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Google Play Music, Music Play Store and Music Manager are going away

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Re: Google Play Music, Music Play Store and Music Manager are going away

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Post by jcrawfordor »

adi2907 wrote: post #143
s3r3nity wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>The migration was super botched by the product team because of this. I honestly don't know why Google's Product Team has any positive reputation at this point. I can count on one hand the number of positive launches from that company that didn't involve buying another company or product. It's almost as if they're so good at playing politics and "the game" that people can't see the actual track record is shit.

Partially agree,,Google Colabs is outstanding, even though inspired by jupyter notebook. Taking over scientific community

I dunno, I believe Microsoft's Azure Notebooks predates Colab and perhaps gave Google the kick to make it public, and Colab was a spinout of an internal tool with a rather rocky relationship with open source that has still been a pain point I run into using it for teaching ("what is the difference between Colab and Jupyter?" is a question without an especially clear answer). Also they stole the name from GE's old internal social network.

That latter one, at least, was not entirely serious criticism.

I'm not sure that even Colab is an unmitigated win for the company, it does definitely have "that AWS feeling" of an internal tool that was made a product without really retooling it for that purpose thoroughly. This has kind of become the norm in cloud platforms, though.

Re: Google Play Music, Music Play Store and Music Manager are going away

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Post by LudwigNagasena »

ozmbie wrote: post #6

How is it that Google create/rebrand/close so many music and chat services over the years. While Apple have a single message service (iMessage) and a single music service (Apple Music) that have been consistently branded with constant growth and show no signs of being shut down? As a consumer I have no idea what’s going on with some areas of Google’s products. It’s a major turn off.

I think the main difference is that Google welcomes intrapreneurship while Apple does a more top-down approach.

Re: Google Play Music, Music Play Store and Music Manager are going away

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Post by tgsovlerkhgsel »

Given that Google Play Music was the default app for "I just want to play that folder full of MP3s on my phone", and YouTube Music really isn't handling that use case well, what other player do people use/recommend for this?

I don't care about online features. Folder, mp3, maybe a m3u/m3u8 file, play. Simple.

Re: Google Play Music, Music Play Store and Music Manager are going away

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Post by blibble »

drumttocs8 wrote: post #138

Is there a self hosted alternative to Google Play Music? The software was an excellent free service- just not very good at making money for Google. A lot of us with music collections are running NAS- surely something can fill the void. Right now I'm using MusicBee for playing flac locally, Spotify for streaming on the go.

subsonic (or one of its forks) are what I've been using for the past 12 years

dsub is a brilliant piece of software, and it uses the subsonic api

Re: Google Play Music, Music Play Store and Music Manager are going away

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Post by spicyramen »

adi2907 wrote: post #143
s3r3nity wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>The migration was super botched by the product team because of this. I honestly don't know why Google's Product Team has any positive reputation at this point. I can count on one hand the number of positive launches from that company that didn't involve buying another company or product. It's almost as if they're so good at playing politics and "the game" that people can't see the actual track record is shit.

Partially agree,,Google Colabs is outstanding, even though inspired by jupyter notebook. Taking over scientific community

Google Colab has a very very strong Engineering team. Part of Google Research they definetly changed the game when they offer a free product which 1) increased collaboration across ML research 2) offer everybody access to GPUs first K80 and now T4 which is great among researchers and students. Now many other notebooks products now want to be the Enterprise colab version

Re: Google Play Music, Music Play Store and Music Manager are going away

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Post by interestica »

electriclove wrote: post #25
necubi wrote: post #15

This is a bummer. I gather that I'm one of the few users of Google Play Music, so it's not surprising it's being killed. But it was one of the few streaming services that had the ability to upload your own music, a good catalog, and widespread device support. YouTube music is OK, but worse in a bunch of respects. It separates out your uploaded music into a separate library (admittedly the matching in Play Music was a…

Yeah, I'm in the same boat. I'm thinking of putting my music in my Google Drive and using Plex (on a seedbox server). So my music is safe and accessible but I still need to pay for a streaming service because I like the discovery options they have.

I've heard good things about Subsonic but haven't actually used it myself. It's mostly self-hosted but has a 'premium' model for certain aspects.

Re: Google Play Music, Music Play Store and Music Manager are going away

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Post by technick »

Their is a entire subreddit woke over the death of google music. https://old.reddit.com/r/googleplaymusic/

If you have linkedin premium, reach out to the person linked here, Gwen Shen and let her know how much google music sucks. https://old.reddit.com/r/googleplaymusic/comments/jbbw3m/any...

Re: Google Play Music, Music Play Store and Music Manager are going away

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Post by hatsunearu »

Youtube music is absolute garbage. I can't use my youtube account, and I have to use my google account to access my tranferred music. And if I switch to my google account, I am logged out of youtube, and all my subscriptions are gone.

I listen to very uncommon music that's not available anywhere to be streamed. Google Play Music was the only solution for streaming all my collection. I am looking for replacements... please let me know if you have any. My current bet is something like owncloud.

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