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YouTube Music, a new music streaming service, is coming soon

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Re: YouTube Music, a new music streaming service, is coming soon

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Post by adamnemecek »

asah wrote: post #19
adamnemecek wrote: post #10

Lol why does google make these also-ran services? Too little too late, I legit dont care. Like what is the differentiator here. Google really doesn't get culture and the internet. The internet lets me listen to weird shit, make it easy to discover underground shit, not fucking Drake and fucking Havana. You know the things played nonstop on the radio. God their product launches legit piss me off. So many resources to…

You appear to be in the minority: YouTube is the #2 highest trafficked website as of April 2018: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_website... The most recent example: 134,000,000 views in 7 days for This is America. Plus millions more reaction videos, remixes and more. Speaking personally, I absolutely create playlists from music videos.

This is related how? Ok why launch a new product? What can I do with this that wasn't possible before?

Re: YouTube Music, a new music streaming service, is coming soon

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Post by CobrastanJorji »

adamnemecek wrote: post #10

Lol why does google make these also-ran services? Too little too late, I legit dont care. Like what is the differentiator here. Google really doesn't get culture and the internet. The internet lets me listen to weird shit, make it easy to discover underground shit, not fucking Drake and fucking Havana. You know the things played nonstop on the radio. God their product launches legit piss me off. So many resources to…

While it's totally fair to criticize the editorial direction of YouTube toward highlighting mainstream stuff, the unexplored edges of YouTube are definitely deep, dark, and weird. And when I've used Google Play Music, I've been consistently pleased that I've never heard of at least a third of the stuff it plays for me.

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Post by danvayn »

adamnemecek wrote: post #21
asah wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You appear to be in the minority: YouTube is the #2 highest trafficked website as of April 2018: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_website... The most recent example: 134,000,000 views in 7 days for This is America. Plus millions more reaction videos, remixes and more. Speaking personally, I absolutely create playlists from music videos.

This is related how? Ok why launch a new product? What can I do with this that wasn't possible before?

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Re: YouTube Music, a new music streaming service, is coming soon

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Post by balls187 »

chrisper wrote: post #25

Let me guess. It's going to be US only again as always even though I pay for it... (like my GPM subscription price is not cheaper because parts of it are not available)

It's in the article.

Starting Tuesday, we're rolling out the new YouTube Music experience in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and South Korea*. It will expand more broadly in the coming weeks. We’ll also soon be launching in Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

Re: YouTube Music, a new music streaming service, is coming soon

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Post by MichaelGG »

If it'll let me play YouTube audio on my Sonos it'd be a great feature. Otherwise I'm not quite getting the value.

Workaround for this is to buy an HDMI splitter and send the audio to a sound system then use Chromecast, but Sonos is just so convenient.

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Post by bestnameever »

mrbill wrote: post #11
fluxsauce wrote: post #8

I've been a Google Play Music subscriber from the beginning, which means I've enjoyed the grandfathered $7.99 price. That has also extended to YouTube Red. However, this announcement muddies the waters a bit. > If you are a subscriber to Google Play Music, good news, you get a YouTube Music Premium membership as part of your subscription each month. Cool, I guess, except I don't go to YouTube for Music. I really am i…

nope, you have to pay $12 to continue having Red. :(

Google support told me the opposite. Why does everything need to be so confusing?

Re: YouTube Music, a new music streaming service, is coming soon

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Post by hiccuphippo »

adamnemecek wrote: post #10

Lol why does google make these also-ran services? Too little too late, I legit dont care. Like what is the differentiator here. Google really doesn't get culture and the internet. The internet lets me listen to weird shit, make it easy to discover underground shit, not fucking Drake and fucking Havana. You know the things played nonstop on the radio. God their product launches legit piss me off. So many resources to…

YouTube has a lot of that weird shit and has been great for me for discovering music. Then usually the next step for me is to go search for a good quality version of it.

If this YouTube Music thing gives me what YouTube currently has plus better sound quality then I'm sold.

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