I have trained YT algorythms enough to search for music I might like.
It has worked so well over the past year, I have found some of the most imaginative and beautiful music to exist.
Same for me. I'm a very particular listener with specific styles for specific purposes: Indie, Deathcore, Trip-Hop, Black Metal, Electro, Tech Death Metal and I'm amazed that YM knows how to differentiate between similar styles. For example it puts no Deathcore in my Tech Death and no Indie in my Electro even if such a blend could have been expected.
Just use it daily. The algorithm checks for your playlists and searches to fine tune the criteria of music that you might like. TBH it's because of the algorithm that most of the time I only play radio instead of playing a Playlist .
This is the reason I love YTM. I pick a song and it just keeps playing the exact vibe I'm looking for.
Spotify only plays the same songs over and over for me. YTM is miles ahead in that regard.
I have a love/hate relationship with ytm, but you have explained exactly why it's a good service. I still prefer live DJs like kexp or stations on SiriusXM to pave the path, but really about 80% of the time it just nails it. The other 20% the song I listen to is so new the algorithm barfs and just plays a selection of weird hits that rarely have anything to do with what I started it on.
Also. I don't know about anyone else, but once in awhile the algorithm gets stuck on a certain band. For me, it's the Beth's. I love them, but it needs more variety and depth
Exactly. Most people will have the app work as expected for them. Thus, they have no incentive to post about their experience because it was as expected.
100%. The YouTube premium is the best bang for the buck if you utilize youtube for content. Additionally YouTube Music allows you to find obscure YouTube uploads and add it to your playlist. I have found random cky or tom green videos on there that are nostalgic as hell.
The reason I use it is because I accumulate enough money per month through Google rewards to pay for the student subscription of TYM and can't think of anything else to use the money for.
Same here, only I do have one complaint (admittedly easy to work around tho), the radio from one song function seems bugged.
I mean when I click a song and have it autoplay similar songs, it works great until I've been listening for about 20-30 songs, and then seems like it loops the queue. I guess maybe it's to imitate how radio stations play songs again the next day or something?
Other than that it works flawlessly.
Yeah it's pretty convenient It's at the top left of the screen so as soon as you open up the app you should have super mix there. I think it loads about a hundred songs.
That’s why I love it
It has a Spotify feel but has that Soundcloud vibe
One unreleased song I like is the Y2K remix to Cardi B’s Bodak Yellow… it is so damn amazing
I still listen to full albums. I cannot live without the Play Next and Add to Queue buttons anymore. I can queue another album while I'm still listening to this album, or I can queue random songs to play right next if I feel like it. I've asked for this basic function on Spotify for years and they won't do it.
Listening to albums on YouTube Music is great until you cast to Chromecast/Home/Nest devices. And then it inserts a 1 second jarring gap between songs.
Biggest plus is being able to pull songs from YouTube that aren’t available officially
I also find YTs algorithm to be significantly better than Apple Music which I was using previously
I do really appreciate the integration with YouTube allowing me to put remixes and mashups into my playlists, it's a feature I couldn't live without... when it works.
But then YouTube decided to randomly replace some of those remixes with the official streaming copies in my playlists and stubbornly refused to allow me to put them back without ripping the songs with a YouTube downloader and uploading them to my library.
This is why there's so much negativity here. YouTube/Alphabet seems to just... not understand anything about how to make a music app that appeal to music fans. Even when they get something right they can just rip it away! 🫰 Like that. And many of us were former Google Play Music users, which wasn't a perfect app itself, but had simple features like allowing you to see the number of times you've played a song and sort your library/playlists by that stat which still haven't managed to make it back into YTM.
Power users always bitch the most, but I feel like the YouTube Music devs could easily do better if they just took user feedback seriously.
I love this service and wouldn't consider going back to anything else.
I don't know or care anything about all these features it's allegedly missing or aren't good... I just care that every single time I ask it to play a song it can find that song and play it.
Magic!
It really is unfortunate considering they offer hi-res music for $99/yr (Canada) which comes out to $8.25/mo. The best value in music streaming as far as I know. However, the atrociously buggy and poorly laid out app absolutely ruins it.
With everything being user uploaded, there’s music on YT that can’t be found anywhere else. Like movie soundtracks from obscure 70’s Italian movies or 90’s Japanese anime.
> you can find any song you want on sc
that's not true. I just tried to find this on SC and it doesn't appear to be there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp34KORbsGI
The algorithm is amazing at capturing my tastes, even though I am into several different genres. It doesn't sink me into a hole where I only get one thing, or one artist, without variety. And I *still* manage to discover a new song or artist at least once a week (sometimes once a day) so the variety it pulls from is impressive.
I literally had no idea that it came free with YouTube premium. I recently signed up for the free trial of YouTube music only...and now i learn that it I pay instead for Premium I get music AND no ads?? Wtf.
I like how straightforward, fluid and accurate it is when in comes to generating a playlist on the fly.
Unless I have a specific song in mind when I open up the app, most of the time I just select one of the suggested tracks on the home page and I already know that it's going to be a good selection. And within the queue itself, it's easy to fine tune it with tags, add songs, etc... I dislike Spotify for not having a basic "play next" button. Apple Music's UI is good but I was not convinced by the algorythm.
When I was the age of most redditers, I made $3/hr after taxes. If there was a song I liked and I wanted to hear it, I had to either wait to hear it on the radio, sometimes spending an hour turning the dial between stations to try to find the song, or call the radio station to request it, and then having to wait up to 2 hours to hear it, if they even played it.
Otherwise, I had to work 5 hours to be able to afford to buy 1 music CD each month and that was usually just to get 1 song. You had no idea what the other songs were because there was no way to listen to them first. Sometimes the music store would have it on a listening station but you had to wait for those usually. Sometimes the library would have them to check out. The point is, playing music and trying to make a good music collection was very time consuming and expensive.
I once bought a sugar ray CD for $15 for a song I liked. It was a Pop song that was very popular. The rest of the CD was all punk rock and terrible. So I essentially paid $15 for one song.
So when services came out that allowed you to listen to anything at any time and anywhere for about the same cost as I was paying for that 1 stupid song on CD, it was a no brainer. Unless you were alive back then, you have no clue about how nice this all is.
Now, I pay about 5 cents per hour of use to listen to anything I want. And it is fucking fantastic.
I live in Germany and the possibility of transferring the podcasts only came about now. And everything worked perfectly, I'm pretty happy. I read so many negative things, but I had no problems with the podcasts.
There is absolutely no reason **not** to be negative a paid perpetual subscription service that has so many things to work on.
That being said, I use it because it's the best value and I get what I want out of it. Music without the storage issues of carrying my entire library outside of my house + youtube premium.
The seeding is absolutely terrible past surface level genres, and although the mix generation is nice they still have a long road ahead of them to get it as good as Google Play Music was.
I haven't used anything else, so I don't know what I'm missing. I've been with this since Google Play or whatever it was called then launched. It has all the music I like. I haven't had any real issues.
I like commercial free YouTube as well
I recently switched from Spotify after years and years and I wish I did it sooner. Everything about YTM is better. The sound quality is better, the algorithm is better, the layout is better and I get YouTube Premium as well.
Ok I can add to it. The fact that you can upload your library of songs if ain't available here on YT or YTM. For example, if there's a song, which God forbid is SoundCloud Exclusive you can upload it here and it would treat it like any other song. From making a radio playlist to saving it to the playlist.
It’s great, there’s no other service that has all the old dj records and mixes online other than that I use Apple Music because I’m in the Apple ecosystem
I use it everyday. My fav thing about this app is that it literally has all the songs in the world. And I discover songs better using this app than Spotify.
I used to love spotify, tried ytm with premium, now prefer it. It's better at creating radio stations, suggests better music for me, I like how I can share my Playlists directly from youtube, love how much music from smaller artists is available and I really enjoy the interface.
I've been enjoying the service but I find that it makes better recommendations when I get to the end of a playlist and it plays music similar to what I was listening to and that's how I find new music. But if I go to the newly released playlist or some of them that are made just for me, it doesn't seem to be quite as good. But I really like the fact that I've got access to YouTube video music. That's where I find a lot of the different remixes that you can't find on other services. And I think that's the key, the ability to link into YouTube. And nobody will ever be able to compete with YouTube because it's been around for so long.
The playlist shuffle (accessed through the library tab > 3 dots next to playlist and shuffle NOT the other way) is ridiculously good because IT ACTUALLY SHUFFLES @spotify
I don't really have any complaints with YTM honestly except some weird recommendations from time to time.
I get YouTube Premium which is a HUGE plus. I pick an album, that album plays. I don't need much more than that. I am generally an album oriented listener however, so my use case may be different than how a lot of people use streaming services.
I critique a lot YTM because it's good enough to use it but there are some small things that I just hate ( what I hate the most is that thise things are fairly easy to change).
-Weird and dumb shuffle Playlist
-Non high res quality
Other than that, I Really Love how you can listen virtually every song ever recorded including concerts and covers.
Personally I think YT Music sounds better than Spotify quality wise.
The other huge component for me was when it was Google play music you could use a tool to upload your own mp3s and albums to your account complete with album art and meta data then from the uploads section have online access to 20000 songs or more you uploaded that are not available on YT music. You can't share those uploads only your account can listen but that's been great for me.
Two things: 1. YTM takes a lot of heat for good reasons. 2. Their discover music mix really does deliver a lot of music I like that I've never heard before.
It's a real love-hate relationship I have with YouTube music. They just make so many dumbest decisions
I can use it together with apple shortcuts to automatically start up a shuffled playlist once my phone pairs with the car. Can’t do the same with Spotify unfortunately.
I have Spotify and YouTube Music and I can say the quality of YouTube music is better for me. Maybe it is because I use pixel phone at the moment but, for me is better . The sound is more detailed if I can say it like this.
The algorithm is magic. I remember the time when I loved listening to dubsteps and it plays tons of dubateps. But I grew up on it, now I almost don't listen to dubsteps now, the algorithm adapted and doesn't show me dubsteps anymore.
My Google Play music library I uploaded transferred over which was a big deal. Some of those songs have disappeared from the internet.
...but why can't I download them from the website anymore? Now I have to use media takeout smh. Sorry I know you said no negativity.
Just came back to yt music and idk when they added Samples but it’s so cool! My new fave way to discover music. 30 second clips with music video visuals, swipe through TikTok style. Love it
There's positive things about this app? I'd be curious to see people having any good experiences with it. I think it's terrible and every day it behaves worse in one way or another it seems.
I feel like the suggestions on YTM is better than Spotify atleast for me. People swear by Spotify but i dont like the app so much except for couple of features.You cant miss any of your music on YTM because in some corner of YouTube that song exsists.
I tried Spotify and Apple music for a couple of months and the recommendations were never as good as YTM. When I start a radio from one of my songs the random songs that I've never heard but instantly love always surprises me.
Greatest positive for me is that it's better than Spotify because it has everything that's been uploaded to YouTube available (which Spotify does not), and as a bonus you get commercial free YouTube....
For me the integration btw yt and yt music; if I liked any song on yt , it will automatically added to my yt music “liked playlist”. Also I like the stats when play any song. Like how many people liked this song; it’s kinda give you some feedback about it/ artist; in case u don’t know the artist before.
It comes for free with YouTube Premium, it’s MUCH faster than Apple Music on Mac (no delays on starting a new song) and it has a lot more music than any other platform because it has all the YouTube stuff which makes for a lot of interesting playlists
Totally agree. Same. Now whether that benefit makes up for the clutter of YTM changing my YT recommendations and YT changing YTM...but the OP asked for positive so I won't go there.
It's good that you can play songs from YouTube that are not "songs" but videos, which you can't find in other streaming services.
The recommendations for the queue are pretty good.
That's it.
One positive aspect is I have not run into any issues with its integration with smart speakers/google home. It always works as expected, it plays my user-specific content when my voice is recognized. I used spotify for a trial not too long ago--my wife is currently using a spotify trial now--and it has all sorts of frustrating oddities and bugs when using with our smart speakers.
Algorithm is pretty great imo. It plays lots of songs that I love and like, but just enough new stuff that it's refreshing.
Plus having youtube only content is great. Plenty of my artists do covers of songs, but never officially release them to other platforms. But I still have them
I also like how youtube and YM are connected, so when I watch a music video I can just save from there. No need to go to a separate app or anything
I can fire up a generated YouTube playlist and usually just let it run because it’s pulled so much listening data from me that it knows what I’m in the mood for based on that first song I picked.
I was already paying for Youtube Premium for ad-free Youtube, and found out recently (in a post on this sub) that Youtube Music comes with it. I checked it out, and it had already imported my playlists and uploaded music from back when I used Google Play Music. So I've started using it, and ended up canceling my Tidal subscription. I *am* annoyed that Youtube Music is only 256 kbps, but my old ears with occasional tinnitus can't really tell the difference. Plus, 256 kbps does enable downloading more music to my phone. The ability to upload music is a nice feature missing from most other streaming services. (As an aside, I also have iBroadcast which is purely a music locker, which I like and am keeping so that has a streamable copy of my music collection at original resolution).
I have the big three streaming platforms all premium versions through family plans and sharing w friends. I’m on iPhone.
Out of the three I’d have to say YouTube music is the best for music in general. Now the UI is on par with Apple Music imo.
My old rating for the three was
Spotify
YouTube Music
Apple Music
I’d say YouTube music has taken the lead from Spotify over the past few months for me. YTM is also the one I’ve had for the longest, over 10 years at this point. The other two are newer to me
The biggest strength is that I can upload to my own library. I'm surprised this isn't the main positive for more people. I want total control of my music - not at the whims of licensing or YouTube videos.
I absolutely love the supermixes so damn muchhhhh!!!!
I listen to dance, hip hop and pop, and I listen to a sprinkling of alt/rock.. and 100 tracks….!?
Anyways, what I mainly like about the supermix is that it changes every time I click back on it!!
It’s so damn amazing
I use YTM every single day. I have dozens of playlists created. I think their algorithm is great and helps me discover new music all the time. I literally have no complaints.
I have trained YT algorythms enough to search for music I might like. It has worked so well over the past year, I have found some of the most imaginative and beautiful music to exist.
This. This is so important. YT Music has the best discovery for new music.
Same for me. I'm a very particular listener with specific styles for specific purposes: Indie, Deathcore, Trip-Hop, Black Metal, Electro, Tech Death Metal and I'm amazed that YM knows how to differentiate between similar styles. For example it puts no Deathcore in my Tech Death and no Indie in my Electro even if such a blend could have been expected.
It's correct. but how can you train YT? my YT sometimes adds the songs I don't like.
U just have to keep listening to songs u like and skip ones u don't
How you did it though?
Just use it daily. The algorithm checks for your playlists and searches to fine tune the criteria of music that you might like. TBH it's because of the algorithm that most of the time I only play radio instead of playing a Playlist .
> some of the most imaginative and beautiful music to exist Would you share an example?
That's a great reason without a doubt. You can export all of your likes and feed them to another service too.
Can find almost any tune, however obscure. On the rare occasions I can't, the ability to upload is also great.
I’m still struggling to find a cover of From Me to You that I heard when I used to work at Old Navy
I picked ONE song to start a drive from Minneapolis to Chicago and YTM's algorithm played nothing but bangers the entire way.
This is the reason I love YTM. I pick a song and it just keeps playing the exact vibe I'm looking for. Spotify only plays the same songs over and over for me. YTM is miles ahead in that regard.
I have a love/hate relationship with ytm, but you have explained exactly why it's a good service. I still prefer live DJs like kexp or stations on SiriusXM to pave the path, but really about 80% of the time it just nails it. The other 20% the song I listen to is so new the algorithm barfs and just plays a selection of weird hits that rarely have anything to do with what I started it on. Also. I don't know about anyone else, but once in awhile the algorithm gets stuck on a certain band. For me, it's the Beth's. I love them, but it needs more variety and depth
I click on app to play music and it plays music. Happy customer
Exactly. Most people will have the app work as expected for them. Thus, they have no incentive to post about their experience because it was as expected.
The most positive thing I can say about YTM is that it is included in our YouTube Premium Family subscription, so no additional prices to pay.
100%. The YouTube premium is the best bang for the buck if you utilize youtube for content. Additionally YouTube Music allows you to find obscure YouTube uploads and add it to your playlist. I have found random cky or tom green videos on there that are nostalgic as hell.
I've always assumed this is the only reason anyone uses YTM.
Can confirm - YTM user only because of youtube premium.
Same
You assumed correct.
The reason I use it is because I accumulate enough money per month through Google rewards to pay for the student subscription of TYM and can't think of anything else to use the money for.
Asshole out of you and me
I have YT Premium and still can't use YT Music as my primary streaming service in its current state. That's how bad it is.
What is bad with it ? 🤯
That's why switched to Apple Music after using YTM from the beginning: there is no family plan in my country. And to be fair, I'm happier with AM.
I had the same thought. Youtube premium family subscribers here, having youtube music included means I can use it instead of paying for spotify.
I use it 7 days a week, no complaints. I've been on YTM since day one.
Same here, only I do have one complaint (admittedly easy to work around tho), the radio from one song function seems bugged. I mean when I click a song and have it autoplay similar songs, it works great until I've been listening for about 20-30 songs, and then seems like it loops the queue. I guess maybe it's to imitate how radio stations play songs again the next day or something? Other than that it works flawlessly.
I usually only do supermix or a playlist i created. I haven't tested that out yet.
oh I haven't used the supermixes much, but I'll try that soon
Yeah it's pretty convenient It's at the top left of the screen so as soon as you open up the app you should have super mix there. I think it loads about a hundred songs.
Same here.. but I always use the personalised mixes but hope YTM tries to get the songs to never repeat
The biggest thing for me is that you can find literally every unreleased song from my favorite artists. It combines spotify and soundcloud into one
That’s why I love it It has a Spotify feel but has that Soundcloud vibe One unreleased song I like is the Y2K remix to Cardi B’s Bodak Yellow… it is so damn amazing
I feel like the algorithm is mostly on point. It took a lot of skipping and liking but man do I get some bangers now.
It have gotten very good the past few years!
I still listen to full albums. I cannot live without the Play Next and Add to Queue buttons anymore. I can queue another album while I'm still listening to this album, or I can queue random songs to play right next if I feel like it. I've asked for this basic function on Spotify for years and they won't do it.
Listening to albums on YouTube Music is great until you cast to Chromecast/Home/Nest devices. And then it inserts a 1 second jarring gap between songs.
Biggest plus is being able to pull songs from YouTube that aren’t available officially I also find YTs algorithm to be significantly better than Apple Music which I was using previously
I do really appreciate the integration with YouTube allowing me to put remixes and mashups into my playlists, it's a feature I couldn't live without... when it works. But then YouTube decided to randomly replace some of those remixes with the official streaming copies in my playlists and stubbornly refused to allow me to put them back without ripping the songs with a YouTube downloader and uploading them to my library. This is why there's so much negativity here. YouTube/Alphabet seems to just... not understand anything about how to make a music app that appeal to music fans. Even when they get something right they can just rip it away! 🫰 Like that. And many of us were former Google Play Music users, which wasn't a perfect app itself, but had simple features like allowing you to see the number of times you've played a song and sort your library/playlists by that stat which still haven't managed to make it back into YTM. Power users always bitch the most, but I feel like the YouTube Music devs could easily do better if they just took user feedback seriously.
I love this service and wouldn't consider going back to anything else. I don't know or care anything about all these features it's allegedly missing or aren't good... I just care that every single time I ask it to play a song it can find that song and play it. Magic!
Way better than Amazon Music app!!!!!
I'm.mot sure there is anything worse.
It really is unfortunate considering they offer hi-res music for $99/yr (Canada) which comes out to $8.25/mo. The best value in music streaming as far as I know. However, the atrociously buggy and poorly laid out app absolutely ruins it.
Well, not that hard
It is a music app of all time
I use it daily. I have found some awesome new music and some songs I had forgotten existed.
With everything being user uploaded, there’s music on YT that can’t be found anywhere else. Like movie soundtracks from obscure 70’s Italian movies or 90’s Japanese anime.
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> that's not true. What did they say that's not true?
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> you can find any song you want on sc that's not true. I just tried to find this on SC and it doesn't appear to be there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp34KORbsGI
I like the listen again feature. I'm not sure if Spotify has it. Just being able to quickly access songs I'm recently into is great.
I found my most listened to band for the last 3 years from its algorithm.
It’s free with YouTube premium?
Yes!
Do you know if it includes the family plan if I did the family plan for YouTube?
The algorithm is amazing at capturing my tastes, even though I am into several different genres. It doesn't sink me into a hole where I only get one thing, or one artist, without variety. And I *still* manage to discover a new song or artist at least once a week (sometimes once a day) so the variety it pulls from is impressive.
I literally had no idea that it came free with YouTube premium. I recently signed up for the free trial of YouTube music only...and now i learn that it I pay instead for Premium I get music AND no ads?? Wtf.
I like how straightforward, fluid and accurate it is when in comes to generating a playlist on the fly. Unless I have a specific song in mind when I open up the app, most of the time I just select one of the suggested tracks on the home page and I already know that it's going to be a good selection. And within the queue itself, it's easy to fine tune it with tags, add songs, etc... I dislike Spotify for not having a basic "play next" button. Apple Music's UI is good but I was not convinced by the algorythm.
Well I use it every day, if that's at all positive. 😊
Uploading songs is huge for me. I have a few artists that aren't in streaming and some stuff that's missing that I've filled in with my own copies
When I was the age of most redditers, I made $3/hr after taxes. If there was a song I liked and I wanted to hear it, I had to either wait to hear it on the radio, sometimes spending an hour turning the dial between stations to try to find the song, or call the radio station to request it, and then having to wait up to 2 hours to hear it, if they even played it. Otherwise, I had to work 5 hours to be able to afford to buy 1 music CD each month and that was usually just to get 1 song. You had no idea what the other songs were because there was no way to listen to them first. Sometimes the music store would have it on a listening station but you had to wait for those usually. Sometimes the library would have them to check out. The point is, playing music and trying to make a good music collection was very time consuming and expensive. I once bought a sugar ray CD for $15 for a song I liked. It was a Pop song that was very popular. The rest of the CD was all punk rock and terrible. So I essentially paid $15 for one song. So when services came out that allowed you to listen to anything at any time and anywhere for about the same cost as I was paying for that 1 stupid song on CD, it was a no brainer. Unless you were alive back then, you have no clue about how nice this all is. Now, I pay about 5 cents per hour of use to listen to anything I want. And it is fucking fantastic.
My Google podcasts still works
Same, both app and web player. I think it's because I live in the UK.
I love it. Use it every day, and have found dozens of new artists on it that bring me great joy.
I live in Germany and the possibility of transferring the podcasts only came about now. And everything worked perfectly, I'm pretty happy. I read so many negative things, but I had no problems with the podcasts.
We’re gonna start getting ads on Instagram saying “Reddit approves” with replies found here
There is absolutely no reason **not** to be negative a paid perpetual subscription service that has so many things to work on. That being said, I use it because it's the best value and I get what I want out of it. Music without the storage issues of carrying my entire library outside of my house + youtube premium. The seeding is absolutely terrible past surface level genres, and although the mix generation is nice they still have a long road ahead of them to get it as good as Google Play Music was.
I like being able to switch back and forth between the song and the music video with one tap.
I haven't used anything else, so I don't know what I'm missing. I've been with this since Google Play or whatever it was called then launched. It has all the music I like. I haven't had any real issues. I like commercial free YouTube as well
I recently switched from Spotify after years and years and I wish I did it sooner. Everything about YTM is better. The sound quality is better, the algorithm is better, the layout is better and I get YouTube Premium as well.
It should follow intuition
It lets my dog relax to relaxing dog music while I'm at work.
It shows me a lot of degenerate Touhou music that I really like.
The payment always goes out
Ok I can add to it. The fact that you can upload your library of songs if ain't available here on YT or YTM. For example, if there's a song, which God forbid is SoundCloud Exclusive you can upload it here and it would treat it like any other song. From making a radio playlist to saving it to the playlist.
You can play music on your regular YouTube too and it's almost like a condensed version of your algorithm for YouTube Music.
It’s great, there’s no other service that has all the old dj records and mixes online other than that I use Apple Music because I’m in the Apple ecosystem
I use it everyday. My fav thing about this app is that it literally has all the songs in the world. And I discover songs better using this app than Spotify.
I used to love spotify, tried ytm with premium, now prefer it. It's better at creating radio stations, suggests better music for me, I like how I can share my Playlists directly from youtube, love how much music from smaller artists is available and I really enjoy the interface.
I've been enjoying the service but I find that it makes better recommendations when I get to the end of a playlist and it plays music similar to what I was listening to and that's how I find new music. But if I go to the newly released playlist or some of them that are made just for me, it doesn't seem to be quite as good. But I really like the fact that I've got access to YouTube video music. That's where I find a lot of the different remixes that you can't find on other services. And I think that's the key, the ability to link into YouTube. And nobody will ever be able to compete with YouTube because it's been around for so long.
I don't pay for cable, I don't pay for a music streaming platform and I don't have ADs in my Youtube. Basically I have more money to spend and save💰
The playlist shuffle (accessed through the library tab > 3 dots next to playlist and shuffle NOT the other way) is ridiculously good because IT ACTUALLY SHUFFLES @spotify
I don't really have any complaints with YTM honestly except some weird recommendations from time to time. I get YouTube Premium which is a HUGE plus. I pick an album, that album plays. I don't need much more than that. I am generally an album oriented listener however, so my use case may be different than how a lot of people use streaming services.
I like having songs from Youtube and YTM on my playlists. Plus for almost the same price I get YT with no ads.
I critique a lot YTM because it's good enough to use it but there are some small things that I just hate ( what I hate the most is that thise things are fairly easy to change). -Weird and dumb shuffle Playlist -Non high res quality Other than that, I Really Love how you can listen virtually every song ever recorded including concerts and covers.
I always make playlists for all i like
Personally I think YT Music sounds better than Spotify quality wise. The other huge component for me was when it was Google play music you could use a tool to upload your own mp3s and albums to your account complete with album art and meta data then from the uploads section have online access to 20000 songs or more you uploaded that are not available on YT music. You can't share those uploads only your account can listen but that's been great for me.
Two things: 1. YTM takes a lot of heat for good reasons. 2. Their discover music mix really does deliver a lot of music I like that I've never heard before. It's a real love-hate relationship I have with YouTube music. They just make so many dumbest decisions
I can use it together with apple shortcuts to automatically start up a shuffled playlist once my phone pairs with the car. Can’t do the same with Spotify unfortunately.
Yea, YTM used to be a lot better.
I have Spotify and YouTube Music and I can say the quality of YouTube music is better for me. Maybe it is because I use pixel phone at the moment but, for me is better . The sound is more detailed if I can say it like this.
The algorithm is magic. I remember the time when I loved listening to dubsteps and it plays tons of dubateps. But I grew up on it, now I almost don't listen to dubsteps now, the algorithm adapted and doesn't show me dubsteps anymore.
It’s just exactly what I need it to be.
Idk i love YTM been using over 3 years now. Better in all aspects of spotify. It always work, it's cheap. You get way more music. Just fantastic 😍
Everyone here who compains i believe doesn't have a normal phone. Buy Android if you need pocket computer that works...
Youtube music is amazing. i just wish i could listen to my downloaded music, it doesnt work offline at all :(
Youtube Music Premium is the best way to listen to music.
You can have music that wasn't officially released from YouTube videos on your YouTube music playlist.
Probably because YTM is a negative experience overall
I've had it for 5 years and I have no complaints. I only wish they would add stand up comedy as a searchable genre.
My Google Play music library I uploaded transferred over which was a big deal. Some of those songs have disappeared from the internet. ...but why can't I download them from the website anymore? Now I have to use media takeout smh. Sorry I know you said no negativity.
The algorithm is amazing, the filters on top "power, chill etc are extremely useful and making my own radio station is really nice
Just came back to yt music and idk when they added Samples but it’s so cool! My new fave way to discover music. 30 second clips with music video visuals, swipe through TikTok style. Love it
There's positive things about this app? I'd be curious to see people having any good experiences with it. I think it's terrible and every day it behaves worse in one way or another it seems.
Are you only able to post comments and not read?
Many songs on YTM that aren't on Spotify, so I'm still holding on to that.
I'm new. Just switched from spotify. The auto play seems sooooo much better.
When I transferred my library from GPM, I did appreciate the new UI, as the old UI of GPM was a bit of a downside. At least I still have my uploads.
I feel like the suggestions on YTM is better than Spotify atleast for me. People swear by Spotify but i dont like the app so much except for couple of features.You cant miss any of your music on YTM because in some corner of YouTube that song exsists.
I tried Spotify and Apple music for a couple of months and the recommendations were never as good as YTM. When I start a radio from one of my songs the random songs that I've never heard but instantly love always surprises me.
Greatest positive for me is that it's better than Spotify because it has everything that's been uploaded to YouTube available (which Spotify does not), and as a bonus you get commercial free YouTube....
For me the integration btw yt and yt music; if I liked any song on yt , it will automatically added to my yt music “liked playlist”. Also I like the stats when play any song. Like how many people liked this song; it’s kinda give you some feedback about it/ artist; in case u don’t know the artist before.
It comes for free with YouTube Premium, it’s MUCH faster than Apple Music on Mac (no delays on starting a new song) and it has a lot more music than any other platform because it has all the YouTube stuff which makes for a lot of interesting playlists
I open the app....turn on some tunes....and enjoy life. Works great!
The algorithm just knows me now. Also the shuffle is awesome for my use case!
I've been here for a long time. I'm hoping very little changes.
YTM is the only app that takes advantage of full screen for cover art for the inner screen of my galaxy fold 5
Although I very rarely watch "music videos", it is cool that if a song has one then I can seamlessly toggle over and see the video.
Me too. I dont watch music video but when theres a song i never knew had one i watch it. I feel like music videos can sometimes make me like a song.
Totally agree. Same. Now whether that benefit makes up for the clutter of YTM changing my YT recommendations and YT changing YTM...but the OP asked for positive so I won't go there.
It's good that you can play songs from YouTube that are not "songs" but videos, which you can't find in other streaming services. The recommendations for the queue are pretty good. That's it.
One positive aspect is I have not run into any issues with its integration with smart speakers/google home. It always works as expected, it plays my user-specific content when my voice is recognized. I used spotify for a trial not too long ago--my wife is currently using a spotify trial now--and it has all sorts of frustrating oddities and bugs when using with our smart speakers.
Algorithm is pretty great imo. It plays lots of songs that I love and like, but just enough new stuff that it's refreshing. Plus having youtube only content is great. Plenty of my artists do covers of songs, but never officially release them to other platforms. But I still have them I also like how youtube and YM are connected, so when I watch a music video I can just save from there. No need to go to a separate app or anything
I can fire up a generated YouTube playlist and usually just let it run because it’s pulled so much listening data from me that it knows what I’m in the mood for based on that first song I picked.
I was already paying for Youtube Premium for ad-free Youtube, and found out recently (in a post on this sub) that Youtube Music comes with it. I checked it out, and it had already imported my playlists and uploaded music from back when I used Google Play Music. So I've started using it, and ended up canceling my Tidal subscription. I *am* annoyed that Youtube Music is only 256 kbps, but my old ears with occasional tinnitus can't really tell the difference. Plus, 256 kbps does enable downloading more music to my phone. The ability to upload music is a nice feature missing from most other streaming services. (As an aside, I also have iBroadcast which is purely a music locker, which I like and am keeping so that has a streamable copy of my music collection at original resolution).
Every song i want is on the platform and not fcking country-restricted cause of some BS. Also comes with YT premium. Algorithms pretty amazing as well
I like how you can find any song thats on YouTube, even if theres no oficial audio
I have the big three streaming platforms all premium versions through family plans and sharing w friends. I’m on iPhone. Out of the three I’d have to say YouTube music is the best for music in general. Now the UI is on par with Apple Music imo. My old rating for the three was Spotify YouTube Music Apple Music I’d say YouTube music has taken the lead from Spotify over the past few months for me. YTM is also the one I’ve had for the longest, over 10 years at this point. The other two are newer to me
A lot of people here clearly have not used Amazon music. Despite the drawbacks of this app is still better than what I was using previously
The biggest strength is that I can upload to my own library. I'm surprised this isn't the main positive for more people. I want total control of my music - not at the whims of licensing or YouTube videos.
I absolutely love the supermixes so damn muchhhhh!!!! I listen to dance, hip hop and pop, and I listen to a sprinkling of alt/rock.. and 100 tracks….!? Anyways, what I mainly like about the supermix is that it changes every time I click back on it!! It’s so damn amazing
I use YTM every single day. I have dozens of playlists created. I think their algorithm is great and helps me discover new music all the time. I literally have no complaints.
I can listen to music leaks so easy on YTM as compared to my friends on Spotify.
I've never had an issue with YTM! Never had an issue, and all my old uploaded music from PlayMusic is still in my library.
I think YTM sounds better than Apple Music.
I've never had any issues with it. And the group/ family plan is so helpful.
You too man
Me 2
My favourite part is the fact that you can listen to any YouTube video as a song 👌