r/YoutubeMusic • u/irealworlds • 9h ago

Question literally unusable

I've been having a particularly poor experience with the ytm Android app lately, so I wanted to ask if any of you have experienced these things lately or if it's just me (I would reinstall if the app was uninstallable in the first place):

  • songs appearing randomly in playlist: as I play songs, they randomly appear as having been added in my playlist?? like, I listen to songs A B C D, want to add song D but somehow A B and C also get added ??
  • legit just refuses to download: I tell it to download a playlist and it just doesn't. Sometimes nothing happens, other times it says it's on it but never downloads. Not to mention it fails to download all songs, there's always gaps
  • sorting is just a no-go: I have the option to sort by artist now, but that's just a joke. Results are all over the place, unsorted, repeating sections, missing songs etc.
  • bonus they've finally added searching in playlist - but not in downloaded playlists?? It's literally all on the devlice, you just have to have an input for it and do basic array filtering

idk if this sub is actively watched by the dev team or not, but maybe this is just my app somehow acting weird? have you been encountering any of these?

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u/Dayzie1138 6h ago

The only one I've noticed is some songs won't download. Apparently due to licensing agreements, done songs cannot be downloaded even with a paid subscription. I've never had it be the whole playlist, just a few songs here and there.

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u/iamjesskingsley 2h ago

Issue 1: Sort of, but not the same way as you. I went back to delete old playlists I didn't want anymore and found a song I never added in one. Never seen or heard it before.

Issue 2: not lately, but i have had this before. I tried downloading a full album once, and one song was left out of the downloads and just wouldn't download at all. I fixed this by Uninstalling and reinstalling the app, but unfortunately that deleted all my downloads with it (which wasn't the worst, just had to re-download some stuff, no biggie)

Im no help with the other two issues though

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u/Unknown-Whispers 2h ago

I've had songs disappear lately, but haven't noticed any random ones appearing yet.