Was your stuff on play music seriously your sole copy?
There’s plenty of good reason to be cautious with Google services, but this isn’t one of them.
While I’d consider data-loss unacceptable with an actual cloud storage platform like dropbox or drive, even there not having backups would 100% be on you. Play music never claimed to be that, all it advertised was being able to stream your music, not store it in perpetuity. The product was convenience, not security. (And didn’t they offer take-out on your play music data? I coulda sworn that was a thing.)
And do look into off-site backups, if you haven’t already.
You either just moved the goalpost on me or suck at making a point.
My problem is that your comment can be read as an endorsement for self-hosted solutions and a denouncement of commercial solutions. Even if you do know better now, your comment still clearly blames the service, and holds up your own solution as “better” when best practice is doing both.
You have your own backups, because they might screw up, but you also have backups on their system, because you might screw up.
Yes, I took issue with how you wrote your initial comment and what readers might take from it, and that’s where it could have started and ended. Yet, I’m not the guy who retorted with “you missed the entire point” while missing the entire point.
Nor am I the guy who pulled out “grow up”. Very effective… If you don’t have an actual retort, shut the fuck up.
Two people talking, doesn’t mean either is getting through to the other, unfortunately.
And by taking the “haahaa, you replied” angle, you’ve now revealed your goal to be something other than changing someone’s mind. But rather, to annoy, to get back at someone.
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Really? All of my old lossless Google Music albums are still there.
Was your stuff on play music seriously your sole copy?
There’s plenty of good reason to be cautious with Google services, but this isn’t one of them.
While I’d consider data-loss unacceptable with an actual cloud storage platform like dropbox or drive, even there not having backups would 100% be on you. Play music never claimed to be that, all it advertised was being able to stream your music, not store it in perpetuity. The product was convenience, not security. (And didn’t they offer take-out on your play music data? I coulda sworn that was a thing.)
And do look into off-site backups, if you haven’t already.
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You either just moved the goalpost on me or suck at making a point.
My problem is that your comment can be read as an endorsement for self-hosted solutions and a denouncement of commercial solutions. Even if you do know better now, your comment still clearly blames the service, and holds up your own solution as “better” when best practice is doing both.
You have your own backups, because they might screw up, but you also have backups on their system, because you might screw up.
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Yes, I took issue with how you wrote your initial comment and what readers might take from it, and that’s where it could have started and ended. Yet, I’m not the guy who retorted with “you missed the entire point” while missing the entire point.
Nor am I the guy who pulled out “grow up”. Very effective… If you don’t have an actual retort, shut the fuck up.
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Two people talking, doesn’t mean either is getting through to the other, unfortunately.
And by taking the “haahaa, you replied” angle, you’ve now revealed your goal to be something other than changing someone’s mind. But rather, to annoy, to get back at someone.
Very noble.
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You’re mad because you’re being called out. Grow the fuck up.
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Okay, I lol’d
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