Google Podcasts the favored app with over 500 million downloads on the Play Retailer is shutting down and can now not be out there for streaming from April 2 onwards in the USA. Google, which is taking a look at YouTube Music to take a much bigger wager on audio and video podcasts, had made the announcement about closure of Google Podcasts in a blogpost final 12 months and whereas the app is presently shutting down within the US, it is going to additionally cease working for customers in different components of the world in later a part of the 12 months.
Whereas Google has been reminding customers in regards to the shut down of Google Podcasts app by way of in-app notifications for weeks, the corporate has now began displaying warning on the app begin web page that urge customers emigrate their knowledge to YouTube Music or a podcast service of their alternative.
Notably, the Google Podcasts app continues to be out there for obtain on the Play Retailer and Apple Retailer however customers won’t be able to make use of the appliance for streaming their in style exhibits from April 2. Nonetheless, they’ll nonetheless have time emigrate their knowledge to a different utility until July 2024.
Revealing the explanation behind shutting Google Podcasts app in a blogpost, Google had acknowledged, “Wanting ahead to 2024, we’ll be rising our funding within the podcast expertise on YouTube Music — making it a greater general vacation spot for followers and podcasters alike with YouTube-only capabilities throughout neighborhood, discovery and audio/visible switching.”
The right way to switch your subscriptions to YouTube Music?
1) Open Google Podcasts app in your Android or iOS machine and click on on the Residence tab.
2) Discover the Google notification relating to the shutting down of Podcasts app and click on on Export Subscriptions
3) Beneath the Export Subscriptions choice, click on on ‘Export to YouTube Music’
4) You’ll now be redirected to YouTube Music app and requested to pick a gmail account following which your subscriptions might be added to the YouTube music app. Do observe that it might take jiffy for all you subscriptions to be transferred to the YouTube Music app.
Nonetheless, not all podcasts that you’ll have been listening to might be migrated to the YouTube Music app and customers might get a ‘Content material is unavailable’ message. On this case, customers can manually add a podcast by including the present’s RSS feed hyperlink manually.
Furthermore, the method of migrating these podcasts to a 3rd get together app is a little more tidious, requiring customers dowload by way of an OPML file for Google Takeout.
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Printed: 01 Apr 2024, 12:56 PM IST
Supply: Live Mint