) says that 'paying members' will be able to download music for offline listening.ĭoes that mean that I won't be able to download my own music to my device without paying for the privilege?ĮDITED TO ADD: A few people have asked, in the comments, why I even want to bother with a cloud-based music platform, if I plan on always having my music locally stored. Will I be able to do the same thing with YouTube Music? All of the information I have read online (for example official blog To this end I have my entire Play Music library downloaded onto an external SD card on my phone. I also am often in places without reliable WiFi and I don't like to use data for streaming audio, so I prefer to have my entire library stored locally.
I am possibly an atypical user - my entire Play Music library is music that I ripped from CDs and uploaded to my account. I just received an email notification that Google Play Music would be discontinued later this year, and instructing me to transfer my library over to YouTube Music (I haven't done this yet).