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I really wish they'd drop the YouTube Music aspect of this and just do an ad-free YouTube sub. Happy to pay content creators for their work; less happy to give Google money for a music platform after what they did to Google Music.
I'm the opposite. I'm still grandfathered into the $7.99 Google Music sub, which turned into YT Music + YT premium. The cheapest music service with basically free YT premium is nice
I wouldn't pay more though
You should verify you're still at that rate, looks like other people started getting warnings a while ago that it's going up.
Yep. Just got hit with $8.55 after tax a few days ago
Interesting, I still have 7.99 charged on the 18th
Probably a state tax thing
It's probably improved a lot since the early days. I remember it being significantly worse than the Google Music it was replacing.
It still is in parts. Still takes a few extra taps/screens to get to playlists
They are least stopped the practice of just starting a song when you went into a playlist.
My big gripe was the loss of audio quality. Made me pick up Amazon music for a bit
I like YouTube music though? I refuse to give Spotify money because of Joe Rogan, and if you're a classical music lover YT is just better.
That's cool. I'm not saying they should only offer it without YT music, just that they should offer an alternative way of supporting YouTubers without buying a service you don't need.
Yeah that I do agree with. I don't have Premium so I guess I don't know what that looks like.
They actually did a trial of such a sub in various Scandinavian countries, cost about five quid a month or so, which is entirely reasonable. Sadly, it doesn't seem to have gone anywhere.
I just find YouTube music does random mixes better than any other platform. I really dig it!
Switched over from Spotify after they went too hard on Joe Rogan, so I never used Google Music. I like YouTube music. That said, they’ve just started adding podcasts - really hope they don’t go the way of Spotify.