Google Music shutdown starts this month, music deleted in December

Re:Google Music shutdown starts this month, music deleted in... by peach on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @04:41AM (#24058559)

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?

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Re:Google Music shutdown starts this month, music deleted in... by CodeyWhizzBang on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @06:54AM (#24059319)

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

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Re:Google Music shutdown starts this month, music deleted in... by peach on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @10:57AM (#24061505)

Worth it? Happy with it?

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Re:Google Music shutdown starts this month, music deleted in... by 72deluxe on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @07:40AM (#24059683)

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.

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Re:Google Music shutdown starts this month, music deleted in... by walrus01 on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @08:06AM (#24059892)

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.

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Re:Google Music shutdown starts this month, music deleted in... by 72deluxe on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @03:18PM (#24064450)

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

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Re:Google Music shutdown starts this month, music deleted in... by errantspark on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @04:04PM (#24064952)

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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Re:Google Music shutdown starts this month, music deleted in... by 72deluxe on Sunday August 09, 2020 @11:57AM (#24100428)

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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Re:Google Music shutdown starts this month, music deleted in... by fuzxi on Saturday August 15, 2020 @04:32PM (#24172139)

I host a Jellyfin server, personally. Jellyfin is a FOSS fork of Emby Media Server from before they went closed source.

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Re:Google Music shutdown starts this month, music deleted in... by arbol on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @05:13AM (#24058732)

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/

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Re:Google Music shutdown starts this month, music deleted in... by WorldMaker on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @01:48PM (#24063490)

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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Re:Google Music shutdown starts this month, music deleted in... by ryanlol on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @08:01AM (#24059862)

Plex on AWS? ehhh

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Re:Google Music shutdown starts this month, music deleted in... by tibbydudeza on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @08:32AM (#24060081)

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

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Re:Google Music shutdown starts this month, music deleted in... by ryanlol on Thursday August 06, 2020 @05:47AM (#24069495)

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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Re:Google Music shutdown starts this month, music deleted in... by wuunderbar on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @07:09PM (#24066611)

Why would they care, or firstly how would they know if it's just for personal use?

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Re:Google Music shutdown starts this month, music deleted in... by javagram on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @07:46AM (#24059734)

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...

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