![]() ![]() ![]() Yeah you can listen to Apple Music's streaming stuff too and in that case it could indeed presumably vanish at some point (I don't think it'd be at all about Apple though, it'd be about the actual rights holders, Apple doesn't own the copyright on most of this stuff). The whole point here though is that the "deal" if you're just doing your own library sync is that it's your own library. Where as with band camp I actually own things. > I don’t trust apple not to change the deal at some point. I mean, I'm 100% with you on Bandcamp being absolutely awesome. I'll probably complain about the death of GPM for many more years. ![]() If you were playing a playlist, it would cache multiple songs ahead of the current song, sometimes I'd get 30 minutes out of service before the music would stop. If you were offline, you could just display explicitly downloaded music along with the cached music, it was the best for driving through the mountains or flights. The new album release feature was fantastic as well, although YTM has it now and it works pretty well.Īlso, GPM would cache music locally on your device as you played it. It was one of the last features they added. One of my favorite GPM features was the "concerts in your area", that is the only way I knew that some artists were coming through my city. YouTube Music is getting better at discovery fortunately, but I'm not finding multiple new albums/artists per week, more like 1-2 new albums or artists every couple weeks. I too have been finding music discovery difficult since GPM shutdown. No one I know in person knew it existed, yet they still get to listen to my rants about Google killing the one true music service. There is no public API to talk to the service, though, so I can't even build my own frontend (although there are numerous hacks, most of which involve checking your plaintext password into a git repository, which of course means compromising your gmail account which is essentially the end of the world). I stick with YTM mostly because it came with free ad-free YouTube. when I navigate to "artist" it presents me with the ability to narrow my search by "composer" or "album" or whatever). ![]() It's just dreadful.Īll I want is a music service that lets me access an unlimited virtual store and bring whatever content I want and organize it recursively by tags (i.e. Now with YTM even browsing by artist is nearly impossible, and when you do, it doesn't display the albums by that artist that you've added to your collection, it just displays everything, so there's no real way to avoid seeing 20 copies of the same album remastered at different times mixed in with "pop rock of the 90s" collections. GPM even let you modify the metadata for albums I had used this to strip out things like "(2020 Remaster Special Gold Edition)" from album names, and to cut "bonus" tracks off of albums (nothing as fun as playing an album and then getting a two hour long spoken word interview with Quincy Jones), and finally to reorganize my classical music so that the artist was the composer and the orchestra/performer name was just munged into the album title (obviously deeper nesting would have been better, but this worked well). Google Play Music was extremely album-focused, but their move over to YouTube Music has basically scrapped that. ![]()
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