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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] 4 points 9 months ago

I literally just want to sort my liked music by the number of times it's been played. I really, really miss that feature.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I remember a glorious time when Songza existed. It was amazing and I used it every single day. Then the death march began as it was "acquired" by Satan. Satan let it live on for a short while, but after that it "sunsetted" (or whatever other idiotic word they used back then) and Satan killed it.

Oh songza, how I loved thee.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I was a big fan of GrooveShark. I thought they could have transitioned to the paid system, but weren't able to.

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

Grooveshark was so cool! But I don't think anything could've saved them, it was full of pirated music available for everyone.

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

I remember.

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

I miss the Zune Pass. From around the same time. Unlimited downloads with DRM and 10 DRM free downloads for 15/month. That was still the era of 99 cent songs so was pretty good deal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Google music killed songza, I'll never forgive them.

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

I loved Songza. 😭 To this day, I've not been equally happy with any other offering out there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I'm back on local only as well. Even dipping back into physical media. The thrift stores are my Spotify now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah, tragic. The queuing behavior was so perfect

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Yt music does the same thing though, I still send my downloaded songs to it, I really don't get what was so special about the old version.

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

My account migrated seamlessly, had no problems at all. I like it still.

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

Used to use GPM now use Tidal. Wish it was as cheap as old GPM but the quality is excellent.

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

Deezer is also pretty good

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

Oh that's right forgot about them, should see if their catalogue stacks up well against them

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

Such promise.

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

Pain

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