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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 chrisper »

balls187 wrote: post #27
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.

Not sure how I missed that.

Thanks!

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

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Post by adamnemecek »

danvayn wrote: post #26
adamnemecek wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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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Lol their recommendation service? Are we using the same product? They are very heavily skewed towards popular things.

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Post by bestnameever »

dannyw wrote: post #15
mrbill wrote: post #11

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

This is extremely disappointing. I’m sure the amount of $7.99 GPM early adopters is minuscule to their metrics, but the cost of goodwill is far higher.

> If you’re already a YouTube Red (soon to be YouTube Premium) member

I subscribe to google play music but if I look at my youtube red status is says member. So I assume, I will continue to enjoy it at no extra cost. I chatted with google and they said the same but the wording is really confusing...so who knows.

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Post by [deleted] »

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. :(

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Post by [deleted] »

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. :(

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

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Post by balls187 »

realusername wrote: post #14
TimeOutBoss wrote: post #7

Something they should have done long back, I had to use other Youtube apps just to listen to music in backgroud

I've uninstalled the Youtube app because of this, I understand the business case for it but making the video stop when the app isn't focused is making the Youtube app utterly pointless. The app looks beautiful and obviously they took a lot of effort to build it but this small detail makes it completely unusable unfortunately.

I'm not sure your exact use case, but if you are a Youtube red subscriber, the official IOS app continues to play audio if the app is in the background.

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Post by amanzi »

bestnameever wrote: post #33
dannyw wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is extremely disappointing. I’m sure the amount of $7.99 GPM early adopters is minuscule to their metrics, but the cost of goodwill is far higher.

> If you’re already a YouTube Red (soon to be YouTube Premium) member I subscribe to google play music but if I look at my youtube red status is says member. So I assume, I will continue to enjoy it at no extra cost. I chatted with google and they said the same but the wording is really confusing...so who knows.

YouTube Red is the killer feature that keeps me with GPM. If I lose YouTube Red, I'd probably switch back to Spotify.

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Post by viraptor »

adamnemecek wrote: post #32
danvayn wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Lol their recommendation service? Are we using the same product? They are very heavily skewed towards popular things.

It really depends on your library. If I try the feeling lucky radio on Google music now, I can't spot anything in the first 50 tracks or so that was / would be played on the radio.

The prepared mood radios are a bit more mainstream, but still not even close to the radio a/b-list

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