Month: September 2020

A little bit of background. I was one of those who jumped on the inaugural Google Play Music (GPM in short for the rest of this post) subscription plan, because they promised an $8/month lifetime fee. At the time, apart from the price, it has some other advantages over the other services: you could upload your own music and have a unified music library [Amazon’s two-library thing with Prime-Music and your-own-music was annoying], YouTube RED was included, you could watch YouTube proper without ads, and you could play YouTube on your Android phone in the background…

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I was among those who jumped on Google Play Music right when it came out, and I was at the then-lifetime $8/month subscription rate. I am no longer there, I switched to Spotify a couple of years ago for a variety of reasons [including the need to support smaller companies as the Big Ones looked to be taking over music subscriptions]…

Anyway, Google made the Big Decision and Google Play Music is going away and the MP3 store at the Google Play Store is also going away and the stand-alone Music Manager software is also going away…

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