re: Crappy YT Music continues to be crappy

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j. Casting directly to Sonos has been removed, even with a Premium account. You need to do it through the Sonos app with a terrible implementation. (thanks, redActarus) (App)

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1. General UI/UX
a. Uploads are hidden in separate drop-downs, making anyone who solely listens to uploaded music a second-class citizen and requires extensive menu navigation to access uploaded music at all. As noted, it takes four clicks just to get to your uploads, e.g. Library > Songs > Drop down > Uploads. It also doesn't save your last setting, ensuring maximum frustration. (thanks, OverKy & Dragon911X) (Browser/App)

b. Library is a tab, but it confusingly doesn’t mean uploads - uploads are hidden in a drop down. (Browser/App)

c. No Album sub-listing for artists in uploaded music. “Albums” as a top-level alphabetical tab by album name is nearly worthless, since most people (and competing apps, and GPM) organize by artist before album. (Browser/App)

d. Similarly hidden search for uploaded artists or songs, kept separate. Initial results confusingly only return Youtube videos. (Browser/App)

e. YTM landing page & app startup screen is full of unhelpful, unwanted information such as recommended music videos, artist pages, location-based recommendations, and is a barrier to accessing music. (Browser/App)

f. Search results have “Add to Library” for albums and tracks already in library, and it’s not clear if this will overwrite existing uploads. (Browser/App)

g. Android Auto head unit interface is terrible. (thanks, yottabit42) (App)

h. "In My Library" within each artist doesn't prioritize uploaded/liked content; don't want to scroll through dozens of albums to see the albums I like. (thanks, nerveworm) (Browser/App)

i. No Genre sorting or tab (thanks, Uncle-Eevee) (Browser/App)

j. No "last added" auto list for uploads. (thanks, CoogleGhrome) (Browser/App)

k. Artist names sometimes not present in search results. (thanks, Dio-V) (Browser/App)

l. Thumbs Up/Down are reversed from GPM UI. (thanks, stealthgyro) (Browser/App)

m. No swiping left/right to go to the next/last song. (daveyjones0017 however reports that this works) (thanks, _Nipples_) (App)

n. Delete From Library functions are in the mobile app menus in a way that may cause accidental deletions. (thanks, puxui666) (App)

o. Playlist and song controls not on same page (also present in GPM, but desirable nonetheless). (thanks, doublemp) (Browser/App)

p. Vertical scroll can be misinterpreted as a horizontal swipe, removing a song. (also present in GPM, but desirable nonetheless). (thanks, doublemp) (Browser/App)

q. No offline mode toggle (which could fix many of these issues). (thanks, kirksucks) (App)

r. Forced to use primary / non-brand YouTube account, requiring constant switching and preventing simultaneous use of both music and brand YouTube account. (thanks, OverKy) (Browser)

s. In the queue, you must be playing a track before the name of the artist or album is hotlinked in the list. (thanks, OverKy) (Browser/App)

t. On browsers (dunno about the app), the video progress bar is far away from the video. (thanks, OverKy) (Browser)

u. Deleting Uploads is a one-by-one process, no batch-select. Unworkable for more than single files. (thanks, OverKy) (Browser/App)

v. The mini player overlaps clickable buttons on smaller displays (e.g., 1366x768). (thanks, outroverso) (Browser)

w. No cover scroll for the library. (thanks, morgenman) (Browser/App)

x. Can't sort uploads search by Albums/Playlists/Artists/etc. (clicking Uploads, then Albums gives only YT results) (Browser/App)

y. Can not unlike song where you added it as an album (greyed out). Must dislike the song to remove it. (thanks, thedarksyde) (Browser/App)

z. Missing keyboard shortcuts compared with GPM. https://imgur.com/a/cgKb2Rv (thanks, stealthgyro) (Browser)

aa. When downloading an album, can't delete individual songs. Similarly, cannot remove individual songs from added non-locker albums. (thanks, fela90 & nicoscience) (App)

bb. Song cover art from GPM doesn't transfer to YTM well and is often lost in the transfer.(thanks, puppetjax) (Browser & app)

cc. The app gives you a push notification each time the app "checks for incomplete downloads" which is like every day. (thanks, puppetjax) (App)

dd. When you add a compilation album with multiple artists to the Library it completely ignores the album artist, so you end up with multiple artists being added to the library instead. (thanks, mrajsaint) (Browser/App)

ee. Liking a song also adds it to your Library. Sometimes people just like the one song and don't particularly want the artist/album in their Library. (thanks, mrajsaint) (Browser/App)

ff. Sometimes an album can change to "Private" and there's no way of deleting it without removing the album, but are unable to click on the album to remove it because it's been made private. (thanks, mrajsaint) (Browser/App)

gg. Likes sorting is no longer in order of "time of like." (thanks, miester) (Browser/App)

hh. Search doesn't work well for Uploads, burying relevant results lower than YT or GPM. (thanks, TheOvy) (Browser/App)

ii. YTM will not display a UI in Android Auto at all unless you're on premium. Unsafe and unusable. (thanks, Edgeguy13) (Browser/App)

jj. Keyboard music control buttons don't automatically work to play/skip in YTM. Update: turbotailz notes this appears to be a bug when Google Play Music Chrome extension is installed, and disappears when removed. (thanks, turbotailz) (Browser/App)

kk. The mousewheel volume control on the YTM desktop player is ridiculously oversensitive. The mouse wheel only takes 10 clicks to get to min/maximum. GPM is about twice as much. (thanks, TheKhaosUK) (Browser)

ll. The "Favorites" category appears to be broken. E.g., albums listened to once are in it forever, and other repeated-listening albums are never added. (thanks, TheOvy) (Browser/App)

mm. No switch between light and dark themes. (thanks, OneTouchDisaster) (Browser/App)

nn. No tile/grid view option for content, just list view. (thanks, OneTouchDisaster and SeekingSublime) (Browser/App)

oo. No 3-dot-menu links to "Go to artist" and "Go to album". (thanks, spando_calrissian) (Browser/App)

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