So, back in May, I stopped posting to Five Songs because YouTube were being incredible bastards (they still are), and I didn’t really want to contribute to them in even the puny, pathetic way that I was. I needed to find a new solution to stream music, with my criteria being:
- It needed to have the ability to specify a playlist in one place
- It needed to have the ability for me to upload my music to it, because a non-trivial percentage of the songs we have here won’t be in streaming services
- It needed to not throw stuff out on copyright claims whenever I try and add stuff
- It needed to not be YouTube
The first of these is pretty easy, but means I can’t just Frankenstein something together with a bunch of services. Uploading cuts out pretty much all of the big streaming services like Spotify. SoundCloud has copyright controls, so that’s out. And that leaves YouTube, which, uh, fails the last of these tests. As a result, I gave up for a while.
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