Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024 with listeners migrated to YouTube Music - eviltoast
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    1 year ago

    Fortunately when they killed the podcasts out of Google Play Music I switched to Podcast Addict and never looked back.

    I honestly feel bad for the guys assigned to work on this dead-end project.

    And considering the buggy, infuriating mess that YTM is and that team is being rewarded with expanded scope, I wonder what dirt they have on Sundar.

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      1 year ago

      Okay, it isn’t just me who find YTM buggy.

      As a music player, could it please play music? Jesus.

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        1 year ago

        I have 4 people that use it on my account, it plays music just fine. Makes playlists, finds similar artist, View artist/album on long press, add to current list now or at the end, etc…

        Actually has some interesting and unique features (like I can add stuff from youtube app or desktop even to a playlist and it will be in the playlist on TYM later on.)

        What does it not do for you?

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          For starters, it won’t stop raping my data with video plays and downloads, even though I tell it not to do anything without wifi.

          It also seems to ‘shuffle’ the same newest 40 songs or so, out of my 1000s of liked songs. Could never understand why, I just want random not algorithm random.

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            1 year ago

            Ahhh, I literally never use the shuffle/random feature so I definitely dont know about that.

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          1 year ago

          If I am on a 20 minutes drive I need the damn thing to keep playing music for 20 minutes, not just randomly stop playing halfway through a song. YTM does that. Spotify doesn’t. Nor does my other background players.

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        1 year ago

        I mean GPM was buggy too, but it was just unstable and slow. YTM just has boneheaded bugs. I’ve started running wearing a WearOS watch and it can’t even list more than 100 albums in my library, so I can’t download any albums alphabetically after Love Songs Drug Songs by the X Ambassadors.

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          I had a fun bug for awhile on GPM were playing my library on shuffle it would mostly play songs that started with P. A 30 minute car ride would have 3 songs that started with P and the other 5-6 would be more random.

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        1 year ago

        Which bugs have you got? I don’t remember any issue, that said the Spotify apps are much better.

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          1 year ago

          Music would randomly stop playing. I can just continue it, no error or warning. Spotify doesn’t do that, nor does other background media players.

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            1 year ago

            Also the fact that the ongoing notification always disappears. YouTube and all other media playing stay there forever. A minute after I’m done playing music, it’s like YTM was never there.