ya they kill of what was a VERY nice place to go for music. Better quality, better UI/UX even more so the spotify, (see others comments in this HN thread for some examples), Now I am back to being stuck with spotify since getting the same music over and over again is really bad. in both services. (I have not used Google Play Music enough to really comment on it) So sad we had to lose a great service to one that was going down hill and did not even use the great service to bolster itself.