Ask HN: Products that suck but you still use?

Re:Ask HN: Products that suck but you still use? by csixty4 on Sunday April 21, 2019 @10:26PM (#19715925)

Amazon Music. I paid for it because I could intermingle my Bandcamp music and obscure CD rips and then they took that feature away.

I should switch to Google Music but that doesn't work with my Echo very well.

The state of online music sucks.

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Re:Ask HN: Products that suck but you still use? by lifehacked on Sunday April 21, 2019 @11:17PM (#19716204)

I had my bank cancel all amazon music subscription charges after paying for it for almost a year after I stopped using it. Turns out they cancelled ALL charges from amazon. Am I a bad person?

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Re:Ask HN: Products that suck but you still use? by brickmort on Sunday April 21, 2019 @10:36PM (#19715965)

What's not to like about Amazon Music? I use it for streaming music and have been pretty happy with it.

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Re:Ask HN: Products that suck but you still use? by csixty4 on Monday April 22, 2019 @08:06AM (#19718217)

I want all my music in one place. If I want to hear the new Janelle Monae, I want it there. If I want to hear Braindead Sound Machine's cover of Walking After Midnight that I ripped off the EP I bought in 1996, I want it right there. I want my voice assistant to be able to find any of it without me having to know if it's something in the streaming library or if it's something I ripped.

There's only two streaming services left that let you do that: Apple and Google. And I'm not letting Apple anywhere near my music collection after what that iTunes Match bug did to my mp3s.

That leaves Google. So now I'll have to upload my music to yet another service until they too decide not to allow uploads anymore and then I'm screwed.

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