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YouTube continues to get more and more terrible
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I just want to be able to stream whole cds or symphonies while driving or waiting or in the shower, is that too much to ask?
GasBandit
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MP3s. What you want are MP3s.
The youtube app works fine for my use. I can add videos to a playlist (usually from my subscriptions), then start the playlist and change the playback speed to 2x.
Queue up 60 minutes of video, start the treadmill, and do my 30 minutes of exercise while catching up on my subscriptions.
Can't get rid of ads on mobile, though.
Queue up 60 minutes of video, start the treadmill, and do my 30 minutes of exercise while catching up on my subscriptions.
Can't get rid of ads on mobile, though.
Yes, I suspect that the root issue for me here is that YouTube has decided that my proclivities and theirs are incompatible.
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GasBandit
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Sez you. That is exactly what I do with my MP3s. Stick em on the phone. Phone stereo has bluetooth (and an aux jack I don't use). You can get waterproof bluetooth speakers for the shower. Waiting? Headphones. If your phone's default mp3 player sucks, get Phonograph, it's good enough and lets you build playlists pretty easily.
So, get more hardware, somehow get my phone's memory up to snuff, prepare mp3 lists in advance...by ripping YouTube videos, I guess, and keep them around, as well as playlist files? Yeah, that's easier than just taking someone else's playlist on YouTube and getting the whole CD or whatever in one go.
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Thing is, I've found, youtube videos and playlists (especially of music) that you don't manage yourself (and even some you do) have a tendency to vanish at random. My favorites list is chock full of "this video is no longer available" markers.
But once you've got that MP3, you've got it forever (as long as you remember to keep backups in case of catastrophe, naturally). Build yourself a collection over time, and you'll always have what you like, on hand. No internet connection necessary.
And if you're complaining about the cost of bluetooth speakers, I have no sympathy. They're 20 bucks.
Also, also, I refuse to believe your phone can't play MP3s. Phones could do that before there were smartphones.
Also also also, the compression on youtube makes music SUCK. Seriously, it's so bad. It may be a good place to discover music, but the difference between youtube and even a 192kbit MP3, much less a 320kbit one, will bring tears to your eyes. So no, do NOT record your MP3s off youtube. That's a sucker move.
You're right, we all have legal means of acquiring thousands of songs :-P
I used to have quite a big CD and mp3 collection, really. But my tastes are fickle and ever changing. One day I'll listen to the Moana soundtrack, the next 6 months I might not. I'm not buying, ripping, storing, indexing thousands of music files for the rare moment I want to listen to them.
Insert "ain't nobody got time for that" gif here.
I used to have quite a big CD and mp3 collection, really. But my tastes are fickle and ever changing. One day I'll listen to the Moana soundtrack, the next 6 months I might not. I'm not buying, ripping, storing, indexing thousands of music files for the rare moment I want to listen to them.
Insert "ain't nobody got time for that" gif here.
GasBandit
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Then just get one of the umpteen bazillion streaming apps that cater to your tastes instead of whining that youtube isn't the thing you want it to be, because it was never supposed to be.
Youtube as a music service is terrible. Always has been, always will be.
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GasBandit
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I've given you reasonable alternatives. You keep on waiting for the moon on a platter, bud. I'll just refer back to your original post -
Yes. Unless you're willing to put forth some effort.
Your choice is either to subscribe to a streaming service (“eat out”) or purchase and rip your own content (“pack your lunch”).
—Patrick
Dave
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Plex server link directly into your computer. That's how I listen to my own music wherever I go. Wait over.
GasBandit
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That would require him to get copies of the music he wants, though, and then we're back to "but that's haaaaaaaard."
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Well, if you don't want to get a USB cd drive (which are generally also 20 bucks) and spend the time to re-rip your collection at a decent bitrate (and I can understand the time issue might be a dealbreaker), there are actually companies these days that do exactly this as a service. I don't know how to find one in Belgium, but they're all over, here in the states.
After doing so, I figured Canada's copyright laws were such that I could justifiably make my personal copy by duplicating someone else's.
I'm not entirely sure my "from vinyl" copies of old Rush albums quite qualifies, but I justify those as coming from my mom's collection.
I did the same thing with a CD-ROM game. I still have the original CD, which means I’m still authorized to install and use a copy of the game, I just did it from someone else’s CD.
—Patrick
Out of curiosity, what alternative sources of informative videos are there other than Youtube? Not being snarky, I genuinely don't know.
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I don't know but I was saying video doesn't add that much value to me. There are non video sources.