harmbugler

1. No.
2. Yes.
3. I’ve only used Nicotine+ and it’s fine.

A YouTube whitelist would go a long way, but I think Google don’t want you to do that. The ads are obviously another problem if you can’t block them.

One option (if you are technical) is to use automation tools to subscribe to a whitelist of channels and pre-cache the videos locally.

Become untariffable

Agreed. In a film, the music is supportive but in a concert hall it is appreciated alone. In the early 80s I was a big Star Wars fan, but at a concert when the orchestra played the main theme it just felt out of place.

Dang, TIL Wojciech Kilar died in 2013. Anyway, Hans Zimmer and Danny Elfman give Williams some good competition.