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You are buying a service that is subject to change.
A subscription service at that. Could have been any other company that withdraw it's app from the public.
Likewise Spotify could turn around and say it's getting rid of it's family service at any time if it was not making money.
If you had paid upfront for the year it may be another matter.
I could say the same about Microsoft taking away the ability to play DVDs in Windows 10 and I paid the full upgrade fee.
This has nothing to do with evil or morality. An app was closed down with an alternate on offer that unfortunately does not meet your needs.
Whoa, now I'm 'an issue', just for pointing to a link relating to the OP's situation?
Well excuse me.
Think I might switch to Bandcamp and forget about streaming services. The other advantage is I might value music more if I'm paying per album.
With YT music, streamlining it with Google Play makes sense, but the YT interface alone betrays the fact that they're exploiting the preexisting Play users in order to compete with other streaming services. Those of us who use Play just for a cloud library were obviously considered expendable.
The basic annoyance is that the "end user" is just a walking data mine and ad target. Every business decision leads to that, and it's spyware. Google, Microsoft, Apple, they all do it. And they force you to overhaul your hardware to either switch your loyalties or keep up with their planned obsolescence. I hate putting the kids into that environment. And I just wanna buy a friggin product without having to contribute to the World Brain with every keystroke.
For streaming, Pandora is still the way to go if you want to avoid invasive software.
a) play everything on teh vinyl
b) pony up for a service with a subscription fee which reflects what you're actually getting - a huge chunk of the recorded music catalogue.
One of the problems with b) is that you will never listen to all that music, and nor would you want to. A solution may be the ability to stream snippets of music, with a limit on the number of tracks you choose to listen to in their entirety per month, the majority of your subscription fee going to reimburse the latter. Maybe an option to amass a permanent listening library, so you can add x albums per month to that library. I'd probably go for a model based on the latter, it's pretty much the way I collected music. The advantage is that the digital age hopefully enables proper reimbursement to go to the artist, at a cut price to the consumer. Then again, my daughter is voraciously listening to anything and everything she can, from deep Radiohead to covers of Tatu, so she would benefit from some sort of "radio" option.
I'm sure there are flaws here, and if it hasn't been tried then there is a good reason for that I'm sure.
My feedback thread is here.
An advertisement came on after Breathe. And several more throughout.
I. Hate. These. Companies.
Evil
Funny thing is, after going thru all the trouble of installing YT Music as prompted, transferring all my uploads, and then uninstalling YT Music out of frustration, my Google Play app is still there and working exactly as it was all along.