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I like Youtube Music more. It has a wider selection and better suggestion algorithms, especially in the latest update. I think the interface is better and more modern. There may be niche features it doesn't have yet, but they are improving it rapidly.

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Their suggestion algorithms are possibly the worst my wife and I have ever experienced. I don't know how people can use it unless they like top40 getting jammed into anything and everything. If thats your thing then its probably great. But thats not so much an algorithm as much as its a list. Anybody can randomly drop top40 into your playlists.

After Goog killed Play Music I switched over to Spotify and I've been astonished at how much better the recommendation algorithm is

Youtube music's recommendation algorithm is perplexingly bad. No matter what seed I start a playlist with, it always ends up at Ra Ra Rasputin after 20 or 30 songs. I don't know if other people have this problem but it's really annoying

If it's based on YouTube's algorithms, I'm not surprised. No matter what topic of video I start watching, after letting it autoplay for a while it ends up on conspiracy theory junk, which I have never intentionally watched.

Seems to push you towards what has high engagement regardless of whether that aligns with your history/interests at all.

That's not my experience at all, in fact I've found tons of small artists. Now that there are four discovery mixes per subsection, that ability is getting much better.

https://ibb.co/b3ZFQpx https://ibb.co/yys5fQR

Where did they expand the selection? I thought everything on youtube was already in google music. I found a lot of things I used to stream from google music missing from youtube, but I've since gotten off entirely, so I haven't followed any recent updates.

YouTube Music has access to any YouTube video which is a much larger set of music than was ever available through Google Play Music

I found the 10th dentist!

/But yeah, me too.

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