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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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Post by peach »

CodeyWhizzBang wrote: post #7
peach wrote: 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?

I moved all mine across to YouTube Music - they have an automatic process that copies it across in the background for you.

Worth it? Happy with it?

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Post by parliament32 »

I cancelled my subscription and switched to Spotify about a month ago. YT Music is absolute trash and they should feel bad for even trying to migrate users to it.

Spotify isn't bad, overall. The curated playlists seem better than Google's, and the auto-generated ones (Daily Mixes, Weekly Discover, etc) are solid. Music availability seems to be about the same, although I'm not into super obscure stuff so YMMV. The UI is a bit worse (can't scroll back in the currently playing playlist, Car Mode is really bad), and default streaming quality is subpar (but can be fixed in settings). I like the frictionless switching to different devices. Overall I'm happy.

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Post by WorldMaker »

arbol wrote: post #5
peach wrote: 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?

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/

Most NAS systems support Plex. A Synology, for one example, might be a better option than a Raspberry Pi. (ETA: If you have the money to invest in it, of course.)

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Post by 72deluxe »

walrus01 wrote: post #16
72deluxe wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Glad it's not just me doing this then! My 160GB iPod classic is still going strong.

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Post by errantspark »

72deluxe wrote: post #25
walrus01 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Glad it's not just me doing this then! My 160GB iPod classic is still going strong.

It's possible to get it going even better than strong. I have an old 60GB iPod that I swapped an SD card adapter into in lieu of the hard drive and then used the extra space to put in a bigger battery. The parts are super easy to find on ebay and now I have a 256GB iPod that can play music for 50+ hours straight.

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Post by ryanlol »

tibbydudeza wrote: post #20
ryanlol wrote: post #15

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Plex on AWS? ehhh

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

I wouldn’t worry about that, but the million dollar bandwidth and storage bills.

It’s a bit like using Fiji water for your toilets and paying $5 per flush.

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Post by tandr »

I am planning on cancelling our family plan too. Most of tracks that I have listened are falling victims to a "loudness war". I guess they have re-encoded all of them with new settings. Now it is much more loud on YM to the point that I cannot make it lower - it is minimum settings on each possible volume control. I value my hearing more.

Also, all these little notes that I have put on some tracks here and there will be gone.

Someone in a high ranks of Google should take a clue, and once and for all say "stop it" with this "old bad, new good" madness. I have had quite a confidence loss in Google as a brand after Google Reader's demise, and nothing so far has improved it. Pixel 4 discontinued after 9 months?

Their brand lost so much confidence, that this is now to the point that at couple of different meetings over new tech directions, one of the common points brought against GCP and Go was that "This tech is from Google. We don't know if we can put a 10 years plan based on these technologies, given the Google's graveyard expansion rate".

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

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Post by 72deluxe »

errantspark wrote: post #26
72deluxe wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Glad it's not just me doing this then! My 160GB iPod classic is still going strong.

It's possible to get it going even better than strong. I have an old 60GB iPod that I swapped an SD card adapter into in lieu of the hard drive and then used the extra space to put in a bigger battery. The parts are super easy to find on ebay and now I have a 256GB iPod that can play music for 50+ hours straight.

Did you follow a guide for this? It sounds like a great way to extend the life of my iPod indefinitely!
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