Well it seems that my account from google has been banned from playing music on any app or website all because I wanted do download everything on my liked list.
Everything I try now says content unavailable. Ugh 3 years of curating content just gone. Getting the account information only helps subscriptions, not the liked songs.
The main reason I liked YouTube’s music is the supermix feature. I’m hardly ever in the mood for one genre of music, which Spotify only seems to randomize for you.
I know Spotube is available but that’s essentially Spotify’s front end using YouTube for the actual media.
I can’t go back to anything that bombards me with ads or annoying DJs.
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Wait so downloading from YouTube directly (with e.g. Jdownloader) may get you rate limited? That easily? But I’ve been doing this quite a long time
Look into listenbrainz for recommendations and for owning your data
Listenbrainz is good. I scrobble to both there and Last.fm, there was librefm as well but it is not maintenance mode now practically with no new sign ups.
It’s not permanent. At least it wasn’t for me.
Ripping youtube or ytm will cause them to ratelimit your ip and/or account (media not available error).
For me, access was restored after 48h.
It was really inconvenient, so I found other ways. A mix of buying whats available on bandcamp, and ripping qobuz using a trial account (which btw is so much faster, ytm was taking days to rip just a couple artists).
I use Symfonium with Jellyfin for music now, if you tag everything with Picard, the “smart” playlist capabilities are competent.
Still pop into ytm to discover new stuff, tho.
Soulseek.
