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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[–] db0 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Look into listenbrainz for recommendations and for owning your data

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Listenbrainz is good. I scrobble to both there and Last.fm, there was librefm as well but it is in maintenance mode now practically with no new sign ups.

[–] dysprosium 3 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago

Soulseek.