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Entertainment 2.0 #449 - You Don’t Have a Team!

While we tend to focus more on video content, there is a lot of audio news to discuss this week! YouTube Music is becoming a stand-alone service, and with it comes a shake-up to Google’s other audio and video offerings. Plex has added podcasts to their media library app. Pandora makes the jump to supporting family plans too.

E3, the largest video game event of the year, kicks off next week. We’ve got the details on how to watch the Xbox press conference.

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