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Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike (www.vice.com)
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[–] 52 points 3 years ago (18 children)

$10 a month to have basically every song ever and never have to worry about YouTube ads. Yes, I use it.

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  • [–] 35 points 3 years ago (11 children)

    hah, this was me with Grooveshark.

    and then I lost everything when it shut down.

    and then me again with Google play music. "upload your music, we'll keep it for you"

    and then I lost everything when it shut down.

    "oh it's ok, you can just use [new service], it's better anyway"

    it just isn't the same, you lose stuff everytime. I don't think it's worth it.

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  • [–] 29 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    and then me again with Google play music. "upload your music, we'll keep it for you"

    and then I lost everything when it shut down.

    There was a long period where you could transfer your GPM uploads to YTM.

    It worked perfectly for me - all my previously uploaded music is in my Library under "Uploads".

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago*

    You can still upload up to 100,000 tracks, I believe.

    Though I've not personally tried to do a bulk upload since before it changed from GPM, so I don't know if there's still library import tools available to help with that

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    yeah, it did not work for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Grooveshark. Now that's a name that I really miss. I'll never stop being mad about that site being taken down.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    this hit me hard on multiple levels. There was a lot of live performances and remixes on Grooveshark that just don't exist anymore.

    But, I also lived where they were headquartered. They had started a "Grooveshark university" for local programmers to learn the ropes and it was really cool. I was self-taught but learned a lot from that experience. Such a shame

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    I actually met employees from the company at a conference years ago and knew people that worked there off and on. It was a pretty toxic environment and the management was basically a frat party. The office had an in-house chef for a while before they had to tighten the purse strings due to the multitude of lawsuits they were getting hit with (most of which I learned came from Sony BMG). Their team of lawyers basically worked around the clock. They also underpaid devs but had an array of talent from every level that allowed people to cut their teeth and work on some cool UI.

    I used to have a ton of stuff on Grooveshark and had stuff shared to me (and vice versa) from others. It was a cool UI even if it was a little clunky at times. Great place to find obscure stuff.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    There's apps to sync your stuff when you move to another platform. It won't be perfectand certain features on certain apps are paywalled, but you should get a fairly acceptable copy of your content after using a service like this.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Your mileage may vary coming up in December. The $10 crew in the US will see a 40% increase at or near the end of the year. Grandfathering is going away.

    This brings the cost of Google's video/music service to match Amazon's video/music service. Are those services of the same quality?

    Soundcloud ($10) Is the real competitor to YT-Music in my book. Both benefit from user-generated and user-uploaded content. While there is crossover, I have found more tracks on Soundcloud that aren't on YT than the other way around.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Or $6 every 6 months if you’re savvy ;).

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    If by "savvy", you mean flubbing your location to somewhere in the developing world where that's the price point, I refuse to do that. I have no issue pretending to be in say, Germany and taking up a 75% off deal. But I won't put myself somewhere where the regular $10-$15 price point is genuinely out of range of the locals.

    If too many people fake their location to these places, the Googles and Steams of the world will stop giving those nations lower prices. I won't have my own selfishness take something away from thousands of people.

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