{
  "type": "obituary",
  "publisher": "Rest In Print",
  "hall": "technology",
  "slug": "google-play-music",
  "subject": {
    "name": "Google Play Music",
    "maker": "Google"
  },
  "born": "2011-11-16",
  "died": "2020-12-03",
  "cause_of_death": "shutdown",
  "cause_description": "a quiet SIGTERM at the end of a sprint",
  "notice": [
    "Google Play Music died on December 3, 2020, after a switch-off that took four months. It was nine.",
    "It let people upload their own music collection, an idea that now sounds like a historical reenactment.",
    "Its library was handed to YouTube Music with a transfer tool and a deadline, and the deadline was enforced.",
    "Whatever was left was deleted in February 2021, quietly, as is the custom."
  ],
  "in_lieu_of_flowers": "In lieu of flowers, check whether your uploads made it.",
  "sources": [
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Play_Music",
    "https://www.xda-developers.com/google-play-music-library-delete-february/"
  ],
  "url": "https://restinprint.studio/hall/google-play-music"
}