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by INTPenis 3027 days ago
I like google play, also converted from spotify. But I don't like that albums disappear from google play.

This happened at spotify too and I assume it's due to legal issues. When an artist released a certain album on one label and only that album disappears.

It's very annoying and is pushing me back to good old piracy.

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I've experienced all of these issues before, the 10k/disappearing albums is really debilitating for music lovers who like to collect full albums. I switched to Spotify from Google Music a few months ago, and my experience is mostly the same--mediocre, but functional enough.

At least Spotify has an open API, so you (maybe) can solve your own problems given some time.

(10k is really not that much at all if you're into a few genres.)

Instead of saving full albums to your saved tracks, save only the very favorite tracks, and add the albums as playlists instead.

I have a playlist folder called "favorite albums" specifically for this.