Good because there's enthusiasm for being able to use YouTube music without paying the subscription, but I agree that it's a shame everyone seems to be more into doing everything by themselves rather than contributing to a single piece of software and keeping it stable, featureful, but most importantly working.
Up to now I probably switched apps 6 times: Vimusic -> Innertune -> Innertune fork -> SpMp -> Rimusic -> Harmony Music
(Plus others that I just tried for a few days at most)
Well its faster
And is cuter
Its 5 mb
And it doesnt need any microg
And it also has a max quality option which is still beta
But its really awesome
And it also caches the songs once you hear them so you dont need to download them again for listening the second time
I've been using lucida.to with PowerAmp or iPod 5th gen Rockbox, has worked great.
(Though my iPod had a problem playing flacs, probably because it was running out of RAM or something, uploaded the music using Rhythmbox on Linux, which uploaded the files as mp3-s that it could then play)
I play FLAC via Rockbox with a 5th gen iPod Video and it's able to keep up. I did find that if the music files have the album art embedded in them (especially high resolution art) that it SERIOUSLY bogs down the iPod as it tries to downsize the photo. Once I fixed that, it plays FLAC just as promptly as any mp3.
Anything that uses Google API with your own domestic IP is like using a condom with a small hole in it. Not much will leak through but just enough to make you unprotected. And now if you do use a VPN, they would cock block you one day or another.