Google Play Music Madness

[Anonymous]

It's hard to know where to start with this ridiculous service so I'll posit a series of questions.

Why can you only upload your own music from a non-android device? 

You can upload using Music Manager or the Chrome/Chromium on Windows, Mac, Linux, Ubuntu, Debian but not Android,,,.

Why can't you play your own uploaded music on an official standalone Windows Mac ect Desktop Google Play Music App?

You have to use the Chrome/ium extension or an semi-official player.

Why can't you play your own music on Chrome for Android?

You have to use the Google Play Music App and be forced to signed in across the device.**

Why can you only play your own music on a Standalone Mobile App with an App Password, if it's not on Android ?

gPlayer for Wiindows 10 Mobile for example.

Why can't you merge/migrate your uploded librarys across more than one Google account?

Why cant you access your own music, to organise and ensure the cover art is correct in any meaningful or systemic way?

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There are some renderers on Android like Bubble UpnP that can act as interfaces but you still have to have Google Play Music installed and signed in.

[EmilieT]

Interesting questions about Google Play music! 

Is there anyone here using this service? What do you guys think?

I haven't used it myself, but I'd love to see what others on the Community think about this 

[sheepdog]

It took me about 30 mins to realise how unbelievably bad playing a simple track on Android was so never bothered with it and that was about 5 years ago. Same goes for iPhone which is just as annoying with the added pain of having to use iTunes. Hence I ended up buying a Sony Walkman which does exactly what I want. 

I honestly don't know what these designers are thinking but its an absolute retrograde of about 50 years in understanding the simplicity of playing music instead of jumping though hoops just to press play. I've given up on the fast forward and reverse functions as they don't work on any device like they should. 

Don't get me started on calculator apps

Sheepdog in 'old music tech is way better' mode

[Glory1]

I'm strictly an Amazon Music downloads person. Don't use their streaming service even though I'm a Prime member. I've a better use for my data 😉

[Anonymous]

I worked out that I have 9 months worth of my own music uploaded to Google + a fair chunk in Amazon and on other cloud services. This means I could listen 24/7 for the best part of a year and not hear the same song twice... I'm not at all sure this is a good thing.

[pgn]

YouTube's my non-radio source of music, either on my phone or on my windoze laptop - simple to use and the same lists can be accessed on either platform (app on Android, browser on laptop).  And it has occasionally offered me a "similar" track that has exposed my ears to a new genre or artist... 

As the last music library I had was on cassette tapes, I've never tried to figure out how to get them uploaded onto a web-sharing service, and YouTube would probably reject most of them anyway.