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If it's on YouTube Music, it's also on... YouTube.
by thaumasiotes 11mo ago
If it's on YouTube Music, it's also on... YouTube.
- charcircuit 11mo agoNot necessarily at the same quality though.
- thaumasiotes 11mo agoI assume in most cases they're literally the same files. Youtube runs "topic" channels for music that distributors have sent it. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYOa-hi751OKY2zGJJv6V2A https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYOa-hi751OKY2zGJJv6V2A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSSxnv1_J2g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSSxnv1_J2g (same thing, but on an official channel instead)
- charcircuit 11mo agoYou can load any youtube music song on youtube by just removing the "music" subdomain.
- thaumasiotes 11mo agoThen why do you say they might not be the same files?
- sgtlaggy 11mo agoMusic might have higher quality audio-only files as provided where Youtube might have it combined with video and a generic compression algorithm applied as with all other uploaded videos.
- charcircuit 11mo agoLet me start over. Youtube itself has DRM required for certain videos, and certain formats of videos. The 256 kbps format for music will be protected by DRM. If you do not have DRM available youtube will fallback to a lower quality format to play the auduo.