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>I used to pay for YouTube premium

It would have been amazing value had Youtube Music, which came with YouTube Premium were half decent. But it is not. We got Spotify which isn't perfect, and then Apple Music, which for years didn't know what they were doing, and then Youtube Music, which is basically a company doesn't give a damn about Music.

We now have three Giant companies over the history of the past 30 - 40 years, once they grow big that make junk.

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Yes, I very happily payed for YouTube Premium when it came with Google Play Music. Them turning that off in favour of the awful YouTube Music was the straw that broke the camels back.

> Apple Music, which for years didn't know what they were doing

You pay them money, they let you stream music and otherwise stay out of your way. I don’t know about you, but that’s pretty much ideal as far as I’m concerned.

I still remember Apple Music App was all about the magical "Next Song" and they went their way to hide Repeat One button because they want you to do "Discovery".

It wasn't until about 2020 before they relented. But that ideal is still true with Apple Music today.

... and they let you upload music and have it exist natively in the interface and streamable anywhere you're logged in, the exact feature I was using Google Music for.

Even beyond Apple Music, considering the other competitors I legitimately don't know what the use case for Spotify is beyond social these days.

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