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RIP Google Music
- drilldrive 6y agoAs with anything Google, is it really generosity when you become part of their botnet? Seems they got what they needed from the userbase information-wise and packed-house.
- gitweb 6y agoGoogle Music wasn't that good honestly. The only feature that really separated it from others was letting you upload your music. They basically ceased development on it 2 years ago and stopped adding any new functionality.
- notyourwork 6y agoYou could upload your own music to Amazon Music too.
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- chrysoprace 6y agoI don't disagree that it stagnated, but what kept me on it was the ability to seamlessly blend my own library with GPM's. Now that I've had to switch to Spotify I need to use a separate app for my own library and I hate it.
- mkhpalm 6y agoplex plus tidal is what you probably want to look into.
- jozzas 6y agoIs that not still 2 apps?
- thekyle 6y agoThe Plex app has Tidal integration.
- mkhpalm 6y agoCorrect, end of the day you basically have google music if you have plex plus tidal integration. Except now you can do lossless streaming which isn't something google music, youtube music, spotify, (most things) can do. But you can still transcode when using LTE if you want to keep the bandwidth down. Its up to you... bit rate, codec, etc. You're not just stuck with pre-selected lossy formats like mp3 or vorbis. You can use OPUS for example.
- thaumasiotes 6y ago> The only feature that really separated it from others was letting you upload your music. Weirdly, Amazon's online music service started out with this functionality, and eventually removed it.
- rz2k 6y agoI like YouTube for finding new music, and the chance of finding concerts that I attended with a hundred other people 15 years ago. The rest of the time I like listening to entire albums at a time. It was nice to get both with one subscription. Also, though it isn't relevant in 2020, Google Play Music had a better listing of upcoming nearby performances than I was aware of anywhere else.
- jeffbee 6y agoGoogle acquired Songza and integrated their playlists into the Play Music product. I think the Songza stuff is pretty good. I also think Play Music's "radio" feature is really good. When you start playing from a playlist it uses that a vector input, trying to find songs related to the whole playlist, instead of just related to one song, album, artist, or other scalar inputs.
- nchase 6y agoWhat differentiated Google Music from iTunes Match? iTunes Match is still around, costs $25/year, and works through Apple Music.
- siquick 6y agoApple Music includes iTunes match by default now https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204146 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204146
- ogre_codes 6y agoIf the point is only streaming music you already own, it's $25/ year. Or it's included in Apple Music. I just use Apple Music now, but enjoyed iTunes Match before then.
- msh 6y agoIt was free to use if you only used the match functionality.
- kodon 6y agoI turned an old laptop into a plex server. If you have a personal music library, you should do this.
- davisr 6y agoRight? Why are so many people willing to be used by agents of corporate media in their hunt for more loot? Own your media, own your future!
- smt88 6y agoMy reasoning is this: I don't want to pirate music, and I don't want to pay for every song I'll ever listen to. Pay-per-play makes the most sense to most users. We can't predict which songs we'll listen to once or 1,000 times.
- raffraffraff 6y agoMine is this: I have tracks that aren't available on any streaming service. I've also been buying music on CD since 1993, and online for 10+ years and have over 120k tracks which will never "become unavailable". My playlists will never disappear. I'll never pay another cent for them this music for the rest of my life. The money you pay to rent music each month, I use to buy another 2 albums and a bunch of tracks, so my collection constantly grows in the direction I want it to.
- davisr 6y agoGoodwill is a great source of CDs, too. Entire albums are $0.99. I get 20 CDs every couple of weeks, then rip them all as FLACs (with cdparanoia). I re-purposed a Kodak Photo Kiosk thing to automate the ripping. http://www.davisr.me/projects/cd-ripping/ http://www.davisr.me/projects/cd-ripping/
- leemailll 6y agoWow, that's dedicated. Cool project
- minitoar 6y agoI thought the transition to youtube music was pretty painless. All my uploaded songs are still there. Also, some things that were not available on google music (too obscure?) are available on youtube, and by extension the youtube music app.
- shaklee3 6y agoIt was painless, but the UI for YouTube is awful. Album lists are slower to load, the integration with Google home is worse, and the app doesn't let you play music with your screen off.
- raffraffraff 6y agoAnd it doesn't prioritize the music I have uploaded so I regularly get garbage YouTube versions instead. Google music worked, YouTube music is horrible. I'm back to using an mp3 player of sorts. I bought a JellyPro, disabled all apps apart from a music player and added some automation via magisk to turn on airplane mode when it's not plugged in, and turn the device of after an hour "idle" (not playing music, not plugged in). Best damn mp3 player ever. I get wifi sync, album art download, tag editor, last.fm scrobbling (caches tracks while airplane mode is on) and with the modifications I made, crazy battery life (especially considering how poor the jelly Pro battery is) These days a 200gb sdcard is dirt cheap, so I can fit my entire collection on it.
- dleslie 6y agoFoobar on Android works fine; and if you bought a phone that takes an sdcard you can fit an enormous library on it.
- shaklee3 6y agoThanks for reminding me about another. The desktop version forces you to play videos for songs you've uploaded unless you have a subscription. Waste of bandwidth.
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- spaceflunky 6y agoSorry TC the reality is barely anyone but aging millennials are keeping 20k songs around in mp3 format. Google killed the service because no one really uses it and it didn’t make sense to keep staffing it. But more so than that no one at google wants to work on a product no one uses. You won’t get promoted that way.
- Topgamer7 6y agoYeah everyone keeps it around as 20,000 flac files now!
- layoutIfNeeded 6y ago20k?? Lol! Those are rookie numbers. That’s like the most essential albums I’m carrying around on my phone for daily use...
- Cloudef 6y agoFlac is meant for archival purposes. You transcode to opus for listening.
- theandrewbailey 6y agoStorage is cheap. I prefer FLAC if I have the space to spare. Hey, look, another backup of my music collection!
- AdmiralAsshat 6y agoEven with generous storage space, I can only justify keeping maybe one copy of the album in FLAC. And then it comes down to which version will I archive as FLAC: the original pressing? The recent remaster? The "collector's edition"? The ridiculously hard-to-find Japanese SACD pressing?
- layoutIfNeeded 6y agoAll of them. Preferably with a 600dpi scan of each artwork.
- legitster 6y agoMicrosoft Groove (Xbox Music/Zune) essentially had this same feature. Technically, they still do - they killed off the music streaming service, but you can still upload music to your OneDrive and listen to it from any device.
- jimmySixDOF 6y agomeanwhile, two doors down on the front page: Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25060973 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25060973
- raffraffraff 6y agoOh fuck
- lawl 6y agoFor anyone looking to self-host something google music like, you may want to take a look at https://www.navidrome.org/ https://www.navidrome.org/ Been using that for a few months now and very happy with it, even if it's still quite early in development.
- gear54rus 6y agoI am wondering if I can configure good old PowerAMP with it.
- mongol 6y agoStarted to use it recently too, like it a lot. Before that I tried Jellyfin, was also good.
- sartaj 6y agoyes
- chmod775 6y agoAlso on HN today: Funkwhale https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25067701 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25067701
- sidcool 6y agoAs much as I resent Google for shuttering some fine services, I do not complain this move. It's natural to merge video and music at some stage. With just a single subscription, I get access to YouTube premium and YouTube music along with YT originals. YT music app can use some UI work, but apart from that it's a sweet deal.
- parineum 6y ago> It's natural to merge video and music at some stage. What? Why? You think it'd make sense for Netflix to Spotify and merge them? Audio and Visual media are consumed completely differently.
- sidcool 6y agoI think the comparison is not apt. YouTube already had very high traffic for music videos. And YT is very different from NF.
- watermelon0 6y agoActually, I'd reckon the majority of traffic for music videos is for listening purposes, and not for actual viewing of the video. YouTube is the best free platform for listening to music, with (probably) the largest collection of songs, if you can survive with lower quality/bitrate music.
- hnrodey 6y agoInteresting! Given that I subscribe to both then maybe it would save me a few dollars on the subs.
- AntiImperialist 6y agoThey could still be separate products but bundled as a single subscription.
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- GlTChWhISKY 6y agoAudiogalaxy .. Wow i miss that site. Im not sure why there was the need for the. "Satellite" downloader .. But man i loved AG before it went stream and then buh bye
- disillusioned 6y agoI owned an Audiogalaxy shirt that was basically my favorite shirt in high school and I wore it until it was threadbare. Audiogalaxy was just such a neat way to steal music.
- rmrfchik 6y agoI just run home based streaming server (madsonic in particular), and have all my music in phone and web.
- on_and_off 6y agoWell, I guess it is back to local storage for me. I tried youtube music but it is not for me. You can leave it to google to fuck up the same product under 10 different names. At some point, they had a great service with Play Music. That was ... 5 or 6 years ago ? Then they basically abandoned it, with maybe one small update every year and it slowly dove into irrelevance :/
- geek_at 6y agoyou do realize that you could (have?) import all google music files to youtube music. Then you have a tab saying "own content" or so and all mp3s are still there and you could listen to them via yt music the same as you could before
- xerxesaa 6y ago@geek_at: unless I'm mistaken, you can't listen if your screen is off or without ads unless you pay for a yt music subscription. I paid to purchase music on Google Music and now I am being forced to pay a monthly fee to access the content ad free.
- on_and_off 6y agoIt does not look like you can edit your uploads unlike with Play Music. Admittedly that's very probably a feature used by few people (although I know that for all of the people that use it, it is because of some very obscure track they are very attached to and can only listen to if they upload it, making it a must have feature). And more generally, while I don't necessarily mind a rebrand (although I have to admit that this being Google, I have my suspicions that this will be handled the same way they handle all their messaging services) and I can be forgiving for a v1, this is still so far below play music that I don't really see myself using it.
- andbberger 6y agoThis seems like the place to ask if anyone has a good approach to downloading your music library. I've now got a large collection of DCI shows locked away in youtube music.
- bloat 6y agoGoogle takeout has some options. I've downloaded my Google Music collection by manually and laboriously clicking through the large list of zips it provided. I think there are better ways (which I haven't tried yet) where you get it to export to Google Drive, and use some kind of local Drive syncing program to download.
- fattybob 6y agoapple is kinda slowly destroying it's iTunes device too sadly
- esturk 6y agoSo Google Music is dead... but I still can't delete the app from Android?
- container 6y agoIf you've bought albums or tracks from Google Play Music, it lets you download them as mp3. I wonder if that option will now be removed. In that case, this would be the time to download and backup all your purchased music. Maybe it's better to do it on a proper computer too, since Google says "Signing out of your account will remove downloaded music from your device.", although that might only apply to subscription tracks on mobile - I don't think it's completely clear. Ref: https://support.google.com/googleplaymusic/answer/1250232?hl=en-GB https://support.google.com/googleplaymusic/answer/1250232?hl...
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- Prcmaker 6y agoI do a lot of driving in areas with poor to no mobile phone reception. Driving back from Wilpena Pound recently, google play music stopped working, no voice control for the drive home. Okay, can deal with that. However, I'm still yet to find a replacement that will work for me. I have yt music a shot, half an hour later I still couldn't get a single correct song to play. Google's advances are rapidly pushing me away from using Google products, or even taking higher advantage of ones I already use.
- baby 6y agoI have the same problem as the author and iTunes Match works really well
- broken_symlink 6y agoI never used the streaming part, but why did they kill the app for playing music offline? I liked it for that.
- vvillena 6y agoGood riddance. I started using it because of the ability to upload my existing collection. Any song that matches their catalog used their catalog instead. The problem was that when the song in their catalog was removed due to licensing reasons, I'd lose the song too. It would be gone from any playlists too. And Google won't notify about these removals (because of course that would make them look bad, it's better if the user just doesn't notice). I'm not buying into any Google-managed service. Ever.
- StreamBright 6y agoI still remember when my friends wanted to convince me to use Google Music when it came out.
- indigomm 6y agoGoogle would appear to be killing unlimited storage across their product range. It's gone from GSuite/Workspaces. It's gone from Photos. And now it's gone from Music. If there are any Google products left that allow unlimited data, then that feature is going to disappear.
- indigomm 6y agoAnd they've just announced[0] that any Google Docs count towards your storage in Workspaces. So as well as removing unlimited storage, they've eliminated these 'zero-cost' file types. [0] https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2020/11/changes-to-google-workspace-storage.html https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2020/11/changes-to-g...
- Fnoord 6y agohttps://archive.is/0lHuk https://archive.is/0lHuk
- intricatedetail 6y agoIs there a self hosted app that you can slap on the VPS along with you music collection to replicate GM? Seems like a rather trivial thing to implement.
- NoSalt 6y agoIt's reasons like this and the Google Photo situation that make me shake my head when people say "You don't need an SD card slot on your phone when Google has all these awesome 'free' services."
- Macha 6y agoThe recent trend of service fragmentation and media appearing and disappearing from service to service has sent me back in time to protect my ownership - for the first time in a decade, I have an optical drive in my primary computer so that I can rip Blurays, my previous method of obtaining media to keep was to buy it on iTunes and use Tuneskit to strip the DRM, though that's been broken for nearly a year now after Apple cut off the fake AirPlay device method they used to get the raw video data. Should DRM-free stores for music go the way of the dodo, I guess I'd have to buy physical media there too, or just go back to piracy
- crisnoble 6y agoI have restarted buying CDs and paper books for the same reasons.
- Wowfunhappy 6y ago> my previous method of obtaining media to keep was to buy it on iTunes and use Tuneskit to strip the DRM, though that's been broken for nearly a year now What?! No it's not. iTunes + Tuneskit M4V Converter is how I watch a majority of movies and TV shows.
- Macha 6y ago> M4V Converter for Win is currently not compatible with iTunes 12.10.2 and later > M4V Converter for Mac is currently not compatible with macOS 10.13 or above.
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoOh, huh! I never noticed, because I keep iTunes and Tuneskit isolated in their own Windows VM, and I'm using Apple's special 12.6.4 branch that supports managing iOS apps (but also doesn't get updates). This setup does work, quite well in fact...
- dnrvs 6y agoI'm now on Apple Music, after a year or so of being very unhappy using Spotify. It does the streaming big catalogue of music + upload your own and stream it too that I need. I love the ease of paying for a service and streaming any music I want but there's a bunch of stuff I own from bandcamp or cds which aren't on any streaming provider and I want them to be a part of my library too. Google Music did it well for me for a long time; Apple Music is doing it alright enough for me now. Apple Music in iTunes is absolute garbage on both mac and windows, but the android app works well.
- AdmiralAsshat 6y agoGPM was great, but I found it was really only useful when I was working under constraints of Google's own making, e.g. when I was on: 1) A Chromebook 2) An Android phone/tablet that had limited storage and did not have an expandable memory. So yeah, GPM was invaluable during the period from 2013-2017 or so when my main stack was a Chromebook Pixel/HTC One M7/Nexus 7. But now my main laptop runs Linux, and my Android phone/tablet both have SD slots, so it's much easier to me just to pop in a 128GB SD card into both and opt for local storage. I guess if I ever switch to Pixel phones again, the loss of SD slot might be a problem, so again, it's sort of a Google fix to a problem Google caused in the first place...
- inpdx 6y agoI was a long term subscriber at the $10/mo tier. I kept it specifically because of the higher bitrate. Youtube music doesn't have that higher bitrate. They lost me to Tidal Hifi.
- Akinato 6y agoSame here -- I switched to Tidal.
- atum47 6y agoI tried youtube music and I really enjoyed it. With a particular taste for music, it amazed me when the app made a off line playlist of possible songs I'd like, and I did like some of them. My problem with youtube/music is how they are forcing a subscription service to us by giving us a beating with unskippable ads and all sorts of intrusive ads. Even Google music had what I thought already was a trap button to subscribe to youtube music.
- mekoka 6y agoI've come to a point where the Google brand has such a strong association with "ephemeral" that, if Gmail had been launched today, I would probably not even bother getting an account.
- wnevets 6y agoI'm still bitter about this. I understand why Google kills free services that don't make money or no one actually uses but I've been paying for this service since it was released. My YouTube music experience has been worse in almost every single way. If it wasn't for Ad-Free YouTube I would cancel my subscription immediately. As a side note one of the nice benefits was the data wasn't applied to T-Mobile data usage, I don't think YouTube Music will be added to this service. https://www.t-mobile.com/offers/free-music-streaming https://www.t-mobile.com/offers/free-music-streaming
- JediWing 6y agoGoogle Play Music worked perfectly well for me, and I used it as a Spotify alternative, not even for the music library features. The switch to YouTube Music has been terrible. Dead simple things don't work: my son would listen to a specific white noise track at night over his Google Home Mini. Previously, we could tell it to play the song, then say "repeat on" and it would repeat indefinitely until he woke up and turned it off. YouTube Music simply doesn't work repeating over a speaker. What's even more maddening: I can repeat a song indefinitely on the Android app, but once I cast to the Mini, THE OPTION TO LOOP IS CANCELLED AND DISAPPEARS. The only solution: I had to make a playlist that plays the same song for hours. From what I've read, it seems to me like this shift to YouTube Music is primarily a licensing issue. Rather than pay for streaming rights to music tracks, Google seems to be using the library of music it has on YouTube to retroactively backdoor a streaming service that plays the YouTube videos without the video. I suspect the repeat restrictions are a side-effect of this, somehow. I would switch to Spotify (and may still do so) but I'd still be held hostage to pay YouTube the same price to run without ads (the primary reason I bought the package in the first place), so my choice is to switch to Spotify and make my kids watch YouTube ads, or pay double. RIP Google Music indeed
- tw04 6y agoMy biggest complaint is that discovering new music on youtube music is basically non-existent. I could pick a station on google music and find new songs I like within 3 songs. Youtube music, even on a "curated" list seems to always play the same 20-ish songs over and over again. I'm guessing this also has something to do with the licensing.
- ragazzina 6y agoThis sounds really strange to me. I've never used Youtube music, but I've discovered much more music I like listening to normal Youtube with autoplay than with Spotify.
- jimmydddd 6y agoRe: Licensing Issue: I saw a list recently of the royalty rates different online music sites pay. Google Music was paying the highest rate, by far. So that is probably part of it.
- skizm 6y agoI originally signed up to google music because it was the only music service that played well with steam's browser so I could listen to tunes while DMing in CS:GO. I didn't want to run browsers or any other programs because of the potential for frame drops. Youtube music works alright, but hopefully they continue to improve the terrible interface and ideally have the ability to play the audio track only of songs. I don't like the videos running while listening to random remixes/mashups that only youtube has since it will cause frame drops.
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoIf I want to buy a mainstream pop song for a couple bucks and download an mp3, what website should I go to now? Amazon Music, I guess? iTunes works but requires a client, and as far as I can tell Youtube Music doesn't have downloading anymore...
- burgertime 6y agoSo I have Google Music and it’s just gone now? What about the licenses?
- derac 6y agoI like Youtube Music more. It has a wider selection and better suggestion algorithms, especially in the latest update. I think the interface is better and more modern. There may be niche features it doesn't have yet, but they are improving it rapidly.
- musingsole 6y agoI found the 10th dentist! /But yeah, me too.
- mayneack 6y agoWhere did they expand the selection? I thought everything on youtube was already in google music. I found a lot of things I used to stream from google music missing from youtube, but I've since gotten off entirely, so I haven't followed any recent updates.
- Drew_ 6y agoYouTube Music has access to any YouTube video which is a much larger set of music than was ever available through Google Play Music
- mkhpalm 6y agoTheir suggestion algorithms are possibly the worst my wife and I have ever experienced. I don't know how people can use it unless they like top40 getting jammed into anything and everything. If thats your thing then its probably great. But thats not so much an algorithm as much as its a list. Anybody can randomly drop top40 into your playlists.
- jzymbaluk 6y agoAfter Goog killed Play Music I switched over to Spotify and I've been astonished at how much better the recommendation algorithm is Youtube music's recommendation algorithm is perplexingly bad. No matter what seed I start a playlist with, it always ends up at Ra Ra Rasputin after 20 or 30 songs. I don't know if other people have this problem but it's really annoying
- piker 6y agoA shame that Google Music bought Songza -- a great service -- then nixes itself.
- typenil 6y agoI had to stop using Google music when it stopped working entirely on Firefox. Glad I got out before they killed it.
- brundolf 6y agoWhen I purged Google from my life a few years ago, this was one of the harder things to find a replacement for. I ended up finding Tunebox: http://toolsandtoys.net/tunebox-for-ios/ http://toolsandtoys.net/tunebox-for-ios/ I already had my music collection backed up to Dropbox, and this iOS app just wraps a music player around it. The screenshots do look really old on the website - I'm not sure it's actually still maintained - but it works fine (and despite the screenshots it does match the modern iOS look and feel). Nothing will probably ever be as good for this usecase as the Google Music experience, but Tunebox gets the job done. Edit: I didn't realize Plex had a music offering. I may have to check that out.
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- andmarios 6y agoGoogle's contact has been utterly disappointing so far. They kept saying for months that they will port all missing features from Google Play Music to Youtube Music and they kept advertising that you can transfer everything over. Guess what, they haven't transferred a single feature over and no, you cannot transfer everything over. I'm still staying with YT Music because they have the second best recommendation engine —Google Play Music had the best by far. I did buy subscriptions to both Deezer and Spotify (and a 3rd party service to sync my collection over) to test, but their recommendations / radio features are way worse.
- JamesLeonis 6y agoWhat I find deeply ironic is Google Music effectively monetized "pirate" music. Take those huge MP3 libraries and play them back with ads (or subscriptions) and you can pay artists based on normal Streaming economics. Hell, it meant you could double sell to a customer (again, ads or subscription) if they bought a CD legally and uploaded it. This would be a huge opportunity if not for the stupidity of the RIAA.
- rideontime 6y agoI uploaded my pirated MP3 library to Google Music, and I've never gotten an ad while listening to it, without a premium subscription. Same still applies to Youtube Music.
- JamesLeonis 6y agoThat's odd. Do you run an aggressive adblocker? I ask because I received ads in both services.
- charwalker 6y agoMine is still working right now to stream music, not local or downloaded. Some day it won't and I'll need to jump services because YTM is still hot garbage compared to an app that did all the things I wanted and got my $10 a month since late 2013 or so.
- jzymbaluk 6y agoGoogle killing off Play Music was the final straw for me finally going about de-Googling my life. Not even for privacy reasons or anything, I just hate the feeling of these great services that I use being killed or left to languish for absolutely no reason. How am I supposed to trust Android or Gmail when all my other favorite Google products have been killed off for no reason
- Havoc 6y agoGonna miss this. YouTube music feels quite glitchy still
- andypea 6y agoIf anyone else has a Google Music account, but doesn't want to move to YouTube Music, then try chatting with Google support and asking for a refund. It worked for me!