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Google seems to be trying a bunch of different things to leverage this downright stupid mentality embedded in a subset of the Internet population that YouTube i
by Laaw 11y ago
Google seems to be trying a bunch of different things to leverage this downright stupid mentality embedded in a subset of the Internet population that YouTube is a platform for music (sans video). It's not Google's fault that folks are using YouTube as strictly a music service, but here we are. I don't really know how I'd solve this problem either, but if I have to regress to using YouTube to listen to music, it's going to piss me off (why oh why would I stream video if I'm just using the audio)?
I just fear the majority is never going to take the short hop over to Google Music (or whatever app Google offers strictly for music), and I'm going to get stuck needlessly using YouTube related apps/platforms.
- oldmanjay 11y agoThere is a vast gulf between not using things the way you prefer and being stupid.
- Laaw 11y agoThe word "stupid" has no valuable meaning in rational discourse, so I've appropriated it in this case to mean, "evokes a negative emotional reaction." I hope this wasn't too harmful to the conversation, though it seems to have caused damage to the sensibilities of multiple people already. I'd edit, but I think at this point it's hardly worth the effort.
- sdenton4 11y agoPretty sure the Youtube Music app has a 'don't stream the video' mode.
- Laaw 11y agoIt does, but there's no technical reason to even involve YouTube at all; there's simply no way Google on the backend would rather split the audio off of the video than just play the audio from an album directly.