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		nautilus12 on Oct 24, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Play Music, Music Play Store and Music Mana... Google play music wasn't really started at Google it was mostly acquired from Songza

noisem4ker on Oct 24, 2020 [–]

The Songza acquisition happened in 2014. Google Play Music goes back to 2011.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songza#History

nautilus12 on Oct 29, 2020 | [–]

Yes but big bulk of google plays features were stolen from it and they did their big marketing PR push using their stuff

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