Skip to Main Content

Google Music Manager Update Lets You Download All Songs

Google on Thursday announced that Android users can now download Google Music songs to their devices.

January 27, 2012

Google on Thursday announced that going forward, it will let Android users in the U.S. download all of their cloud-based tracks from .

The company said in a post on the Android Google+ page that it has rolled out a new version of Music Manager that lets you download all of the songs you've added to Google Music, whether you uploaded them from your own library or bought them in the Google Music Store.

You'll still be able to access and stream your music from the cloud, but this gives you the option to store it on your device as well.

Google offers full directions on how to download your music on its support page.

Google in November. Available via music.google.com as well as a mobile app, the service is currently open in the U.S. only. Users are free to store and stream as many as 20,000 songs in the Google cloud for free, and buy tracks they don't have from the Google Music Store.

Google Music currently has licensing deals with three of the four major music labels, including Universal Music Group, Song Music Entertainment, and EMI, in addition to independent labels.

Google Music also has a tie-in with Google+. It allows users to share with their circles full songs they've purchased from the Google Music Store.

For more on Google Music, see a and , as well as the slideshow below.