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YT Premium, definitely yes. However, YT Music is hot garbage. The UI is utter crap and the mixing of video and music is awful, especially playlists. Why the hel

YT Premium, definitely yes. However, YT Music is hot garbage. The UI is utter crap and the mixing of video and music is awful, especially playlists. Why the hell would I want my regular YT and music playlists mixed up together anyway? It gets worse with kids, as some video-songs (randomly!) trigger the inability to play in the background.

pitaj 4y ago
If you haven't already: Disable Settings > Recommendations > Show your liked music from Youtube Enable Settings > Data saving > Don't play music videos
- Steltek 4y ago
  That first one only appears in YT music. My regular YouTube still has my music playlists. Thanks though. Maybe some day they'll put in some effort.
lwkl 4y ago
I liked Google Play Music when it first came out. But development was basically stopped and they replaced it with the crappy YT Music App. Unless they majorly change YouTube music I'll stay with Spotify.
- adra 4y ago
  Dev wasn't just stopped. The whole product was sunset and if you wanted to keep a semblance of what you had, you were forced to migrate to YouTube music. I saw the end of that crap rainbow and finally moved over to koel which has done just as much as I ever cared to use in Google music, but now I don't fear Google getting bored and killing the product in some future.
spopejoy 4y ago
One big upside of having access to video in your music collection is all the independently-uploaded songs and song versions that have not officially found their way to streaming. If your tastes are more eclectic this can be a really big thing actually -- the music streaming services are largely similar in what they do and don't have, which leaves out a LOT of stuff, and finally things vanish off of streaming all the time. Individually-uploaded youtube music-in-a-video on the other hand is astonishingly durable. Totally agree about the UI though, and they also suck on royalty payouts -- only Spotify is worse.

pitaj 4y ago

If you haven't already: Disable Settings > Recommendations > Show your liked music from Youtube Enable Settings > Data saving > Don't play music videos

Steltek 4y ago
That first one only appears in YT music. My regular YouTube still has my music playlists. Thanks though. Maybe some day they'll put in some effort.

lwkl 4y ago

I liked Google Play Music when it first came out. But development was basically stopped and they replaced it with the crappy YT Music App. Unless they majorly change YouTube music I'll stay with Spotify.

adra 4y ago
Dev wasn't just stopped. The whole product was sunset and if you wanted to keep a semblance of what you had, you were forced to migrate to YouTube music. I saw the end of that crap rainbow and finally moved over to koel which has done just as much as I ever cared to use in Google music, but now I don't fear Google getting bored and killing the product in some future.

spopejoy 4y ago

One big upside of having access to video in your music collection is all the independently-uploaded songs and song versions that have not officially found their way to streaming. If your tastes are more eclectic this can be a really big thing actually -- the music streaming services are largely similar in what they do and don't have, which leaves out a LOT of stuff, and finally things vanish off of streaming all the time. Individually-uploaded youtube music-in-a-video on the other hand is astonishingly durable. Totally agree about the UI though, and they also suck on royalty payouts -- only Spotify is worse.