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You are here: Home / Internet / How to move your music to a new Google Play Music account

How to move your music to a new Google Play Music account

March 20, 2017 by Gary 7 Comments

Learn how to transfer your music from one Google Play Music account to anotherIt has really frustrated me that Google Play Music doesn’t allow the family plan for email addresses used with G Suite (formerly Google Apps). The solution of course is to subscribe to a family plan with an email address that’s not connected to G Suite. The problem for me was that I’d added lots of music to various playlists within my Google Play Music individual plan and didn’t want to manually recreate all the playlists (there is no means of exporting and reimporting a list of songs or playlists within Google Play Music!).

How to copy music from one Google Play Music account to another

Here is the way that I successfully copied all my songs intact in their respective playlists from one Google Play Music account to another (and then I was able to unsubscribe my original subscription).

  1. Create a new Gmail account unrelated to your G Suite domain (it’s free).
  2. Subscribe to the family plan in Google Play Music (or any other subscription plan) with your new Gmail email address.
  3. Login to Google Play Music with your G Suite linked email address.
  4. In your Music Library, hover over each of your Playlists, click the options for each playlist and share each playlist.
  5. In a separate Internet Browser open Google Play Music with your newly created Gmail account (per step 1 above).
  6. From your original (G Suite linked) Google Play Music account copy the link to the shared playlist for your first playlist and go to that link.
  7. In the Browser that you have your new Gmail account open, paste the shared link (that you copied in the step above).
  8. Now click the options icon then ‘add playlist to playlist’. Add the shared playlist to your own new playlist.
  9. Add all playlists from your original Google Play Music to your new subscription.

Now you’re ready to unsubscribe to Google Play Music with your G Suite linked email address as your playlists, along with music in the playlists, have been copied to your new account. In your Google Play Music apps on your Android and iOS devices you now just need to login with your new Gmail account to have access to your new subscription.

A word of warning; my playlists didn’t contain any purchased music so I’m not sure that the instructions above will move across purchased music.

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Comments

  1. Bangelica says

    November 9, 2017 at 11:39 pm

    Try checking out the musconv tool for transferring your music library from one library to another – bangelica

    Reply
  2. Michael Joslin says

    December 7, 2017 at 12:28 am

    This does not work. When you log into your Gsuite linked google music account you do not have the option to share the playlist. I even tried to manually copy the link out from the address bar for the playlist and that did not work either. It said the playlist was not shared.

    How do you share a playlist from a Gsuite account?

    Reply
    • Gary says

      December 7, 2017 at 8:52 am

      I’ve tested and the Share option is there for me; hover over your playlist when viewing in ‘Music Library’, click the options icon (to the bottom right of the playlist) and click ‘Share’.

      Reply
      • Michael Joslin says

        January 3, 2018 at 11:43 pm

        Figured out what the issue was. You must have an active Music Play subscription on the original apps account to get the share option. The free trial will work as well. I original did not have an active subscription, I was just listening to music I had uploaded.

        Reply
  3. [email protected] says

    January 5, 2018 at 9:23 pm

    This is awesome! I had been looking for a way to do this!

    Reply
  4. Joffrey Tomasello says

    July 18, 2018 at 4:21 am

    :This seems like an important thing to add to this article because I did not have the share option either…and I got a message saying it was not allowed with G Suite accounts.

    Reply
  5. Stu McKinlay says

    December 2, 2018 at 5:20 am

    Thanks for the tips to workaround this ridiculous scenario… if only there was a similar thing you could for the 363 albums I’ve added to my library and the 157 albums I’ve downloaded for offline listening.

    Reply

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