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Comment by colordrops | Hacker News Reader

Isn't music one of the easier ones to replace? Spotify, apple, many others.

Not if your usage of Google Play Music is to seamlessly mix your personal collection (Particularly one-offs, local bands, bootlegs, parodies, mashups, obscure artists, older music, etc) with a pretty full subscription service.

From what I've heard if you're on iOS you can do this with Apple Music, but that's about it. Everyone else seems to think their collection is good enough that you won't need anything else.

Google Play Music is shutting down. I haven't checked recently, but did they update Youtube Music to allow personal uploads?

Yes you can upload: https://support.google.com/youtubemusic/answer/9716522?hl=en .

The UI/UX of youtube music is lacking compared to GPM, but at least the file locker functionality that I use is still here.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that you can upload your music to YTM but it isn't seamlessly integrated into your listened experience like it is on GPM.

Is that right? If so, that is losing the best aspect of GPM.

Just don't make my mistake of using YouTube Music from your brand account on YouTube, or you'll always see this when trying to upload music:

  Switch accounts to upload
  You're signed in to an account that doesn't support uploading. To upload music, switch to your personal Google account. Learn more

There's no way to share or migrate liked songs, apparently. And YouTube Music never warns you about the upload limitation before you start using it from "the wrong account".

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