I was trying to change my primary YouTube/Google account while still holding onto my Movies & TV purchases.

  1. You can’t change the email address associated with your YouTube account or Google Play Movies & TV purchases.
  2. You can’t transfer your purchases to a new Google account.
  3. There is a way to create a Google Play family account, but it’s so buried and un-obvious that it takes search engine research to accidentally discover that this is an option.
  4. Once you create your family account, apparently some purchases can’t be shared due to how they were paid for years ago.
  5. When you try to share many stated-as-“eligible” purchases with the family by using the toggle, it errors, and a refresh shows that it never shared. I used Firefox, Edge, no VPN, and no adblocker. Tons of attempts. Nothing. No fix.
  6. Google has no proper support channel.
  7. If you try to remove the family account and host it under the Google account that owns all the purchases in hopes that they will now work, you will discover that none of the accounts can join a family plan again for 12 fucking months.

Lesson: Don’t ever buy your shit through Google Play. Put your pirate hat on.

  • umbrella@lemmy.ml
    3·
    1 year ago

    just pirate stuff its so much easier:

    • you download stuff
    • its in your storage
    • no accounts & bullshit
      • Jeremy [Iowa]@midwest.socialEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        If you’re interested in cost-effectiveness, hold out for the deals on SaveMyServer. I ended up with a 48TB Dell R720xd for like $500 delivered. 36TB usable in a RAID5 is nothing to sneeze at, plus it’s an amazing chassis for, say, GPU accelerated transcode.

          • M500@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I don’t run Raid, but the idea is that you can setup a computer specially for storing your content.

            For streaming Ssd will be very expensive. You can get a huge mechanical hdd for similar costs.

            • orphiebaby@lemm.eeOP
              0·
              1 year ago

              I don’t need to keep a ton of movies and shows, but I do need to double-back-up my work. I lost two HDDs in the past and I now always back up “online”. At first it was Google, but now I have a NAS with a primary SSD and a backup SSD. I will never buy a HDD again.

              • M500@lemmy.mlEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                The thing with hdds is that when they fail, if you check regularly, you can recover a lot of your data if not all the data from it.

                When an ssd fails, it’s all gone instantly.

                I still rely on hdd for long term storage.

                Additionally hdds are better for backups that are not regularly connected. The ssd can lose charge over time and data can be lost.

                With that being said, I also have important work data and it is duplicated on multiple types of drives in multiple places.