• RoyalEngineering@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Oh Google.

    They kicked everyone off Google Music to go to YT Music and Google Podcasts. Now they’re killing Google Podcasts and telling people to go to YT Music.

    If YT Music wasn’t linked with my YouTube Premium subscription, I would never use it.

    • brlemworld@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I decided to cancel both. YT Music deleted my music that they don’t have in their global library, and they fucked up the sorting of my liked playlist. Going back to buying music a la carte and storing it myself.

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      1 year ago

      I sometimes decide to try out YouTube Music for playing some of the music I have saved on YT in a more music focused UI.

      Then I go back straight back to regular YouTube, because half the songs/music can’t be played in YT Music (including offical music on official channels).

      I feel like I get some good value out of YT Premium, but I don’t understand YT Music.

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        1 year ago

        Interesting use case.

        I’m opposite. I want 0 video functionality in the app and just want audio. When they made the YouTube integration more visible I started getting the ick.

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          1 year ago

          And, at least for me, the recommendation is by far better, than Spotify was. I had Spotify premium, liked a lot of songs, tried to use it regularly. And when it went on its on after my playlist finished, 5 out of 10 recommended songs were…shit. No matter how much I tried to like or disklike songs. When they started current YT Music (after the Play Music shutdown), I tried it and it was leagues better from the get-go (the recommendations, that is). I assume that’s because they have my 10+ years old YT history. Anyway, I cancelled Spotify and happily use YT Music.
          I’m well aware that it could be different for everybody.