I definitely don’t want to see how many people like a song I’m listening to or what they have to say about it. I want my music experience to be more personal. I will just go to normal YouTube if I want to discuss something.
Ugh, I still miss GPM so much. YTM is worse to me in just about every way.
They had it so right with GPM. I wish they had gave more shits about it. I even paid for that shit because it was good enough to remind me of the old days of using foobar to listen to music.
I just recently left YTM for Tidal and have been really enjoying the scaled-back lack of algorithmic social BS. Tidal is about the music and the artists, almost none of the social stuff and algorithms that try to get you to spend every waking moment on the app. I have the same issue with Spotify. They have a live sharing feature, but you can turn it off so that you don’t see any of it.
It’s like if you had a music player for just the music files you own, but it’s streaming.
I’m absolutely done with YTM and all its bullshit.
I’ll have to check it out. How is Tidal for music discovery? I found that GPM was great for helping me find artists with the “I’m feeling lucky” feature. YTM hasn’t scratched that itch.
Part of what’s kept me on YTM is that I’m still grandfathered into the GPM pricing, and I really like the ad-free feature for the rare occasions I am on YouTube. But—I could deal with giving that up!
Different guy, but I jumped from GPM to Plex/Tidal back when GPM died. While I mostly listen to my own files via Plex, the Tidal integration and it’s playlists are most of what I use for discovery now, and my only complaint is that it doesn’t integrate into the Plex/Plexamp apps like the bulk of the library does.
There’s a “Daily Discovery” playlist that mixes new (to you) artists + new (to you) tracks from artists already in the library, a “New Arrivals” list for new (to exist) releases from artists you listen to, and ~5 rotating mixes based on artists you’ve listened to lately. I find the latter to be the closest to GPM’s “I’m feeling lucky” though. They’re a bit more narrow in scope, but there’s 5 of them so there’s usually one that goes into the direction I want at the moment.
Having a Plex library, Tidal also opens up options for on-the-fly “radio” stations built into Plex. It has things such as “artist radio” which will play similar artists, which is also an option depending on how much music discovery you’re looking to have available.
(Sorry for the long-winded reply, but you’ve got good opinions elsewhere in this thread and were asking a question I’ve put entirely too much thought into over the years, so figured I’d aim for thorough).
Thank you for such a thorough write-up! This was SO helpful. Genuinely appreciated :)
Who wanted this? Who asked for this?
Like, ytm has boneheaded problems like “wear os client only lists your first 99 albums”. The fact that you can’t sort albums by artist is bonkers. But they’re adding comments? What???
The Android Auto client is still utter trash. Want to search for an artist or song - too fucking bad, it better be in a playlist or you’re SOL
Want to play only your downloaded songs because expensive data? Google Assistant doesn’t care.
I use Spotify, but I don’t think I’ve ever been listening to a song and wanted to read comments on it. Let alone YouTube comments.
What WOULD be cool is something like Genius to better understand the lyrics, or a little wikipedia blurb with info on the artist / song history
I’m gonna go against the grain and say this is awesome and I’m excited for it. I love talking to other people about less-popular songs. I think it could really add a cool social aspect
This isn’t even as terrible as them shoving Shorts into YT Music, but it’s definitely on the downward slope. Streaming music was a mistake. You can only keep skipping to the next walled garden.
Seriously? I’m still on an ancient version of YT Music Vanced cause I’ve been too lazy to update (not ReVanced, but the OG Vanced). No Shorts for me. Guess I’ll never update it.
It’s really a shame. I switched to Spotify and it’s really just as bad. I listen to way too much different music to be able to afford to buy all of it though. Maybe Pandora for radio and buying albums is the way of the future.
It feels like Zune Music.