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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 slazaro »

gldalmaso wrote: post #169
birdman3131 wrote: post #17

What sells me on spotify is the ability to control it from any device. Listening on my phone while at my computer? Hit skip on my keyboard and the phone skips to the next track. Playing on my Dot? I can pause right from my phone. Ditto with volume control. I wanted to like amazon music but I could not because of the lack of these features.

Different story for me. I listen to desktop spotify while at work regularly. Every time I lock my computer to go have lunch and want to listen to spotify on my car, there is the dreaded "Listen on this device option" which will randomly appear either right when I start playing on my phone or 5 minutes later when I'm already driving and my phone is locked, which stops the current playing music. Also, if I choose to li…

Exactly. I wish I could make all this shared context disappear and make it act dumber. I find myself fighting the way it works all the time :(

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Post by izacus »

em3rgent0rdr wrote: post #133

How long until it's discontinued? Oh, and btw, with tools like NewPipe, I can listen without ads.

> Oh, and btw, with tools like NewPipe, I can listen without ads.

Just remember that for copyright holders of those songs you're effectively doing the same thing as just torrenting the mp3. ;)

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Post by stinky613 »

dexen wrote: post #77
tokyodude wrote: post #61

YouTube is the only service I've used that gets WORSE if you pay. Without paying I can watch one video on my TV while browsing other videos on my laptop to queue up. With paying as soon as look up a video on my laptop I get an error on the tv "only one device allowed"

They are following in the footsteps of the movie industry, which also provides worse experience to the paying customer. Pay for movie theater ticket, get served 30+ minutes of ads. (edit) Pay for DVD, get unskippable "antipiracy ads". Torrent the movie, and you'll be watching the movie in under 3 minutes of download.

Not just that--quality too. Enjoying your 4K computer screen? And you're paying for the highest-tier Netflix subscription to get 4K content? Well, unless you're using Microsoft Edge, you're capped at 720.

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/13444

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

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Post by herbst »

baud147258 wrote: post #107
dexen wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They are following in the footsteps of the movie industry, which also provides worse experience to the paying customer. Pay for movie theater ticket, get served 30+ minutes of ads. (edit) Pay for DVD, get unskippable "antipiracy ads". Torrent the movie, and you'll be watching the movie in under 3 minutes of download.

Well, when the movie is in theather, there are rarely good quality (non-cam) torrents available and the screen is usually bigger than at home, but it might not be a factor, depending on the viewer or the movie. But it's true when it reach DVD, you'll still have to watch the anti-piracy ads.

This might be different in the German 'market' but it rarely takes more than a few weeks to have a high quality copy of the cinema movie around.

There are at least 2 sites that have a way better selection than any video store, amazon or Netflix ever will have.

Except that some hosts force you to watch an ad (30 secs) it is literally the most comfortable way to consume anything.

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Post by theNJR »

swebs wrote: post #158

I'm worried about using a service like this after Youtube started censoring videos that don't match their political ideology. Will YouTube Music be censoring songs that have references to guns? Are they going to randomly demonetize songs that use bad language? Why not just use Spotify then?

Who is also censoring based on their ideology...

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Post by dTal »

dandare wrote: post #205

All I need is the ability to listen to the audio of YT videos with my phone screen off.

NewPipe has a "background mode". There's a short hiccup when you switch to "background mode" but you can still control it from there so it's not so bad.

I find it shocking that Google is permitted to charge money for a feature like that, when as far as I can tell most of the music on Youtube was uploaded without permission of the copyright owner.

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Post by herbst »

SllX wrote: post #110
fluxsauce wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> maybe they'll buy up PornHub and add PornHub subscriptions to the stack whether you want it or not, just to make your recurring monthly payments a bit stickier Purely from a payment processing point of view, unless Google wants to fight Visa, MasterCard and other institutions this will never happen. There are a lot of restrictions around content and payment processors that you would assume is covered by freedom of…

Obviously this is an opportunity for Google to get into the business of making more payment apps. They're way behind the curve on that compared to their music and chat services, only having two at this point (Google Pay and Tez). There is an obvious hole right there that I'm sure they could fill with a blockchain or anonymous gift cards. Or both! They could be the leading service provider for using the blockchain to…

Google Play Cards are country locked. I am literally not able to use Google Play services with a 'gift card' outside of my home Country.

For me this makes it incredible useless. I doubt they actually want to build anything intuitive for that problem.

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Post by JeremyBanks »

em3rgent0rdr wrote: post #133

How long until it's discontinued? Oh, and btw, with tools like NewPipe, I can listen without ads.

Probably never, if you think about it instead of falling back to a meme.

With tool like guns, I can get my my groceries without paying money. But that’s not very relevant to the general grocery experience.

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Post by rapind »

gdilla wrote: post #194
matwood wrote: post #181

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's comical. Google needs some PMs/POs/management who can reign in all the obvious internal politics. Google could own the streaming market if they could just build a coherent product, instead we get what you listed out.

Google could literally buy the music industry with cash sitting around.

Isn't Apple part of that music industry? Considering they have a significantly higher market cap...
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