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Me too! I love Tim Cook, he seems (although I’ll bet not in real life) very chill and quite on top of things.
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Does anyone use YouTube Music for streaming? i’m thinking of switching from Apple Music. Apple Music is fine, but I’ve never really liked their recommendations… I’ll start playing something i like, and then about four songs later always ends up back at some kind of generic chart music that I hate.
Whereas if I’m using Youtube to watch music videos, their recommendations are always far more in tune with what I like - so would hope it would be the same for their music service.
I’m using it, it works well, but I haven’t used a different one for a few years to really compare it, it doesn’t go back to chart songs but I have a lot of saved music for it to choose from.
I like (some might also be on other apps)
Quarterly rewinds with stats and top 100 playlists etc.
Now has a sleep timer, finally.
Download listened to songs at random for offline, you choose the number/storage usage.
Find a song and press play next ( Spotify adds it to the end of your current queue I believe)
Can add live and remixed song versions from YouTube, which is great for songs not anywhere else.
Stats for nerds is also available like YouTube 
Can quickly switch to the music video of the song you’re listening to, plays it in full HD too, just like YouTube.
Usually has the song release year when you click 3 dots and then credits, I use that to see if I feel as old as I am.
Seems to have more song lyrics than Spotify, even if they don’t all scroll along in sync with the words.
Public comments on songs.
Samples is also good, it’s like Instagram reels for music videos , scroll through suggested short clips from music videos and add the song to your queue or playlist or just play, but I don’t use it often .
Some gripes;
Shuffle tries to be a bit clever and concentrate on recently played songs from a playlist(maybe I’m imagining it)
Sometimes it’s not actually endless music, I’m not sure on the pattern but it can stop playback after 50 or so songs, it’s annoying, I think it’s when you click on a single song and it starts a radio.
It definitely doesn’t seem as feature packed as Spotify but realistically the app is just in the background and playing music and if you go YouTube premium there’s no ads in YouTube which I really like.
I don’t like that I have to sign into my whole Google account to play music, i.e. work computer, so I have it on a separate email, so I don’t leave access to my emails and docs on devices I don’t want to.
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Thank you - very detailed and useful. I think I will give it a try
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If I had his money and lived in sunny California so would I!
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It’s not always all that sunny
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£12 per month just seems so much to me.
Spotify to hike prices by up to £24 a year (moneysavingexpert.com)
Yeah - Youtube Premium (no ads for Youtube + Youtube Music) is (currently) £12.99 so I’d rather pay the extra quid for that.
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My Spotify family is going up to £20 from £18.
It was originally £15 so up 33% in a few years.
Definitely makes me consider how much actual music I could buy for that much money and just use iTunes Match.
£ per minute of use, my music sub is by far the best value subscription I have.
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We listen to hundreds of thousands of minutes but a huge amount of it is the same songs/albums again and again.
But two albums/15 songs a month? That’s going to take you an awful long time to get a decent library.
Even just TS for your daughters will take a good few months. They won’t stand for that!
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Agreed - the value is great if you use it enough.
I’d like to see spatial/Atmos/immersive though, come on Spotify - launch it!
Especially with Apple Music offering it for an included perk. The lossless & 24bit (not whole selection) for the included price adds value. I wish apples music discovery was a bit better though. Spotify had that nailed, that and social playlists.
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It’s probably worth though having a bit of a ‘survey’ of all the different music streaming platforms and check how much they cost now and what features and extras they include.
Off the top of my head:
- Spotify : £11.99 pm
- Apple Music : £10.99 pm
- Amazon Music : £9.99 pm
- Youtube Music : £10.99 pm
- Tidal : £10.99 pm
Any others? Pandora? Soundcloud?
Although, now that Spotify is putting it’s prices up, I wouldn’t be surprised if the rest of them all bump it up a bit as well.
Apple, Amazon and Youtube also include their music subscription service in their service bundles (although Amazon Music is not included in Amazon Prime - it’s slightly discounted for Prime Members and Prime does include a ‘budget’ music service Amazon Prime Music)
Yeah, I’d be doing an up-front 12-month plan if they did.
Still, at £20 a month, we get our money’s worth.
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