RIP Google Music

Re:RIP Google Music by Cloudef on Thursday November 12, 2020 @02:50AM (#25067499)

I was using it. I still want to own the shit I buy. I don't want to subscribe to a service just to rent shit. I know where subscribe cancer eventually goes.. To exclusives and to having to subscribe to tons of services just to get the shit you want. And of course you have to have a internet connection and what not. I just want to buy the music and have it on my device.

My google play music yesterday killswitched itself so I installed "simple music player" from f-droid and took my google play purchases from google takeout. Good riddance.

Also youtube music absolute sucks with its sound quality and ads.

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Re:RIP Google Music by jjav on Thursday November 12, 2020 @02:55AM (#25067534)

> I know where subscribe cancer eventually goes..

Also, to content disappearing entirely for random reasons.

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Re:RIP Google Music by majewsky on Thursday November 12, 2020 @05:47AM (#25068527)

> I installed "simple music player" from f-droid

Since we're talking F-Droid, I can highly recommend "Vanilla Music" for a plain "play a bunch of MP3s" experience. My favorite feature is that you can set it to refuse playing music on the phone speakers (only on headphones).

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Re:RIP Google Music by shrimpx on Thursday November 12, 2020 @03:55AM (#25067857)

YouTube music is terrible. I have no idea who the target market is supposed to be. It mixes in the subset of YouTube that is music, but not all of it, and stripped of YouTube context such as comments.

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Re:RIP Google Music by Cloudef on Thursday November 12, 2020 @08:38AM (#25069688)

Btw, google takeout sucks too. Why are they using .zip files? If you really must use .zip files, at least encode the contents in UTF-8...

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