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It never made sense that you couldn't buy YouTube Red outside a few countries. YouTube doesn't have enough advertisers in some market (e.g. in Denmark), so you end up skipping the same five ads constantly. So financially is seemed that Red should have been made available in countries with few advertisers first, rather than showing me ads for YouTube itself.
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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.
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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.
I understand that they are trying to sell Youtube Red this way but there's probably a better way than sabotaging their own app.
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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.
> 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.
That's reflecting the current pricing structure, no? Currently, buying play music also gets you read. From the article, it looks like you no longer get Red (renamed Premium), you instead only get YT Music.
Why can't I cast a Youtube video's audio to chromecast audio? The only way is to share the whole screen which burns battery and causes skipping if your wifi isn't perfect.
Because copyright holders don't allow you to. They want you to pay for music and not listen to it for free on YouTube. This is why any kind of videoless playback is disabled without Red subscription.
My theory is that it's too hard to get video/audio sync like that, so they don't allow it. Same for sending youtube audio to Sonos.
Copyright holders still might be the reason though.
>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. Calling it now, within 5 years there are at least 5 different Google services for streaming music (up from 3 now, Play Music/Youtube/Youtube Music) at least 2 of which are also somehow messaging apps. It's even plausible, one for VR music videos, one for streaming in your self…
Seriously though, YouTube is not a music service, or at least it looks like they don't want it to be, since the interface isn't really great for that case. It also kills phone battery if you use it that way, so YouTube music is an experience upgrade.
Something they should have done long back, I had to use other Youtube apps just to listen to music in backgroud
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…
“When YouTube Premium launches, YouTube Red members will automatically receive access at their current price. In countries where YouTube Red is currently available, a new member can also secure this price ($9.99 in the U.S.) by joining now at youtube.com/red.”
I agree it’s very confusing.
https://youtube.googleblog.com/2018/05/introducing-youtube-p...