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

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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?

The competition is fierce enough in this field that that's not really an option for them

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

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post #157
post #156

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These days, when I have a movie ticket for time T, I plan to arrive at T+20 minutes. That's when the ads are over, roughly when the trailers are playing.

It doesn't work well if the ticket has no reserved seat. You do that and the only seat available will be in the first row.

Dont think thats really a thing outside of US (another thing the US is like awkwardly behind in).

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

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Just a suggestion, why not just allow background playback instead of spending your millions on another streaming app which would be ideally better than competition in single digit %s?

Background playback has been available with YouTube Red/Premium for years.

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

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Coincidentally, I've already been using YouTube as a "music streaming service" for many years --- youtube-dl, mpv, and some Perl scripts holding it all together.

For a more integrated experience, there's also:

https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube

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

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post #167

Have they figured out family plans with "Google Apps" accounts yet? I just want a Google family plan with a custom domain for my email, still can't figure out how to do this. Also when I click: > try “that hipster song with the whistling” The uploader has not made this video available in your country.

I don't know that this is ever going to change. I'm stuck in the same situation - as a paying GSuite user you aren't able to use several Google features for reasons I'm not exactly clear on.

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

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> YouTube is not a music service I have to disagree there, it's become my new de-facto music service on my desktop/tablet, at least since I failed to properly move my iTunes database and lost/unorganized large parts of my music collection. The autoplay and mix playlist features are great for discovering new artists, even tho the algorithm can get a bit repetitive and after a while starts populating many lists with th…

Maybe they should have just let people upload audio files with a title card, rather than fragment the service into another app. Would have fixed the bandwidth/battery problem and kept the interface, network, etc.

Lots of music just have a static image anyway, I wonder if YouTube couldn't figure something out to automatically re-encode such videos into audio-only streams, making them less bandwidth intensive.

I'm no coder but that doesn't sound like something impossible to do.

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

#237

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 also have the worst Apple TV experience (unless I'm an idiot) where you can't queue anything. Their phone app plus a chromecast lets me load up a ton of videos to watch, I can't for the life of me figure out how to queue things using just the Apple TV however.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> YouTube is not a music service I have to disagree there, it's become my new de-facto music service on my desktop/tablet, at least since I failed to properly move my iTunes database and lost/unorganized large parts of my music collection. The autoplay and mix playlist features are great for discovering new artists, even tho the algorithm can get a bit repetitive and after a while starts populating many lists with th…

Maybe they should have just let people upload audio files with a title card, rather than fragment the service into another app. Would have fixed the bandwidth/battery problem and kept the interface, network, etc.

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

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post #77

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.

If your client has a sequential downloading option and it's a healthy torrent with just the movie/show (i.e. not a split RAR file), you can effectively stream the movie/show.

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

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post #204

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Google Reader, Google Wave, any of whatever chat/video/voice offerings they're planning on killing off in the next year or so. I don't even remember what they're called.

Which of those products were paid products and killed off?

Hm, I'm not sure if Reader or Wave had a paid version.
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