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by jdjb 4007 days ago
My bigger issue that two clients cannot be listening to music at the same time, even if you're a paying member.

I'll often forget to stop streaming the music at work and start listening to it on the bus on the way home. My workstation at work then fights for control of the service with my phone and every other song drops out with "another device is using the service".

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And the really stupid thing happens if you try and play a youtube video while listening to music. It freaks out about playing a youtube video at the same time.

Whichever genius at Google came up with that one deserves a rapid promotion into the tiers of bureaucracy.

I suspect you need to have a talk to the MPAA/RIAA for that...
Weird I've done that before but I didn't even know until i went back to the other device. It's only happened twice that I left it running on a radio station though.
As a workaround i've setup Chrome Remote Desktop at any PC i use, so I can easily connect to them without much network hassle and turn off stuff like Google Music.
Seems like a pop-up implementing this would be ideal, since it's most often accidental: "Hey, this is still running on another device, and you're only allowed 1 device at a time - do you want me to remotely kill the other device's Google Music session?"

After all, most of the time it's not another human using both sessions at once.