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Re:Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location a... by o10449366 on Thursday May 02, 2019 @12:40PM (#19809763)
I wouldn't be surprised if that's a side effect of Google's plan to "replace" Play Music with YouTube Music, even though they're two completely different services.
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Re:Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location a... by puzzle on Thursday May 02, 2019 @12:44PM (#19809805)
Maybe they're the same service behind the scenes. Would you store the same music twice, if you had to run both?
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Re:Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location a... by dvlsg on Thursday May 02, 2019 @03:53PM (#19812035)
They don't seem to be. At least not in terms of content. YouTube music has songs that Google play doesn't, and vice versa.

The YouTube music experience is kind of odd. It seems that you can only listen to full albums if someone has uploaded them to YouTube as separate songs. Which makes sense, but it means that currently a lot of the music I listen to is nowhere to be found on YouTube music.

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Re:Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location a... by jefftk on Thursday May 02, 2019 @04:53PM (#19812785)
They're in the process of being merged: https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/23/17386752/youtube-music-up...
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