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Spotify actually lets you do that, so you're in luck. Add local files on your desktop to a playlist, download the playlist on your mobile device, done. I'm using the feature, it works. Though it does not work with my "Spotify remote play" (or whatever they're calling it) kitchen radio.

The feature is so niche, I half expect them to drop it without a word in any given update.

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/Play-quot-local-fil...

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I haven't tried this myself, but from what I read about it, it's basically a manual sync you have to do which isn't what he was asking about. GPM had a music locker feature, where you'd just upload it once to your account and then you could stream it from anywhere like anything else on the service.

YouTube Music and Apple Music have similar features but they're not nearly as intuitive or convenient as GPM's was.

Hi,

I was trying to explain that in the blog post too, in Apple Music your own added songs are uploaded and act as any other streaming song and I think it’s pretty amazing, also the fact that your song now has all the inherited features like Siri/Spotlight search!

I don't use Apple music myself, but I've heard that it doesn't actually use your songs but uses song name matching which sometimes gives you censored versions of explicit songs. Is this true?

I remember when I used Google Play Music and it kept the AOL sound in "my" copy of a certain Tatu song, so that was definitely streaming the uploaded song.

Well, I'm pretty sure GPM did some level of acoustic matching nonsense to optimise storage or bandwidth, because it changed a bunch of songs that I'd uploaded into a different language version of song.

It does that if it can match them, and uploads them if it can't. Downloads on other devices might be 256 kbps AAC either way, so not a backup service.

You cannot officially force an upload, but I would expect there to be some kind of hack for it. If I remember correctly, calling the album "Red Album (sorejan's Version)" actually does the trick.

I believe this also only works if your devices are on the same LAN at some point in time to sync locally.

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