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I'm mostly using the regular YouTube for music nowadays.

by jeena 7y ago

lostgame 7y ago
Guessing you don’t care for quality or that listening to an album is interrupted by unskippable ads that are usually far louder than the content? It saddens me, as a musician and producer, how YouTube is the go-to for listening to music. We put a lot of effort into audio engineering, and the flow of an album, only to have a ton of that work degraded by YouTube’s shitty compression or ads that interrupt the intended experience.
- jholman 7y ago
  Why would anyone listen to ads on youtube? Do they not know how to use software? Regarding quality, most music is listened to in traffic, or on the bus, or while working, or as background in a store, or while exercising, or.... I think it should be pretty obvious that the majority of the time, quality is just not a factor.
- true_religion 7y ago
  I use YouTube as well, but before it... I used this service called "radio". The compression was terrible. The ads were unstoppable. I love music, but for decades before we all fell in love with music despite the poor medium we listened it to. YouTube isn't any different.
- cookie_monsta 7y ago
  Question from my kids: what's an "album"?
  - lostgame 7y ago
    The music equivalent of a ‘movie’ compared to a ‘series’.
    - cookie_monsta 7y ago
      My question was semi-flippant, but I don't think the movie/series analogy is very apt. The point is that my kids don't really care how you decided to package the product, song order, flow, etc. Quite often all they care about is one song (and sometimes they care about it 100+ times per day...) I guess in the same way that we used to buy singles, although I never bought that many because you got more bang for buck buying the whole album. Where I did draw the line was when I heard them start asking each other if they had seen the latest song from so-and-so. At which point they both got an MP3 player and a bit of a lecture about how music is audio and everything else is marketing
- jeena 7y ago
  Quality is good enough for laptop loudspeakers or noise canceling earphones and I pay for YouTube premium so no ads. But to be honest, if I really want to listen to a whole album then I use YouTube Music, which is included in YouTube premium. What I like about it is that if the song isn't available then it offers the video instead so I can listen to it anyway.
  - Double_a_92 7y ago
    For me it's only good enough until I've listened to a higher quality version...
- LordDragonfang 7y ago
  Youtube has a paid tier that negates the ads, no different than other music streaming services with free tiers. It's available in fewer countries, but it definitely exists.

I'm mostly using the regular YouTube for music nowadays.

by jeena 7y ago

I'm mostly using the regular YouTube for music nowadays.

Guessing you don’t care for quality or that listening to an album is interrupted by unskippable ads that are usually far louder than the content? It saddens me, as a musician and producer, how YouTube is the go-to for listening to music. We put a lot of effort into audio engineering, and the flow of an album, only to have a ton of that work degraded by YouTube’s shitty compression or ads that interrupt the intended experience.

jholman 7y ago
Why would anyone listen to ads on youtube? Do they not know how to use software? Regarding quality, most music is listened to in traffic, or on the bus, or while working, or as background in a store, or while exercising, or.... I think it should be pretty obvious that the majority of the time, quality is just not a factor.
true_religion 7y ago
I use YouTube as well, but before it... I used this service called "radio". The compression was terrible. The ads were unstoppable. I love music, but for decades before we all fell in love with music despite the poor medium we listened it to. YouTube isn't any different.
cookie_monsta 7y ago
Question from my kids: what's an "album"?
- lostgame 7y ago
  The music equivalent of a ‘movie’ compared to a ‘series’.
  - cookie_monsta 7y ago
    My question was semi-flippant, but I don't think the movie/series analogy is very apt. The point is that my kids don't really care how you decided to package the product, song order, flow, etc. Quite often all they care about is one song (and sometimes they care about it 100+ times per day...) I guess in the same way that we used to buy singles, although I never bought that many because you got more bang for buck buying the whole album. Where I did draw the line was when I heard them start asking each other if they had seen the latest song from so-and-so. At which point they both got an MP3 player and a bit of a lecture about how music is audio and everything else is marketing
jeena 7y ago
Quality is good enough for laptop loudspeakers or noise canceling earphones and I pay for YouTube premium so no ads. But to be honest, if I really want to listen to a whole album then I use YouTube Music, which is included in YouTube premium. What I like about it is that if the song isn't available then it offers the video instead so I can listen to it anyway.
- Double_a_92 7y ago
  For me it's only good enough until I've listened to a higher quality version...
LordDragonfang 7y ago
Youtube has a paid tier that negates the ads, no different than other music streaming services with free tiers. It's available in fewer countries, but it definitely exists.