Google Music shutdown starts this month, music deleted in December(arstechnica.com)
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Google Music shutdown starts this month, music deleted in December
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/08/google-music-shutdown-starts-this-month-music-deleted-in-december/
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The Google curse.
Starting or joining new teams and inventing products "resolving" the exact same problem in order to get noticed and climb the corporate ladder to a Google Fellowship.
How about fixing the stuff you got ???.
Starting or joining new teams and inventing products "resolving" the exact same problem in order to get noticed and climb the corporate ladder to a Google Fellowship.
How about fixing the stuff you got ???.
Isn’t this a by product of the concept of “impact” linked to most tech corporate ladders nowadays?
I am sitting in the same boat I guess ... write backend systems that accurately bills customers and vendors daily but the idiots who takes ages to do their pretty tableau iPad presentations ranks higher.
It's not a good advert for their services, and won't encourage anyone to buy into anything new they create if they just keep closing down services, including paid-for services. You just can't trust them to keep the service running.
Yeah I am still miffed over Google Reader :).
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?
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/
https://www.plex.tv/en-gb/your-media/music/
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.)
Plex on AWS? ehhh
I would not do that ... DMCA takedowns galore !!!!!
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.
It’s a bit like using Fiji water for your toilets and paying $5 per flush.
Why would they care, or firstly how would they know if it's just for personal use?
I moved all mine across to YouTube Music - they have an automatic process that copies it across in the background for you.
Worth it? Happy with it?
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.
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.
Glad it's not just me doing this then! My 160GB iPod classic is still going strong.
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.
Did you follow a guide for this? It sounds like a great way to extend the life of my iPod indefinitely!
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...
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...
I host a Jellyfin server, personally. Jellyfin is a FOSS fork of Emby Media Server from before they went closed source.
Surprise, surprise, another Google service bites the dust!
First though I had when I read the title
But YouTube Music totally won't tho!
Just wait until we get Google One Music in 2023 ... it will be so much better !!!!.
I am planning on cancelling our family plan too. Most of tracks that I have listened are falling victims to a "loudness war". I guess they have re-encoded all of them with new settings. Now it is much more loud on YM to the point that I cannot make it lower - it is minimum settings on each possible volume control. I value my hearing more.
Also, all these little notes that I have put on some tracks here and there will be gone.
Someone in a high ranks of Google should take a clue, and once and for all say "stop it" with this "old bad, new good" madness. I have had quite a confidence loss in Google as a brand after Google Reader's demise, and nothing so far has improved it. Pixel 4 discontinued after 9 months?
Their brand lost so much confidence, that this is now to the point that at couple of different meetings over new tech directions, one of the common points brought against GCP and Go was that "This tech is from Google. We don't know if we can put a 10 years plan based on these technologies, given the Google's graveyard expansion rate".
Also, all these little notes that I have put on some tracks here and there will be gone.
Someone in a high ranks of Google should take a clue, and once and for all say "stop it" with this "old bad, new good" madness. I have had quite a confidence loss in Google as a brand after Google Reader's demise, and nothing so far has improved it. Pixel 4 discontinued after 9 months?
Their brand lost so much confidence, that this is now to the point that at couple of different meetings over new tech directions, one of the common points brought against GCP and Go was that "This tech is from Google. We don't know if we can put a 10 years plan based on these technologies, given the Google's graveyard expansion rate".
I don't think the Pixel 4 is relevant here. They discontinued it, but they're still supporting it for 3 years just as if they'd kept producing it.
The standard Google shutdown gives you maybe a monta to rescue all your data before it vanishes into the abyss.
The standard Google shutdown gives you maybe a monta to rescue all your data before it vanishes into the abyss.
I cancelled my subscription and switched to Spotify about a month ago. YT Music is absolute trash and they should feel bad for even trying to migrate users to it.
Spotify isn't bad, overall. The curated playlists seem better than Google's, and the auto-generated ones (Daily Mixes, Weekly Discover, etc) are solid. Music availability seems to be about the same, although I'm not into super obscure stuff so YMMV. The UI is a bit worse (can't scroll back in the currently playing playlist, Car Mode is really bad), and default streaming quality is subpar (but can be fixed in settings). I like the frictionless switching to different devices. Overall I'm happy.
Spotify isn't bad, overall. The curated playlists seem better than Google's, and the auto-generated ones (Daily Mixes, Weekly Discover, etc) are solid. Music availability seems to be about the same, although I'm not into super obscure stuff so YMMV. The UI is a bit worse (can't scroll back in the currently playing playlist, Car Mode is really bad), and default streaming quality is subpar (but can be fixed in settings). I like the frictionless switching to different devices. Overall I'm happy.
I was wondering when this would happen. YouTube Music sucks so bad. They mix in all of my liked videos w/ into my music. Just because I upvoted Baby Shark Dance [1] doesn't mean I want it in my effin' music rotation.
Spotify is annoying because the radio stations are garbage & I can't (or haven't yet figured out how to) downvote music.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZsoesa55w
Spotify is annoying because the radio stations are garbage & I can't (or haven't yet figured out how to) downvote music.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZsoesa55w
An example of yet another service (Songza) that was great, acquired by google and then sent to the grave.
1) streams are of FAR lower and more variable quality
2) Some of the weird and wonderful music that was on Google Music is nonexistent on YouTube
3) COPYRIGHT STRIKES from YouTube videos apply to your music library(!?)
The whole transition is a horrible idea, and I wish they would have canned it.