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Google's music app has issues too. It works ok in the browser. But on the phone and especially with android auto its so minimalist that its painful to use. In t

Google's music app has issues too. It works ok in the browser. But on the phone and especially with android auto its so minimalist that its painful to use. In the car there's basically no way to play an album, which is like the one thing I actually want to do. Instead I'm greeted with 4 menu items I never use. It's sad because I know there are far better interfaces, but the reality of streaming means your media is locked behind an inferior product. I found a similar issue watching NHL games on nhl.tv and eventually found a script online to download the raw files and build an mkv out of them - no more buffering, can work around region restrictions with a vpn, and play it anywhere I want (like offline on a plane)... but it just seems so unnecessary to have to go through all that.

ConceptJunkie 8y ago
I find the Google Music App for Android to have a reasonable design... not great, but usable. What I can't deal with is the fact that just like Amazon, it never seems to have occurred to them that you might have a large music collection, and it's insanely slow at times, sometimes taking 10s of seconds to respond to a tap. You're right about the downside of streaming. I used to use Amazon until they killed their Cloud Music capability earlier this year, and I switched over to Google. Both services provide a lot of value, but in both cases my number 1 request would be to somehow allow third-party apps to access the cloud because the built-in apps are pretty awful.