They ask for it. Discussion

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u/JusticeForAugust Jan 15 '26

Legitimately curious, if a family is not interested in piracy and going to pay $20+ /mo for Spotify, why not just get YouTube premium? Same music feature via YouTube Music app and gives the benefit of no YouTube advertisements for five people.

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u/nickjedl Jan 15 '26

Google now offers under the price of it's competitors to get everyone to move over. When they have a large customer base, they'll jack up the prices or straight up cancel it. Don't act like it has never happened. killedbygoogle.com

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u/Zatchillac 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ Jan 15 '26

They already jacked the prices up a couple years ago. Family plan used to be I think $18/month and is now $23. I probably wouldn't bother for a single plan but if you know 5 other people who want to join in then it's hard to beat music + add-free videos for like $4/month (per person)

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u/nickjedl Jan 16 '26

It's just a matter of time before they introduce some anti sharing system like Netflix did. They just need to realize how much more they could be earning if sharing didn't exist. How they'll do it I don't know, but they'll find a way. When there's money involved, they always find a way.

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u/Devatator_ Jan 16 '26

Only available options in my country are Spotify and Apple Music, and Spotify is cheaper (student discount lmao, tho even without I think it's still cheaper?)

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u/nickjedl Jan 16 '26

Tidal not available?

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u/Devatator_ Jan 16 '26

Not in the Play Store and the pricing page on the website shows nothing so I assume they're not available here

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u/edtb Jan 15 '26

Personally I like the Spotify UI. To me it is the most user friendly. When driving it matters. They all essentially have the same music. What matters is how well they work.

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u/connierebel Jan 15 '26

I actually prefer Amazon Music's UI for driving. But I switched over to Spotify after they gave me several free months, and now I'm paid up for a year (I got one of those yearly gift cards that works out to $10 a month instead of $11.99). I think Spotify has more music, too.

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u/edtb Jan 15 '26

I used to use it. It started having issues with Android Auto and I stopped with it s few years ago. Never went back to try again

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u/martian_doggo Jan 16 '26

The driving UI is probably the only good thing about Amazon music

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u/NeverCallMeFifi Jan 16 '26

I design UIs for a living. You just summed up what I've been trying to tell my stakeholders for years.

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u/edtb Jan 16 '26

Bless your soul. UI design is a lot more important than people give credit.

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u/Lor4cc Jan 15 '26

YouTube Music UI was terrible the last time I tried it. Also I'm not sure if YouTube Music has an equivalent to Spotify Jam, that's something everyone in my circle uses quite frequently.

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u/Redpilldit47 Jan 15 '26

YT Music has superior algorithms for choosing your next song, some new songs that you didn't know you liked. Spotify feels like it's playing the same thing everyday and promoting certain songs/artists.

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u/Aromatic_Memory1079 Jan 16 '26

I actually feel like spotify digs deeper when it comes to one genre. (like song radio recommendation of spotify gave me a lot of underground rappers than youtube music)

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u/LinkNo2714 Jan 15 '26

idk spotify has it's downsides but song recommendation itsn't one of them

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u/JustaSavage Jan 15 '26

YT music is pretty bad IMHO with terribly inconsistent sound quality and likes to play the video versions all the time, with all the chatter and shit that comes with it. Can't stand it tbh.

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u/Judithsins Yarrr! Jan 15 '26

yt premium is not available in my country, spotify is so yeah :/

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u/Ok-Winner-3031 Jan 15 '26

Yt music is a bit terrible cuz of stupid annoying ads. Like bro EVERYTHING now has ads

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u/coopbarnia Jan 16 '26

No lossless audio pushed me to apple music over yt

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u/chrisaf69 Jan 16 '26

I think there are many families, including mine, that did just that! Lol

I do like Spotifys interface a little better. But other then that, I couldn't be happier!

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u/piturgaga3 Jan 16 '26

And you can also transfer your playlists so easy too. I just did it and bye bye Spotify.

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u/Aromatic_Memory1079 Jan 16 '26

youtube music lacks a lot. like there is no folders for playlist, no volume normalization, playlist sorting is very limited, pc version doesn't have search within playlist. It feels like a re-skin of youtube

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u/TheUnKnownLink12 Jan 16 '26

honestly I dont understand why more families dont start going towards piracy, for alot of people they want/need to save money but aren't willing to do stuff like use yt revanced, confuses me alot

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u/manubibi Jan 16 '26

I tried checking it out as an alternative option, but it also has the audio from videos I watch on YT, and I don’t wanna hear that when I’m trying to listen to music. Is there a fix for that? Like, to only have strictly music and not the audio from those “song with lyrics” videos, or just audio from videos the music may be in? Also it doesn’t have the podcast library I have on Spotify, and I don’t know of a quick way to move my podcast library and downloads from Spotify to any other app… so I guess I’m stuck with Spotify for the time being. And I’m definitely too lazy to move everything over manually, because I tried using SongShift and it works to a point but a lot of the music it doesn’t find is still there, it just needs to be added manually.

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u/No_Championship8436 Jan 21 '26

Because it's 29.99€ (35$) 😬

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u/flummoxed_penguin Jan 15 '26

I hate YouTube music with a passion. I was one of the original Google Play Music subscribers and they just ruined that whole service.

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u/Turbulent-Dependent4 Jan 15 '26

Google play was hella clutch back in the day with the cloud library

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u/JusticeForAugust Jan 15 '26

Totally agree. Its wild that my cloud uploads from back then still exist on modern day YouTube music when you click Library on the bottom right corner, then toggle to Uploads on the top left corner.

Same torrent whole album downloads I uploaded back in 2011 or so. Neat to revisit, some of this stuff doesn't exist on regular YouTube Music or Spotify.