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by ooOOoo 2050 days ago
Google Music uploaded & purchased songs are automatically transferred to YouTube Music. Google music is not really killed. It is just replaced by Youtube Music, which has has a much better interface and also includes all music videos from Youtube, a killer feature for me. See https://support.google.com/youtubemusic/answer/9698084?hl=en
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Kihashi 2050 days ago
> which has has a much better interface

You're probably the only person I've heard from that has said that. I think YTM is marginally worse in most respects. I'll keep using it because I think spotify is also lacking and getting ad-free YouTube (which I'm grandfathered into) is a pretty good feature.

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JeremyNT 2050 days ago
It's true that Youtube Music is a replacement / rebranding for Google Music, but the "better interface" is certainly open for debate.

A very strange thing I found is that, when you migrate your data from GPM to YTM, Google seems to "forget" all of its algorithmically curated data based on likes and play history. It's taking me a long time to "train" YTM back to where GPM was before the migration.

All of this is really disruptive to users though, and it's why I have taken to self-hosting the music I really care about via Jellyfin.

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xyzzy_plugh 2050 days ago
You're joking, right? YouTube Music is a tire fire. Search is broken, playlists are broken, playing in the background is broken. There's ads now?

If I wanted to watch music videos I'd open YouTube. I can't remotely recommend this to anyone, let alone my father.

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jscheel 2050 days ago
Except the fact that the transfer doesn't always work. At least for me, it just straight up failed on some albums.
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