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Google Play Music dies this year, YT Music library imports begin today

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28 pointssamizdis16 comments

Probably worth including this link to the Ars collection of articles on products that Google has killed:

https://arstechnica.com/series/google-kills-product/

There's also Killed by Google:

I bought into Google Pay back when they had the intro price of $7.99 a month and have kept it ever since. I don't really listen to Google Play, but every now and then I do. The primary reason why I keep it is so I don't have to watch the ads. For me, the cost of $7.99 is well worth not having to listen to the ads. I know not everyone would feel the same.

My only reason is that I get to send my own MP3s, which is very useful when the songs aren't in the catalogue or for stuff other than music.

Can anyone recommend good selfhosted alternatives to Google Play Music?

Airsonic: https://github.com/airsonic/airsonic

Airsonic (like Subsonic before it) lets me have the best of both worlds by automatically transcoding my FLAC library to VBR MP3 on the fly when I stream music to my phone over LTE. It's a Java webapp (.war), and the standalone exe version just bundles (iirc) Jetty. I run it in Tomcat9 just as well.

My client recommendations are play:Sub on iOS and DSub on Android: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/play-sub-music-streamer/id9553... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=github.daneren...

Funkwhale for the backend and Otter for the mobile front end. https://funkwhale.audio/en_US/ https://github.com/apognu/otter

Navidrome is a recent in the scene of alternatives. I had been running Airsonic on a Pi for about 2yrs now, and recently started to test Navidrome. It is lighter on my Pi than Airsonic and also has a refreshing UI. Since Navidrome uses Subsonic apis, any app that supports Subsonic/Airsonic will support Navidrome too.

Missed to add link: https://www.navidrome.org/

I use AssetUPnP to serve music off my NAS (my collection is largely classical and has may more relevant tags than most UPnP servers handle). I have a Naim amp that understands UPnP, or BubbleUPnP on my phone.

Plex? They just released a new update to there dedicated music player app which is pretty good.

Plex is pretty good for music now

Definitely a huge UI downgrade.

Plus a clever way to invalidate all those old cheap grandfathered subscriptions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22864853

Android Police reports that the cheap grandfathered subscriptions are getting to keep it actually.

This mess seems entirely due to Google's internal management fiefdoms than anything to do with the user.

They are not.

I'have two family members which were offered the same pricing, BUT with terms clearly stating that 'google reserves right to change price any time' on the new youtube service.

I have this confirmed with YT/Google support tickets.

That's good to hear. Apologies for spreading FUD by assuming the name change would be a way to weasel out of that.

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