RiG Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 Like may others I'm being encouraged to shift my music library from Google Play Music to YouTube Music which is pretty crap by comparison. From what I have found so far you can't play music with the screen locked, you can't edit album or song info, the mixes are mainstream garbage, you need to pay for a Premium YouTube account to cast music to your smart devices and to remove ads between songs (even ones you own already) and there are apparently lots of problems with Android Auto as well. Basically it's shite. I binned YouTube Music a couple of months ago and have been eeking out what I can from Play Music but with its demise on the horizon I'm looking for something similar to Play Music to move to instead of YouTube Music. Any suggestions? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Thompson Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 Wish I could help. Im also being forced over the Youtube music (obviously) The kids love it but they spend a lot of their time watching Youtube as well as listening to music. I pretty much never watch Youtube, certainly not for music but I wont have much choice 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimi Shandrix Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 A record player? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiG Posted September 28, 2020 Author Share Posted September 28, 2020 18 hours ago, Mr X said: Wish I could help. Im also being forced over the Youtube music (obviously) The kids love it but they spend a lot of their time watching Youtube as well as listening to music. I pretty much never watch Youtube, certainly not for music but I wont have much choice They also seem to be doing away with the ability to buy music from Google as well which seems a bit odd. Looks like they are just copying the Spotify model of streaming only. 17 hours ago, Jimi Shandrix said: A record player? No. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiG Posted October 1, 2020 Author Share Posted October 1, 2020 (edited) After a lot of searching it seems iBroadcast is the way to go https://www.ibroadcast.com/home/ Still find it really bizarre Google are just giving up on selling music and basically mirroring Spotify and doing streaming only. Does no one want to actually own their music any more? Edited October 1, 2020 by RiG 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tongue_tied_danny Posted October 15, 2020 Share Posted October 15, 2020 YouTube premium is utter fucking gash. I've just transferred over and now I can't play my Google play purchases offline. There's some feature about an "offline" mixtape. I went for it and it has downloaded some absolute shite onto my phone. I'm now able to listen to A-Ha and Frankie Valli? Do I seriously need to go through my library and download everything manually? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiG Posted October 16, 2020 Author Share Posted October 16, 2020 21 hours ago, tongue_tied_danny said: YouTube premium is utter fucking gash. I've just transferred over and now I can't play my Google play purchases offline. There's some feature about an "offline" mixtape. I went for it and it has downloaded some absolute shite onto my phone. I'm now able to listen to A-Ha and Frankie Valli? Do I seriously need to go through my library and download everything manually? You should be able to use Google Takeout to download your music library from Play Music until you decide what you want to do with it. https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout YouTube Music is shite 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Thompson Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 You should be able to use Google Takeout to download your music library from Play Music until you decide what you want to do with it. https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout YouTube Music is shite [emoji4] Is Takeout not just a list of what you have.Think you have to download the actual music files separately 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiG Posted October 16, 2020 Author Share Posted October 16, 2020 2 minutes ago, Mr X said: Is Takeout not just a list of what you have. Think you have to download the actual music files separately It can be but, in this case, it should be the music files as well. According to Google (my emphasis in bold): Quote How can I save my data and purchased and uploaded music before Google Play Music shuts down? If you want to save your Google Play Music data (including your purchases and uploads), you can either transfer it to YouTube Music or download it to your computer using Google Takeout. More on how to do that below! You can transfer your data and purchased and uploaded music from Google Play Music to YouTube Music by following these steps: Visit https://music.youtube.com/transfer and click Transfer (OR) Open the YouTube Music app > tap on your profile picture > Settings > Transfer from Google Play Music > Transfer from Google Play Music You can download your GPM data and purchased and uploaded music using Google Takeout by following these steps: Head over to Google Takeout Check the box next to Google Play Music and then click Next step Select your choice of a delivery method, frequency and file type Click Create export 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Thompson Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 46 minutes ago, RiG said: It can be but, in this case, it should be the music files as well. According to Google (my emphasis in bold): Cool. I wasnt sure 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trackdaybob Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 Wow!! All these modern devices and 'apps' that supposedly make everything 'easier ' sure make things complicated. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Thompson Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 2 hours ago, Trackdaybob said: Wow!! All these modern devices and 'apps' that supposedly make everything 'easier ' sure make things complicated. Well, they're certainly easier than carrying your entire record collection around with you. Just transferred all my stuff over to Youtube music. I have to say, for playing music from my library, it looks exactly the same as google music did 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trackdaybob Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 2 hours ago, Mr X said: Well, they're certainly easier than carrying your entire record collection around with you. That, I will concede. However I manage to have my music on my laptop, phone, two sd cards in the car and netbook. I see no need for any of the apps, they just play 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiG Posted October 17, 2020 Author Share Posted October 17, 2020 On 16/10/2020 at 13:57, Mr X said: Well, they're certainly easier than carrying your entire record collection around with you. Just transferred all my stuff over to Youtube music. I have to say, for playing music from my library, it looks exactly the same as google music did Yeah it looks easy enough but scratch under the surface and there are a lot of things you cannot do with YTM that you could do with GPM. Some of them, including some more complicated ones, are listed here: https://www.reddit.com/r/googleplaymusic/comments/icmwdf/one_comprehensive_list_of_youtube_music/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 On 01/10/2020 at 11:31, RiG said: After a lot of searching it seems iBroadcast is the way to go https://www.ibroadcast.com/home/ Still find it really bizarre Google are just giving up on selling music and basically mirroring Spotify and doing streaming only. Does no one want to actually own their music any more? Even more bizarre considering that Spotify rip off artists and still don't make cash - its a terribly executed business model and probably won't last, Amazon Music will sweep them aside. https://www.lovemoney.com/gallerylist/82445/spotify-conquered-music-industry-no-profit-streaming 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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