Just a small tip with yt music if you are not aware, you can upload your own mp3s (50k files iirc). It’s the main reason I use it since so much dnb is missing from all the streaming platforms.
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HipHoboHarold@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The apps is definitely a part of it for me. One if my friends got YouTube Premium, and since he has 3 profiles he can attach to it, hrs letting me use it. It’s nice for the ad free videos on my TV. But it also comes with YouTube Music. It’s honestly kind of annoying at times.
Like yesterday I wanted to listen to an album by a band, and they only have like 2 of 3 albums. The one I wanted to listen to is the one they didn’t have. So I had to make a Playlist by finding videos of the songs.
And thats for a band that’s not super underground. I listen to a lot of grindcore and black metal, and a lot of that isn’t even on there.
And when you download things, you can only have it organized by albums. I can’t organize it by band and then have all the albums.
It’s also sometimes slow to load up stuff I’ve downloaded.
Over all its not the greatest experience. I’m currently looking at getting a mobile game device for my emulators so I can free up space on my phone, and then I’m thinking about just going back to having all the music on files on there and using an music player app. And like you said, I can have it organized how I want and customize things a bit more. Especially since I no longer have Comcast, so I can use Soulseek again.
Wasabi@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
What DnB artists/tracks are we talking about here?
Wasabi@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
A large portion of the metalheadz back catalogue is missing, and also an absolute shitload of jungle is absent
v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
I also thought that jungle was a tad lacking on Spotify, but overall, I’ve been happy with it thus far. Definitely enough to not have to listen to the same 5-10 songs on repeat lol
HipHoboHarold@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Oh shit. I didn’t know that. Might be able to get some other albums on there then. Thanks for the heads up.
Wasabi@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
No problems, it’s the only reason I stuck to yt music when Google play music died.
anarchy79@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s a whole torrent of alternatives, that’s for sure.
jack@water.house 4 months ago
@HipHoboHarold @flintheart_glomgold Yes, I have noticed a trend of homelab hobbyists going back to something a structure like this:
1. Soulseek -> Nicotine+ for plentiful, lossless content
2. Jellyfin for self-hosting
3. Infuse for streaming the content remotely to save storage on your phone.
I don't endorse piracy for ethical reasons, but I get why this is trending up. Increasingly aggressive pricing models, services and accessibility themselves going down makes it hard for consumers.