As a result, Songza users are being given two months to make the switch. Some smaller buys, however, disintegrated – the products were absorbed or lost inside Google, and the founders rushed for the exit.
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The Songza team says that soon there will be tools that let users import their Songza favorites and listening history to Google Play Music, making the transition relatively seamless. Using all of Songza’s features in Google Play Music is 100% free and doesn’t require a credit card, you just need to accept our new Terms of Service and Google’s Privacy Policy (if you haven’t already).
Google has made a decision to retire the Songza brand in favor of swallowing it whole for its big push into streaming. Hell, if they didn’t, Songza would have died a much quicker death.
As of today, Songza is notifying users of the shutdown by email and notifications within the app and website. Existing users will have to migrate to Google Play Music.
YouTube Red subscribers all get full access to Google Play Music.
The good news is that when you link your Songza account to Google Play, all the syncing happens in the cloud, Roman and Breece explained. The [music concierge] carousel is now at the top of Google Play Music and it’s where we anticipate what you’re doing or might be feeling at that moment.
“The concierge has been in Google Play Music behind the paywall for probably over a year at this point”.
In a nutshell, we built Songza to make life better by playing you music tailored to every moment of every day.
Songza had grown into a global service with fans in countries like the United States, Brazil, Germany, Japan, Sweden, Austria and Australia, but now it will grow even further as a part of the curation aspect of Google Play Music. As a result, Songza will officially be folded into Google Play Music at which time users will lose access to Songza.com and the Songza mobile apps. There’s no crying! Are you crying? The tech giant has been rapidly advancing into subscription streaming music, facing off with strong upstarts like Spotify and the tech giant Apple, which launched its Apple Music streaming product last summer.
Google Play Music also revealed that it is now available in 60 different countries and features a library of 35 million songs. Soon, prompts will come up to tell customers they have the option to move their playlists to Google Play Music.
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Davich emphasizes that while Google Play Music’s new free tier is supported by advertisements, his team has made an effort to ensure the ads don’t ruin the user experience.
