I’m cleaning out my gmail folders this weekend, and went deep into the archive to 2011, when I got my invite to Google Music.
It’s funny, because I just (November) moved all of my music out of cloud and back to local-only. Amazon was the last straw, when I tried to play purchased music, and was forced to listen to it on shuffle with other songs not of my choosing.
Anyway… there was a time when Google (ahem, Youtube) Music was set to be a game-changer. Imagine if enshittification wasn’t a thing.
And for the automatically created playlists for some reason it doesn’t use the same algorithm as youtube does for its mix playlists, which I generally quite like.
Overall works better than spotify for me though since I always found spotify’s UI to be beyond terrible, and all I do is listen to my own playlists anyway. And if I’m at my pc I just use youtube’s own mixes which are somehow the only automatically created playlists I like.