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Beats Music is shutting down this month

Jacob Kastrenakes
is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade.

Apple is shutting down Beats Music for good on November 30th, at which point subscribers will have to move over to Apple Music if they want to keep using their music library and playlists. Beats Music hasn’t been accepting new subscribers since around the time Apple Music went live on iOS, so its shut down has just been a matter of time. But now that Apple Music is available on Android, Apple seems to be ready to fully shift Beats Music users over to its new service. Beats Music provides a migration tool, which will let anyone who’s still using it move everything they’ve already set up over to Apple Music. Those who don’t will have their subscription canceled.

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