• GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
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        10 months ago

        My YouTube algorithm is just terrible. It will circle back the same 5-10 videos I have watched or liked some years ago, sprinkle in some rightwing political bullshit, or show only very tangentially related results.

        Recent example: an underground artist popped into my head I used to listen to during my school days, and I wanted to go through their album for nostalgia.

        Entering the artist and album name gives me two tracks from that album, a handful of other artists who have at some point collaborated, and the aforementioned unrelated or political results. Clicking through some of the videos always cycles back to the same few suggestions.

        I even tried this on incognito mode to see if my login bricked the algorithm, but it was equally shitty. Apparently google can’t even get their own content indexed properly, not to mention actual web search.

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          10 months ago

          The trick for me is to search playlists. But it might be a region issue depending on where you live

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        10 months ago

        On mobile i’ve got an app that lets me play youtube videos with the screen locked so i use that as well.

        It’s a bit annoying cause the app does have ads as well, but only when you open it. If you put a video on and close it (leaving it playing on the background), there’s no ads

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      10 months ago

      bandcamp is pretty great. Granted, they are still a for-profit company; a popular community based solution would be nice. But they do let you download lossless file to self-host or just listen on device.

      The only complain is the lack of classical music (not modern/contemporary classical) on there. But I would imagine most classical music is public domain by now. I just don’t know where to find them…

      Edit: found it: https://www.classiccat.net/ or internet archive has a huge collection of classical music.

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      10 months ago

      yt-dlp to download, Strawberry and JetAudio as music players, and Kid3qt for batch renames/metadata management