Comment on Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike

• trk@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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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  • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • ramirezmike@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • forgotaboutlaye@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What happened?

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      • ramirezmike@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I had albums with missing songs, a few albums wouldn’t transfer. I had versions of songs that were different.

        I didn’t lose everything but there was enough that I cared about that I no longer want to trust a system where I don’t actually own the music

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• namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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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  • ramirezmike@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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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    • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

      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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• Elderos@lemmings.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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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  • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I used a tool that synced my Spotify playlists to Apple Music. It worked surprisingly well. I signed up the one time, moved everything over, and then made sure to cancel the service.

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• jeanofthedead@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There are export options for many music subscription services now, as well as apps like TuneMyMusic, Playlisty, etc. which can transfer your library and services between services.

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