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I've bitten the bullet and transferred all my stuff over from Google Play Music to YouTube Music. Not that I had a choice, as it's not going to be there for much longer. I'd been holding off because there was quite a lot of negative 'chatter' - mainly about ads being inserted between uploaded tracks (i.e tracks that someone has bought and then uploaded to Google).
Well, I'm actually quite impressed! I think the interface is a lot better than Play Music and, (at the moment), I'm not getting any ads when I play my own music. The only gripe I have is that, sometimes, the track order is wrong and there doesn't seem to be a way of fixing it. Some albums need to be played in the right order - for instance, this is just wrong:
12 Polythene Pam
13 She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
14 Golden Slumbers
15 Carry That Weight
1 Come Together
Nooooooooooooo!
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15 Carry That Weight
1 Come Together
that's a hanging offense right there.
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Chris Losinger wrote: that's a hanging offense right there.
Totally agree. I don't believe the younger folks have an appreciation for the order of songs on an album, my teenager certainly doesn't. Imagine Dark Side of the Moon , or Zeppelin 4 in a different order, no I can't either.
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I switched to VLC player. It doesn't have this issue, supports WMA files, of which I have a lot, and works with Android Auto. The supporting WMA files has saved me 20 GB on my phone's 128 GB microSD card.
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I like youtube music better than play. also works with google home too. plays nice in my car too.
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I like my music player to not require an internet connection.
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Same.
Streamers should be made of paper or vinyl and attached to the handlebars of kids bikes.
They should not be contributing to interwebz traffic!
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Agreed. I use MusicBee[^] for management and playing on the PC while working. It writes to stick so I have a collection for use in the car, other computers, and in stereos.
It also supports current tag schema, so it recognizes the difference between album artist and track artist. When the collection includes albums such as "The Best of James Bond", distinguishing between the two is critical to keeping the tracks together.
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BryanFazekas wrote: . It writes to stick
If using a USB stick as a storage device with a "standard" file system is an option, my tool of choice is Windows Explorer. I'd much rather not use any third-party software to copy music over if I can help it.
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dandy72 wrote: If using a USB stick as a storage device with a "standard" file system is an option, my tool of choice is Windows Explorer. I'd much rather not use any third-party software to copy music over if I can help it.
I make numerous playlists for different purposes, e.g., traveling with wife, background for working, 300 hours of Jethro Tull, etc. I select the desired playlist and MusicBee writes it to the stick. I don't have to manually decide each time what I want copied.
If a stick gets lost or dies, it doesn't much matter, as I can reproduce that set list again with just a few clicks.
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Y'know, I've never created a playlist in my life.
But I've seen samples, and it seems like the widely recognized formats are all plaintext. So it ought to be trivial to parse a playlist file and turn it into a simple set of file copy operations.
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dandy72 wrote: But I've seen samples, and it seems like the widely recognized formats are all plaintext. So it ought to be trivial to parse a playlist file and turn it into a simple set of file copy operations.
That's too much like work. 
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We're all developers here.
If I had a need for it, I would've written the 3 lines of PowerShell already, just to prove a point. 
And knowing Powershell, I'm betting it could be condensed down to a single line. But I know better than trying to be too clever.
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I was playing poker and my mate raised me his mother's sister - trust him to up the auntie.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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I bet when you called and showed him your hand, he cried, "Uncle!"
Will Rogers never met me.
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OriginalGriff wrote: I was playing poker and my mate raised me his mother's sister
Ah, a low-stakes game, then. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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at least he didn't go all IN
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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Big deal. When the chips are down, I don't see how we can draw any conclusions to suit your preposition.
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The 3D printer is printing. Just a modest 5 hour job. Will it finish without getting stuck? One of the plugs on the cable bundle to the printing head had wiggled a little loose. That may have been the whole affair. After what I read online about the quality of the good chinese wiring and soldering of these printers, it's only a question of time until something will happen again.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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The QC there is not Quality Contol its Questionable Chinese workmanship.
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
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Or even CQC : Counterfeit Questionable Chinese workmanship
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Maybe in this case, the counterfeits are the desirable ones...
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Not by my experience. I have a certain device from a chinese manufacturer. Once in a while you need a replacement part and most of the time just one in a package of three is good enough to use, but at least that one will last for years. There are cheaper clones of every single part, but the quality is so low that you don't save very much. They do so much damage when they fail. In fact, i have also a complete clone that slowly becomes an original because I only use original parts whenever it needs repairs.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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MTTF: Mean time to failure.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Which for many Chinese-manufactured items is negative - it fails before it leaves the factory. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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