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Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024 with listeners migrated to YouTube Music (techcrunch.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 107 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Dear Google.

YouTube Music is shit. Stop trying to combine your other services into YouTube music.

Google Play Music was good. Google Podcasts was... not awful

YouTube Music is the worst of both services.

Just stop

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I loved Google play music as a locker for my owned music and a a storefront to buy what I wanted. YouTube Music made me abandon it completely and move my owned music onto my plex server.

Why does Google have to ruin everything? Still bitter about Google Reader closing back in the day. That was the beginning of the end of me having confidence in their services and moving to self hosting as much as I can.

[–] projectsquared 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Google Music was the only place I bought music digitally other than iTunes, and I used it religiously. I downloaded all of my personal music uploaded to Google Music before it closed with the intention of running my own Plex server. A friend who works IT security scared me into not running an externally-accessible Plex server.

So I fight with the YouTube Music app being complete dogshit on CarPlay. If you think the app is bad on mobile, just try the CarPlay version. Unusable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

How did he scare you from running the plex server? Couldn’t you keep it loca only and use tailwind to access it from anywhere

[–] Fredselfish 19 points 1 year ago

As someone who loves Google Podcasts this sucks. Fuck YouTube Music and I miss my Google Music.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

As a YouTube Music subscriber (because of yt premium): "stop trying to make YouTube music a thing. It's not going to happen".

[–] Tandybaum -1 points 1 year ago

What is the complaint about YouTube music. I got it for free and it’s pretty good. Maybe not perfect but I don’t big beef about it.