Google Play Music no more

[SteveDave]

How people can listen to streaming from this platform I have no idea. I was at my brother-in-law's today and various requests for "80s music" or "disco music" were met with compilations of really awful sound-a-like (but not enough) cover versions.

We even asked for "Yellow Submarine" and whatever came out of the speaker wasn't The Beatles.

In the end Adele was requested and I have no idea what we heard was her or a load of covers but it was all awful.

[kalowski]

Had it with YTM. I had a Play Music family subscription but now it's effectively useless as my kids are under 13.
They kept that quiet as they were taking my money.

[studpuppet]

Sorry to bump this but I was hoping for some tech advice. I've always been on iTunes until a work Android phone made me seek out a way of making my library available on it. Google Play was perfect for what I needed and it had a useful Music Manager on my Mac that uploaded new files when I added them to iTunes.

As far as I can see, there's no software that gives the same direct connection for YTM? Or is there? At present I think my only route is to open a folder and manually drag the files onto the YTM page to upload them.

[olliebean]

As far as I can see, there's no software that gives the same direct connection for YTM? Or is there? At present I think my only route is to open a folder and manually drag the files onto the YTM page to upload them.

There's this, although I've no idea how well it works: https://github.com/jamesbrindle/YTMusicUploader

<edit> Sorry, that's only for Windows. I don't know of anything similar for Mac.

[JaDanketies]

This YouTube music player is gonna do my head in. Far less intuitive a menu for people like me who buy mp3s and download to their phone. I can tell I'm going to find it unusable if I am ever intoxicated. Also it doesn't even seem interested in playing my mp3s, it wants to play via YouTube so it can spew adverts at me. Thanks a fuckin lot Android.

Plenty of alternative music players exist.

[kalowski]

This YouTube music player is gonna do my head in. Far less intuitive a menu for people like me who buy mp3s and download to their phone. I can tell I'm going to find it unusable if I am ever intoxicated. Also it doesn't even seem interested in playing my mp3s, it wants to play via YouTube so it can spew adverts at me. Thanks a fuckin lot Android.

Plenty of alternative music players exist.

It's fucking awful.


My solution
Link your mp3 folder to Dropbox
Get Astiga
Listen away.

[Johnboy]

I use Jet Audio, free app, plenty of features.

I don't do any organising of the files though so not sure how easy that is.

[studpuppet]

There's this, although I've no idea how well it works: https://github.com/jamesbrindle/YTMusicUploader

<edit> Sorry, that's only for Windows. I don't know of anything similar for Mac.

Yeah - that's exactly what I'm after, but for OSX. At present, for every new file I stick into iTunes, I'm going to have to find the folder in the iTunes library and select the files I want manually...