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> YouTube is not a music service I have to disagree there, it's become my new de-facto music service on my desktop/tablet, at least since I failed to properly
by freeflight 8y ago
> YouTube is not a music service
I have to disagree there, it's become my new de-facto music service on my desktop/tablet, at least since I failed to properly move my iTunes database and lost/unorganized large parts of my music collection.
The autoplay and mix playlist features are great for discovering new artists, even tho the algorithm can get a bit repetitive and after a while starts populating many lists with the same songs, having the music videos to many songs is also a great added bonus.
- JFFalcon 8y agoMaybe they should have just let people upload audio files with a title card, rather than fragment the service into another app. Would have fixed the bandwidth/battery problem and kept the interface, network, etc.
- freeflight 8y agoLots of music just have a static image anyway, I wonder if YouTube couldn't figure something out to automatically re-encode such videos into audio-only streams, making them less bandwidth intensive. I'm no coder but that doesn't sound like something impossible to do.
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- Raphael 8y agoIf the image is a single keyframe of the video, the remaining frames have an empty delta and shouldn't take much (if any) space.
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- viraptor 8y agoI agree that's how it's used. And also think that this is likely not how Google wants it to be used. There's a music player hiding somewhere in YT, but without a nice interface and wasting amazing amount of global bandwidth for the video stream many people don't care about. (but turn up the quality to get a better audio stream) It's not a music service - it's a music video service with some music piggybacking on top in a silly way.