# YouTube Music 58 Hacker News commenters recommended YouTube Music and 61 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 12 of 13 months. **Verdict:** Music streaming with a huge catalog that includes user uploads, ad-free and bundled with YouTube Premium; critics cite repetitive radio, weak recommendations and AI-generated tracks. ## Why people recommend it - Included free with YouTube Premium (8 comments): "the premium membership fee, which includes YT Music, is more valuable than any of the other streaming services" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47612844)) "best value for money if you use youtube is youtube music app that you get from youtube premium." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49521023)) "It is a great service considering I am getting it as a side effect of youtube premium." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46340679)) - Huge catalog including user uploads (6 comments): "YouTube Music works pretty well for me. One great feature is that it includes not just a commercial music streaming catalog, but all user uploads of music on YouTube." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46340245)) "That's what makes it good, because you can find tons of lost mixes, old unreleased track and vinyl rips, leaks of new stuff from current artists" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48301729)) "Apple Music and YouTube Music also let you upload your own files to a cloud locker and stream them from any device" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46518669)) - No ads on all devices (5 comments): "I pay for Youtube premium, which gives me unlimited Youtube Music usage with no ads." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48942947)) "It's one of the few subs I pay for, because I watch a _lot_ of YouTube on the TV." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46105083)) "Youtube without ads on every device, anywhere, is quite a different experience." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45902793)) - Preferred over Spotify (3 comments): "it still hiccups sometimes when I'm on the subway or a plane but I don't miss Spotify" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49522237)) "I prefer it more than Spotify and if you already pay for YouTube it's free for you." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46043528)) "I have used both and Spotify is worse in every aspect" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49171284)) ## What people warn about - Repetitive radio and autoplay queues (3 comments): "A lot of time when I do the autoplay of YouTube Music, if I don't like the song in the first 15-20 seconds, I skip it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46757896)) "It fills any radio/discovery queue with one or two new songs followed by all the songs already on my playlists." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613382)) "the radio button we ended up with in Spotify and Youtube Music are huge disappointments in comparison" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296928)) - Poor recommendations and AI slop (3 comments): "I get AI slop tracks in virtually all YTM automatic playlists, after a few normal tracks, so I abandoned the platform entirely." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47386046)) "it still has terrible recommendations, and it still bizarrely blurs between video and music content" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46004804)) "None have ever gotten close to GS in terms of showing me songs completely outside my wheelhouse" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49139515)) - Playlist and queue editing bugs (2 comments): "In youtube music after adding 30 tracks to the play queue, tapping 1 track accidentally deletes the play queue and plays this track." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49519450)) "reordering a playlist on YouTube Music, which currently requires dragging to near the screen edge" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46319265)) ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://music.youtube.com/) ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "YouTube Music", https://hackerapproved.com/p/youtube-music/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).