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Google Music shutdown starts this month, music deleted in December

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Re: Google Music shutdown starts this month, music deleted in December

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For someone that was using GMusic as an online store of my own digitalised albums, what would be the alternative, to have something distributed that could stream across device?

Call me old fashioned, but what about a large capacity iPod or phone storage? And then just store the "master" on your laptop and sync as appropriate.

Re: Google Music shutdown starts this month, music deleted in December

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The Google curse. Starting or joining new teams and inventing products "resolving" the exact same problem in order to get noticed and climb the corporate ladder to a Google Fellowship. How about fixing the stuff you got ???.

It's not a good advert for their services, and won't encourage anyone to buy into anything new they create if they just keep closing down services, including paid-for services. You just can't trust them to keep the service running.

Re: Google Music shutdown starts this month, music deleted in December

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For someone that was using GMusic as an online store of my own digitalised albums, what would be the alternative, to have something distributed that could stream across device?

ITunes / Apple Music should work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_online_music_loc... only lists a few alternatives and a lot of defunct services like Amazon and Microsoft’s shutdown cloud player and Groove Music...

Re: Google Music shutdown starts this month, music deleted in December

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YouTube Music is _such_ complete trash I'm planning on canceling my subscription altogether and going to Spotify. It uses YouTube videos to back up your song library which means, in my experience:

1) streams are of FAR lower and more variable quality

2) Some of the weird and wonderful music that was on Google Music is nonexistent on YouTube

3) COPYRIGHT STRIKES from YouTube videos apply to your music library(!?)

The whole transition is a horrible idea, and I wish they would have canned it.

Re: Google Music shutdown starts this month, music deleted in December

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For someone that was using GMusic as an online store of my own digitalised albums, what would be the alternative, to have something distributed that could stream across device?

You could host Plex on a raspberry pi in your house. Or you could house it on paid for servers like aws. https://www.plex.tv/en-gb/your-media/music/

Plex on AWS? ehhh

Re: Google Music shutdown starts this month, music deleted in December

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post #3

For someone that was using GMusic as an online store of my own digitalised albums, what would be the alternative, to have something distributed that could stream across device?

Call me old fashioned, but what about a large capacity iPod or phone storage? And then just store the "master" on your laptop and sync as appropriate.

This is exactly what I do. And for the precise reason that I don't trust some cloud based third party service to not become unavailable for reasons beyond my control, which is exactly what's happened here. Disk storage and backup for 400-500GB of mp3 and aac is cheap.

Re: Google Music shutdown starts this month, music deleted in December

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I was wondering when this would happen. YouTube Music sucks so bad. They mix in all of my liked videos w/ into my music. Just because I upvoted Baby Shark Dance [1] doesn't mean I want it in my effin' music rotation.

Spotify is annoying because the radio stations are garbage & I can't (or haven't yet figured out how to) downvote music.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZsoesa55w

Re: Google Music shutdown starts this month, music deleted in December

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The Google curse. Starting or joining new teams and inventing products "resolving" the exact same problem in order to get noticed and climb the corporate ladder to a Google Fellowship. How about fixing the stuff you got ???.

Isn’t this a by product of the concept of “impact” linked to most tech corporate ladders nowadays?

I am sitting in the same boat I guess ... write backend systems that accurately bills customers and vendors daily but the idiots who takes ages to do their pretty tableau iPad presentations ranks higher.

Re: Google Music shutdown starts this month, music deleted in December

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The Google curse. Starting or joining new teams and inventing products "resolving" the exact same problem in order to get noticed and climb the corporate ladder to a Google Fellowship. How about fixing the stuff you got ???.

It's not a good advert for their services, and won't encourage anyone to buy into anything new they create if they just keep closing down services, including paid-for services. You just can't trust them to keep the service running.

Yeah I am still miffed over Google Reader :).

Re: Google Music shutdown starts this month, music deleted in December

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post #15
post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You could host Plex on a raspberry pi in your house. Or you could house it on paid for servers like aws. https://www.plex.tv/en-gb/your-media/music/

Plex on AWS? ehhh

I would not do that ... DMCA takedowns galore !!!!!
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