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T. Jay Fowler (Director of Product Management)
Lyor Cohen (Global Head of YouTube & Music)
T. Jay Fowler (Director of Product Management)
Lyor Cohen (Global Head of YouTube & Music)
How to find old Google Play Music?
Google doesn't seem to care about YouTube Music
Is there anyway to listen to music while browsing Reddit?
What made Play Music so great?
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Some years ago now, Google announced that their Google Play Music app was being phased out in favour of YouTube Music. I used to use Google Play Music around 8-10 years ago and had actually purchased music on it, but I can't seem to find where this would be in YouTube Music, either the app or the web page. Is there and easy way to find it as well as my playlists?
Why won't Google take YouTube Music seriously? The app experiences are really frustrating (both mobile and PC, but more so PC). Coming from Spotify, I feel like I always run into some frustration of some sort. There are many but here are 3 examples off the top of my head:
On mobile, the app doesn't automatically start playing offline files when you are offline. You have to manually "go to downloads".
It's also virtually impossible to search inside libraries e.g., inside your liked music- you have to search the entire YT Music database just to land on that one song you already liked. This frustrates me a lot coz if you have a cue going on and would like to go back to a song from earlier, good luck with that!
On PC, it's a joke tbh. Try accessing your downloads while offline (the whole point of downloads btw). It's virtually impossible.
The Spotify experience was so nice. But I like YT Music so I have been suffering through these half-baked apps for the past 10 months. Google needs to take this platform a bit more seriously. It's a huge company with unlimited resources. We shouldn't have to cope like this.
I suggest they study the Spotify apps and see how those work.