this move to YouTube Music, which is a
bit rubbish. Ultimately Google could
allow this because you can upload your
MP3s
and you can play them on a dev... on your
computer and similar devices,
but you just can't play it on your
Google Home devices, which for me
means that my Google Nest Mini is a bit
pointless right now.
Uhm I know everything's moving to this,
licensing laws are such that even if you
buy a game
or buy a Kindle book you don't actually
own that content, you just own a license
for that content, and that's linked to
your account and your account can be
revoked.
So I know everything's move into it... you
know, towards a monthly - sort of -
subscription economy, if you will, but for
me personally I like to sometimes own
content -
and own MP3s, and as a result my...
the Amazon Echo range is a lot more
attractive to me because I can actually
buy an MP3
for 99p or 99 cents, and then I can
actually play that on any
any of my Echo devices without actually
paying
for an extra subscription on top. You
know, I don't need an Amazon Music
music subscription to play my music, I
can just play them
on my Echo devices. You can no longer do
that with the Google Home range,
even though you used to be able to do
that, and even though Google would be
able to very easily deliver that feature.
So it's a bit rubbish and as I say it
makes my Google Nest Mini
pointless for me, which is a pity but I
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