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Re: YouTube Music, a new music streaming service, is coming soon

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Post by strig »

weavie wrote: post #98
iforgotpassword wrote: post #92

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Did you set this up manually? I'm not using Spotify but this sounds rather confusing. Is it at least smart enough to recognize when there's something else playing on your computer and send the skip command to that app instead of your phone if you hit the skip key?

It knows which device is currently playing. Anything you do sends it to the currently playing device. You can pull up a list of all connected devices and select which one you want to be playing. It then starts on the new device from where the old one left off. It works really well. I have my raspberry pi plugged into my amplifier, and play through that. I control it with my phone or laptop, whichever is nearer.

Yeah it's actually really handy. I can send spotify to my chromecast from my phone, and as long as I have spotify open on my laptop, I can use the media keys to pause or skip.

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Post by nklas »

culturestate wrote: post #164
dexen wrote: post #77

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They are following in the footsteps of the movie industry, which also provides worse experience to the paying customer. Pay for movie theater ticket, get served 30+ minutes of ads. (edit) Pay for DVD, get unskippable "antipiracy ads". Torrent the movie, and you'll be watching the movie in under 3 minutes of download.

> Pay for movie theater ticket, get served 30+ minutes of ads. In Thailand, there is (was?) a 5-minute-long (literally) memorial video dedicated to King Rama IX before every movie. Everyone in the theatre is expected to stand for the video's entirety - after the 30 minutes of ads and trailers.

I like the memorial video and don't mind standing for it at all. Altough it would be a nice touch if they put subtitles on it.

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Post by mrweasel »

kankroc wrote: post #192
mrweasel wrote: post #68

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One of the many problems with machine learning, and using it for recommendations, is that it completely ignores how humans think and behave. Just because I watch a few videos of a certain type today, and actively seek them out, doesn't mean that I want to see similar videos again next week. Maybe I was just in the mood for that type of content today, tomorrow may be something completely different. That being said, Yo…

Anecdotal, but I recently wanted to make bread. I watched 4-5 videos to get the gist of it, made bread, all is good. Except it's not. About 70-80% of my recommandations on YouTube are about bread now.

Again, anecdotal, but I can't get rid of Bill Buhr recommendations. I've tried numerous times to help YouTube by telling the algorithm that: "No, I don't want to watch Bill Buhr".

But no, he's immune.

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Post by Ajedi32 »

dvcrn wrote: post #138

I wonder what happens to self-uploaded music. I read that it's being migrated, but will we still be able to upload, or will this disappear? The only reason why I'm not with Spotify, but with Google Music (or now Apple music as test) is because I have a lot of songs that are just not covered in their catalogues that I uploaded myself.

The post explicitly says:

> And if you use Google Play Music, nothing will change -- you’ll still be able to access all of your purchased music, uploads and playlists in Google Play Music just like always.

Re: YouTube Music, a new music streaming service, is coming soon

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Post by Ajedi32 »

vesak wrote: post #83

Did someone decipher what happens to albums bought in Google Music? It seems all the time a better and better idea that I went to Apple Music.

This statement seems pretty clear to me:

> And if you use Google Play Music, nothing will change

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Post by nsp »

chatmasta wrote: post #148
oblio wrote: post #147

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I guess you're agreeing with me? I can't tell :)

Yeah we definitely agree. You were citing Google's strategy, which I agree is there strategy -- I'm just wondering if anyone has an example of when it worked.

Search, gmail, maps, arguably android

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Post by elboru »

criley2 wrote: post #172
Maro wrote: post #156

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These days, when I have a movie ticket for time T, I plan to arrive at T+20 minutes. That's when the ads are over, roughly when the trailers are playing.

There are several "dining" theatres near me including one which only has full service prior to the films beginning, and all of them are low-occupancy theatres with online seat selection and generally very large, comfortable, sometimes rolling leather chairs. Pick your ticket online, show up a few minutes earlier, enjoy a decent appetizer, and get a drink or two while the movie is on. Whatever floats your boat. I find…

That's nice, in my country we have two big movie theater companies who provide a similar service, but I hate it because they serve the food in the beginning of the movie, so there's a lot of noice and waiters coming and going.

Re: YouTube Music, a new music streaming service, is coming soon

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Post by oblio »

nsp wrote: post #218
chatmasta wrote: post #148

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Yeah we definitely agree. You were citing Google's strategy, which I agree is there strategy -- I'm just wondering if anyone has an example of when it worked.

Search, gmail, maps, arguably android

What were the internal competitors for those projects?

Personally, I don't know of any other Google search projects, other than Google Search itself.

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