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You're telling me, I'm over here with Apple Music when all my friends have Spotify. I stopped using Spotify as they started pushing podcasts to the forefront of their platform (PocketCasts ftw).
I still have YTM due to Premium, but I only really use it for stuff that is only on YouTube.
I'm trialing Apple Music as we speak for that same reason. Spotify was by far the most stable service I used but I'm getting really frustrated by the non-music content they're pushing. I have no problem with podcasts and audio books but there's multiple better apps for both.
So far it's been pretty good, a little more buggy but just about everything I want is there and the quality is good, Win11 client is pretty bad tho ATM.
Try the Cider client instead until they work out the bugs with the official client. I’ve used Cider since switching to Apple Music and it has worked better than the official client by far.
You can find it on the MS store, they recently released a v2 of the app replacing their previous version.
I used GPM until the day Google shut it down. YTM was trash when it came out and still trash when they shut down GPM, not sure if that is still the case. I never canceled my YTM subscription because I use the YTP it comes with. I made the switch to spotify for my music streaming and have no regrets other than the fact they shut down GPM.
Ahhh the demise of Google play music is like a wound that never heals lol. It is a vastly inferior product but still good enough for me. I'm wishing they would keep doing more with it but the experience has massively stagnated except for the addition of podcasts
I would say that nowadays it has mostly caught up with Google Play Music, but I'm still bummed they shut it down.
I moved to YTM when Spotify just would not stop trying to shove Rogan down my throat at every opportunity. The iOS app itself has some rough edges but otherwise, no regrets. I used a tool to transfer over my playlists and likes, and from there it's been perfectly good. Plus YT Premium is nice to have, too.
What did you use? I recently migrated to YT Premium and want to move on from Spotify but... oh my playlists.
I honestly can't remember. There's some options listed here. I might have used Soundiiz? I seem to remember it was something I had to subscribe to, but only for a month just to get all my playlists and likes moved, and then once that was done, canceled the subscription. I remember there were a few cases where a song didn't convert because the name or specific mix or whatever was different, but I could just search it on YTM and add it.
I've mostly used YouTube Music, though my friends use Spotify, and I think the addition of being able to watch/listen to YouTube videos in Music is huge. Spotify is great if you only listen to label-published artists, but when you want to include tracks and mixes from indies, YTM is just the only way to go
Me as a bandcamp user : 💀
reading that just once again reminded me of how much requirements for those services can differ from person to person. especially that section about integrations. never threw money at spotify or youtube music fwiw
tfw you are the guy who just gets free bandcamp codes from discords, downloads the FLACs, archives them in triplicate (NAS, offsite backup, cold storage backup), then converts them to opus, and then puts the .ogg files on your phone OR records from the flacs onto cassette for in the woods listening with the knockoff walkman you've had since childhood.
YTM and Spotify and the ilk just seem like too much work.
i literaly record spotify on casette x3
y-yeah, why stream what you want to listen to directly to your device when you can just do that simple process! ...right? 😅
I have YTM through a family plan with a friend and Spotify through the student discount program, so YTM is for the music I listen to over and over and over and over and Spotify is for like, big boy listening times where I'm sitting down with an album (until I get speakers for my record player anyways)