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YT Music seems to be where Google Media apps shift their users to when they retire.
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Must be fun to be on that dev-team:
"We have a new high-priority ticket: Add podcast-support to inherit users from podcast app. Ok, so I guess we move the 'Compete with Spotify/AppleMusic' stories back to the funnel"
HN moderators: why was title changed from more accurate "Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024 with listeners migrated to YouTube Music" to misleading "Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024" ?
On a related note, we have a Google dot, and asking it to play a podcast, it ALWAYS resumes from the last episode I listened to in that podcast, often weeks old. I can’t get it to simply play the latest episode of random podcast
Not so much killed as being rolled into YouTube Music
> The move will leave only Apple among the major players that hasn’t consolidated music and podcasts into a single destination Apple just finished UNbundling everything from one monolithic app, now people want it back?
Before the podcast-hype one could simply share the direct-link to the audio-file.
Now all you get are links which require Google/Apple/Spotify to open.
(But realistically, I don't know who would be willing to drive this. It would need backing from at least Google/Apple/Spotify to maintain a central catalogue, and the incentive seems to be low...)
Not so much killed as being rolled into YouTube Music
A fate worse than death. (Joke but I was a heavy Google Music user before it suffered the same fate).