2011 – 2020retired
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“The birds flew home to Rio, and honestly, who could blame them.”
“It kept 50,000 of your songs safe, then quietly handed the aux cable to YouTube Music”
Google Play Music was a music and podcast streaming service and online music locker that Google launched publicly on November 16, 2011, after a six-month, invitation-only beta. People loved it for its generosity: standard accounts could store up to 50,000 songs from their personal libraries at no cost. A paid All Access subscription arrived in 2013 for on-demand streaming, podcasts joined the catalog in 2016, and the
After nearly a decade, Google shut the service down in December 2020, having decided to replace it with YouTube Music. It was a long, well-signposted farewell rather than an abrupt goodbye. For those who built personal libraries in its locker, its absence is still felt every time they open a different app to find their music.
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“The birds flew home to Rio, and honestly, who could blame them.”
“The login worked everywhere except the reason you got it.”
“It cut the cord so we didn't have to. Rest easy, pioneer.”