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Perhaps an aside but recently using Google assistant to play music tracks from YouTube has mostly stopped working for me. Commands that previously worked such a
by darepublic 5y ago
Perhaps an aside but recently using Google assistant to play music tracks from YouTube has mostly stopped working for me. Commands that previously worked such as "play $title by $author" now get a response that YouTube premium is needed to search tracks. some specific song titles in particular still get played but most do not. I also used to be able to say "play $album_title full album" but whereas it would previously start playing a video or playlist of the full album now I get a message advertising YouTube premium and then directing me to a mix based on the album title but not a playlist. Of course someone could pretty easily roll their own bot to provide this lost functionality but I think one day this too will be locked down via various means. Maybe the post scarcity era of YouTube and internet was never realistic to begin with. Was spoiled by the days of free Coursera, youtube, cheap Uber rides etc. I feel like in the future I'll be that old guy (or "boomer") telling the young people about the good old days of the internet and they'll just be rolling their eyes and dismissing such talk with some meme, incidentally to the benefit of Google/Alphabet