<story><title>Google Play Music, Music Play Store and Music Manager are going away</title><url>https://support.google.com/youtubemusic/thread/62843644?hl=en</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>01100011</author><text>&amp;gt; I honestly don&amp;#x27;t know why Google&amp;#x27;s Product Team has any positive reputation at this point.&lt;p&gt;They have a positive reputation?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been a loyal Googler for about 20 years.  Nexus, Pixel, Chromecasts, GMail, Fi, Android TV, Google Domains...&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m about done.  It seems like every month they do something to make it more apparent that they&amp;#x27;re just an advertising company.  Products fail to get maintained, they get upgrades that make them less useful, or they&amp;#x27;re outright cancelled.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m planning on de-Googling a bit soon.  I may stick with Android, although iPhones or FOSS options are tempting.  I feel like I can&amp;#x27;t stomach supporting Google when they continue to make misstep after misstep.</text></item><item><author>s3r3nity</author><text>&amp;gt;The migration was super botched by the product team because of this.&lt;p&gt;I honestly don&amp;#x27;t know why Google&amp;#x27;s Product Team has any positive reputation at this point.&lt;p&gt;I can count on one hand the number of positive launches from that company that didn&amp;#x27;t involve buying another company or product.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s almost as if they&amp;#x27;re so good at playing politics and &amp;quot;the game&amp;quot; that people can&amp;#x27;t see the actual track record is shit.</text></item><item><author>ElijahLynn</author><text>And FWIW, the migration doesn&amp;#x27;t work. The &amp;quot;thumbs up&amp;quot; playlist goes into YT Music &amp;quot;Liked music&amp;quot; which includes all sorts of other YouTube &amp;quot;music-ish&amp;quot; videos that we have liked over the years and the order is all jacked up, plus mixed with all that other stuff.&lt;p&gt;So your &amp;quot;Liked Music&amp;quot; is now, not what you intended. The migration was super botched by the product team because of this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>josteink</author><text>&amp;gt; I&amp;#x27;ve been a loyal Googler for about 20 years. Nexus, Pixel, Chromecasts, GMail, Fi, Android TV, Google Domains...&lt;p&gt;It was the same for me. But when Google seriously started botching the Nexus line and I bought three almost unusable products in a row (Nexus 9, Nexus Player, Nexus 5X), I was fed up and left.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Play Music, Music Play Store and Music Manager are going away</title><url>https://support.google.com/youtubemusic/thread/62843644?hl=en</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>01100011</author><text>&amp;gt; I honestly don&amp;#x27;t know why Google&amp;#x27;s Product Team has any positive reputation at this point.&lt;p&gt;They have a positive reputation?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been a loyal Googler for about 20 years.  Nexus, Pixel, Chromecasts, GMail, Fi, Android TV, Google Domains...&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m about done.  It seems like every month they do something to make it more apparent that they&amp;#x27;re just an advertising company.  Products fail to get maintained, they get upgrades that make them less useful, or they&amp;#x27;re outright cancelled.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m planning on de-Googling a bit soon.  I may stick with Android, although iPhones or FOSS options are tempting.  I feel like I can&amp;#x27;t stomach supporting Google when they continue to make misstep after misstep.</text></item><item><author>s3r3nity</author><text>&amp;gt;The migration was super botched by the product team because of this.&lt;p&gt;I honestly don&amp;#x27;t know why Google&amp;#x27;s Product Team has any positive reputation at this point.&lt;p&gt;I can count on one hand the number of positive launches from that company that didn&amp;#x27;t involve buying another company or product.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s almost as if they&amp;#x27;re so good at playing politics and &amp;quot;the game&amp;quot; that people can&amp;#x27;t see the actual track record is shit.</text></item><item><author>ElijahLynn</author><text>And FWIW, the migration doesn&amp;#x27;t work. The &amp;quot;thumbs up&amp;quot; playlist goes into YT Music &amp;quot;Liked music&amp;quot; which includes all sorts of other YouTube &amp;quot;music-ish&amp;quot; videos that we have liked over the years and the order is all jacked up, plus mixed with all that other stuff.&lt;p&gt;So your &amp;quot;Liked Music&amp;quot; is now, not what you intended. The migration was super botched by the product team because of this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pkulak</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m the same way, except that photos is still amazing.</text></comment>