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.

  • @[email protected]
    17•4 months ago

    Man GPM was the jam… found so many new artists with that service. I was an early adopter and gladly paid my monthly fee.

    And then YouTube music happened… the bastards.

    I rolled my own Plex server and am on plexamp for music now.

    I’ll never go back to streaming.

    • @[email protected]English
      9•4 months ago

      25K tracks on my Plex server, and Plexamp is the best music player I’ve ever used. Having started with WinAmp, I’ve been through quite a few.