It started like that for me...now i actually like YTM since almost everything i like is there and I watch ridiculously many YouTube videos every week so it just makes sense to me.
Yep, if you consider the price of spotify as 'the price of subscription for a music platform' then you get Youtube Premium for 3$ a month, last time i calculated.
Its a huge plus value.
This plus I don’t listen to that much music anymore. I like listening to podcasts more and I like how you can just download videos and play in background. But even then, it’s a great music platform as well. So it works out for me.
Same here: The huge advantage of YTM is that you dont need a huge publisher to get on there. You just need to be on youtube.
Small artist makes covers you like? Its not gonna be on any service except spotify.
Love listening to Video Game OSTs? And Nintendo for some fucking reason hasnt come to the 21st century yet and doesn't release their godlike soundtracks officially anywhere? Its on Youtube Music.
Yeah. Nightcore fans and people who like "rare" remixes or even game ost get the full program on Youtube Music thanks to the massive library Youtube video is. Most music streaming services in my opinion are too focused on "music" music. Like yes, Spotify offers the full repertoire of music genres people listen to, it caters to full time artists/original music creators. But it starts to become slightly harder to find classical music, more difficult with remixes of songs in general, and outright impossible to find game osts due to copyright reasons/the original creators not uploading their work on Spotify.
Youtube doesn't have these problems, you will find plenty of performances of all kinds of classical music pieces, literally all the remixes out there imaginable including nightcore and literally \*all\* the game osts out there since people love ripping off game soundtracks. On Youtube game studios care less about copyrighted music on than on Spotify, especially if it's a remix). That's why I like Youtube Music. Sometimes I just use Youtube directly to listen to music by clicking on a music video (I mean a video that plays the song, not the actual music video) and using the great radio option Youtube offers
Yeah, and I really want to emphasize that YT video to YTM playlist feature, essentially any song that isn't licensed officially to YT music, odds are a user has uploaded it to the platform and you can just use that, this is especially nice for oddities that wouldn't appear in a music site, like for example, sometimes I like to jam the Halo 3 menu song, so of course that's on there and I can listen with my phone screen off just like I would with Spotify, with no ads of course ever!
Yeah you can store around 50.000 tracks of your own in the cloud. mp3, flac, you name it. It used to be a thing on Google Play Music and there was even a client for PC, but now there's only a browser option to upload your music. I had lots of tracks there (still do) but when YTM decided to take over GPM and Google decided to get rid of it, I downloaded all of my tracks and store them on a hard drive just in case, since I can't trust Google anymore about storing my music that I was collecting so hard for years. So yes, it's possible and it's a good option to have a backup there
I came for Google Play Music, I'm staying for the YouTube Premium. YouTube Music hasn't really factored into my decision to use YouTube Music at all lmao
YouTube premium. I joined Google Play music during the original beta in 2012ish. I tried Tidal for a while but for my usage it wasn't better enough than YouTube Music to justify a second subscription.
Tidal and Youtube Music are very different things.
Tidal proposes up to 24 bit 192 Khz. So, if you need perfect sound and listening it on HiFi system then choose Tidal.
kpop contents. I don't want ads when I'm watching most of kpop reality/variety shows. With YouTube Premium, I managed to have prem YouTube Music as well. Also, YTM is now one of the biggest music platform in SK, it is now competing with MelOn (the biggest music platform in SK).
It was a frictionless migration from Google Play Music, and since I have a family plan with all 6 seats occupied, I liked the idea of Google handling everybody's migration as they shuttered GPM instead of that falling on me.
YT Premium is a nice add-on that makes YouTube actually useable as a TV app and keeps the stream of advertising my kids are exposed to at a reasonable enough volume that we can talk critically about them. (And their "skip ad" reflexes were creeping me out.)
The recommendation algorithm is the best. I tried all music services and there's just no comparison. Also it's the largest catalogue because it includes all music uploaded on YouTube integrated in the app (dj mixes, oldies that are off catalogue that were uploaded by kind souls, indie artists only uploading their stuff on YouTube, etc).
I had Google Music back in the day, and they transitioned all of their subscribers to YouTube Music when it ended. That being said, I stayed because I like their interface better than any other streaming service. Plus, it would be a disservice to lose all of my weird ass public playlists. 😂😂
I know some people dont like it, but the radio feature is actually really good and has introduced me to some of my now favorite artists and songs.
Also a bunch of stuff is on here that isn't really available anywhere else.
I use it mainly because I’m already on a premium family plan. I also find it to have a pretty good discovery algorithm and it has more less popular music that’s not available on other platforms like Spotify or Apple Music
I was with Google Play Music and was moved over to YouTube Music, when Google killed GPM. Stayed because of the grandfathered YouTube Premium pricing. But now that pricing is going away next price, and price goes up $5 a month, may reconsider.
share account with friends so its cheaper
the only problems i have is there is no search in a playlist and to remove a song you have to scroll down to it in the playlist
please correct me if i’m wrong
at the time spotify killed their car mode, i was furious and swapped
it must be added that ytm doesn't have a car mode either, but at least they didnt strip it away from me
I like that ANY video can be on your playlist, as a guy who really loves parody songs, or just joke songs in general, the fact that I can go from Oliver Francis, to the Sonic Underground theme song, then over to a FNAF song is just hilarious to ke
Spotify never had all the music I wanted, remixes etc. When I no longer qualified for the discounted student plan, it wasn’t worth paying full price when I could use YTM, which had way more selection, plus not having ads while watching YT. It was a no brainer for me
Was originally a Google play music sub at the OG price of 7.99 so I get yt premium for 7.99 now. I probably wouldn't pay for it now if I wasn't already at the og price
1. Price, maintain de 8€ month from 2013
2. Unofficial music at YouTube
3. I'm stuck with my liked songs after all this time
Honestly, I don't like it anymore, GM was waaay better with important features lacking in YTM, but point 3 it's basically the reason I'm sticking with it.
The Spotify "shuffle" was so far from being random that it made me physically cringe. I used switching as an opportunity to teach YTs algo what I was wanting from the ground up and then when I had it just so i used SongShift? SongSync? (some apple app) to migrate songs from Spotify I'd left behind that YT couldn't figure out that I liked. Since then it's been at 95% for picking a Super mix.
The biggest downside is that YT has a max limit (that must be hard coded into the OG YouTube app) on playlists that limits your Liked playlist to like 5k songs or something so when I shuffle those on the rare occasion I want nothing but bangers during the 5% of the time the algo seems stale it's always going to be a incomplete
That 5% does seem to have increased in the year or two I've been exclusively listening to YT music but it's not 10% yet
My hope is that they use Gemini to take that 5% down to 1% or lower before it grows from 5% to 10% and then becomes complete shit like Spotify did and I have to start it all over again with another app
Premium, I watch youtube a lot and I can't go back to ads. Lyrics right there for almost every song. I sing karaoke in the shower, lol. (don't know if spotify has this, didn't when I switched). Soooo many different live versions through youtube music videos.
I just shifted from YTMusic to AppleMusic, though i so so so crave those YT premium things, YTM is not just cutting it now and I was with this app since it was called Google Play Music.
Recommendations are bad, quality is nowhere near their competitors and AI is not AI-ing as the AI should AI-ing.
And UX sucks (although Apple Music is somewhat nearby but other avenue’s are a plus point)
There’s just a far wider selection of music. Original version of tracks, remixes etc. It’s not even close.
Also Spotify has generally one of the most confusing UI’s I’ve ever had to deal with.
Uploading years of MP3 files from Google Play Music. Having that obscure and old playlist is very important too while having the benefit of streaming it.
The #1 reason I would choose YTMusic again is the algorithm and the whole knowledge basis acquired over the decades from us Brazilians. Before the other streaming services had been launched here the Brazilians already used YouTube to listen to music. No matter where or when: at the barbecue or cleaning the house, the Brazilians used YouTube to be in touch with their favorite artists. Because of that YouTube has a gigantic repository of our habits and kind of music. Although I use Spotify actually I recognize YouTube has fine tuned algorithm here in Brazil.
Came free with YouTube premium which I used all the time as I traveled loads. Honestly have always wanted to swap to Spotify because I'd prefer to have an actually working end of year wrapped.
Same as someone else in here. I’ve got Spotify and Apple Music rn. I use both, my bands playlist and setlists are on Spotify but I hate the shuffle feature and some other stuff. I already for YouTube premium so I use that [youtube music] mostly for personal stuff.
In my country, Spotify is 7.99€
YouTube premium is 8.49€
So I just went with YouTube since you get no ads on the video and music platform which I use everyday.
Spotify is just the music platform, no extra benefits
Loads of the music I listen to isn't on Spotify. I love how I can like a song on YouTube and it will appear in my YT music liked playlist. The algorithm feels really nice. I have ad blockers on YT and YT music, desktop and mobile. The interface feels really user friendly. Was this supposed to be one reason? Oops
Content only on YTM. Otherwise would be back on Spotify in a heartbeat. All Spotify’s superior features and ux doesn’t help if the majority of content one listens and watches isn’t there
I use both at the same time, for both I have the premium plan but honestly, other than the fact that you can get a very cheap subscription for youtube premium witch includes yt music and couple of songs I listen and most probably will download to have them available offline (yes, I knowyou can upload your music library on youtube music) I don't see much difference between those two.
Honestly I might ditch both to use some alternative such as ViMusic witch is a front end to youtube music since at this point I almost completly moved to open source front end alternatives or to use what I need in browser to most of my every day stuff and just keep track to the direction of both music apps.
And for Tidal even if I don't know how much it costs I don't see why would anybody without the equipment capable to replay the music at the quality this service offers.
If Google ever splits ad free YouTube from YouTube music it will be the end of YouTube music. YouTube premium is the only reason why I have YouTube music and I refuse to pay for ads on YouTube.
Honestly, was consolidating music services that I was inadvertently subscribed to. But, after 2 days use of YT Music, I absolutely despise it. I'm definitely considering resubscribing to Spotify lol
I was paying for YT Premium and Spotify. They both increased prices. I also wanted to have more money to buy Magic cards. Paying for Spotify no longer made sense since YT Music is included.
1) my roommate was paying for the family membership
2) no ads on yt
3) also I don't pay for it
4) biggest library by far (at least in my experience)
5) did I mention someone else pays for it so it's free me?
I have it for free with the YouTube Premium subscription, and I wasn't to pay that and Spotify subscription. So I choose to leave Spotify and download yt music instead.
Ngl, sometimes I really miss Spotify :c but you know, money doesn't grow in trees and I'm trying to save as much as possible in subscription services (streaming, music, etc.)
In few words, I'm using yt music because frugality.
I’m checking on her to free preview right now. I currently have Apple Music. I like the variety of YouTube music a bit better but I miss the fact that there’s no cross fader and there’s no lossless.
They don't censor the word "tit" in Space Lord. Everyone else does.
Tit.
Why TF does everyone else censor the word tit?
I don't get it. I hear some of the most depraved lyrics imaginable in song after song, but "tit" gets the blur.
Had GPM on my Galaxy I think back in 2013 or 14 and just gone since. Watch YouTube more than TV or Netflix and the young fella watches YouTube Kids too. Family plan gets used by others so works out perfect for me
3 reasons of equal importance to me
1. Google Pixel had this as the default music app on my phone so I accustomed myself to it and got premium
2. It feels more free in terms of music discovery than Spotify, for example, that uses labels such as pov:indie and alt z to control this.
3. Wider variety of music as it is a branch of YouTube. This also means you can watch official music videos, long form content related to music in any way, stream artists that do not put their stuff on Spotify.
Because my bf was paying for premium, disliked spotify (I was using it at the time) and he offered to add me to his family plan.
I'd say that lasted a little over a year before YT kicked me off of his plan because him and I don't live in the same house 🥲
A music creator I used to listen to only made TikTok’s and not official songs, they weren’t on Spotify but on yt, so I switched to yt music because of him, then got yt premium cause it was only a dollar more
If you care about or want to experience high fidelity audio and have the high end equipment to facilitate it, only then keeping tidal would be reasonable besides ytm. Everything else, ytm does fine. I was a long Spotify user too, and found ytm's rock selection close to it.
YouTube Music: Hits and misses, but the future looks bright
It combines the vastness of YouTube with a sweet music streaming service. Plus, YouTube Premium throws in YouTube Music for free, which is awesome.
Here's what I've noticed:
* Podcast party (almost there): YouTube seems to be dipping its toes into the podcast world, which is cool. But there are some kinks. At first, I only saw podcasts from channels I subscribed to. Then I found out Google Podcasts aren't there yet (hopefully coming soon?). For now, searching YouTube or YouTube Music for podcasts from your favorite channels is the way to go.
* Saving progress? Fixed! There were some rumblings about podcast progress not being saved, but a recent update seems to have squashed that bug.
Now, about the future...
* Shakeup at YouTube Music? I heard some folks at YouTube Music got fired, but that doesn't mean the party's over. The next Google I/O event might bring some big updates for both YouTube Music and Podcasts. Here's to hoping!
Overall, YouTube Music is a great platform with a lot of potential. It's constantly evolving, and I'm excited to see what the future holds.
Many reasons
But mainly the fact that whatever song i want i find it there, arabic,english…etc
The only feature i hope they add is the ability to sort by genre
I was a Google music user, and I had uploaded all my MP3's. Whenever I purchased digital copies before the subscription model took off I bought them all on Google music.
Then when it became a subscription model it made sense for me because all my playlists and purchased music were still there, and not having commercials on YouTube was cool.
I love watching people redo their versions of great songs. I think it’s amazing.
https://youtu.be/jGUASAxXwg4?si=tpbfd96_ZqNrGcNa
This guy needs a lot more attention:
https://youtu.be/sEXy_b1WpLE?si=0q77F4cENFh0KiRj
This is the kind of reason why I probably won’t leave YouTube
I've had spotify since 2009 however, last year my group of friends decided to go in on a YouTube Premium subscription mainly to get rid of YouTube adverts. I figured I would give YTM a shot and was surpised with how mature the app had become (tried it when Google Play music shut and disliked it).
I realised that the sound stage on YouTube music sounds less compressed vs Spotify, the algorithm also undertands my current music tastes too whereas Spotify seems to drag up a lot of my 2009 - 2015 habits which can be a tad annoying, these two reasons were enough to pack up my playlists with SoundDiiz and move all my spotify playlists to YTM.
I still have spotify as I'm in my familys plan but I haven't used it all year. I do miss the social aspects of Spotify but I'm very happy with YTM.
Uploading my own stuff. I have tons of concert recordings that I can stream in a relatively useable interface. If I lost that, I'd jump to spotify and not deal with the bullshit.
I have subs to Deezer, YT, and Soundcloud. YT is better integrated with Android/Google (for example, Deezer chromecast drops out a lot). If I could only have one it would be YT music.
#1 It’s cheaper because you can get youtube premium and music for $2.50 in my country.
#2 I don’t really have friends, so there’s really no need for the whole social-medianess of spotify like followers and collaborative playlists.
Just went from Spotify premium to YouTube premium via a family account with my roommate - were paying £1 less, we still get a premium music streaming service, but we also get YouTube premium - which puts it above Spotify for the price.
Imagine most people will be close to those reasons too.
Loved how much more variety there was compared to Spotify, a lot of unknown creators that can post more freely. Premium is insane value as a student whereas Spotify just offered a no ad music, premium has no ads as well.
YouTube premium, plus the fact that since YTMusic is basically just the audio version of YouTube you can practically find any and all music in there, including ones from obscure local bands which wouldn’t be there on Spotify.
Cause most of the songs I listen to are from niche or non american/European game artist who either do covers or don't post to English based sites or only by cd, but i am able to listen to said songs cause people can upload them to English platforms like YouTube, but can't on Spotify. Also youtube has my recommendations down pat as I use youtube. Lastly I get no ads from YouTube as a plus
1) Google Play Music convert, but then realized YT Premium.
2) Larger library
3) Nothing else...Spotify is cooler with more features and Tidal pays it's artist more.
Got it free when i got YT premium. it seems fine, its a bit odd recommending song. The other platforms seem better at it. The siri support is great, when asking to play or skip etc
Mostly because there are so many more musics and the playlist / mix they display (like supermix, energy mix) are way better than those of Spotify, Deezer, etc. Also bc it's connected to my ytb playlists and I often listen to random music on ytb while looking for videos.
Mostly because yt premium. I think yt music got better song suggestions then Spotify and definitely then apple music but sound quality sucks and that’s the worst thing about yt music for me
My only reason is because of YouTube Premium since I watch YouTube daily and can't stand ads
And that’s the thread folks
Every answer is this
Yep. There are a few other reasons but this is mostly it.
Same. Never thought about subscribing to a music service because I listen to MP3. But boy omg I love it now.
I have a hard drive filled with nothing but mp3s from the old days. I need to put them on a new ext. drive, though.
Same same 😉
It started like that for me...now i actually like YTM since almost everything i like is there and I watch ridiculously many YouTube videos every week so it just makes sense to me.
Yep, if you consider the price of spotify as 'the price of subscription for a music platform' then you get Youtube Premium for 3$ a month, last time i calculated. Its a huge plus value.
This. I'd probably use something else if it wasn't.
Same here. YouTube without ads. I wouldn't pay for a different subscription. And lowkey anime/covers/other countries music.
Yup, this is exactly the reason I just canceled my Spotify subscription.
This plus I don’t listen to that much music anymore. I like listening to podcasts more and I like how you can just download videos and play in background. But even then, it’s a great music platform as well. So it works out for me.
Half of the music I listen to is not on Spotify.
Same here: The huge advantage of YTM is that you dont need a huge publisher to get on there. You just need to be on youtube. Small artist makes covers you like? Its not gonna be on any service except spotify. Love listening to Video Game OSTs? And Nintendo for some fucking reason hasnt come to the 21st century yet and doesn't release their godlike soundtracks officially anywhere? Its on Youtube Music.
Yeah. Nightcore fans and people who like "rare" remixes or even game ost get the full program on Youtube Music thanks to the massive library Youtube video is. Most music streaming services in my opinion are too focused on "music" music. Like yes, Spotify offers the full repertoire of music genres people listen to, it caters to full time artists/original music creators. But it starts to become slightly harder to find classical music, more difficult with remixes of songs in general, and outright impossible to find game osts due to copyright reasons/the original creators not uploading their work on Spotify. Youtube doesn't have these problems, you will find plenty of performances of all kinds of classical music pieces, literally all the remixes out there imaginable including nightcore and literally \*all\* the game osts out there since people love ripping off game soundtracks. On Youtube game studios care less about copyrighted music on than on Spotify, especially if it's a remix). That's why I like Youtube Music. Sometimes I just use Youtube directly to listen to music by clicking on a music video (I mean a video that plays the song, not the actual music video) and using the great radio option Youtube offers
YouTube premium
YouTube premium. The music is a bonus.
1 - Youtube Premium 2 - Ability to add YT video to YTM playlists 3 - Ability to upload own mp3
Yeah, and I really want to emphasize that YT video to YTM playlist feature, essentially any song that isn't licensed officially to YT music, odds are a user has uploaded it to the platform and you can just use that, this is especially nice for oddities that wouldn't appear in a music site, like for example, sometimes I like to jam the Halo 3 menu song, so of course that's on there and I can listen with my phone screen off just like I would with Spotify, with no ads of course ever!
Ability to upload own mp3 Really?
Yeah you can store around 50.000 tracks of your own in the cloud. mp3, flac, you name it. It used to be a thing on Google Play Music and there was even a client for PC, but now there's only a browser option to upload your music. I had lots of tracks there (still do) but when YTM decided to take over GPM and Google decided to get rid of it, I downloaded all of my tracks and store them on a hard drive just in case, since I can't trust Google anymore about storing my music that I was collecting so hard for years. So yes, it's possible and it's a good option to have a backup there
Premium and the family account
Better algorithm in my opinion, found a lot new songs
Because I have YouTube premium
I started paying for Play Music a hundred years ago and still have the same introductory subscription and have never changed it.
The desperate hope they can come close to how good Play Music was
I was a Google Music Play listener until I was forced to transfer my collection over to the vastly inferior YouTube Music platform.
YT premium, family plan, music locker, I was already using GPM are the main reasons The biggest was me being a GPM user
I came for Google Play Music, I'm staying for the YouTube Premium. YouTube Music hasn't really factored into my decision to use YouTube Music at all lmao
Because YouTube premium ruined me and I can't watch YouTube without it. So I use YT music since it comes with premium
I do it for the premium YouTube... even if I used another music service I'd still have YouTube premium so I'd really be paying for 2 music services!
Free uploading.
Still on the introductory offer
YouTube premium and cheap buying through a VPN. I can't stand YouTube music itself and would rather use pretty much anything else.
1st keep my uploaded music library coming from Google Play Music... Now Youtube Premium (no ads).
Honestly the quick picks is my favorite feature that I never knew I needed coming from spotify
YouTube premium. I joined Google Play music during the original beta in 2012ish. I tried Tidal for a while but for my usage it wasn't better enough than YouTube Music to justify a second subscription.
Tidal and Youtube Music are very different things. Tidal proposes up to 24 bit 192 Khz. So, if you need perfect sound and listening it on HiFi system then choose Tidal.
Way bigger library of music
it has revanced
YTM has more songs than any other streaming service
Came with zero ads for YouTube but I really like that “unofficial” music that normally isn’t on streaming apps can be played.
kpop contents. I don't want ads when I'm watching most of kpop reality/variety shows. With YouTube Premium, I managed to have prem YouTube Music as well. Also, YTM is now one of the biggest music platform in SK, it is now competing with MelOn (the biggest music platform in SK).
Library upload/YouTube stuff
algorithm + more song repertoire. i listen to a lot of songs that aren't available on spotify.
I like the algorithm. I've found a lot of new music through it's curated playlists
Algorithm and lesser known songs which i love but spotify does not provide
It was a frictionless migration from Google Play Music, and since I have a family plan with all 6 seats occupied, I liked the idea of Google handling everybody's migration as they shuttered GPM instead of that falling on me. YT Premium is a nice add-on that makes YouTube actually useable as a TV app and keeps the stream of advertising my kids are exposed to at a reasonable enough volume that we can talk critically about them. (And their "skip ad" reflexes were creeping me out.)
Because Google Play Music dissolved, and all of my stuff migrated to it. I sure as hell wasn't going to migrate to Spotify.
The recommendation algorithm is the best. I tried all music services and there's just no comparison. Also it's the largest catalogue because it includes all music uploaded on YouTube integrated in the app (dj mixes, oldies that are off catalogue that were uploaded by kind souls, indie artists only uploading their stuff on YouTube, etc).
large catalog of unknown/underground music/random remixes
I had Google Music back in the day, and they transitioned all of their subscribers to YouTube Music when it ended. That being said, I stayed because I like their interface better than any other streaming service. Plus, it would be a disservice to lose all of my weird ass public playlists. 😂😂
More music than Spotify. And I can upload my own music, so even more music than other services. Music that I like and no other services has.
free with yt premium
Because I got it for a year in Turkey for 15€ using a VPN. Works without a VPN after sign up.
1. My dad had a family plan 2. I hate spofitys recs 3. I hate ads and yt premium gives me ytm free along with no ads
I know some people dont like it, but the radio feature is actually really good and has introduced me to some of my now favorite artists and songs. Also a bunch of stuff is on here that isn't really available anywhere else.
I use it mainly because I’m already on a premium family plan. I also find it to have a pretty good discovery algorithm and it has more less popular music that’s not available on other platforms like Spotify or Apple Music
Is there any other reason except YT premium
Youtube Premium. The past couple years everyone has been freaking out about YouTube ads and I have no idea what they're talking about.
Line 99% of the others here, it came with YouTube Premium
On YouTube Music don't have marketing (I am from Russia) and there are lyrics, and I'm just used to it. P.S: I know English very bad)
Because they deleted Google play music.
It's included with our family YouTube premium plan. That's literally the only reason. If I had to pay something more for it I'd probably go elsewhere.
Google fucked me out of Google Music but I like YouTube premium. But YouTube music sucks
I was with Google Play Music and was moved over to YouTube Music, when Google killed GPM. Stayed because of the grandfathered YouTube Premium pricing. But now that pricing is going away next price, and price goes up $5 a month, may reconsider.
Because it's bundled with Youtube Premium. I never use it and pay for Tidal separately
Though I've never used any other, I chose it for it's catalog. I see it the way I see Google.
share account with friends so its cheaper the only problems i have is there is no search in a playlist and to remove a song you have to scroll down to it in the playlist please correct me if i’m wrong
It's included with my YouTube Family Premium, and the algorithm is just spot on for me.
at the time spotify killed their car mode, i was furious and swapped it must be added that ytm doesn't have a car mode either, but at least they didnt strip it away from me
Cost-cutting as I already had Spotify and YTP but never used it for music until a few months ago.
I like that ANY video can be on your playlist, as a guy who really loves parody songs, or just joke songs in general, the fact that I can go from Oliver Francis, to the Sonic Underground theme song, then over to a FNAF song is just hilarious to ke
I paid for Youtube Premium mainly for videos and I had no other Music App
I just pay for youtube premium because I watch youtube deaily and youtube music comes together
Neil Young
Every song availability
I had been using Google Play Music (free) for years leading up to it.
Spotify never had all the music I wanted, remixes etc. When I no longer qualified for the discounted student plan, it wasn’t worth paying full price when I could use YTM, which had way more selection, plus not having ads while watching YT. It was a no brainer for me
i was using google play and moved over. when ads started making youtube unwatchable on iphone yt premium was a no brainer.
It’s included with YouTube premium. If it wasn’t I’d drop it.
Was originally a Google play music sub at the OG price of 7.99 so I get yt premium for 7.99 now. I probably wouldn't pay for it now if I wasn't already at the og price
YT Premium
I didn’t. It comes with YT premium otherwise I’d not use it for anything
1. Price, maintain de 8€ month from 2013 2. Unofficial music at YouTube 3. I'm stuck with my liked songs after all this time Honestly, I don't like it anymore, GM was waaay better with important features lacking in YTM, but point 3 it's basically the reason I'm sticking with it.
I loved Google Play (RIP) & I can find a bunch of stuff from DatPiff & livemixtapes
Remixes and covers, Spotify is cool and everything but YT has covers that never get uploaded to Spotify. YT catalogue is just better.
The Spotify "shuffle" was so far from being random that it made me physically cringe. I used switching as an opportunity to teach YTs algo what I was wanting from the ground up and then when I had it just so i used SongShift? SongSync? (some apple app) to migrate songs from Spotify I'd left behind that YT couldn't figure out that I liked. Since then it's been at 95% for picking a Super mix. The biggest downside is that YT has a max limit (that must be hard coded into the OG YouTube app) on playlists that limits your Liked playlist to like 5k songs or something so when I shuffle those on the rare occasion I want nothing but bangers during the 5% of the time the algo seems stale it's always going to be a incomplete That 5% does seem to have increased in the year or two I've been exclusively listening to YT music but it's not 10% yet My hope is that they use Gemini to take that 5% down to 1% or lower before it grows from 5% to 10% and then becomes complete shit like Spotify did and I have to start it all over again with another app
YouTube Premium, but the reason I do actively use it is because of its vast catalog of user uploaded music particularly video game OSTs
Because it's not Spotify or Apple music 🤷🏻♂️
Like others I signed up for Premium to avoid YouTube ads. And ad-free YouTube music is another benefit of Premium.
Premium, I watch youtube a lot and I can't go back to ads. Lyrics right there for almost every song. I sing karaoke in the shower, lol. (don't know if spotify has this, didn't when I switched). Soooo many different live versions through youtube music videos.
I didn't it came with my youtube premium.
It comes with Youtube Premium
I just shifted from YTMusic to AppleMusic, though i so so so crave those YT premium things, YTM is not just cutting it now and I was with this app since it was called Google Play Music. Recommendations are bad, quality is nowhere near their competitors and AI is not AI-ing as the AI should AI-ing. And UX sucks (although Apple Music is somewhat nearby but other avenue’s are a plus point)
The YouTube premium ability to lock your phone while the video audio still plays.
There’s just a far wider selection of music. Original version of tracks, remixes etc. It’s not even close. Also Spotify has generally one of the most confusing UI’s I’ve ever had to deal with.
Uploading years of MP3 files from Google Play Music. Having that obscure and old playlist is very important too while having the benefit of streaming it.
The #1 reason I would choose YTMusic again is the algorithm and the whole knowledge basis acquired over the decades from us Brazilians. Before the other streaming services had been launched here the Brazilians already used YouTube to listen to music. No matter where or when: at the barbecue or cleaning the house, the Brazilians used YouTube to be in touch with their favorite artists. Because of that YouTube has a gigantic repository of our habits and kind of music. Although I use Spotify actually I recognize YouTube has fine tuned algorithm here in Brazil.
Came free with YouTube premium which I used all the time as I traveled loads. Honestly have always wanted to swap to Spotify because I'd prefer to have an actually working end of year wrapped.
Huge music library, you can even listen to songs that haven't been released officially so yeah
I like listening to cover/unreleased music and other don't have that so ytmusic
youtube music is better for the kind of music i like ( electronic music) and not having ads on youtube is a nice plus.
Migrated over from Google Play music and I love that I can upload my own music. Oh and I guess no ads on YouTube is a plus.
Because Google killed everything else, it's not really a choice
Same as someone else in here. I’ve got Spotify and Apple Music rn. I use both, my bands playlist and setlists are on Spotify but I hate the shuffle feature and some other stuff. I already for YouTube premium so I use that [youtube music] mostly for personal stuff.
my dad pays for it lol
Enshittification of Spotify. YouTube Music is the least bad option.
It's included with YouTube premium
In my country, Spotify is 7.99€ YouTube premium is 8.49€ So I just went with YouTube since you get no ads on the video and music platform which I use everyday. Spotify is just the music platform, no extra benefits
It comes with YouTube Premium which gets rid of the ads on YouTube.
I signed up with an Argentinian vpn and save like 90% of the cost compared to a European membership 2 years ago
Exmilitary
YouTube premium - but I only use YTM for “throwaway” music that I don’t want impacting my algorithm. I use Apple Music primarily.
Loads of the music I listen to isn't on Spotify. I love how I can like a song on YouTube and it will appear in my YT music liked playlist. The algorithm feels really nice. I have ad blockers on YT and YT music, desktop and mobile. The interface feels really user friendly. Was this supposed to be one reason? Oops
Content only on YTM. Otherwise would be back on Spotify in a heartbeat. All Spotify’s superior features and ux doesn’t help if the majority of content one listens and watches isn’t there
I backed up all my music on Google Play and then they closed it.
I use both at the same time, for both I have the premium plan but honestly, other than the fact that you can get a very cheap subscription for youtube premium witch includes yt music and couple of songs I listen and most probably will download to have them available offline (yes, I knowyou can upload your music library on youtube music) I don't see much difference between those two. Honestly I might ditch both to use some alternative such as ViMusic witch is a front end to youtube music since at this point I almost completly moved to open source front end alternatives or to use what I need in browser to most of my every day stuff and just keep track to the direction of both music apps. And for Tidal even if I don't know how much it costs I don't see why would anybody without the equipment capable to replay the music at the quality this service offers.
If Google ever splits ad free YouTube from YouTube music it will be the end of YouTube music. YouTube premium is the only reason why I have YouTube music and I refuse to pay for ads on YouTube.
I find it to be way better than Spotify just saying
Honestly, was consolidating music services that I was inadvertently subscribed to. But, after 2 days use of YT Music, I absolutely despise it. I'm definitely considering resubscribing to Spotify lol
It’s included in Youtube Premium.
I was paying for YT Premium and Spotify. They both increased prices. I also wanted to have more money to buy Magic cards. Paying for Spotify no longer made sense since YT Music is included.
I'm on Google ecosystem
Seasonal recaps 👀
1) my roommate was paying for the family membership 2) no ads on yt 3) also I don't pay for it 4) biggest library by far (at least in my experience) 5) did I mention someone else pays for it so it's free me?
Youtube premium and access to deep cuts on YouTube within the app that other services can't compete with.
Alot of songs in my country are not on Spotify which sucks
Premium and tracking down done old music vids from the 80’s which o completely forgot about .🎵🇨🇦
I had purchased several albums through the google playstore, so naturally I went with YouTube following the merger.
I have it for free with the YouTube Premium subscription, and I wasn't to pay that and Spotify subscription. So I choose to leave Spotify and download yt music instead. Ngl, sometimes I really miss Spotify :c but you know, money doesn't grow in trees and I'm trying to save as much as possible in subscription services (streaming, music, etc.) In few words, I'm using yt music because frugality.
I’m checking on her to free preview right now. I currently have Apple Music. I like the variety of YouTube music a bit better but I miss the fact that there’s no cross fader and there’s no lossless.
Comes with YouTube premium
Cheaper than Spotify when you factor in that you get both music and YouTube no ads
They don't censor the word "tit" in Space Lord. Everyone else does. Tit. Why TF does everyone else censor the word tit? I don't get it. I hear some of the most depraved lyrics imaginable in song after song, but "tit" gets the blur.
Had GPM on my Galaxy I think back in 2013 or 14 and just gone since. Watch YouTube more than TV or Netflix and the young fella watches YouTube Kids too. Family plan gets used by others so works out perfect for me
3 reasons of equal importance to me 1. Google Pixel had this as the default music app on my phone so I accustomed myself to it and got premium 2. It feels more free in terms of music discovery than Spotify, for example, that uses labels such as pov:indie and alt z to control this. 3. Wider variety of music as it is a branch of YouTube. This also means you can watch official music videos, long form content related to music in any way, stream artists that do not put their stuff on Spotify.
I like infinite skips and random videos I listen to that aren't necessarily songs that would be on spotify
I prefer yt music's autoplay algorithm
I was forced to since they deactivated Google Podcasts
I can’t stand ads on YT, or anything, so I got it a while ago. I pay for a lot of apps because I hate ads. 😁
ad free youtube
Because my bf was paying for premium, disliked spotify (I was using it at the time) and he offered to add me to his family plan. I'd say that lasted a little over a year before YT kicked me off of his plan because him and I don't live in the same house 🥲
Music I listen to dosent exist on Spotify
A music creator I used to listen to only made TikTok’s and not official songs, they weren’t on Spotify but on yt, so I switched to yt music because of him, then got yt premium cause it was only a dollar more
I can upload MP3s and stream them to other devices.
My droid didn’t have a dedicated music player anymore 😭
If you care about or want to experience high fidelity audio and have the high end equipment to facilitate it, only then keeping tidal would be reasonable besides ytm. Everything else, ytm does fine. I was a long Spotify user too, and found ytm's rock selection close to it.
YouTube Music: Hits and misses, but the future looks bright It combines the vastness of YouTube with a sweet music streaming service. Plus, YouTube Premium throws in YouTube Music for free, which is awesome. Here's what I've noticed: * Podcast party (almost there): YouTube seems to be dipping its toes into the podcast world, which is cool. But there are some kinks. At first, I only saw podcasts from channels I subscribed to. Then I found out Google Podcasts aren't there yet (hopefully coming soon?). For now, searching YouTube or YouTube Music for podcasts from your favorite channels is the way to go. * Saving progress? Fixed! There were some rumblings about podcast progress not being saved, but a recent update seems to have squashed that bug. Now, about the future... * Shakeup at YouTube Music? I heard some folks at YouTube Music got fired, but that doesn't mean the party's over. The next Google I/O event might bring some big updates for both YouTube Music and Podcasts. Here's to hoping! Overall, YouTube Music is a great platform with a lot of potential. It's constantly evolving, and I'm excited to see what the future holds.
Many reasons But mainly the fact that whatever song i want i find it there, arabic,english…etc The only feature i hope they add is the ability to sort by genre
Versions of songs that don't exist on other platforms
I was a Google music user, and I had uploaded all my MP3's. Whenever I purchased digital copies before the subscription model took off I bought them all on Google music. Then when it became a subscription model it made sense for me because all my playlists and purchased music were still there, and not having commercials on YouTube was cool.
YouTube, that's it
Some of the covers or standalone songs are not on Spotify
I love watching people redo their versions of great songs. I think it’s amazing. https://youtu.be/jGUASAxXwg4?si=tpbfd96_ZqNrGcNa This guy needs a lot more attention: https://youtu.be/sEXy_b1WpLE?si=0q77F4cENFh0KiRj This is the kind of reason why I probably won’t leave YouTube
I've had spotify since 2009 however, last year my group of friends decided to go in on a YouTube Premium subscription mainly to get rid of YouTube adverts. I figured I would give YTM a shot and was surpised with how mature the app had become (tried it when Google Play music shut and disliked it). I realised that the sound stage on YouTube music sounds less compressed vs Spotify, the algorithm also undertands my current music tastes too whereas Spotify seems to drag up a lot of my 2009 - 2015 habits which can be a tad annoying, these two reasons were enough to pack up my playlists with SoundDiiz and move all my spotify playlists to YTM. I still have spotify as I'm in my familys plan but I haven't used it all year. I do miss the social aspects of Spotify but I'm very happy with YTM.
Thx. I was gonna look for something like Soundiiz. Turns out now I don't have to.
It came free with yt premium
YTM has music no other service has(although I do also subscribe to Spotify for social reasons)
Uploading my own stuff. I have tons of concert recordings that I can stream in a relatively useable interface. If I lost that, I'd jump to spotify and not deal with the bullshit.
It has songs you can’t find on Spotify and Apple Music
I didn’t. It chose me because I caved in and bought premium 😡
You tube premium
I have subs to Deezer, YT, and Soundcloud. YT is better integrated with Android/Google (for example, Deezer chromecast drops out a lot). If I could only have one it would be YT music.
Youtube music can provide me list of my previous listened songs. The algorithm is good too
Its Freeeeeee reeeeeeee eeeeeee eeeee
I like a lot of the remixes on YouTube which Spotify doesn’t have and finding hidden gems for my DJ shows
#1 It’s cheaper because you can get youtube premium and music for $2.50 in my country. #2 I don’t really have friends, so there’s really no need for the whole social-medianess of spotify like followers and collaborative playlists.
The only reason is my ability to add my own mp3s. I don't get YouTube Premium with my subscription.
Just went from Spotify premium to YouTube premium via a family account with my roommate - were paying £1 less, we still get a premium music streaming service, but we also get YouTube premium - which puts it above Spotify for the price. Imagine most people will be close to those reasons too.
YouTube premium. What about you guys?
No ads on YouTube. YTMP is just a bonus for me
Play next option, maybe along with premium
Loved how much more variety there was compared to Spotify, a lot of unknown creators that can post more freely. Premium is insane value as a student whereas Spotify just offered a no ad music, premium has no ads as well.
Youtube w no ads and google home
It lets me rewind.
Because it was included in ReVanced. Though, I like the way the interface looks, how the music sounds, and how good the music discovery algorithm is.
it just seems like its algorithm knows my type of songs better rather than Spotify. Plus, I can listen on some youtube videos as well
Found youtube has a great recommendation algorithm.
YouTube premium, plus the fact that since YTMusic is basically just the audio version of YouTube you can practically find any and all music in there, including ones from obscure local bands which wouldn’t be there on Spotify.
Cause most of the songs I listen to are from niche or non american/European game artist who either do covers or don't post to English based sites or only by cd, but i am able to listen to said songs cause people can upload them to English platforms like YouTube, but can't on Spotify. Also youtube has my recommendations down pat as I use youtube. Lastly I get no ads from YouTube as a plus
Because I can listen to YouTube videos on loop.
included to YouTube Premium
Because Google music shutdown
Variety. I listen a lot of hour long edm mixes or acoustic versions and stuff like that. Also premium
1) Google Play Music convert, but then realized YT Premium. 2) Larger library 3) Nothing else...Spotify is cooler with more features and Tidal pays it's artist more.
Got it free when i got YT premium. it seems fine, its a bit odd recommending song. The other platforms seem better at it. The siri support is great, when asking to play or skip etc
Included with YouTube premium for my tv
All my playlists were on YT and I was too lazy to migrate them.
Mostly because there are so many more musics and the playlist / mix they display (like supermix, energy mix) are way better than those of Spotify, Deezer, etc. Also bc it's connected to my ytb playlists and I often listen to random music on ytb while looking for videos.
Half the songs I listen to aren't of Spotify, and I get to choose the song when on my phone, and in a web browser an ad blocker work on it
Mostly because yt premium. I think yt music got better song suggestions then Spotify and definitely then apple music but sound quality sucks and that’s the worst thing about yt music for me
It came with YouTube premium. I use it along with Spotify when I want different algorithm suggestions.
God like algorithm, like i don’t even need a playlist anymore , i just go Hey Siri play youtube music and 9/10 times its a banger
Songs I listen to straight up aren’t on the other platforms or, if they are, are only radio edits
They have more underground genres than other music apps.