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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  3474 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Apple Music is a nightmare and I’m done with it

If it isn't my shit when I'm working, it's somafm. This is the advantage Google Music has - it can build me a playlist out of music I own... and unlike iTunes, it doesn't give me that "I can't figure out your music because it isn't Lady GaGa" shit. I have yet to find a song so obscure that Google doesn't know what to do with it, while I'd say iTunes Genius fails out three quarters of the time.





user-inactivated  ·  3474 days ago  ·  link  ·  

HAH. That's true. Genius never works for me because Apple expects me to buy my music from them. And, well, fuck that. Only ever got one album from them, and that's because I couldn't find it anywhere else, and it had this on it:

mknod  ·  3473 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Genius has always been trash for me too.

On the other hand google gave me this Dilla produced playlist:

https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/wst/st/69a08df1-20ca-3751-b86a-7a8ccf76e1b0

This is the kind of stuff Google really does great and Apple etc sucks at. "Oh you like xyz? Here is xyz + ikj" Apple spotify and others seem to be more on board with the "Oh you like xyz? How about some Taylor Swift? or $OTHER ARTIST WERE PUSHING THIS MONTH"

Like you said those ambient tracks are great too.

I dislike that I need to use Chrome for google music though (because you have to use Flash with firefox for some god forsaken reason. )