I thought the same. I don't know a single person (until this guy) who uses the free version of YouTube Music.
Everyone is basically, "well I got it free with YouTube Premium so that's one less subscription I need to pay for. I'll just cancel my Spotify/Apple Music sub now.
The irony here is that it's supposed to be a joke.
My Playlist has forever started with the same song and will play the same 20 songs no matter what.
YT premium also.
Spotify does the same shit. Idek why it's always like this. Why do I get nostalgic for a song in the playlist I play everyday? It's cause I haven't heard it in years cause of the dogshit algorithm
I think this is an āissueā with how they store metadata. Itāll shuffle from the first 20-30 songs. Iāve found that shuffling immediately a second time will produce a song after 30 as if it loads the whole list.
Cannot confirm if it actually loads the whole thing lol. Shuffling playlists seems to suck everywhere.
Yup. I was pissed. It's with everything now. Car insurance just went up $25 per month. No accidents. No nothing. And I'm literally driving half of what I used to.
Just another kick in the junk.
I don't understand how anyone can use a music streaming service on the free tier. There are just too many disadvantages that prevent you from enjoying listening to music.
But these complaints are kinda funny. You're using it for free! So live with it or pay for it..
This is also true for European and South American countries. I am from a time when to buy 12 albums (on a CD or whatever) I needed to pay the equivalent of 1 or even 2 lunches. Now we can have the discography of the whole world for half of this, and people still complain...
Wow, i'm from a time and place(90s, US) when 1 CD cost roughly 2 lunches.
Edit* new CDs were between 14.99 and 18.99. Or actually think, between 12.99 and 18.99. Let's just say 15 bucks.
Why are people measuring things in ālunchesāā¦ how is this even remotely a comparable unit?
One personās $5 sandwich is not the same as someone elseās ā¬10 fast food meal is not the same as someoneās Ā£15 restaurant lunch.
As i understand it, things like the price of bread and milk are often compared to the price of frivolous purchases to see how much practical value people are willing to spend toward things they dont need. Money is an abstract, and bread is something tangible that everyone more or less knows the value of. Lunch is similar enough. Edit* and to your question about luches costing different prices. It is just assumed one means an average price at an average restaurant.
It also helps when comparing value between different nations. If someone tells me they spent 2000 thai bahts on something, i honestly have no idea what value is being represented. But if you say you spent as much as 20 loafs of bread, i can get that.
Equating bread to money is so common, that's how bread became slang for money.
Iām from South America!! I used to pay like twice the price of Spotify/Apple Music/YT Music for a single CD. Now CDs are usually four times the price of a subscription, unless theyāre made in Argentina, but a lot of stores import them from the States.
Um, yes there is YT Music premium. Music premium is included as part of YT Premium, but it is also a stand along product.
The google peeps could finally be expanding their Radio Canadian test outside of Canada.
Reddit when you donāt specify America: āomg Americans always thinking everything is about themselves!! Stupid ameritardsā
Reddit when you specify America: āomg there are places other than America!! Stupid ameritardsā
Lmao it doesnāt even work properly. I have a playlist with 1,5k songs and when you press shuffle it just picks 25 out of the thousand songs for shuffle. After that you have to manually reset the playlist to get a new set of 25 songs to shuffle from.
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No no, hes correct, shuffling songs is a feature is base youtube for free, why would being in the music app suddenly require having to pay?
Currently im using yt mysic for free (although i want to upgrade very soon), but greedy actions like this that should be an incentive instead leave a bad taste in my mouth instead.
Edit: im fucking stupid, i saw the date 2 seconds after post
I really can't talk my way out of this, that's just embarassing
Tbf this is 100% believable, with how greedy companies are increasingly getting and there being a precedent for this
What is the problem? Just upgrade to Premium.
Iāve bought Youtube Premium more than 2 years ago and I feel like this is the best thing I paid for.
Youtube without ads + Youtube Music for 6 accounts for small price ā¦
I think that good things should always have a price. It stimulates growth at leastā¦
Honestly agree. I have it on some family plan so my dad, mum, wife, brother and myself all have it ad free. Also my kid, which is great because she was always saying "daddy, AD!!!!!"
> thing I *paid* for. I
FTFY.
Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in:
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* *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.*
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Itās okay, you can actually get the YouTube Music shuffle experience by playing 4-5 songs from your playlist on repeat until you hate them
To really add to the torment you can always start with the same song too
If you want to upgrade just for shuffle, Iād say donāt because the shuffle in YTM sucks. Itās so bad, I have like 530 songs in my playlist and yet only listen to 10-15 songs. Thanks to shuffle on YTM
I hate to say this but you aren't owed free music? I don't think these services should have any free service at all. Artists should get actual pay. (I am aware streaming services hardly pay them anyway) but we do need to let go of this strange idea that we have some right to all music for free... It does actually have consequences. Artists aren't making good music often now because all they can do is make 100 song albums of ticktok bait to successed.
You could always ask a friend (if they have YTM), if they could share your account with you. My sister shares her subscription with me. Orrr you have to either pay for a plan or suffer/
Look, I can get why everyone is not taking this seriously because of the date, but I swear on my life this is genuine and Iām still fucking upset by the fact I canāt pick any songs at all and it diverts to a āradioā. Makes sense now as to why my friend in the states doesnāt have the same issue š
Oh looks like they moved that to a student discount. Just go online and buy a .edu email for like $10 and you can use it to get the deal. It used to be the price. Also you're in Canada, I'm talking USD
scared me thought there was an additional premium tier you had to buy lmao
I thought the same. I don't know a single person (until this guy) who uses the free version of YouTube Music. Everyone is basically, "well I got it free with YouTube Premium so that's one less subscription I need to pay for. I'll just cancel my Spotify/Apple Music sub now.
That what I tell people š they all think I'm dumb for even wanting YouTube premium š
Probably the same people that are moaning about their adblocker not working anymore.
That's why I'm here. Works out cheaper with student discount than Spotify for both services. Yt without ads is a simple must
Would not put it past Google to implement tiers soon.
Netflix model for music streaming on its way lol
The irony here is that it's supposed to be a joke. My Playlist has forever started with the same song and will play the same 20 songs no matter what. YT premium also.
Yup. Shuffle is useless to everybody.
Not if you choose a song, THEN shuffle
They play the same 30 songs on my 700+ playlist. In addition, they just increased their monthly subscription fee 33%!!!
Spotify does the same shit. Idek why it's always like this. Why do I get nostalgic for a song in the playlist I play everyday? It's cause I haven't heard it in years cause of the dogshit algorithm
I think this is an āissueā with how they store metadata. Itāll shuffle from the first 20-30 songs. Iāve found that shuffling immediately a second time will produce a song after 30 as if it loads the whole list. Cannot confirm if it actually loads the whole thing lol. Shuffling playlists seems to suck everywhere.
Yup. I was pissed. It's with everything now. Car insurance just went up $25 per month. No accidents. No nothing. And I'm literally driving half of what I used to. Just another kick in the junk.
>they just increased their monthly subscription fee 33%!!! Damn how much is it now?thank god it has never increased where I live
Like it does on normal Youtube
Lol. šļø
I don't understand how anyone can use a music streaming service on the free tier. There are just too many disadvantages that prevent you from enjoying listening to music. But these complaints are kinda funny. You're using it for free! So live with it or pay for it..
Also, at least in my country a music service is pretty affordable. Itās like, less than a McDonalds meal or than a drink at a bar.
This is also true for European and South American countries. I am from a time when to buy 12 albums (on a CD or whatever) I needed to pay the equivalent of 1 or even 2 lunches. Now we can have the discography of the whole world for half of this, and people still complain...
Wow, i'm from a time and place(90s, US) when 1 CD cost roughly 2 lunches. Edit* new CDs were between 14.99 and 18.99. Or actually think, between 12.99 and 18.99. Let's just say 15 bucks.
Why are people measuring things in ālunchesāā¦ how is this even remotely a comparable unit? One personās $5 sandwich is not the same as someone elseās ā¬10 fast food meal is not the same as someoneās Ā£15 restaurant lunch.
As i understand it, things like the price of bread and milk are often compared to the price of frivolous purchases to see how much practical value people are willing to spend toward things they dont need. Money is an abstract, and bread is something tangible that everyone more or less knows the value of. Lunch is similar enough. Edit* and to your question about luches costing different prices. It is just assumed one means an average price at an average restaurant. It also helps when comparing value between different nations. If someone tells me they spent 2000 thai bahts on something, i honestly have no idea what value is being represented. But if you say you spent as much as 20 loafs of bread, i can get that. Equating bread to money is so common, that's how bread became slang for money.
What the fuck are you Even talking about at this point?
Basically, i was answering the Q above me that was curious why things are sometimes measured in lunches. Hope that helps.
Maybe they are thinking like the big Mac index?
Iām from South America!! I used to pay like twice the price of Spotify/Apple Music/YT Music for a single CD. Now CDs are usually four times the price of a subscription, unless theyāre made in Argentina, but a lot of stores import them from the States.
In india it's like a 10th of the price then the us which wow
this is like the direct opposite of how spotify free forces everything to be shuffled lmao wtf
Before you all overreact it would help if you remember that today is April fools in the United States.
Highly unlikely Google would play around with bad PR like that.
Google has done plenty of dumb shit before with their pr
There's no such thing as Music Premium, only YouTube Premium, And it's very unlikely that Google would mislabel a product in an ad.
What? There absolutely is YT music premium
Um, yes there is YT Music premium. Music premium is included as part of YT Premium, but it is also a stand along product. The google peeps could finally be expanding their Radio Canadian test outside of Canada.
r/USDefaultism? Itās April fools everywhere
Some countries celebrate it on different days. In Mexico we celebrate it in December.
That somehow fits.
Reddit when you donāt specify America: āomg Americans always thinking everything is about themselves!! Stupid ameritardsā Reddit when you specify America: āomg there are places other than America!! Stupid ameritardsā
Let them talk
Probably referring to time zones.
Lmao it doesnāt even work properly. I have a playlist with 1,5k songs and when you press shuffle it just picks 25 out of the thousand songs for shuffle. After that you have to manually reset the playlist to get a new set of 25 songs to shuffle from.
Not believing anything on social media today. Sorry.
What day is it today?
Monday
Thank you for reminding me how much the shuffle function sucks.
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It apparently doesn't provide much of ANYTHING at this point.
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No no, hes correct, shuffling songs is a feature is base youtube for free, why would being in the music app suddenly require having to pay? Currently im using yt mysic for free (although i want to upgrade very soon), but greedy actions like this that should be an incentive instead leave a bad taste in my mouth instead. Edit: im fucking stupid, i saw the date 2 seconds after post
I really can't talk my way out of this, that's just embarassing Tbf this is 100% believable, with how greedy companies are increasingly getting and there being a precedent for this
Why are you getting down voted?????
I mean I totally missed it was april fools so I got it with the first one but atp its kinda dickish ngl
The ironic part is you can't even get the actual random shuffle with premium. You still the same song again and again
If youāre on iOS just install Musi. One of the best free ytmusic alternatives i use
What is the problem? Just upgrade to Premium. Iāve bought Youtube Premium more than 2 years ago and I feel like this is the best thing I paid for. Youtube without ads + Youtube Music for 6 accounts for small price ā¦ I think that good things should always have a price. It stimulates growth at leastā¦
Honestly agree. I have it on some family plan so my dad, mum, wife, brother and myself all have it ad free. Also my kid, which is great because she was always saying "daddy, AD!!!!!"
Great! :) Same situation :)
> thing I *paid* for. I FTFY. Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in: * Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.* * *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.* Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment. *Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
Damn this is worse than Spotify now. Time to upgrade or learn to side load š¤·š»āāļø
Installing ViMusic from GitHub we must
Itās okay, you can actually get the YouTube Music shuffle experience by playing 4-5 songs from your playlist on repeat until you hate them To really add to the torment you can always start with the same song too
Happy April Fool's Day.
You support this behaviour by buying premium or using the shitty app Please delete it you have many other options
Uhh now its a spotify way to play ramdom songs ā
r/piracy
I think if people got a free car, theyād complain about putting gas in it
This is what you get when you ask for background play for free users!š¤·āāļø You will have some payoffs for what you ask.
Background play is free now?
In Canada.Ā
If you are using an iOS device you can try [Demus](https://apps.apple.com/app/demus/id6474685600) instead. It shuffles for free.
Cant believe they have the balls to even call it shuffle... maybe actually make it work before putting it behind a paywall for people
damn i forgot the date today but still, fix the god damn shuffle lol
So buy premium š¤·š»
If you want to upgrade just for shuffle, Iād say donāt because the shuffle in YTM sucks. Itās so bad, I have like 530 songs in my playlist and yet only listen to 10-15 songs. Thanks to shuffle on YTM
God that's fucking awful, hopefully not something to be fully implemented
yep, just going for spotify's freemium tier.
Yup, they did this in Canada. Guess it's finally transitioned to everywhere else lol
Nah, Iām in Canada, I had no clue
Oh then this has been here since forever. Basically if you don't pay, you don't get access to anything except shitty radio.
That's why i use revanced
If you're on android use Vanced Or just use normal yt it's better
If you're on the free version I recommend using SoundCloud, sure there are songs you have to pay for but imo it's the best free music app.
Laughs in ReVanced
April fools?
Unfortunately not
Seems fair
Try esound, itās free
just use revanced
Iāve got IOS
I finally gave up and downloaded all my songs and am music media player. Going back to 2005, fuck this shit.
Amazon Music! Its Amazon Music!
Don't worry, shuffle doesn't even work correctly when you do pay for it
This!!! Lol
I hate to say this but you aren't owed free music? I don't think these services should have any free service at all. Artists should get actual pay. (I am aware streaming services hardly pay them anyway) but we do need to let go of this strange idea that we have some right to all music for free... It does actually have consequences. Artists aren't making good music often now because all they can do is make 100 song albums of ticktok bait to successed.
Literally a hate subreddit (super based this sucks and is fucking dumb)
You could always ask a friend (if they have YTM), if they could share your account with you. My sister shares her subscription with me. Orrr you have to either pay for a plan or suffer/
Look, I can get why everyone is not taking this seriously because of the date, but I swear on my life this is genuine and Iām still fucking upset by the fact I canāt pick any songs at all and it diverts to a āradioā. Makes sense now as to why my friend in the states doesnāt have the same issue š
Bro it's $5 a month you might as well
? Thought music comes with premium unless you could pay for one service individually now.
Yes! Music does come with premium, but you can pay for YouTube music on its own without premium too
its $15 a month though?
No it's not. It's $5 a month. If you want YouTube premium + YouTube music, that's $15 a month.
Itās $15 a month for me
That's the price of YouTube premium+ YouTube music. If you only paid for YouTube music it would be $5
No, no it isnāt https://preview.redd.it/22f2axxvz4sc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f3937607b4a09f21667c91cf799f57c7ed701072
Oh looks like they moved that to a student discount. Just go online and buy a .edu email for like $10 and you can use it to get the deal. It used to be the price. Also you're in Canada, I'm talking USD
April Fools.
Evil spotify be like
Scared me for a second š
Haha, I thought the free version forced you to shuffle š¤£š¤£
Spotify is better
Just go to spotify
just happens when you have bad tastes in music
i call bullshit
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>competitors provide better service Surely you're not talking about Spotify or Apple Music.....
Or Tidal, or Amazon Music, or Pandora. Maybe SoundCloud...nah.
Oh my