YouTube Music Playing the Same Artist Makes Everyone Miss Google Play Music

Last year, Google made a change that not everybody agreed with: the company killed off Google Play Music and recommended everybody to make the switch to YouTube Music. For Android Auto users, the whole thing ended up becoming a huge struggle, especially because YouTube Music really wasn’t prepared to deliver a car-optimized experience. For example, users migrating from Google Play Music to YouTube Music discovered they weren’t even able to listen to their own libraries, as the new service only provided such capabilities with a subscription. Google later resolved the whole thing with a free tier, but at the end of the day, there’s still a lot to fix about YouTube Music on Android Auto. One of the most recent problems hitting both the phone and the car experiences concerns the song recommendation engine bundled with YouTube Music. As it turns out, some users receive a suggestion to play the same artist over and over again, even though they didn’t even previously like any of their songs. In other words, YouTube Music keeps insisting on playing the same artist even though the user skips their songs. The only way to deal with the whole thing is to spam the dislike…
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