Well it seems that my account from google has been banned from playing music on any app or website all because I wanted do download everything on my liked list.
Everything I try now says content unavailable. Ugh 3 years of curating content just gone. Getting the account information only helps subscriptions, not the liked songs.
The main reason I liked YouTube’s music is the supermix feature. I’m hardly ever in the mood for one genre of music, which Spotify only seems to randomize for you.
I know Spotube is available but that’s essentially Spotify’s front end using YouTube for the actual media.
I can’t go back to anything that bombards me with ads or annoying DJs.
Wait so downloading from YouTube directly (with e.g. Jdownloader) may get you rate limited? That easily? But I’ve been doing this quite a long time
If you’re doing it from time to time and with rate limiting I guess you have nothing to fear? However, If I have to guess, OP tried to downloas his whole library/playlists one shot… Bad move and google just locked them out !
I had a self-hosted metube and limited the max concurrent download and sleep intervals between downloads, just added a library and waited until finished !
Nowadays I’m a soulseek/nicotine preacher !