I disabled the app a few months ago, I’m waiting for Google to merge it with YouTube Music and for them to add the same features. Soon I hope =]
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Here’s to hoping it’s soon! YouTube Music has been a fantastic compliment to my music collection. Its playlists are almost on-par with Spotify’s discover playlists, which is great for me.
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I was really happy with my free month of YouTube Music. Only problem I had was that the xbox app couldn’t be played in the background of a game. But when the free version has the features of it’s predecessor I’ll be happy again 
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I use GPM unlimited in India.
Quite happy with all the time I save, for the equivalent of $1.43/mo.
Last week, it gave me access to a Youtube Music subscription too. (Though I prefer to ‘save’ albums and RadioStations offline in GPM, than waste bandwidth on music videos)
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I used to download FLACs to carefully loudnorm at -14 LUFS (sweet spot for puny headphones) and then carefully convert in .aac first and .opus later to eventually feed my mpd with even more data (ncmpc and M.A.L.P.); I’ve briefly turned to funkwhale.audio too, and I once threw nextcloud in the mix as well
Now I’m back enjoying the sound of whirring fans; sometimes I just listen at something on youtube with my “wannabe audiophile” headphones and call it a day
I’m not a FLAC/mp3 collector any more, I’ve long past my thirties and I already have hoarded too much music (probably enough for several lifetimes)
Also my tastes in music seem against current trends, so I’ve no reasons to harvest even more bits; and I’m grumpy enough to frown upon an automatic selection proposed me by some AI. I never appreciated services like Spotify or Deezer (or Youtube suggestions), and I’ve never been audiophile enough to pick Tidal I guess
Yet if I were a teen or in my early twenties today, I’d just use some streaming service and ditch any crazy hoarding, unless it’s some extra-rare stuff or unless I had to seriously save on my mobile bw
TL;DR: Yes
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I use Usenet and an IRC channel. If there’s something specific I want, like a single song, YTDL is perfect. Also I just discovered SpotifyDownload to download playlists, like your Discover Weekly feed.
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YouTube audio quality 
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after what.cd died, I’ve been using Spotify! Worth it just for the Discover Weekly
I tried Google Music for a few months, but it kept converting all my uploaded songs to clean versions 
That is certainly an unfortunate downside. Mind you, I’ve only had to do that with around 50 tracks (out of 30,000) and it only takes a couple of seconds. Alternatively, you could always use something like Madsonic (self-hosted). Additionally, I’ve found YouTube Music’s curated playlists to be pretty decent (almost on-part with Spotify in some respects). I’m looking forward to Google dropping GPM in favour of YTM 
Just saw that Amazon Music Unlimited is 6 months free for students now so I might just grab that one for a while.
It’s okay…admittedly I haven’t personally owned it, but I’ve used it enough through other people. I couldn’t find about 10% of what I would search for and there were a few somewhat minor issues that I encountered (though that may just have been due to needing to change a setting).
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Tbh still hesitant as last time I tried it I just didn’t like it so mich UI wise. Too used to Spotify or just playing my music trom Pulsar.
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*clears throat*
FUCK BEZOS!
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Not a Amazon fan I take.
You have no idea how much I detest that sack of shit. Few do. He’s like my personal Zuckerberg.
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Care to expand on your reasoning?
Not really. I’ve moved on, but I still detest the man and hope he eventually loses what his wife doesn’t take.
Hard to top a 50% HP critical hit in the real world.
Anyone have any amazon sisters they haven’t offered to cociu?