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Well, I guess it is back to local storage for me. I tried youtube music but it is not for me.

You can leave it to google to fuck up the same product under 10 different names.

At some point, they had a great service with Play Music. That was ... 5 or 6 years ago ?

Then they basically abandoned it, with maybe one small update every year and it slowly dove into irrelevance :/

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you do realize that you could (have?) import all google music files to youtube music. Then you have a tab saying "own content" or so and all mp3s are still there and you could listen to them via yt music the same as you could before

@geek_at: unless I'm mistaken, you can't listen if your screen is off or without ads unless you pay for a yt music subscription. I paid to purchase music on Google Music and now I am being forced to pay a monthly fee to access the content ad free.

It does not look like you can edit your uploads unlike with Play Music. Admittedly that's very probably a feature used by few people (although I know that for all of the people that use it, it is because of some very obscure track they are very attached to and can only listen to if they upload it, making it a must have feature).

And more generally, while I don't necessarily mind a rebrand (although I have to admit that this being Google, I have my suspicions that this will be handled the same way they handle all their messaging services) and I can be forgiving for a v1, this is still so far below play music that I don't really see myself using it.

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