#google play music

[what-do-you-mean-theyre-evil]

I just went into YouTube Music for, quite literally, the first time in years to get some art inspiration and tell👏🏿me👏🏿why👏🏿 I can't find any of the albums I bought from the 2010s 🫠🙃

[worrywrite]

You know what. I'm gonna be old for a second.

Android smart phones used to come built in with this app called Google Play Music.

It let you curate your own library if you had CDs or EPs you wanted to upload to your account, and it would host your music library (for free, using your Google storage). It also had a built in radio type listening side to it, it was basically Spotify.

And that app, despite the Google branding, was spectacular. I could listen to my music no matter what device I used, no ads, and it would even use temporary storage on your device to load a couple songs you listened to a lot from your library or a short playlist or whatever songs you listened to last.

But then, a couple years ago, they changed the app to YouTube Music. And let me tell you. Worst app I've ever touched. No more personal music library unless you already had one already, you had to jump through hoops and micro transactions to get back normal features you would expect and that you used to have for free (like shuffle, or offline listening, or playing in the background--ugh, hell I miss playing music in the background on my phone and not needing to have it loaded to my phone), and the most heinous thing ever, if you wanted to listen to your own songs--songs that you chose and wanted to listen to--you had to listen to ads in between (even if they were songs you had bought) and on top of that there was a random chance (and a high chance at that) that the song after the one you wanted to listen to from your personal library was some other random songs that the record label or artists had paid to promote and you didn't buy. Didn't matter what genre it was, if you were listing to ambient rock or jazz, there was a chance the next thing to pop into your ears was some loud and obtuse hip hop song about having sex and getting money (I'm not digging on hip hop and rap as a genre or having sex or getting money--most of that is fine, it's just that there's also a lot of low effort music by posers in the hip hop genre).

Anyway.

I haven't really just listened to music since. I haven't had a good way to. I could buy an mp3 player, but it was so nice to have it on my phone. I had a perfect system.

A good app died because it wasn't monetized to hell and back. I died because it wasn't tracking user data and selling it to anyone that would buy. It died because it didn't have ads in it.

I would pay, granted I would prefer a single payment, for an app that did everything or even just most of the things that Google Play Music did. I miss listening to music.

[3inno]

Perpetual Denial of Service

[retrocompmx]

Un día como hoy (16 de noviembre) en al tecnología

El 16 de noviembre de 2011 Google libera la app Google Play Music, anunciado el 10 de mayo de 2011, que a la postre se decantaría para no ser redundante con YouTube Music. #retrocomputingmx #googleplaymusic

[notbecauseofvictories]

because I rent a car to get out to my office, sometimes I'm confronted with a radio that has wildly different preset stations than I would ever select. mostly this means I have to suffer through a lot of country, or christian talk radio, before I run out of patience and switch over to the stations I like; but other times, it's someone with a thick accent reading a very lengthy advertisement for the Chicago Public Library in an almost....computerized way? and then long carnatic music, with a celtic fiddle breakdown in the middle? with absolutely no explanation for why this is what it is.

.........only afterwards did I discover that it's the station for a nearby university. then it made sense.

[aviul]

emotional support cat

[gods-favorite-autistic]

The curse of no one around me irl knowing or caring about Greek mythology or the odyssey is that no one understands why I’m annoyed about people complaining that one of the songs in the epic ocean saga isn’t the ‘get in the water’ because that’s not how the fucking odyssey works!!!!!

[micamicster]

One of my biggest pet peeves in media about teenagers is they never understand that the kids in euphoria and the kids in heartstopper go to the same school and sit next to each other in algebra class and bully their teachers together. and they’re friends

[annabelle--cane]

spotify will play me a song that I've never heard before that actively knocks my socks off and compels me to immediately add it to four separate playlists and take a quick research dive to learn everything about this artist that's available online and then spotify will manage to never play it for me again

[heartsofhounds]

Ain’t he pretty

[jazzyjuno]

GRANTAIRE AND EPONINE WOULD LOOK SO CUTE AS BESTFRIENDS/ SISTER AND BROTHER😭

sorry i kept this in the inbox for a while but I LOVEEEEE THIS HC🥹🥹🥹now i want them to be friends fr

i feel like eponine wouldve learned music when she was younger but she lost her experience after being moved to paris, luckily theres a guy (grantaire) at the cafe musain that lets her borrow the guitar he randomly brought one meeting

[front-facing-pokemon]

[crushedsweets]

I want to create something that feels more like….. solid. Like a long term comic with a beginning middle end character development etc. I don’t write but even like a finished fic or a handful of really solid one shots that encapsulates a lot of what creeped is supposed to be. OR THAT GOD FORSAKEN VISUAL NOVEL

[icewindandboringhorror]

I've referenced before how I have a big google document to keep track of every media I've ever seen in my entire life (just for reference because I like to track everything possible lol… I am the Data Collector), but recently as I was updating it, I thought of actually evaluating them to find out random percentages (like for example, out of Total Shows Watched, what percentage did I finish vs. stop watching, what percentage did I like or dislike, etc.)...

Evaluating these things is made easier by the fact that I already place everything on each subsection of the list into 6 broad ranking categories, so I don't have to go back and guess to figure out how I feel about them or anything. The categories are: Ranking 5 - overall best* (despite some criticisms of course because I'm too much of an Analyzer to ever find anything Perfect lol) Ranking 4 - more positive than neutral, but not good enough to be 5 Ranking 3 - either the good + bad negate each other, OR it's just not memorable/interesting in any way enough to be ranked higher or lower (this is the Default category ALL things are placed in if no other rank applies) Ranking 2 - maybe a few redeemable elements but largely more negatives than positives Ranking 1 - So bad that it circles around to being fascinating to observe in some way (not necessarily Funny, or Good, but just interesting somehow) Ranking 0 - Bad in a genuinely frustrating or obnoxious manner

*("best" primarily defined here as most interesting, rather than most good in a technical sense, or some other measure. I tend to value more highly whether there's something novel or thoughtful about the worldbuilding, tone, writing, base premise, etc - than about whether it's actually executed perfectly.)

And here's the amount of shows that have so far been placed into each category -

TV shows ~ Rank 5 (highest) - 20 shows ~ Rank 4 (mid-high) - 28 shows ~ Rank 3 (neutral/default/meh) - 114 shows ~ Rank 2 (mid low) -33 shows ~ Rank 1 (low low but intriguingly so) - 14 shows ~ Rank 0 (iredeemably low) - 2 shows

This would make for a total of 211 TV shows overall. However, there are 57 shows within these list marked as "didn't finish" (typically meaning I quit on the very first or second episode - but log them still to keep a record that I at least had a brief view of them).

So my total of genuinely fully watched shows would be more 154. 211 Total, but a More Accurate Total of 154.

Counting them all and using the Total Number Of The List (211) -- that means roughly 9.5% of all total shows I have ever watched (or at least attempted to watch) have been Mostly Good, 13% have been Moderately Okay, 54% have been either entirely Forgettable or some mix of good + bad that lands them right in the Neutral Middle, 15.6% have been Mostly Bad, 6.6% have been Bad (but in an interesting way), and 0.9% have been Terribly Bad.

Additionally, I didn't even get past the first two episodes of about 27% of the total.

Sooo, discounting ones I didn't finish, my total TV shows ever watched in my life would be about 154 (maybe give or take a few, assuming I might have forgotten some from very long ago).

But instead of entire life, let's just say this is the total for 'About 20 Years' (so, not counting very early childhood when I likely wouldn't remember things I saw/have no detailed recollection of them (like for example, I'm sure at some point when I was like 4yrs old I must have seen an episode of Spongebob or something, but I have zero distinct memories of it, can't quote anything of it, and barely recall the premise - so I don't count it on the list, etc.)).

In that case, 154 divided by 20 would be roughly 7.7 shows a year.

Which is actually surprisingly low considering that I often have stuff on in the background for hours whilst I make sculptures and do costumes and stuff (maybe I should have also marked some distinction between 'things I fully paid attention to' and 'things I kind of half listened to whilst sculpting', but that would further split the categories too much probably lol), but I guess a lot of that is youtube videos or random documentaries, so .. eh.. maybe I get it being lower.

Now, doing the same thing for movies-

Movies ~ Rank 5 (highest) - 4 movies (3.4% of total) ~ Rank 4 (mid-high) - 12 movies (10.3% of total) ~ Rank 3 (neutral/default/meh) - 91 movies (78.4% of total) ~ Rank 2 (mid low) - 8 movies (6.8% of total) ~ Rank 1 (low but interesting) - 1 movie (0.8% of total) ~ Rank 0 (irredeemably low) - none in this category (0%)

That makes 116 for a Total (Actually Remembered) Movies Watched In Lifetime (Or At Least In 20 Years).

116 divided by 20 is roughly 5 or 6 movies a year (I feel this has probably been skewed though by adding everything since like elementary school onwards, as I remember a lot more movies from child/teen years.. Whereas, the past 3 years I feel like I've barely seen maybe even 5 movies?? lol). I also have "Didn't Finish" marked on 18 of them. Which means I quit halfway through about 15% of the total movies.

So, a for broader summary stuff..

I seem to be less forgiving to movies than tv shows, by far. Which makes sense to me, I guess, because I love elaboration and details, so "short form" things that only last an hour or two are often lost on me a bit. My biggest complaint with movies is indeed usually walking away just wishing there had been more exposition, more scenes where characters are doing nothing, more "mindless bantering" conversations, more Quiet Downtime and Lore Elaboration and so on lol, so... of course most 1-2hr films end up feeling a bit Not Enough To Draw My Interest/Nothingy to me.

If you count 5 and 4 as "like" and rankings 2 to 0 as "dislike", then for TV shows I at least somewhat liked 48 of them, and at least somewhat disliked 47 of them.. So it's almost exactly the same lol. I'm just about equally as likely to find something bad as I am to find something redeeming about it. But overall, the largest chance is that I just won't really care much for it at all and it will be tossed into the 'neutral' pile, forgotten forever. Movies have a bit better of a balance, "liking" 16 of them, and "disliking" only 9 of them. So I'm slightly more likely to enjoy a movie than to find it annoying - though still VASTLY more likely to just not find it anything in particular, possibly not even finishing it.

ANYWAY.. this is vague and literally pointless, but like I said, I just really find information fun. Like my document where I've rated every apple flavor I've ever tried (like 40 of them now?), or reviewed every oreo flavor (32?), or ranking data from my entire 10 years of Trying To Make Friends process (out of 100 people, roughly 8% chance of a moderate compatibility, 3% chance of high), or etc. etc.. I love to have random pointless things to analyze I suppose lol.

I doubt anyone tracks things in their life in this same exact way, but I'd be interested in hearing any at least somewhat similar data !!! (like, how many TV shows you watch a year on average, and what percentage of those you like vs. dislike (if you keep track of that sort of thing), etc.)). I guess it might be easier with movies, since I think some people use those websites where you curate a list of movies you've seen and you can rate them or something, so maybe the numbers are already available on those places. :0

[electricalhuzzah]

hi im the anon who suggested criminal and squidney on spotify. love the songs u picked and hope u enjoy my additions on spotify hehe

i loved your additions and everyone elses’!! listening rn and trying to write chapter ten without fUCKING crying.

thank you so much to everyone who contributed!! link should still be active for a few more days so everyone is more than welcome to add more stuff.