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Tell HN: All your Google Music deleted on February 24th

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Re: Tell HN: All your Google Music deleted on February 24th

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Not only that, but when you export to YouTube Music from Play Music they give you the same experience as you would have had you not bought the music on Play Music. They make you watch ads to see the content you purchased and transferred. I'm sure this bug looks great in terms of revenue.

I transferred and i cant find where it all is on my youtube

I suggest trying the Google Takeout tool.

Re: Tell HN: All your Google Music deleted on February 24th

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They deleted my curated playlist for programming while I was a paying customer and with zero warning. I just moved to a new service (and in parallel keep my playlist locally, with good old mp3 files). Thanks for the warning, but unfortunately when it comes to Google one must never be surprised when their data is no longer accessible.

Why they deleted your playlist? Copyright issues?

Unlikely, given it only had songs available in the platform (i.e. I had not uploaded any songs myself).

To be more technically accurate, the playlist itself was not deleted, the ~600 songs in it were removed from the playlist.

Re: Tell HN: All your Google Music deleted on February 24th

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I know the general feel with Google is "they'll shut this down too" and correct me if I'm wrong, but this looks to be more of a rebranding/merge save for the one click to port everything and lose nothing. If that's true I just wanted to call it out since comments so far read like they're deleting content you've purchased with no recourse.

It isn't true that this is merely a 'they'll shut this down too' situation. After transferring music to YouTube Music, I now have to watch ads on the content I had purchased. When they sold me that music, they told me I wouldn't have to watch ads on the music I paid for.

In my eyes, this is theft. Shutting down a service is fine. Theft isn't. I don't accept that company name musical chairs absolves Alphabet of its responsibility to render to me the goods that I paid for. I see this as a rebranding, not a ceasing, so in my eyes Alphabet still has a responsibility to me as a custodian of the digital goods I purchased from them.

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