Youtube Music & Youtube Premium
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2018 10:28 pm
So, because I already subscribe to Google Play Music for my music streaming, I now have an automatic subscription to the new Youtube Music service.
It seems like it's some weird middle ground. It's got a load of live performances and videos seamlessly integrated with the rest of an artist's library, and a similar algorithm based recommendations bit to the main YT site, which works better than the Google Play one, (but without all the fortnite/alt-right clickbait,) but the actual music library is much smaller than the Google Play one, and the layout when you're searching for content seems worse.
I know there are plenty of people out there who use Youtube as their main source of music, and as an entry point to streaming for them, and providing more of the video base content they want, this is probably a really good thing, especially as it will finally let you play Youtube in the background while you use other apps, but it just seems a bit lacking. Obviously I'm not losing anything by getting this as an extra, but I don't think I can see myself using it.
There's also Youtube Premium: https://www.youtube.com/premium?ybp=IgcSBW11c2lj
Ad free, and the same background streaming, and some exclusive content/original shows.
Ad free and background streaming are two features I'd really want, but I'm not sure I really want to be forking over the £12/month they're asking for the privilege, especially as I doubt the original shows are going to be the kind of stuff I'm interested in. I think I'll just continue chucking a buck a month on Patreon at my favourite channels who put out non-monetised videos, as I am.
It seems like it's some weird middle ground. It's got a load of live performances and videos seamlessly integrated with the rest of an artist's library, and a similar algorithm based recommendations bit to the main YT site, which works better than the Google Play one, (but without all the fortnite/alt-right clickbait,) but the actual music library is much smaller than the Google Play one, and the layout when you're searching for content seems worse.
I know there are plenty of people out there who use Youtube as their main source of music, and as an entry point to streaming for them, and providing more of the video base content they want, this is probably a really good thing, especially as it will finally let you play Youtube in the background while you use other apps, but it just seems a bit lacking. Obviously I'm not losing anything by getting this as an extra, but I don't think I can see myself using it.
There's also Youtube Premium: https://www.youtube.com/premium?ybp=IgcSBW11c2lj
Ad free, and the same background streaming, and some exclusive content/original shows.
Ad free and background streaming are two features I'd really want, but I'm not sure I really want to be forking over the £12/month they're asking for the privilege, especially as I doubt the original shows are going to be the kind of stuff I'm interested in. I think I'll just continue chucking a buck a month on Patreon at my favourite channels who put out non-monetised videos, as I am.