[moralestapia]

Same here and my motivation was that some of my liked videos were randomly removed and it's pretty cool music I wanted to keep forever.

I made another script that adds the video thumbnail as album art and somehow tries to put the proper ID3 tags, it works like 90% of the time which is good enough for me.

Then I made another script that syncs it to my phone when I connect it.

So now I have unlimited music in my phone and I only have to click on "Like" to add more.

And yet, none of Google's 900k TOC genius engineers have thought of this as a feature ...

[FergusArgyll]

I have a script that calls out to a small llm

  artist = llm_call("return the name of the artist based on this title", title)

etc. with some stripping of newlines etc. It works well! they can often infer the correct answer even if it's not present in the title

[moralestapia]

Hey ^^, that's a great idea.

I wrote all of this stuff pre-LLMs, never occurred to me until now, thanks!

[dylan604]

I doubt that it’s a nobody else situation, and it’s more of a management doesn’t want it as it takes away the need for their own streaming offerings. Music industry also doesn’t want it, as there’s no more royalties coming in. Can’t release an app that pisses of the industry.

[anamexis]

> And yet, none of Google's 900k TOC genius engineers have thought of this as a feature ...

Isn’t that the YouTube Music app?

[moralestapia]

No.

[anamexis]

How so? What’s missing?

[moralestapia]

* Several hundred million tracks that are not labeled as "music" by uploaders, to start.

* Native integration with my phone music player, allowing for things like seamless playback, etc.

* Things I like on YouTube automatically go to my device.

* If a track is removed from YouTube, it stays on my device.

(Did you take 10 seconds to read my comment above?)

[anamexis]

* Every Youtube video is playable on the Youtube music app.

* There is a liked videos playlist

Yes, I read your comment above.

Regarding the other two points, it is of course understandable why you'd want to download and have your own solution. But that is also obviously not an issue with Google engineers/PMs neglecting to think of a feature.

[moralestapia]

Great. I'll keep using mine, though.