"Google Play Music is no longer available. Try YouTube Music"
...clicks...
"YouTube music is not available in your area"
...Slow clap. Well played Google, you locked me out of my music collection...
I'm so screwed if I ever leave the house again. I have no music app now
I guess unpopular opinion but I've been using Youtube Music for about 6 months now anticipating GPM shutting down and it's actually pretty great. The Mix feature is awesome and it seems like it has a lot of high quality audio not just youtube video audio like some people seem to think it does. Really has all the features of GPM (that I care about anyway)
+1 for plex.
Grab yourself a NAS, make your own, or can even use external drives that can connect to your router, and as long as your internet/power is on at home....your music/movies/tv is available from any device.
My only complaint is that I can't find a simple way to import playlists.
It has so many great features such as sharing your content with other users, and the new "watch together" service is GREAT in these times.
Weird, still works on my computer and regular android.
It's super cool because I can't uninstall the Google Play Music app from my phone because it's a system app. Bravo Google, bravo.
Look up Vanced app and install YouTube / Music on your devices.
YouTube music has been trash for me. :(
The song AI/algorithm is junk.
There is some terrible sorting and horrible playlists compared to Google Play.
Canceled my play/YouTube Music account
(TAKE THAT GOOGLE!!)
and got me a Spotify account!
That's right...vote with your money!!! Wait... what's that?
...*Awkward pause* ...
Turns out... it's just Google anyway.
*sigh*
The shitty thing is i never bought anything from GPM, i uploaded my own mp3s. And GPM wasn't even available in my country but it allowed to access my library. Now that its gone its not allowing me to play my music sayin that yt music aint available in your country am like no shit but lemmd access my own stuff.
I really like Android TV as a platform, but you know they're going to fuck Android TV/Google TV/Nest TV/Whatever up too, eventually. Fuck Google.
I loved Google Play Music. YouTube Music was such a trash tier app that after years of being a loyal customer, I canceled my subscription for Spotify. I still don't like Spotify as much as Google Play Music, but it is so much better than YouTube Music.
It wouldn't be a huge surprise if Google were to re-launch Google Play Music as an add-on to YouTube Premium for an additional fee.
Who is the moron that decided this was a good idea? I get paid to take surveys through Google and I'd use that money to buy songs from Google play music, but the morons have shut it down. What a joke this is. They are preventing me from supporting my favorite artists.
Doesn't matter to me lol. I'm old school with all my songs on a sd card.
I am not a fan of YTM. For example if I go to YouTube I can stream live stations, but I cannot get those live stations on YTM.
Example is 'lofi hip hop radio - beats to relax/study to' by ChilledCow. If you look at the description, he has links for all of the different streaming services to run this same radio station, and one of them is Google Play Music, but not YTM, so I can't get the radio stream.
Because of this, I can't play my music through my speaker system at home without having the TV on and running for no reason. YTM doesn't seem like its finished yet, like they tossed it out there, and hoped for the best.
I used Google Music since the beta, loved it. Tried this new YouTube music, there is so many things wrong with it. Looks horrible, confusing as hell. I told it to make a playlist from a Metallica song, it started to play random country music i never had in my library. Guess its time to cave in and use Spotify, but they dont have the same catalog as a service where i can upload my own songs...
YTM isn't the greatest, but it's functional. And considering I'm paying about AUD$3.50 for a family subscription that also gets me ad free YouTube, I'm willing to overlook the shortcomings. If I had to pay full price, I'd be off to Spotify or Apple music in a heartbeat (or just make do with the basic Amazon Music that comes with my Prime subscription).
And this is why I haven’t bought anything from Stadia yet...
They’ll have to do something to earn my faith before I start buying into cloud services that may or may not be around long-terms
Waited 6 long years for one of the most anticipated Material Design makeover for Google Play Music... but it never came.
Currently still listening to GP Music 😎. Imma ride it into the sunset
On YTM i cant even listen to my library of uploaded music with screen off! I need to buy premium... But i wont... So its useless to me. Any suggestions where i need to transfer my collection to?
Am I the only one who couldn't really give a shit about this? YTM is fine for the way I listen to music. Admittadly I usually just find a song/genre/mood and click shuffle(ie. start radio)
Why does Google Play Music still open up on my Shield TV?
Its still working for me...
Google Music had good UI for phones, tablets, great UI for Android TV and Wear OS. Also covered way more countries.
On Android Wear on my Sony Smartwatch 3 I downloaded 200 songs at 2014 and I was running only with my watch. iSheep didn't know that's possible. 2015 Play music on Android TV (Nexus Player) had a great app before Spotify or Apple music come to Apple TV.
2020: YouTube Music on Android TV is an icon shortcut that opens YouTube web app and on Wear OS zero comparability. Google released last week YouTube Music to Apple Watch.
It's a matter of respect to Android fans.
Can you download full albums and stream podcasts? I currently use Apple Music. Was thinking of trying Spotify but I like listening to entire albums and Spotify doesn’t have that option. But Spotify is the same price as Apple Music. So if I could find one app for $10 that I could download my music albums and stream music and podcasts I’d really think of signing up.
I haaaaate it. YouTube is such a bad way to listen to an actual music collection unlike Google Music which had a nice simple model. I wish they'd just not half-ass this and make a proper music streaming service that also had library functionality.