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Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify

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Post by robotnikman »

echelon wrote: post #56

YouTube Music is so bad. Comically bad. I had an amazing indie music discovery service in Google Play Music. I found so many fantastic underplayed artists, and it helped me explore all the small music venues in my city. I've got a wall full of signed albums from artists I discovered with Google Play Music. YouTube music recommends Britney Spears . It's so awfully wrong about my tastes. It also randomly inserts YouTub…

When they bought Songza back in 2014 and integrated it into GP Music, I found their recommendations started to be much better

Its as if they threw that all progress out with YT Music.

I'm willing to give the service a few months to clean up major bugs and such and see how it is then, but I'm still looking for alternatives

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Post by lighttower »

mathijs wrote: post #141
echelon wrote: post #56

YouTube Music is so bad. Comically bad. I had an amazing indie music discovery service in Google Play Music. I found so many fantastic underplayed artists, and it helped me explore all the small music venues in my city. I've got a wall full of signed albums from artists I discovered with Google Play Music. YouTube music recommends Britney Spears . It's so awfully wrong about my tastes. It also randomly inserts YouTub…

And still no Chromecast support.

No chromecast support from desktop music.google.com. you have to cast the Tab.

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Post by goddamnyouryan »

xd1936 wrote: post #191
goddamnyouryan wrote: post #126

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Checkout this product I made a couple years ago after rdio shut down: It basically connects Spotify music info to YouTube songs: https://minotaur.fm

This is really neat. Well done.

Thanks! I built it several years ago and never really promoted it as it seemed to me like the ability to play on your phone was crucial, but not really possible to do with YouTube videos on iOS. Ahh well.

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Post by malandrew »

xd1936 wrote: post #196
pradn wrote: post #157

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As a Google employee, I really don't want to be saying "Ok, Google" in my home all the time. It's totally possible for me to go to work in a subway that has Google ads, waste time on my Pixel, work at the Google office for eight hours, waste time on my Pixel, walk past the same ads on the way home, watch YouTube videos and do Google searches about random topics, and ask Google to set an alarm before I go to sleep. It…

Agreed. And I have a small child. I _really_ don't want them to be forming "relationships" with brands by asking robot assistants named after corporations to do stuff.

You can also think of it as a robot assistant that is named after a number.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_numbers#Named_numbers

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Post by lkbm »

judge2020 wrote: post #74
echelon wrote: post #56

YouTube Music is so bad. Comically bad. I had an amazing indie music discovery service in Google Play Music. I found so many fantastic underplayed artists, and it helped me explore all the small music venues in my city. I've got a wall full of signed albums from artists I discovered with Google Play Music. YouTube music recommends Britney Spears . It's so awfully wrong about my tastes. It also randomly inserts YouTub…

> YouTube music recommends Britney Spears. It's so awfully wrong about my tastes. Just dislike these songs/videos. At first all I did was play playlists I already had in YT since the 'my mix' (now "my supermix") playlist had random songs I listened to 5 years ago, but after about a week of using the 'my mix' and disliking songs, I started getting a bunch of great songs from artists that I otherwise had no idea about.

I definitely get some nice new music on my supermix.

I also get songs I've already thumbs downed reappearing repeatedly. It's bizarre how bad it is in some respects, while still being decent in others. (They're not even new top hits being aggressively promoted. It's mostly 80s rock they'll toss in no matter how many times I say I "no, I don't like this song".)

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Post by Steltek »

cwkoss wrote: post #165
princevegeta89 wrote: post #151

"OK Google" is the biggest problem I find with Google Home and Google Assistant so far. Things like "Alexa" and "Siri" are short and seem more practical. When I say "Ok Google", I feel like doing a mouth-exercise. And multiply this extra effort over the number of times you need to apply it in a single session. It is a pain. Why didn't Google ever change it?!

Privacy. Alexa and Siri get triggered unintentionally very frequently in normal conversation.

I frequently reply to my kids with "Ok, go $do_a_thing" and I almost always trigger my phone, even if it's in my pocket. The kicker is that I use "Hey Google" when I want the assistant so the "Ok Google" form is not even needed.

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Post by leetcrew »

gorkish wrote: post #36
renewiltord wrote: post #5

My fucking Google Home can't even figure out how to play the auto playlist "My Likes" on YouTube Music. Previously, I could say "Play my Thumbs Up" and it could do so on Google Play Music. It keeps playing a song called "My Likes". Jesus fucking Christ, Google. If I say "Play my My Likes playlist" something random happens. Do these guys even use their product? I'm just glad this album didn't come out before the force…

This is my experience with any 'smart assistant' product that is or ever has been. It's always frustrating but never particularly hard to find the special incantation that will invoke it to do the thing that you want it to. Overall though it's simply not worth the effort which is probably why I end up using these overwhelmingly complex devices only for their most mundane functions like timers and getting the weather.…

> It's always frustrating but never particularly hard to find the special incantation that will invoke it to do the thing that you want it to.

not always. I used to use google play music to play music from my own library in the car. any time I asked it to play a moderately obscure artist, it would interpret that as whatever popular artist had a similar name. it would then play the radio station for that artist, since I didn't have the premium subscription. I found some success with spelling out the artist name letter by letter, but even that consistently failed for certain names.

also sometimes I would say "list albums by X" to help me remember the name of what I wanted. no matter what I tried, it would only list three albums "and others". who could want this behavior? if I ask you to list albums, yes I actually want to hear every single album name!

I'm now paying for YT music (since the free version apparently does not support android auto), and it so far it works flawlessly. infuriating.

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Post by adwww »

dyingkneepad wrote: post #42
reaperducer wrote: post #31

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It keeps playing a song called "My Likes" Meanwhile, here in Siri Land... Me: Hey, Siri, add "tomatoes" to my Groceries list. Siri: OK, Reapreducer. Which list should I add it to? Me: Groceries. Siri: OK, Reapreducer. Which list should I add it to? Me: Groceries. Siri: OK, Reapreducer. Which list should I add it to? Me: Groceries. Siri: OK, Reapreducer. Which list should I add it to? Me: Groceries. Siri: OK, Reapredu…

I use Google Keep for that :). Share it with my wife, we both have the widget in our phone desktops (or whatever the home screen is called). Works very nice.

Not if you're a paying google apps customer. Then OK Google is even more crippled and won't work with Keep.

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Post by mathijs »

dorkinspace wrote: post #177
mathijs wrote: post #141

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And still no Chromecast support.

Do you mean youtube music has no chromecast support? Really?

The apps do, but the website does not. music.google.com used to have native support, but to cast music.youtube.com you have to cast the tab, which is far less than perfect. (Instead of streaming directly from the CDN to the chromecast, casting a tab will stream from your desktop to the chromecast. It works so poorly that sometimes even the pitch changes slightly, like an old timey recording.)

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Post by pnathan »

baskire wrote: post #11
germinalphrase wrote: post #7

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YouTube music has been a really mixed bag. Disappointed by the forced transition.

The forced transition was the final nail in the coffin to de-google myself. Even Gmail, can’t trust that it won’t be deprecated in the future.

I pay for G Suite, it works well. If I have to migrate, I will, but it'd be very upsetting.

Music-wise, I have completely transitioned to Alexa and Amazon Music. The interface is worse, but they seem to be more stable.

I just wish I could upload my own music and have Alexa connect to Bandcamp.

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