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Remember when Google Music hadn't been killed yet...? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm cleaning out my gmail folders this weekend, and went deep into the archive to 2011, when I got my invite to Google Music.

It's funny, because I just (November) moved all of my music out of cloud and back to local-only. Amazon was the last straw, when I tried to play purchased music, and was forced to listen to it on shuffle with other songs not of my choosing.

Anyway... there was a time when Google (ahem, Youtube) Music was set to be a game-changer. Imagine if enshittification wasn't a thing.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

When google music was consolidated into YouTube music it was a slightly worse experience, but mostly it somehow just ruined all of my playlists and made them unusable both on music and YouTube.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Slightly? I hated it and switched to Spotify

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Me too. I would've probably used Google Play Music to the end of my days but the transition to Youtube Music was so good awful I cancelled and switched to Spotify within a couple of days.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I couldn't justify the cost of Spotify when I'm still paying for YouTube premium (and have no plans to quit) and at the end of the day it still isn't GPM

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

From what I can tell, the core issue with YouTube music is that it is restricted to the same API end points as default YouTube. Their api for playlist management just sucks and a lot of client side caching and workarounds are required to make it at all feel okay to use.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

True random is hidden. They auto play videos and/or rape my data with downloads when I specifically tell it not to.