I'm using it and Im loving it - I like the match feature - and its a good way to back up all yrou compact discks
― Violet Jax (Violet Jynx), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 15:34 (six years ago) link
They're now offering a free trial for 4 months and I signed up to give it a whirl. I've been a Spotify user for 5 years but have noticed enough differences in their catalogs that I'm intrigued. I mainly use streaming for music discovery and stream my own library separately.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 30 May 2017 15:47 (six years ago) link
I noticed if you have a lahfshit copy of an mp3 they will match it with a good quality one - nice!
― Violet Jax (Violet Jynx), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 16:40 (six years ago) link
The most important part of Google Play Music is how it makes YouTube ad-free. Otherwise, it's comparable to the other services. Less ubiquitous and social as Spotify, doesn't integrate with iTunes like Apple Music. Catalog is very similar now. Doesn't recommend as well as Apple or Spotify, either. But seriously, no ads on Youtube can't be beat.
― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 30 May 2017 17:10 (six years ago) link
i use this thing. my only problem is you can't be listening and play a youtube video at the same time, which is fucked. especially if you're downstairs listening to music and someone wants to watch a youtube upstairs on your computer
― just another (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 17:42 (six years ago) link
I've tried a million times to upload the ABBA And Prisoners Of Technology mash up "Chiq" as part of The Outlaws album and it point blank refuses to play this and instead replaces it with a (nice, clean) MP3 of Chiquitita. Can you turn matching off (I'm wondering as I type this)...?
― Ned Trifle X, Monday, 13 August 2018 10:40 (five years ago) link
OK, ignore me, I see there's a "fix incorrect match " option. Carry on.
― Ned Trifle X, Monday, 13 August 2018 10:45 (five years ago) link
Well, that did NOT work. Sigh.
― Ned Trifle X, Monday, 13 August 2018 14:21 (five years ago) link
I ran into this issue a little while back, when I noticed the YYYs’ “Black Tongue” was censored (of all things)
― empire bro-lesque (morrisp), Monday, 13 August 2018 16:29 (five years ago) link
The “fix incorrect match” thing does work but is slow (24-48 hours in my experience) and you need to have the pc and software it loaded through connected so it pulls in your original mp3 whenever the heck it’s ready to.
― city worker, Monday, 13 August 2018 18:19 (five years ago) link
Ah, right. Too impatient me. I'll wait a bit!
― Ned Trifle X, Monday, 13 August 2018 21:02 (five years ago) link
I've not been able to connect through Music Manager for weeks. I've tried a bunch of fixes and fuck knows. I'd assumed it was part of the great phasing out project but maybe I'm just a spanner.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Monday, 13 August 2018 21:09 (five years ago) link
This service suxx (particularly both desktop & app UI); but it was the only free option I found a few years ago when I decided to begin ripping & uploading a bunch of my CDs... so it's what I use.
― empire bro-lesque (morrisp), Monday, 13 August 2018 21:21 (five years ago) link
I've begun to switch to YouTube Music and meh. Google Play Music wasn't perfect but I'd figured out how to automatically upload anything I added to my collection and could download select albums to my (Android) phone.
Uploading to YouTube Music is straightforward enough but navigating uploads is awkward and I can't see a way to download to a device. Anyone worked out how to do this?
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Sunday, 13 September 2020 11:08 (three years ago) link
So after Play Music stopped cooperating, I was pushed by my Pixel to get Youtube Music, but that's clearly intended for streaming only. It even struggles to read the local library files whenever I'm out of network signal.
What then is the best mp3 player app? winamp?
Am I living a fundamentally broken life to want to play mp3s on my phone in the end days of 2020?
― ergonomic cher (P. Flick), Friday, 11 December 2020 21:16 (three years ago) link
I use iSyncr (Mac desktop app, I'm guessing they have something for Windows) + Rocket Player, works great
― lukas, Friday, 11 December 2020 21:27 (three years ago) link
some of my friends swear by poweramp
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Friday, 11 December 2020 21:40 (three years ago) link
I have enjoyed Poweramp for years.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 11 December 2020 23:57 (three years ago) link
i've started using poweramp and it's nowhere near as pleasant to use as play music used to be for local files. it's usable but the UI is pretty awkward and bloated in places. i tried using youtube music and while the UI is more pleasant it was also awkward from being so streaming-focused and would also regularly order album tracklists incorrectly, completely ignoring disc numbers (so it'd go disc 1 track 1, disc 2 track 1, disc 1 track 2, etc.), and putting tracks 10+ before track 2 which was a real dealbreaker. i never had a problem with it not being able to read local files without network availability though.
― ufo, Saturday, 12 December 2020 00:15 (three years ago) link
I've been through the exact same process P. Flick, and have ended up with Poweramp. There's an extra layer of faff with having to add stuff to my phone (via a cable) but the app is great.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 12 December 2020 13:43 (three years ago) link