🎵 What I don’t like about music streaming services

The way we are listening to music nowadays is comfortable and cheap. That is the best way to describe services like Spotify or YouTube music. You pay some money, and in exchange you can listen to your playlist from everywhere.

I love to listen to music, and have my own playlists that have hundreds of songs. Unfortunately, what online streaming services offer, is however too little for me.

Google Music

My resentment to these services started with Google Music. The service was fine. I had over 500 songs on my carefully crafted playlists. I have ordered these songs, so they built the proper mood over the time. So it was important for me to:

• keep songs I had on the list
• keep the order of the playlist

Unfortunately, Google broke the service. Google Music was closed. And I was left with a task to move my playlists somewhere else. I have found some paid services to extract my playlists. But the exports were not in the order of songs I have carefully planned.

Secondly, it was impossible to import them to another streaming service like Spotify to keep all songs I have collected over ten years. Every time some songs were missing during import, and order was not always proper.

Also, I didn’t get any notification what songs can not be imported, so I could find them on my own. YouTube Music was even worse, because it tried to find substitutes. Almost…