YouTube Music vs Spotify?

[Orikoru]

Had an email saying Spotify is going up again to £13 a month. I think that's now a similar (if not the same) price as it is to get YouTube Premium (no ads on YT) and YouTube Music, so I am tempted to switch. But obviously not if YouTube Music is total pants compared to Spotify.

Has anyone else gone from Spotify to YT Music, or uses both, and can report on how it compares? Does it have pretty much the same library of content?

 

[BrianM]

I didn’t even know you could make playlists on YouTube….
I use Amazon Music, which is only ok.

 

[Orikoru]

Not a good start for YouTube Music - activated the free trial and listened to it on the tube home, but the songs kept failing to load and cutting out during bits of no reception. I'm not sure how Spotify did it, but it usually continues playing when I'm underground - it must be loading a few tracks in advance.

 

[Sid Rixon IV]

I didn’t even know you could make playlists on YouTube….
I use Amazon Music, which is only ok.

Why only ok?
It's great in the car via phone.
Your playlist or requests that are always followed by similar tracks in that genre.
I find myself randomly requesting tracks I haven't heard in years.
Every time I get in the car my first words are "Alexa play...."

 

[ExRabbit]

£13 a month to listen to youtube music?

I just watch loads of music videos all of the time on youtube with just a few adverts.

 

[Lucifer MorningStar]

I’ve never heard a good thing about YouTube music. Everyone I k ow that’s used it switched away before end of free trial due to loading issues.

Apple Music is pretty decent and doesn’t drop off. Amazon music is pretty good when I’ve tried it it. But it would take a lot for me to swap away from Spotify, we pay £20 a month for the family plan so Mrs M, myself , and my kids can all use it and listen to different things at the same time. Plus all the play lists and downloads I have would take forever to redo.

 

[Oops!]

Wow!

£20.00 per month (!) is a lot of money!

For what? Just so that others can compile playlists for me with music that I like or might like? No way!

I have encoded my CDs (> 1,500) to MP3 and stored them on my NAS (Synology). Using the included ( ! ) software (DS Audio), I can listen to *my* music *anywhere*! It works great and costs *nothing*!

Admittedly, I have to compile my own playlists if I don't want to use the random function... which I do often enough!

That's enough for *me*!

 

[Lucifer MorningStar]

Wow!

£20.00 per month (!) is a lot of money!

For what? Just so that others can compile playlists for me with music that I like or might like? No way!

I have encoded my CDs (> 1,500) to MP3 and stored them on my NAS (Synology). Using the included ( ! ) software (DS Audio), I can listen to *my* music *anywhere*! It works great and costs *nothing*!

Admittedly, I have to compile my own playlists if I don't want to use the random function... which I do often enough!

That's enough for *me*!

It’s about VFM , my wife, 25 yr old
Daughter, my 3 teenagers and myself get full uninterrupted access to all the music and podcasts we want.

Not sure what the angry emoji is about or why it would irk you what someone chooses to spend to give their family access to something they all enjoy for £20 a month. I don’t go out to pubs drinking, I don’t smoke or vape (people I know that do are spending more than £20 a week let alone a month on that), I don’t own a single CD or LP so I’ve had zero outlay there over the years and it takes me no time to catalogue anything, you say it’s costs you nothing that’s not true how much has it cost you to build up that CD collection you had to transfer?. I’m away from home a minimum of 120 days a year with work sometimes upto 6mths. It affords me access to everything I want anywhere in the world hassle free.

So considering my only personal outgoings outside of bills are my golf, the odd bottle of Rum I buy for home and £20 a month for my entire family to have full access to Spotify imo I get good VFM and it’s well worth it

 

[Neilds]

Wow!

£20.00 per month (!) is a lot of money!

For what? Just so that others can compile playlists for me with music that I like or might like? No way!

I have encoded my CDs (> 1,500) to MP3 and stored them on my NAS (Synology). Using the included ( ! ) software (DS Audio), I can listen to *my* music *anywhere*! It works great and costs *nothing*!

Admittedly, I have to compile my own playlists if I don't want to use the random function... which I do often enough!

That's enough for *me*!

So you managed to get over 1500 CDs for free? As well as getting a NAS (whatever that is) free you must be a right wheeler dealer

 

[Orikoru]

£13 a month to listen to youtube music?

I just watch loads of music videos all of the time on youtube with just a few adverts.

It's not about watching the odd video. YT Music would be to replace Spotify on my phone - listening to albums on headphones etc. You cannot do this with the conventional YouTube app without paying for Premium.

Wow!

£20.00 per month (!) is a lot of money!

For what? Just so that others can compile playlists for me with music that I like or might like? No way!

I have encoded my CDs (> 1,500) to MP3 and stored them on my NAS (Synology). Using the included ( ! ) software (DS Audio), I can listen to *my* music *anywhere*! It works great and costs *nothing*!

Admittedly, I have to compile my own playlists if I don't want to use the random function... which I do often enough!

That's enough for *me*!

I used to have all my music on an SD Card which I put into my phone, but on the last couple of models they removed the SD Card slots so I couldn't do that anymore, and didn't want my phone's hard drive completely full of music. Plus it's a bit of a faff adding music onto the phone all the time. I do like the convenience of Spotify, and I make sure I listen to at least 3 or 4 albums per month that I've never heard before, and this justifies the cost in my mind.

 

[jim8flog]

It's not about watching the odd video. YT Music would be to replace Spotify on my phone - listening to albums on headphones etc. You cannot do this with the conventional YouTube app without paying for Premium.


I used to have all my music on an SD Card which I put into my phone, but on the last couple of models they removed the SD Card slots so I couldn't do that anymore, and didn't want my phone's hard drive completely full of music. Plus it's a bit of a faff adding music onto the phone all the time. I do like the convenience of Spotify, and I make sure I listen to at least 3 or 4 albums per month that I've never heard before, and this justifies the cost in my mind.

Most of the phones I looked at last year had the option of putting the SD card in to the second SIM slot.

The phone I ended up buying has more memory than my desktop computer hard drives and I barely use any of it.