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Lol why does google make these also-ran services? Too little too late, I legit dont care. Like what is the differentiator here. Google really doesn't get cultu

Lol why does google make these also-ran services? Too little too late, I legit dont care. Like what is the differentiator here. Google really doesn't get culture and the internet. The internet lets me listen to weird shit, make it easy to discover underground shit, not fucking Drake and fucking Havana. You know the things played nonstop on the radio. God their product launches legit piss me off. So many resources to make something dope and they produce this watered down diarrhea.

asah 9y ago
You appear to be in the minority: YouTube is the #2 highest trafficked website as of April 2018: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_websites https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_website... The most recent example: 134,000,000 views in 7 days for This is America. Plus millions more reaction videos, remixes and more. Speaking personally, I absolutely create playlists from music videos.
- adamnemecek 9y ago
  This is related how? Ok why launch a new product? What can I do with this that wasn't possible before?
  - danvayn 9y ago
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    - adamnemecek 9y ago
      Lol their recommendation service? Are we using the same product? They are very heavily skewed towards popular things.
      - viraptor 9y ago
        It really depends on your library. If I try the feeling lucky radio on Google music now, I can't spot anything in the first 50 tracks or so that was / would be played on the radio. The prepared mood radios are a bit more mainstream, but still not even close to the radio a/b-list
CobrastanJorji 9y ago
While it's totally fair to criticize the editorial direction of YouTube toward highlighting mainstream stuff, the unexplored edges of YouTube are definitely deep, dark, and weird. And when I've used Google Play Music, I've been consistently pleased that I've never heard of at least a third of the stuff it plays for me.
hiccuphippo 9y ago
YouTube has a lot of that weird shit and has been great for me for discovering music. Then usually the next step for me is to go search for a good quality version of it. If this YouTube Music thing gives me what YouTube currently has plus better sound quality then I'm sold.
bildung 9y ago
I regulary use youtube to hunt for niche tracks, and it still happens that those tracks can't be found on spotify (though spotify got vastly better with not-so-popular music in the last 6 months or so). Youtubes never recommends mainstream music to me, I guess it depends on the browsing history of your account (and IP address etc.)
- adamnemecek 9y ago
  I do too, however my question is what does this provide that wasn't possible before?

asah 9y ago

You appear to be in the minority: YouTube is the #2 highest trafficked website as of April 2018: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_websites https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_website... The most recent example: 134,000,000 views in 7 days for This is America. Plus millions more reaction videos, remixes and more. Speaking personally, I absolutely create playlists from music videos.

adamnemecek 9y ago
This is related how? Ok why launch a new product? What can I do with this that wasn't possible before?
- danvayn 9y ago
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  - adamnemecek 9y ago
    Lol their recommendation service? Are we using the same product? They are very heavily skewed towards popular things.
    - viraptor 9y ago
      It really depends on your library. If I try the feeling lucky radio on Google music now, I can't spot anything in the first 50 tracks or so that was / would be played on the radio. The prepared mood radios are a bit more mainstream, but still not even close to the radio a/b-list

CobrastanJorji 9y ago

While it's totally fair to criticize the editorial direction of YouTube toward highlighting mainstream stuff, the unexplored edges of YouTube are definitely deep, dark, and weird. And when I've used Google Play Music, I've been consistently pleased that I've never heard of at least a third of the stuff it plays for me.

hiccuphippo 9y ago

YouTube has a lot of that weird shit and has been great for me for discovering music. Then usually the next step for me is to go search for a good quality version of it. If this YouTube Music thing gives me what YouTube currently has plus better sound quality then I'm sold.

bildung 9y ago

I regulary use youtube to hunt for niche tracks, and it still happens that those tracks can't be found on spotify (though spotify got vastly better with not-so-popular music in the last 6 months or so). Youtubes never recommends mainstream music to me, I guess it depends on the browsing history of your account (and IP address etc.)

adamnemecek 9y ago
I do too, however my question is what does this provide that wasn't possible before?