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submitted 10 months ago by s38b35M5@lemmy.world to c/general@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.

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[-] JIMMERZ@lemm.ee 64 points 10 months ago

I was a day one GPM music user until it was discontinued. That app was my most used service ever and it took thousands of hours to curate my whole collection there. When Google killed it, I vowed to never become dependent on a Google product much less a cloud based service ever again. PlexAmp is my go to now.

[-] RatzChatsubo@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yes Plexamp gang! I find the transition works for me too. I have a raspberry pi that just works with all my music on there. Paid the lifetime Plex fee too because I use it constantly.

[-] JIMMERZ@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Absolutely, the lifetime was worth it!

[-] AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

PlexAmp member reporting in.

[-] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 10 months ago

I'm that regard, Google does a lot to propagate the use of free software and self hosting.

I really liked them at one time.

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