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0 pointspuranjay5y ago0 comments

One of the worst apps I use regularly has to be Google Play Music. The UI is horrible enough, but it also randomly deletes tracks from my library - including my own tracks that I recorded under my own name. And sometimes the tracks will show up again randomly. The worst is when tracks don't show up in my Songs list, but if I put it on shuffle, these tracks will start playing.

I don't know what's the status now, but Spotify India had too small a library when it was first launched. Otherwise I would have made the switch

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raffraffraff5y ago

YouTube music makes GPM look amazing

hobofan5y ago

What? I very quickly switched to Youtube Music over GPM because its Android app was much more responsive. In the beginning the UX was also the most intuitive for me, but it seems that in recent updates they randomly add/remove some of my most used navigation options like "Go to Artist", which is annoying.

everdrive5y ago

I tried briefly to put all my music in Google play (years ago, now) and had a similar experience.

It was terrible, and I felt like I couldn't find certain tracks very easily. I wasn't sure if this was accidental, or not. Do you know why tracks are deleted from your library?

pavel_lishin5y ago

I had no issues with disappearing tracks, but Google did helpfully replace much of my uploaded music with the "censored" versions, asking me to re-upload songs it threw away. Thanks, I'll go dig up that hard drive any day now.

ben-schaaf5y ago

I recently switched to using a self hosted Ampache instance from Google Play music. The UI is pretty bad, but it's quite customisable and dsub works well enough on Android.

sheinsheish5y ago

oh man and the recommandations are so bad

cmrdporcupine5y ago

recently gotten worse, it's started giving me a huge list of top 40 stuff that doesn't jive with my tastes

and on the web/desktop version you only get like 4 recommendations, but the mobile gives you a whole fistful.

seems like abandonware mostly. too bad its replacement (youtube music) is complete garbage. the web version can't even cast.

somehow at google we went from "mobile first" to "mobile only" and i guess only old guys like me care? it's just terrible. the new google podcast web interface also does not support casting. i'm not sure how one wing of product managers at google can't talk to the other to make sure their products just support basic standard google media infrastructure?

i tried spotify and it was also terrible. so not sure what to do.

nishs5y ago

Also try Apple Music.

gherkinnn5y ago

Apple Music on iOS os fine. It’s terrible on macOS. Every action feels like quicksand.

nikisweeting5y ago

It's implemented as WebViews with Ember.js inside, it's not built with the native macOS UI like everything else in the app so there's always fundamental incompatibilities (like no click-and-drag between Apple Music and your playlists).

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