The application, while attractive, was not much better to navigate than Google Play Music. While this goes away when you subscribe, it does not allow you to explore many features other than streaming a track. There was a dirty hack to include your uploaded music that involves running an always-on computer with the Spotify client pointed to your local library and storing them as playlists and downloading them to your devices using Spotify Premium.Īpple Music isn't much better, almost every screen bears a large advertisement for Apple Music premium. My experience with Spotify by comparison was a horrible application, and horrible radios that also quickly devolved into mumble rap and chill-step. The first one that comes to mind is likely Spotify. Of my options, I had a plethora of streaming platforms. I was still carrying the 7.99/mo deal for GPM/YTM/YT Premium so I apprehensively started looking for alternatives. YTM did get close to the auto playlist experience with its Mix Tapes, however they almost all were for Mumble Rap and Pop songs so I stopped using them shortly after they released. It did maintain the excellent queue management. YTM did maintain some features I wanted to see. You didn't even get an Artist page, instead only finding uploaded content in an endless list of all of your downloaded content. You could play the same track uploaded and in comparison to the streamed version you didn't get lyrics aggregation, it didn't pull album art from Googles library, you didn't get links to the Artist/album pages. Uploaded content is never included in radios, and if you play uploaded content you get a degraded experience. It was clear YTM was a streaming first platform, my uploaded content was strictly partitioned off from the online library. YTM not only missed the mark, it went in a different direction
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Being a skeptic I, at the same time, used Google checkout and download my library back to my computer. I switched early to YTM, wanting to know if I could live with the change, I had high hopes since Google promised feature parity with GPM. The excellent auto playlists from GPM that I grew to love.A native desktop client similar to Spotify that didn't depend on a web browser.Radio that used my uploaded content as a metric for what I liked to listen to.The ability to upload my content from the web browser or from the mobile app.The ability to download my uploaded content from Google Takeout (Google Music Manager was no longer available).Lyrics aggregation on uploaded and streamed content.YTM was a shell of GPM and to make matters worse, Google made official it's plans to kill off Google Play Music for good.Īs a fan of GPM I wanted to see the following from YTM: When YTM launched it had almost none of the features of GPM and the UI while good looking was much more cumbersome to use. What GPM fans got instead was Youtube Music.
This refresh was teased several times at different Google I/O's but never came into fruition. I wasn't alone in the longing for yet another UI refresh of the Google Play Music application. It became a ritual for me to tap on the Now Playing widget and waiting upwards of 60 seconds for the application to not only open but for some reason browse back to the main screen just to pull up the now playing screen and finally begin playing. Even after having a fantastic refresh of the User Interface that came along with the Google Play rebranding it slowly fell into neglect and became one of the slower applications on my device. Google Play Music however did not age well. The fact that the entire experience built upon my uploaded content meant that I was constantly finding music that I loved while the radios on almost every other application slowly devolved into mumble rap after a short handful of songs. The highlights of Google Play Music was the excellent queue management, ease of music discovery and a radio that actually gave me relevant tracks. They added radio and a Spotify-like subscription service that molded seamlessly around your uploaded content. Shortly after Google raised the limit to 50,000 tracks, and refreshed the UI into what I felt was the best ui of any music app at the time. The fact that Google counted track numbers and not the size of the library was evidence enough that Google was catering to the consumer with the launch of the service.
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Within minutes I was able to upload my entire 20,000 track library to Google Play Music and access it instantly on my Android device for free. While I was quick to spoof my location and hop on the Spotify beta early I still had a proclivity towards wanting to own my music and GPM catered to that desire. Google Play Music was nothing short of revolutionary when it was first released in 2011.
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