Google Music

I ran into this issue a little while back, when I noticed the YYYs’ “Black Tongue” was censored (of all things)

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.

Ah, right. Too impatient me. I'll wait a bit!

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.

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.

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?

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?

I use iSyncr (Mac desktop app, I'm guessing they have something for Windows) + Rocket Player, works great

some of my friends swear by poweramp

I have enjoyed Poweramp for years.

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.

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.