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Comment by dahfizz | Hacker News Reader

I pay for youtube premium for ad-free youtube and to support creators automatically.

Youtube music is not great, but its "free" to me.

That’s literally it.

It’s probably inferior to both Spotify and Apple Music, but if you’re going to pay for YouTube premium anyway and are able to endure the weird UI… Then it might save you a small monthly fee you’d otherwise pay to competing services.

It’d never survive in the market as it’s own service, and it’s clearly inferior even to its own predecessor Google Music.

I have no idea who decided this thing was a good idea.

Not sure about inferior to spotify though. Lots of things (for me at least) aren't available on spotify, even with subscription. More often than not quality is actually better on YT music. Major thing is also asking in car for 'yo google play me this and that' and spotify just returns some nonsense or cover where YT Music always returns the right thing. Apple music is absolute crap, quality of sound was enough that I didn't even bother extending trial into anything more and UI is atrocious.

YT music, for me at least, not perfect but better than the two by far. I still keep spotify sub because sometimes we share playlists in office etc.. not sure I'll extend to be honest. YT Music on the other hand, especially in car is essential.

> Apple music is absolute crap, quality of sound was enough that I didn't even bother extending trial

Sound quality not good enough? You know Apple Music supports lossless up to 24-bit 192kHz, at no cost, right?

Just what are you talking about?

No, I don't know that since I never got to experience it through web nor app. Maybe I need to own an iphone? Googling for it turned a ton of questions about poor audio quality and some hacks as potential solutions, not to mention often blaming user's hardware setup for it. YT Music is no shenanigans just works, and works great, solution.

I must have extremely unsophisticated music needs, I've never had any complaints using the interface or finding any music that I want.

I remember Google Music being pretty good, but YouTube Music seems good enough

Same. I am always a little surprised to read these comments. Moved from Spotify to Google Play Music to YouTube Music and never really had many issues...

Google Music was the best of the bunch and I am sad that it is gone. Google internal power struggles strike again.

If you can self host, I finally found that koel did a relatively decent job covering my old gmusic patterns.

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