Lol why does google make these also-ran services? Too little too late, I legit dont care. Like what is the differentiator here.
Google really doesn't get culture and the internet. The internet lets me listen to weird shit, make it easy to discover underground shit, not fucking Drake and fucking Havana. You know the things played nonstop on the radio.
God their product launches legit piss me off. So many resources to make something dope and they produce this watered down diarrhea.
It really depends on your library. If I try the feeling lucky radio on Google music now, I can't spot anything in the first 50 tracks or so that was / would be played on the radio.
The prepared mood radios are a bit more mainstream, but still not even close to the radio a/b-list
While it's totally fair to criticize the editorial direction of YouTube toward highlighting mainstream stuff, the unexplored edges of YouTube are definitely deep, dark, and weird. And when I've used Google Play Music, I've been consistently pleased that I've never heard of at least a third of the stuff it plays for me.
I regulary use youtube to hunt for niche tracks, and it still happens that those tracks can't be found on spotify (though spotify got vastly better with not-so-popular music in the last 6 months or so).
Youtubes never recommends mainstream music to me, I guess it depends on the browsing history of your account (and IP address etc.)
YouTube has a lot of that weird shit and has been great for me for discovering music. Then usually the next step for me is to go search for a good quality version of it.
If this YouTube Music thing gives me what YouTube currently has plus better sound quality then I'm sold.
Google really doesn't get culture and the internet. The internet lets me listen to weird shit, make it easy to discover underground shit, not fucking Drake and fucking Havana. You know the things played nonstop on the radio.
God their product launches legit piss me off. So many resources to make something dope and they produce this watered down diarrhea.