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Google Play Music, Music Play Store and Music Manager Are Going Away

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As someone who has been using Google Play Music All Access since day 1 this is the most obnoxious thing Google's done to me (not that they're doing it only to me, but that it has annoyed me the most), I definitely will be cancelling my subscription if they force me into YouTube music. I'm not supporting a company that breaks things that work just fine. I will not participate in your forced migration into YouTube. It's only a matter of time before congress swoops in and breaks YouTube out of Google at this rate.

I decided to post this after they've kept asking me to migrate to YouTube Music every single time I log into Google Play Music All Access.

This just guarantees I buy an iPhone and go with Apple's streaming service and avoid YouTube like the plague. I watch a number of gun related channels that get attacked by YouTube's policies, so I will have to just visit them in alternative sites they upload to.

The YouTube music app is just okay.

What I hate is that now, regular YouTube keeps recommending me music and mixes based upon my music preferences. I cannot stand this. I don't watch YouTube for music!

Previously it would have recommended music videos, mostly rap and hip-hop (which I do not and have never listened to) and there was no way to turn that off. But it was relegated to it's own section which I just ignored. Now the mixes they keep recommending are just getting to be way too much.

I have YouTube premium, because I hate ads. But these music mixes, the rap recommendations that I can't disable, and the YouTube movies recommendations that don't allow you to select "not interested" like normal videos - are really lowering my opinion of YouTube and I can't be the only one.

I am staying in due to grandfathered YouTube Premium access, which we use on road trips with kids, but the YT Music app definitely takes a while to get used to, and seems to be missing some of the content previously available on GP Music.

I lost this one when my card got cancelled and they didn't reinstate it after I added my card back, so I have no such incentives unfortunately for them, but I agree having YouTube Premium definitely was kind of worthwhile, but I don't want to feed into Google anymore after what was a perfectly functioning service is now gone. I can only assume it's some licensing related shift so they can focus these efforts on YouTube instead.

And the graveyard grows. Found this nice log of products killed by Google: https://killedbygoogle.com/

From a business perspective, Google seems to treat products almost like VCs treat startups - shotgun them out the door and see what sticks. I can't think of too many other companies (maybe Ballmer-era Microsoft?) in the software space that have taken a similar approach.

This is such a recurring issue that I just stop using new-ish Google products for fear of the rug getting pulled under me.

I used to use Google Home, now renamed Nest Home, and now I just stop using them altogether since I don't know how long it will survive.

Pretty much the only thing from Google I use today are Gmail and Google Docs.

This thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24165445 describes what's going on internally at Google that led to that graveyard. Namely, how the promotion system encourages the creation of a new thing, and inadvertently de-emphasizes maintenance.

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