General Discussion

Yeah, tragic. The queuing behavior was so perfect

And now almost all of Google's "offerings" are enshittified to no end.

Best music platform ever, and probably forever with the way things are going.

Been rocking a real mp3 player with a metal shell for years now. Nothing quite like having a dedicated device you curate yourself. The last time I used spotify was 2016

If youtube-dl/yt-dlp ever stops working im in trouble

Oh yes, the enshittification of music streaming.

To be fair, most people seem to be fine with a "broadcast radio" type playback, where they want to hear both the music they already know/like, with other music that is at least somewhat similar to it.

A nontrivial number of people are more like you, who want this specific music to be played and nothing more. But that perspective, at least from what I've seen, is not held by the majority of users. So we get random trash thrown in with our personally curated lists of songs and albums.

Catering to the majority is fine, IMO, since that's what will pay the bills. I get it. From a business perspective it makes sense. However, ignoring literally everyone else in the process is not what I would consider to be an acceptable policy. Certainly make the defaults conform to what appeals to the largest number of people, but allow the individual user to customize their experience.

Since companies won't do that, those that want to listen to specific music generally get pushed into having a local music collection, so it behaves in a way that makes sense.

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

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.

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

Remember when the Intenet made you optimistic? That's why I think these posts gut me so much. Because it doesn't do that anymore.

Anyway off to continue doom scrolling.

terrible. I thought I would never need a copy of my music files again - They're uploaded to Google so it's all good.

When it crashed, it was an extreme hassle to download the several gigs, I ended up storing them on a phone temporarily, which then died and is likely not recoverable. I lost some rare and unique recordings like the music from my old band that I recorded.

Maintaining this would have been a pittance for Google.

Yup, it was one of the worst "someone's getting promo and the users are getting screwed" Google decisions.

Anyone remember this list?

https://www.reddit.com/r/googleplaymusic/comments/icmwdf/one_comprehensive_list_of_youtube_music/

It was the best! GPM's demise was an abomination.

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

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.

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.

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

This and Zune were peak music.

I'll die on the hill that GPM was and still is the best music service I ever used. I don't think I ever had a single recommendation that wasn't on point for me. The service worked flawless and the app was easy to use. When we got the notice our hearts sank. Spotify doesn't even compare .