• Covoid@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Dear Google.

    YouTube Music is shit. Stop trying to combine your other services into YouTube music.

    Google Play Music was good. Google Podcasts was… not awful

    YouTube Music is the worst of both services.

    Just stop

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      1 year ago

      I loved Google play music as a locker for my owned music and a a storefront to buy what I wanted. YouTube Music made me abandon it completely and move my owned music onto my plex server.

      Why does Google have to ruin everything? Still bitter about Google Reader closing back in the day. That was the beginning of the end of me having confidence in their services and moving to self hosting as much as I can.

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        1 year ago

        Google Music was the only place I bought music digitally other than iTunes, and I used it religiously. I downloaded all of my personal music uploaded to Google Music before it closed with the intention of running my own Plex server. A friend who works IT security scared me into not running an externally-accessible Plex server.

        So I fight with the YouTube Music app being complete dogshit on CarPlay. If you think the app is bad on mobile, just try the CarPlay version. Unusable.

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          1 year ago

          How did he scare you from running the plex server? Couldn’t you keep it loca only and use tailwind to access it from anywhere

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      1 year ago

      What is the complaint about YouTube music. I got it for free and it’s pretty good. Maybe not perfect but I don’t big beef about it.

    • SpookyUnderwear@eviltoast.org
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      1 year ago

      As a YouTube Music subscriber (because of yt premium): “stop trying to make YouTube music a thing. It’s not going to happen”.