Does this mean YouTube Podcasts is ready for prime time?

Time to get out of Google Podcasts for anyone that is still using the service.

  • pete_the_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I used it from the start, I got in on the beta, and while it was nice, I wouldn’t say “it was the absolute best”. IMO Spotify is just as good, in fact I’d say it’s better. It was nice that you could upload 20,000 of your own songs, but that was back before we had hundreds of gigs available on our phones.

    Why do you consider it “the absolute best”?

    • TheDezzick@lemm.eeEnglish
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      11 months ago

      As a former Google Play Music user and lover, it was the recommendations. I haven’t found another service that shows me even a significant fraction of the music I like that Google did. I’ve switched to Spotify but it constantly recommends songs I’ve already heard or don’t like and the shuffle feature gives me the same ~50 songs from a large playlist. It’s something I’ve accepted but I miss the Google recommendations deeply.

      • Clegko@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Have you tried Pandora? I always thought Pandora was better at recommending music than GPM was, but it was close.

      • pete_the_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        11 months ago

        I’m the opposite, I never really used GPM’s recommendations because I knew what I liked and had tons of ripped CDs in my collection. After we all ditched MP3s and went to streaming I still stuck with what I knew. I only switched to Spotify about 2 years ago and it has opened me up to a bunch of smaller artists in Europe (I’m in the US) that I would have never found on my own. One of them (Green Lads) I’ve listened to for 2500 hours this past year thanks to their recommendations.