How is this true in any sense?
General problems that aren't going away soon are the latency between clicking next and the song starting is way too high, especially annoying when you shuffle through a few songs at once. And I've only got 2GB of data a month, so I need to cache locally anyway, killing most of the benefits. The absolute worst thing is that you're tied to the shitty players that cloud-music companies produce.
Some google music specific problems were using tonnes of data even when I'm just playing cached files and things like hitting the next button twice in a row will give random results depending on which web request comes back first. I'm sure it works fine on the google campus though.
For the foreseeable future I'll be sticking with poweramp and music on SD.
I haven't had these problems with downloaded music on the iOS version of Google Play Music.
I thought it had a pretty good player app, but I'm now trying Apple Music for discovering new stuff. The Apple Music app, in my opinion, has worse UX. Good thing I'm just on the free 3-month trial.
Spotify launched in 2008. I signed up for an account in 2009. Since then I have bought physical/downloadable music only a handful of times.
I am an avid podcast listener which occupies a chunk of my phone hard drive most days.
Just visit https://youtubemp3.rip/ or any of the other thousand sites that do this.
Or, you can just record the music as you listen to it using Audacity for example, and save them as an MP3 or any other format.
Of course, these tasks require about a minute of minimal effort. In our fast paced modern world of music streaming, who has time to load up an audio program and hit Record? Or type in a Youtube URL and hit Convert? I'm sure the blog author cant be bothered with such things.
....I remember recording cassette tapes off of the radio! Sitting there as a child, waiting Hours for That Song.
How times have changed, and for the better!
It was a revelation. I found it so liberating to be able to listen to music "unplugged". I can get home from work, put on a record or cd and listen to music without having to open the laptop or mess with the phone.
It also changed the way I listen to music - no skipping tracks, listen to the whole album start to finish. I found that I missed out on a lot of music when I just skipped thru an album because I didn't like the first 2 bars.
The trend is lock even better people pushing them to offload their personal stuff and this trend unfortunately keep evolving really fast.
One of the last alarming thing I discover is from my bank (Europian, big well-known, not involved in any recent big scandal etc): they offer a digital sign service so I can do more operation via internet banking... Only the bank hold the key. They simply say you go to your personal page, type your OTP and a key pin we give to you in print and that's signed. WTF?! Unfortunately I think many IT-ignorant people will find this service nice...
