> keeping 20k songs around in mp3 format. Google killed the service because no one really uses it

that's why they proposed to (and i did) move my 35k songs to ytmusic?

in any case, this all downgraded my experience so significantly (due to no background playing, shitty interface etc) that i even considered starting paying for it. maybe that was actually their point.

but thanks, google, not today - since i work from home due to covid anyway, i have no need for it anymore