> FInally, i'll point to my favorite post on the subject, Don't be a free user by idlewords: https://blog.pinboard.in/2011/12/don_t_be_a_free_user/*
I used to believe this. Now Google Play Music is dead despite my $20/month.
I used to believe this. Now Google Play Music is dead despite my $20/month.
That's really not true at all. They are only now adding some of the feature set. Anecdotally, their radio stations are not nearly as good. Sometimes in a list of 15 songs, 12 of them might be from the same artist. If YTM does, in fact, have a bigger library, I could not tell.
Additionally, now my music suggestions are polluted by my video watching and my video watching is polluted by music listening. Neither of those things are desirable.
I'll be keeping the service, since I'm grandfathered in to YouTube Premium. But I'm probably going to switch to Spotify for music after using GPM since it came out.
Frankly it's garbage and when they finally pull the trigger and kill google music I'm going to stop paying them.
I actually switched to YT Music a year ago as I preferred the UX. But it's indeed subjective.
GPM and YTM are identical subscriptions and always have been for as long as I can remember, if not forever, save for that short time when YouTube Red was inexplicably a few dollars more per month compared to GPM.
It is an algorithm slapped over youtube rather than a music service.
Huh? I'm still using it every other day or so.
YouTube Music fills the needs of some, perhaps many users, but it is not a 1:1 replacement and I'm not a fan of what they have to offer.
Also I hold a bit of resentment for YTM since the YouTube app no longer allows backgrounding podcast-style content or playing it with the screen locked. It tells you to go to YouTube Music instead but that's definitely not the right UX for watching/listening to that kind of content.
Can you give an example? I can background Joe Rogan with the regular YouTube app (I have YouTube Premium).