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Remember when Google Music hadn't been killed yet...?
(lemmy.world)
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.
Man GPM was the jam.. found so many new artists with that service. I was an early adopter and gladly paid my monthly fee.
And then YouTube music happened.... the bastards.
I rolled my own Plex server and am on plexamp for music now.
I'll never go back to streaming.
25K tracks on my Plex server, and Plexamp is the best music player I've ever used. Having started with WinAmp, I've been through quite a few.