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galena
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Google can you fucking not just kill off random projects that still have a very active userbase!!!
I know you want to merge the play music streaming with youtube music. But that is no reason to kill off the default music player on Android. Cause, y'know, A FUCKTONNE OF PPL STILL USE OFFLINE MUSIC!!!!
And to add more insult to this, Play Music is a default app on pretty much all Android phones. This means it cannot be uninstalled at all. (Unless you root) So thanks for the waste of space!!!

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  • 5
    Well, these projects were random to begin with *shrug*
  • 2
    Didn't this happen like a few months ago?
  • 3
    They announced it quite some time ago. But yeah, don't trust a google service that compete with search or youtub.
  • 2
    Nonoo.. they don’t WANT to merge... They HAVE to. Because they were too
    Dominant.
  • 2
    @asgs No, they didn't shut down the service in all countries at the same time. In my country Google Play Music stopped working a few days ago.
  • 6
    Better yet: don’t trust google at all. 🤷🏻‍♀️
  • 6
    Google does that all the time, so it's not really surprising. If all you want is offline playback just install VLC or something.
  • 1
    Why anyone would run their phone without full control is beyond me
  • 2
    Even though I feel the same way as you, I'm sure Google has a very clear picture of how much any given product of theirs is used; after all user tracking is at the core of their business. So if they decide to pull the plug of something, it's either 1) not used by a lot of people, or 2) not bringing enough revenue *ahem* Inbox *ahem*
  • 0
    Well business as usual
  • 0
    Just use a better player for Android? Like Musicolet
  • 0
    Also org.lineageos.eleven is just 3 MB, so that may be a good alternative for offline music playback.
  • 1
    It can be uninstalled without root. Just needs the terminal.
  • 0
  • 2
    @iiii should have been `pm uninstall –k ––user 0 $packageName`
  • 0
    And like me, in some regions YouTube music is not available at all. 😥
  • 1
    uh...? I have it disabled (inaccessible, rolled back to version in /system/app, data cleared, and its /data folder compressed) without root. I know some phones only "disable" them by hiding the app in whatever home screen, but this is uncommon from what i've seen?

    just use VLC and youtube-dl.
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