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Re:1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die by shaftway on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @09:46PM (#41064020)
I get missing the old service. We went with a YouTube Music subscription but I'm not particularly happy about it. I loved Play Music and when it folded we just kind of went with the flow. Now there are reasons for sticking (the cost isn't bad, we have a family membership, and we get no ads on YouTube).

The "radio station" functionality has been great for me. I do most of my music listening while on the motorcycle, and it's easy to thumb things up and kick off new radio stations via voice commands. So I've been able to meander through various musics and have had a pretty continuous stream of artists I wouldn't have heard of.

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Re:1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die by disposition2 on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @08:59AM (#41108684)
I also use YouTube Music, it's about as good / bad as all the other services that I have tried and are available today.

One of my favorite things about Rdio was the ability to have multiple radio stations and your likes / dislikes would only affect that station. So if I'm trying to make a 60s rock station and a Johnny Cash song comes up, me disliking Johnny Cash on that station wouldn't affect my classic country station where I definitely want to hear Johnny Cash. Such a neat feature...and it really helped with discovery IMHO.

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