How to listen to MY own music on my phone?

nancyjerry wrote:
Not very techie, so plain English please. :{
Have a Samsung Note 9 that came with Google Play. My music was there because the kid transferred it from my old phone.
Now G. Play has gone away. Want me to switch to YoutubeMusic.
I can't figure out, is this FREE?
I want to play the playlist I made from CDs I BOUGHT, the artist has been paid already!

I have transferred some of the music, but it keeps asking if I want to extend my'free' trial..
I do not want to pay $10 a. Onth for something I own !
OR, is there another app for me?
Thank you.

Are the files ON your phone?

Or are they being "hosted" on the web?

If hosted via Google Play and not on your phone then you most likely will need to download all of what you own before they fully shut down access to your phone.

Some Android versions may include a free music file player which is not part of Google Play, you can see if you have one. If you have one you might be able to use that.

If you have all of your music files on your phone, you can try VLC FOR ANDROID (VLC is a media player which plays audio and video files and is free or if you wish donate some money).

VLC gives you the option to create playlists also from your files (I don't know if it will import existing playlists, you would have to research that). You keep everything on your phone and no more "ransom" stuff when someone decides to stop supporting their "product" (which is pretty common now days).

VLC may even work with online cloud storage, I have never tried that.