Adding my own songs to Power Beats

[Rock'N Rolla]

how to add my music from google youtube music? Love the game, but I am having trouble doing this.

[plmx]

You cannot directly add content from websites, including YouTube. PowerBeatsVR requires a file with the song on your local harddrive, preferably in .mp3 format.

So, the recommended way to go about this is buying a song on any of the major platforms (for example, Amazon Music) and downloading it as an .mp3. If it's a free song (such as most CC-licensed songs), you can obviously directly download it.

You can then navigate to the folder on your harddrive where you've stored the file in the in-game LOCAL file tab and select the song.

[Sapass]

Too bad that , in 2021, programmers still think that people use muisic FILES ! Wake up guys, our music is on spotify, youtube music, deezer, etc.... I wish this app could use my youtube music songs, i would have bought it. Nice try, but just 5 years too late :o)

[PossibleTango]

I used Viddly YouTube Downloader but you can use something like y2mate.guru as well to download youtube videos.

[Flame Soulis]

Originally posted by sapass:

Too bad that , in 2021, programmers still think that people use muisic FILES ! Wake up guys, our music is on spotify, youtube music, deezer, etc.... I wish this app could use my youtube music songs, i would have bought it. Nice try, but just 5 years too late :o)

Uh... bro, you do realize that those services usually don't offer integration support like what you are wanting. If you are paying for a subscription, you don't actually own the songs; you are paying for the ability to play them at anytime and the subscription is more or less split with all the artists involved. You can still buy the albums, which some services then let you download them yourself.

Beat Saber, OhShape, and many others are all limited by the same thing for a reason, and that's more or less it. Plus, you can't really analyze a stream, so custom generated tracks wouldn't work even if the services were offered.

[Shini]

Originally posted by sapass:

Too bad that , in 2021, programmers still think that people use muisic FILES ! Wake up guys, our music is on spotify, youtube music, deezer, etc.... I wish this app could use my youtube music songs, i would have bought it. Nice try, but just 5 years too late :o)

I do download my music after I bought it on Amazon. Not a fan of all those dumb subscription based services all around.
So I'm totally happy with this feature in PowerBeatsVR.

[Flame Soulis]

Originally posted by sapass:

Too bad that , in 2021, programmers still think that people use muisic FILES ! Wake up guys, our music is on spotify, youtube music, deezer, etc.... I wish this app could use my youtube music songs, i would have bought it. Nice try, but just 5 years too late :o)

You know, it's fitting really: A good band has a band member from NightWish basically leave all because of your stupid streaming services. Granted, it does fall on also having ♥♥♥♥♥♥ managers, but his letter pretty much takes your argument and puts it where it and you belong: in the trash.

Source: https://www.metalinsider.net/splits/marko-hietala-quits-nightwish

Originally posted by Marko Hietala:

Dear people. I am leaving Nightwish and my public life.

For quite a few years now I haven’t been able to feel validated by this life. We have streaming company big guns demanding 9/5 work from artists of inspiration while unfairly sharing the profits. Even among the artists. We’re the banana republic of the music industry.

[KaylaKaze]

While integration is a problem, the game in question CAN analyze the audio out to do what it needs to do. That said though, it'd probably not be able to do it fast enough to have things happening with the beat.

[TRAMPASAURUSREX]

Originally posted by Sapass:

Too bad that , in 2021, programmers still think that people use muisic FILES ! Wake up guys, our music is on spotify, youtube music, deezer, etc.... I wish this app could use my youtube music songs, i would have bought it. Nice try, but just 5 years too late :o)

EXACTLY WHY I WONT BUY IT. They could even make it so you pick a YouTube playlist, have it analyze the songs and create the generation for play. Even if it took awhile to do so. Then come back and play through that play list. It seems lazy on their part.

[plmx]

Believe me, we would like nothing more than to provide you with an easy solution for streaming songs.

However, due to both contractual and technical reasons out of our control, this is not as simple as it would seem. Furthermore, as a small studio, we do not rate a hotline to the global streaming players.

Having said all that, we *are* actively trying to bring a streaming solution to the game, but given the issues listed above we cannot give you a definitive answer and/or timetable yet.

Philip