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$10 poses an interesting decision in comparison to Spotify.

Spotify is a dedicated music app in comparison, and is designed that way. The catalog isn't as big as YouTube's, but YouTube isn't designed for the user to catalog their personal music.

Youtube provides ad-free video, but I don't think the ad's are very intrusive for videos compared to listening to music, where it can definitely be annoying.

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> Spotify is a dedicated music app in comparison, and is designed that way. The catalog isn't as big as YouTube's, but YouTube isn't designed for the user to catalog their personal music.

OTOH, Google Play Music is also a music app, and designed for the user to catalog all their personal music, and is already free, and the subscription that includes unlimited streaming of the Google Play Music catalog is rolled included with the new Youtube Red subscription.

I recently trialed both Google Play Music and Spotify. While pricing is the same, I found that for my needs Google had a better offering - being able to upload my personal library was something I definitely wanted, and the radios/suggestions seem to give me more of what I want than Spotify did.

Spotify gets releases much sooner and better curation imho.

To me, this is a no-brainer if you're paying for spotify. Google music is at least as good as spotify (and better in many ways) at the same price. If you want to pay $10/mo for music streaming, you now can get ad-free youtube for no extra money if you choose google music instead of spotify.

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