It cost $100, but I can't use it anymore.

https://lemmy.ml/post/4047208

It cost $100, but I can't use it anymore. - Lemmy

I cancelled my Spotify account because can’t get them to stop recommending fucking Joe Rogan to me.
I’ve been pretty happy with YouTube music. I got legacied in due to Google Music shutting down and thought I would hate it, but I’ve had zero complaints. Plus, it comes with free YouTube Premium, so I haven’t seen an ad in years.

Their queueing system sucks. All I want to do is queue up some songs but instead YTM folks my queue with tons of crap I’ve never listened to before because that’s how they make money. There’s literally no way to do it other than creating a custom playlist every time I listen to music.

I hate YTM and I hate that I can’t cancel it because they bundle it with YouTube premium which my partner uses every single day. Screw Google and they anti-consumer manipulative bs.

Their queueing system sucks. All I want to do is queue up some songs but instead YTM fills my queue with tons of crap I’ve never listened to before because that’s how they make money. They put my manually queued songs at the END of the queue so I have to move them up 20+ spaces. There’s literally no way to do it other than creating a custom playlist every time I listen to music, and they intentionally made that take more clicks/taps than queuing. I don’t get how people are ok with the YTM app, it’s terrible.

wrong.

  • you can disable automatic queuing by hitting the ‘auto-play’ switch in UP NEXT
  • you can queue songs by long-pressing and hitting ‘play next’ (which will put it in front of the queue) or ‘add to queue’ (which will put it in my the end
  • No, I’m not wrong. Option 1 does not exist on my phone. There is no switch.

    And the “play next” feature also sucks. I don’t want to “play next”. I want to build a queue like literally any other music app and that isn’t what “play next” does.

    yes you are, it must be there unless you’re using an obsolete release of the app.

    yes, you can build a queue by “adding to queue”.

    No. I’m not wrong, and I don’t appreciate you repeatedly telling me I am when you obviously have no clue what I’m looking at.

    It isn’t there. I’m on Android 13 with the latest version of the app. There is no “auto-play” toggle anywhere. I’d upload screenshots to prove it but lemmy is throwing exceptions. I’ve checked every tab and settings page as well.

    So I finally figured it out. this is how that toggle works:

    • it only appears when you manually search for a song or select a song from certain groups on the home page.
    • it does not appear to appear if you select a song from “listen again” or “quick picks” in which case the app forces you to listen to whatever is in their queue unless you manually clear the queue.

    So no matter what it’s still a bad experience.

    oh yeah, you are right-ish. it doesn’t show up if you launch a “radio”, which innately is a automatic, end-less playlist of similar music