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1. 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.

   Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “Backing up Spotify”

2. 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

   Recommends · May 2026 · in “YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos”

3. Apple Music and YouTube Music also let you upload your own files to a cloud locker and stream them from any device

   Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “How Spotify Made Me Self Host”

4. the premium membership fee, which includes YT Music, is more valuable than any of the other streaming services

   Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Men are ditching TV for YouTube as AI usage and social media fatigue grow”

5. That's why I use YouTube Music as my streamer as they allow damned near anyone to upload any old rare record

   Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “Backing up Spotify”

6. reordering a playlist on YouTube Music, which currently requires dragging to near the screen edge

   Mixed · Dec 2025 · in “Show HN: Picknplace.js, an alternative to drag-and-drop”

7. best value for money if you use youtube is youtube music app that you get from youtube premium.

   Recommends · Sep 2026 · in “Fastpotify”

8. Youtube has much more music than Spotify, is better sorted by Albums (without holes, no skips)

   Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “How Spotify Made Me Self Host”

9. It is a great service considering I am getting it as a side effect of youtube premium.

   Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “Backing up Spotify”

10. it still hiccups sometimes when I'm on the subway or a plane but I don't miss Spotify

    Mixed · Sep 2026 · in “Fastpotify”

11. I pay for Youtube premium, which gives me unlimited Youtube Music usage with no ads.

    Mixed · Jul 2026 · in “As a musician, I prefer illegal downloading over Spotify (2011)”

12. I prefer it more than Spotify and if you already pay for YouTube it's free for you.

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13. It's one of the few subs I pay for, because I watch a _lot_ of YouTube on the TV.

    Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “SmartTube Compromised”

14. Youtube without ads on every device, anywhere, is quite a different experience.

    Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support”

15. now I use YouTube Music myself and it's great. Saves me money and I love it

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Spotify increases its US subscription prices for the third time in 3 years”

16. unlimited free music from a vast catalog with a nice interface

    Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “Backing up Spotify”

17. because you get ad free YouTube Music and ad free YouTube

    Mixed · Aug 2026 · in “Twenty-five years ago it was cryptography, today it's model weights”

18. Every Youtube video is playable on the Youtube music app.

    Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support”

19. I have used both and Spotify is worse in every aspect

    Recommends · Aug 2026 · in “Spotify just hit 300M Premium subscribers”

20. In youtube music after adding 30 tracks to the play queue, tapping 1 track accidentally deletes the play queue and plays this track.

    Criticizes · Sep 2026 · in “Fastpotify”

21. I get AI slop tracks in virtually all YTM automatic playlists, after a few normal tracks, so I abandoned the platform entirely.

    Criticizes · Mar 2026 · in “The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ”

22. 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

    Criticizes · Jan 2026 · in “First, Make Me Care”

23. It fills any radio/discovery queue with one or two new songs followed by all the songs already on my playlists.

    Criticizes · Apr 2026 · in “Men are ditching TV for YouTube as AI usage and social media fatigue grow”

24. the radio button we ended up with in Spotify and Youtube Music are huge disappointments in comparison

    Criticizes · May 2026 · in “Last.fm is now independent”

25. it still has terrible recommendations, and it still bizarrely blurs between video and music content

    Criticizes · Nov 2025 · in “Google Antigravity”

26. None have ever gotten close to GS in terms of showing me songs completely outside my wheelhouse

    Criticizes · Aug 2026 · in “How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)”

27. Tried every conceivable player, Spotify, YouTube Music, YouTube, Apple Music (local files), Soundcloud and more, all of them leading to the same thing

    Mixed · Jul 2026 · in “CarPlay Is Additive”

28. I've had plenty of success with YouTube Music. Once it learns your taste well enough it starts giving you some real deep cuts.

    Recommends · Jul 2026 · in “The lost joy of music piracy”

29. hasn't failed me and their "beyond the beat" AI DJ/Music bits feature has been really solid

    Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ”

30. I personally find the quality of YouTube Music Premium (256kbps AAC) superior to FM radio.

    Recommends · Jul 2026 · in “CarPlay Is Additive”

31. it flat out refused any use unless you're logged in with an account that has YT Music

    Mixed · Mar 2026 · in “Let your Coding Agent debug the browser session with Chrome DevTools MCP”

32. YouTube isn't too bad. I preferred it but moving the whole family over was too hard

    Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers”

33. I get a very unopinionated but effective music player that has all the music I need

    Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled”

34. With YouTube Music, I don't need Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal, or any other service.

    Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “SmartTube Compromised”

35. YTM is arguably a worse product, but also a consistent one with zero UX churn

    Mixed · Jan 2026 · in “Spotify increases its US subscription prices for the third time in 3 years”

36. I’m able to trust that things I download will still be there off network.

    Mixed · Jan 2026 · in “How Spotify Made Me Self Host”

37. its main functions are easy to use and work, and YouTube music does that

    Recommends · Sep 2026 · in “Fastpotify”

38. In January YouTube music worked fine when I took Waymo in Menlo Park.

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39. it seems reasonable if you don't want to host your own media server

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “How Spotify Made Me Self Host”

40. got me Cicadidae by Igorrr on YT Music (this is what I wanted)

    Mixed · Jun 2026 · in “I Fired Google”