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Remember when Google Music hadn't been killed yet...? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] Albbi 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I was a big fan of GrooveShark. I thought they could have transitioned to the paid system, but weren't able to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Grooveshark was so cool! But I don't think anything could've saved them, it was full of pirated music available for everyone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I loved Songza. 😭 To this day, I've not been equally happy with any other offering out there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I miss the Zune Pass. From around the same time. Unlimited downloads with DRM and 10 DRM free downloads for 15/month. That was still the era of 99 cent songs so was pretty good deal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I remember.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah, tragic. The queuing behavior was so perfect

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

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

[–] mintiefresh 1 points 11 months ago

Pain

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Used to use GPM now use Tidal. Wish it was as cheap as old GPM but the quality is excellent.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Deezer is also pretty good

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh that's right forgot about them, should see if their catalogue stacks up well against them

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I've only ever had a few tracks that I couldn't find on deezer but they usually couldn't be found anywhere else either. I like quboz a lot too because they are both transparent about music quality (as well as the highest of any streaming service typically.) and they have a store for their music as well, but they have probably the smallest catalog of any of the major streaming service.

I like deezer because of their user stance and the commitment to offering cd quality audio, which is really all I care for anyways. Anything I can think of that would actually benefit from 1-bit, I'll buy it in DSD.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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

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