Comment on The Enshitification of Youtube’s Full Album Playlists
glimse@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I use YouTube for music 8+ hours a day at work (usually full albums) and it was extremely obnoxious when it started happening.
The way around this for 95% of published albums is to not use user-created playlists. When you search for an album, YouTube usually shows it to you on the right side of the results. Click that instead.
A much bigger (imo) problem is the prevalence of AI albums. I hate when they auto play.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Especially when the poster does not disclose that it’s AI.
The perpetual Youtube rabbit hole occasionally lands on one of these for me when I leave it unsupervised, and usually you can tell from the “cover” art. But only if you’re not looking at it. Because if you just leave it going in the background eventually you start to realize, “Wow, this guy really tripped over the fine line between a groove and rut.” Then you click on it and look: Curses! Foiled again.
And golly gee, I’m sure glad Youtube took away the option to oughtright block channels. I’m sure that’s a total coincidence.
W/e. I’m a have it on my hard drive kind of bird. Yt-dlp is your friend. Just use it to nab whatever it is you actually want and let your own media player decide how to shuffle and present it. This works great for big name commercial music as well, whereupon the record labels are inevitably dumb enough to post songs and albums on their entirety right there you Youtube. Who even needs piracy sites at that rate? Yoink!
glimse@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It usually takes a couple of “tracks” to notice but the thing that usually makes it obvious to me is how homogenous it all is. AI can’t make a good hook or a catchy tune, it just approximates song structure and spits out a boring average
My stored collection is mostly FLAC, ain’t no way I’m archiving youtube-quality audio lol
Plus half the appeal of using YouTube is discovering new artists! I listen to 5-10 new (to me) albums a week.
deranger@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Good luck keeping this out of your head:
youtu.be/wPlOYPGMRws
alphabethunter@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I unironically love this ai tune. This is what AI is supposed to be used for.
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on glue.