Spotify vs. YouTube Music in 2023
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- Which service is better for most people? What features really help differentiate Spotify from TH-cam Music? Which service has more music available? Which one has higher quality music and better recommendations? We'll answer these questions and more in our in-depth review comparing Spotify and TH-cam Music.
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🕰️Timestamps:
0:00 - Spotify Network Effects
1:04 - Spotify Connect
1:58 - Spotify DJ
2:42 - Music Quality
3:11 - Dolby Atmos
4:20 - Dedicated Apps
4:50 - Student Plans
5:13 - Supported Devices
5:30 - Music Availability
6:23 - Algorithmic Choice
7:00 - Cloud Music Library
7:20 - Quick Picks and Radio Tuner
8:06 - Offline Mixtape
8:40 - Music Videos
9:12 - Annoying TH-cam account mixups
9:30 - TH-cam Premium bundle
9:47 - What's similar about them?
11:45 - Recommendation
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that video was great! I rate it 10/10.
In my experience, TH-cam does better recommendations than Spotify. TH-cam recommend based on your music, Spotify is more like "recommend the popular song".
haha, what? I agree with your last statement, I don't give a flying fuck about what the mainstream artists are up to when I discover new music, but I just don't see those artists and that mainstream music unless I go to the home page. and I don't, I go straight to the library. which service do you use? I'll take your word for it if you've had experience with both YTM and Spotify
@@oddball1336 I use TH-cam Music, I used to use Spotify (paid versions in both cases). In TH-cam Music predomine the user library over other artist in the home page (its more notorious in the web page than the app).
So true. TH-cam Music recommendations are infinitely better.
Actually no
only true !
TH-cam has so many more songs than spotify its not even close
Only issue is like 50% of the songs I like on YT music have been taken down or for some reason can’t play on YT music. I just stick to the TH-cam app
@@HL09Pro tip: Any video on youtube can be saved and played on youtube music. You can have a 40 minute David Goggins video in the middle of your Taylor Swift playlist if you want.
but its insanely bad for searching new music, because i need to listen new music and it recommend my liked songs or alot of popular song that i dont like.
@@HL09if it's on TH-cam it's on TH-cam music. It may have just been put as a different name by the artist or whoever uploaded it, but that's on legalities
@HL09 It's mostly that song probably did not use the Music category when uploading videos.
There is no rival to YTM Premium. Ultimately, it is library collection that matters the most. If you are missing out on interesting music, what's the point of UI, controls, and all the fancy features? What will you organise and control if your favourite songs are not there? What can AI do if the library lacks a match for your taste?
Update: thanks for the likes and replies! If you listen to Indian music, you know there are hundreds of songs missing on Spotify. Zee Music has withdrawn access. Saregama HMV has many albums only in parts. It's frustrating to say the least.
Spotify's library has more than enough songs for the usual listener, so those things matter, plus I really dislike the YTM app design
@@TheBallJiggler If you listen to unofficial remixes and diferent songs, Spotify will probabily seems like it have no music
@@razvanivascu1303 I think it's better. no videos playing by default, all my most played right in front, no promotional playlists or mixes everywhere, something I absolutely hate in Spotify
Agree, due to same reason I don't use Spotify
Too bad youtube is retarded and isn't capable of just playing what I tell it to play without throwing in random songs I don't want it to. Also it stop playing without even getting close to completing a playlist. I miss google play music but now switched to spotify
My biggest problem with TH-cam Music is that Google treats it as if it was TH-cam. It should be clearly seperated one from the other.
Oh and when you add a song to play next the "This song will play next" message blocks your access to the queue tab😅
shitty developpers are verry much brainless wankers
that is one of the pros for many people
exactly some music are only in youtube @@gothamknight5084
@@gothamknight5084for me it is too, lol
I listen to a good amount of Japanese music. Due to cross-country licensing issues, on Spotify it can be really hard to find those songs. There has even been controversy when a bunch of Japanese songs were on Spotify but then were removed all at once one day.
I have had zero issue finding my Japanese songs on TH-cam music. For that reason, I’ve completely ditched Spotify years ago and had zero regrets.
Same! I love that song from Spirited Away ( いつも何度でも)
That's actually really important to me thanks for the input!
There's only one song that I can't find on youtube music and spotify
@@touma5340 which one?
Deezer is also good at finding japanese songs too and its good at finding songs from around the world as well. But since the company is French they will randomly play French songs a good amount of the time.
I was a big fan of Google Play Music and finally now TH-cam Music has caught up. Since it's bundled with TH-cam Premium, I've stuck with Google and not given Spotify much attention. Thanks for the comparison video, it helped cement my decision.
Me too plus free movie no commercials with premium
I woudln't say it's caught up entierly... the abaililty to play your offline mp3 along side your online music seemely is still missing BUT not like anyone else is offering that anyway since the big push from tech is down with local storage up with the cloud... so yeah... other then they thou I agree.
Yeah, just pay yt premium and i got both.
@@Queen76543 i mean its not free, you're paying for it with a subscription
i still miss play music but YTM seems a lot better now. I had a cover un-listed in my yt channel and i can listen it with YTM. It is awesome
I've been a proud user of TH-cam music since day one and I love it, the radio tuner (recently added) is now my favorite feature! And of course I love having TH-cam premium bundled. The other day I was watching videos in a friend's phone and an add popped, I was genuinely surprised to see an add, I forgot that they existed (Taylor reference). Spotify is great but if you like watching videos and great playlists TH-cam music is a no brainer 😅
This is the primary reason I am about to make the switch. There are no ads, and they relatively cost about the same. Hell, if you pay annually up front, you even get a 15% discount. Easy decision, considering how much time I spend on TH-cam.
I never see ads and don't have TH-cam premium. I don't know if it's because of my country or I'm one of those few that get no ads
I had Spotify for years but back in 2021 I got curious about checking out other platforms. In my extensive research I determined that TH-cam Music is the best streaming service on the market. Even over Spotify. I'm glad this video acknowledges that. Well done sir.
Thank you. That's what I always suspected. Massive library and so much more than music. Huge comments section. Plus a good price.
Hell yeah, yt music combines the best of both worlds from Apple Music (downloading for offline listening) & Musi (songs that I can’t find on Apple Music) & instead of using brave browser I now use the yt app again
I use ytm premium, mainly for yt premium. But i almost instantly realized that ytm learns your music taste faster, like it just needs 2-3 songs, whereas spotify took about a week of listening to do the same. Also, spotify is costlier and youtube is more vfm (yt + ytm). Earlier i used to use vanced, but i noticed it drained my battery like a vampire.
Spotify learnt wrongly for me. I watch distractible and it won't stop recommending me rslash. Ytm knows what I wanna play and not wanna play so it was kind of a no brainer to keep distractible as a show I watch but continue using ytm
It then forces them down your throat even if you don't actually like them. You click shuffle and it shuffles your playlist for a little and then either stops playing or throws in songs you never asked it to play without ever completing the playlist
Revanced supposedly works better than vanced but its a bit of a headache to install it without following steps
Yeah I used Apple Music & brave browser but the app kinda sucked, if I had known about yt premium months ago I would have gotten this much earlier
@@YavorDMaplepretty easy to do once you get the hang of it
I've been using Spotify premium for about 5 years and I'm trying TH-cam music. I have to say there are certain songs that I cannot find on Spotify that I can find on TH-cam music. And I must tell you this video really helped me with the TH-cam music app Because I've only had it for a few weeks so thank you!
That's what makes TH-cam music such a killer because there are songs that you cannot find anywhere else except for TH-cam. Not to mention the fact that you can find the original version unreleased aversions the live versions, the remixes slow and reverbs sped up, etc. You can find so many different versions of a song. It's ridiculous
i just use local files
if you want to find new songs soundcloud is really really good at finding songs you might like, but the playlist sistem there is pretty bad. So use if for finding cool new songs and lissen them on youtube or so
The strongest feature YT music has is that if a song is removed due to licencing issues they kind of get around it by sourcing from youtube. Kinda sketchy but I had a song that was removed from all platforms get hit so it's been nice
Yes.
I went TH-cam music 2 years ago because of the premium bundle and i can say i witnessed it evolve before my eye, it's absolutely amazing now as immersive as Spotify for me, i don't think I'll ever go back and they added podcasts 2 weeks ago, i absolutely love it
TH-cam Music could easily be the best streaming service. They got the Algorithm (from TH-cam itself), the Videos, Servers, Storage, basically all you need to turn this into a great product. I've been using it for almost a year now and it wouldn't even take much: Better audio quality, better UI, better music discovery page, that's literally all that would be needed. Sadly it feels like that there's only a very small team working on it, since it barely ever gets any mentionable updates or improvements.
This is a great video! This particular choice is a no brainer for me in South Africa. TH-cam Premium gets me no ads in TH-cam and TH-cam Music for R72 per month ($3.80 USD), while Spotify would cost be R60 ($3.15 USD) but I would still have ads in TH-cam.
Especially the Student plan, which is only R42
Or you could use ad block extensions
@deivis1091 You could, but that way you ensure that the TH-cam creators get paid nothing for your views, comments, likes, or interactions. At least with TH-cam Premium, they still get paid. In fact, many creators have mentioned that they get paid more for Premium users viewing their content then regular ad watching users.
Ironically, you also paying the music artists less. Spotify is one of the worst in the industry, paying artists 3x less per stream than Apple and approx. 80% less than TH-cam.
Don't get me wrong, I use ad block on many sites, but we forget that it screws over fellow humans more than it does big tech companies. I use it for privacy and sanity. It is a tough balancing act.
@@matthewsjardine good explanation
I'm using both services. Yt music to discover new music and Spotify as my main service. Some disadvantages of Yt music in opinion:
- No volume normalization
- My biggest frustration is that you can't search within a Playlist 😒
But I love that I can just double tap to skip 10 or more seconds on Yt music on android.
Yes no volume normalization is really really annoying. I don’t understand why they haven’t done it yet. I’ll probably switch to a paying service just because of that.
I do the exact opposite lol. I like spotify's algorithm much more since (in my experience) ytm doesn't care about what genre you're in. you can turn on a rock song and the next will be a classical song, the next will be pop etc. Spotify has always been good at finding the right songs in the genre I'm listening to in the moment
@@lemonlizard1 same, I found spotify better
Yeah, I switched to Spotify just for the search function within my Playlist, for me it is a dealbreaker
@@ItsEbanits kinda funny since if you use vimusic (kinda similar to youtube vanced) it actually has the volume normalization feature.
I've been using YT Music for several years, and while yeah it started off rough, and still isn't quite yet competing with all the features that Spotify has (we need a YT Connect feature... PLEASE.) it still suits my needs pretty well. I also feel the algorithm just gets me better. Not to mention YT Premium is such a plus. Especially in the era of people complaining that YT has too many ads. I have the family plan which while costly brings a lot of benefit to my family and I. Anytime I can't make a payment and the service is cancelled for a few days they notice because its a lot of benefit lost. While not perfect, YT Music is still going to improve on itself even if its sometimes years behind on its updates.
I'm using yt music now and canceled my Spotify already. the best part of yt music is the amount of songs you can have as it is integrates TH-cam song covers
I've been on YT Music since Google Play Music but also had Spotify on/off over the years. Spotify was good at parties because of the session and blend features, but YT was always better when listening solo because it always felt like it had better algorithmic shuffles. On Spotify, I would often be listening to the same few songs from the past few weeks but TH-cam would try to splice in something new or something I haven't listened to in a while. Plus, the YT library being shared with YT Music means indie bands, overseas songs, and soundtracks that aren't available as music can still be enjoyed as music via the video mode. At this point, all my friends have switched from Spotify as well because of these features and the YT Premium bonus.
I've never subscribed to spotify before but when TH-cam announced they'd be releasing a music app, I jumped in the wagon. What I really love about youtube music is the "slowed songs" or great remixes that I suppose you cannot find on Spotify. And also Im on a student plan. It costs only 2dollars a month. The app has gradually increased to become better in these few years im using it, and im not looking forward to change to other music listening platform soon.
Edit: btw, since i paid for the $2 for both youtube and youtube music, now I get to watch youtube videos without ads and in the background/when phone is turned off. This is very important to me because I love watching youtube videos whether it be pop culture, studying videos as well as economy and history documentaries. I dont really use tiktok/insta much for entertainment purposes both because of I have no interest to and also I want to maximise my 2dollars.
No you tube connect though
TH-cam has one major flaw that makes it very inconvenient: no playlist sorting. You have to know where certain songs are within a playlist if you want to find them. That coupled with the mess that is subscribing to an artist keeps me from using the serrvice.
You can rearrange the songs in a playlist by editing the playlist.
@@TheHellRaiser58 yes, but you can only sort by recent first or last. Otherwise you have to drag songs around like an animal.
@@felipetiecherSo true. There isn't even a search function within your playlist unless it's downloaded. Want to listen to a specific artists songs but only the ones on your playlist? Scroll through your thousands of songs. Want to listen to a song in your playlist but only remember the artist name? Same deal.
My biggest complaint against TH-cam Music is the inablility to sort albums by artist. It only sorts them by album name. I often have trouble locating albums I've included in my library because of this.
i dont know what you mean if i go to an artist there are every album of the artist sortet by date of realease
Just click artist and voila instant sort. TH-cam is so much more than music.
So true never able to find the latest album from an artist unless I know it by name it will never do Album In order
@@Blasphemy1993sort by release date. Simple as that
hate the sorting in youtube. i would love to sort the albums by artist, but in chronological order at the same time
One thing I like as a full time TH-cam user is the "heard on shorts" tab where you can find songs form YT Shorts which is perfect if you use both
(premium user) on youtube music
I have 3 problems. 1. It's a bit of a hassle to queue your favorite songs, I have to hold/click my desired song and select whether to queue or play next compared to Spotify where I I just swipe and it queues it instantly.
2. Playing my playlists suck since I have to click the 3 dot icon to play my playlist shuffled, but in the web app there is a shuffle button why isn't it on the phone.
3. Scrolling at playlists is a hassle since there is no scroll bar at the right side.
The size of YTM’s library, on top of it being bundled with a YT premium subscription is what did it for me. I actually think music tends to sound slightly better on other platforms, maybe because YTM is capped at 256kbps and most other services go at least up to 320kbps or even offer lossless, but that ultimately doesn’t matter to me if the music I’m looking for isn’t available on the platform. Plus I do the majority of my listening on my AirPods which only support the AAC codec anyway, so I wouldn’t even see any benefit from subscribing to a service that offers lossless audio.
ytm's 256kbps opus is really good compared to spotify's and sometimes the dynamic range is there on ytm. you won't even notice the difference between opus 256kbps to a compressed 320kbps.
I would choose YTM if it had an option to search within playlist and sort playlists by artist. Also volume normalization is a feature I would love...
IDK if it's just me, but my main problem that I have with TH-cam Music is seamless streaming.
For example, when I listen to Beyonce's Renaissance, the transition between Cozy and Alien Superstar just keeps failing if I download the music. When I stream it, it's fine. Noticed this in some albums too where there's supposed to be a seamless transition between songs and the transition just doesn't work if the songs are downloaded. That's my main (and possible only) problem with the app.
Spotify does not offer the Music i listen to but YT Music does therefore YT Music
YTM user here. Absolutely love it. Prefer it over spotify. My only gripe is the lack of native windows app. All 3rd party client apps are also web based, so, I have to keep mp3s with me.
they can only be web based, due to how YTM works, I know this because I have made the new best client for Windows.
@@iTz_Nao which one?
yeah i had to use a third party but what i found good is that they have a build in ad blocker. not like it matters since i have premium.😅
@@PointTheorist I use an open source client called 11Tube
I’ve used both extensively I love Spotify’s app and the algorithms for recommendations are amazing. I settled on TH-cam music though because it’s just a simply better deal. The app is really good now but the three key reasons are
1. Access to TH-cam premium, TH-cam, without ads is a mind blindly different experience and it’s nice knowing that I am supporting creators.
2. Access to all music on TH-cam not just TH-cam music. This is great for unofficial tracks, live performances, covers, remixes, and so much more unsanctioned content.
3. Personal upload music library. I have a lot of old music, demo track and underground music that just can’t be found on any other streaming services and knowing that I can still listen to these alongside my streaming service has been great.
Either way though I think both are great services and you can’t really go wrong with either.
WHAT??? "Spotify’s app and the algorithms for recommendations are amazing." do you live in a diffrent demension as me??? because i had been using it for over 2 years, but it has the littelary WORST algorithm.... It pushes song genres onto me that i absolutely HATE, and even thought i never liked such a song, dont have one in my playlist and i literary ALWAYS skip them. But to this day I'm still only flooded with genres that i absolutely despise as soon my playlist runs out after 5h of lissening... its SUPER rare, that it finds the right songs in the genre I'm listening to. It also has fewer songs that you can choose from, particularly for small artists, and way to many songs from other countries are blocked...
While for example SoundCloud has a superb algorithm, like every day/week there is a list of 30+ newly released songs from many very small artist songs that have like 100-2000 plays, but nearly all fit my taste, something like that sadly does not exist on Spotify...
(SoundCloud is on the other hand pretty bad when it comes to playlist management)
And TH-cam does not have the best algorithm, but It's still many miles better than Spotify, it was rare that it recommended me a song that didn't fit my taste, but it can get repetitive or many olds songs are pushed, and the amount of songs is also a lot wider...
Spotify was for me only useful when i already know which song i want to listen to, or to listen like the top 100 Chart or some premade playlists or some huge artists. As the sound quality is just better, but never the algorithm...
@@m_lies Spotify works well for me. So far, at least as far as I can remember, there haven't been any songs that are not to my taste
Darn, I use YT Music almost daily for years and I didn't notice "Your music tuner" section, since it requires scrolling past many, IMO useless, sections, so I always just randomly found a song I played in the past and started a radio from it.
Usually worked quite well, but I will give music tuner a go, thanks for showcasing it.
Ps.: if anybody from YT is seeing this, give us option to either remove/hide sections in the app, or to change the country for Trending songs, since it keeps recommending songs from country I live in, which I have quite a distaste for (especially since a lot of them are quite bad Rap).
If I had those, to me, useless sections hidden, I would be able to notice new sections/features way quicker.
Spotify as far as I know, does an aweful job of actually shuffling my playlist. Instead of just giving me a straight up shuffle that is completely random, it instead gives me songs that are more “popular” so I could go through the entire playlist before I hear any of niche songs I have on there. It’s really annoying hearing a lot of the same songs every time I shuffle.
I do kinda like the new enhanced shuffle option but it’s also bordering on just giving me the same kind of songs to the point that I’m thinking of turning it off.
I haven’t used TH-cam music in a long while but I can’t exactly switch because my family is on the family plan for Spotify and I don’t feel like paying the TH-cam premium subscription yet. But I do remember really liking it when I had it, one example I think back to is when I used to love listening to white stripes and their live covers, Catch Hell Blues is a total banger live and TH-cam had the cover. Spotify doesn’t have it.
Maybe one day I’ll switch but ima wait til I’m in college because I’ve heard of TH-cam’s student discount and it sounds amazing for what you get with it.
The biggest disadvantage of TH-cam music is that I cant join 2 google account and be toghether in a family plan. You can only get family plan for 1 google account and then everybody has the same recomentatoon and lack of privacy
Great summary. I had the Spotify/Hulu bundle from college but when I got TH-cam premium I was struggling to decide if I wanted to keep both. Spotify ended up raising the price so that made the decision a bit easier. I've always found TH-cam Music to have better recommendations for me anyway, so it works out.
One other big factor to consider is whether people use Amazon Alexa or not, as Spotify is supported but TH-cam Music is not. I switched my home automation over to Google, but if I hadn't, I probably would have stuck with Spotify out of necessity.
I've been a longtime Spotify user, however I've been using TH-cam Music a whole lot more mainly because of its algorithm. I find it miles better than the Spotify one
😢agreed, I like more TH-cam Music, majorly because of the wide availability of live versions, b-sides, covers and entire shows. It's more complete to my eyes, more alive. Also the way it handles music videos is perfect. The only missing thing is added recently (karaoke mode).
My only complaint about YTM is that the volume balance across tracks can be a little off. Otherwise, it's an easy switch for me. I love Spotify's playlist insights though; good recommendations.
I can say the same for spofity
Yes! Hope they fix that soon! I want the equalizer from Spotify and the fade-cross
@@ZSW43in Spotify there's an option to equalize the volume across songs
As a long-time Spotify user, TH-cam Music has some serious usability issues. 1) Playlists can't be sorted. It's 2023, this is insane. 2) On my phone while using Google Maps, when the YT Music audio turns down for navigation audio, the YT Music audio clips really bad. 3) Unless I am completely disconnected from the internet, downloaded music does not immediately play from my device. Spotty connection? YT Music still checks in before playing downloaded music. There does not seem to be a similar "downloaded only" toggle like in Spotify. This is also insane. There are more usability issues, but those are my three biggest gripes over the past 3 months.
Thank you. Can you add information about personal downloaded music? We had a huge collection of music CDs that we converted to mp3s on our computer. Would like to add those to a streaming service for convenience and also as a backup from computer crashes.
I have been using Spotify for some years. Of late, it has been locking up mid track. This has been happening too often for the price I pay for their streaming service. I have now cancelled my Spotify a/c and use YTM premium which does not dropout as well as provide a very good range of music for my tastes.
I was a long-time Spotify User when I got so annoyed by TH-cam ads that I decided to subscribe to YT Premium. I hadn't even know that YT Music would be part of my subscription back then, and I was genuinely surprised by how good YM Music was. Now, I'm using both in tandem and just love it since their libraries and functions perfectly complement each other IMHO.
I'm from Pakistan and ofcourse listen to Indian music too as its really good. One of my fav songs called ''apna bana le'' was removed from spotify alongwith ALL the songs from Zee music company of india due to legal dispute idk.But spotify removed all of their songs and its frustrating to say the least. Nevertheless, yt music got it all and it does have a much bigger library than spotify. But then again this is for indo-pak region specifically xd
Been on YT music for about 2 months and its been the best honestly not switching anytime soon
To add something, if you subscribe to an artist on YT Music, it doesn’t sync with your TH-cam account, unless you allow it to. I remember when I migrated from Google Play Music I was given an option for the two platforms’ content to be synced.
I actually have a funny story about using youtube music premium. One day I was at the gym, and, as I was without any headphones, I was forced to listen to that gym's playlist. At some point there was a song that for some reason reminded me of an old tv program, which for those of you who know it was called "art attack" (It was a program aired in multiple countries I believe, not just where I grew up in Italy), and suddenly I had the urge to listen to its opening, so, as I got out of the gym, I opened my youtube music app, searched for the track, found it, and with a big smile I pressed the play button, only to find out a few moments later that that video was actually a rickroll. In the end I managed to find the actual track, but that moment was sincerely priceless
I love Spotify but it's family plan is the same price as TH-cam Premium which makes the value comparison not even close. I could never go back to normal TH-cam. The UI of TH-cam Music is not as good as Spotify but it is getting better. The only feature I'm really missing from TH-cam Music is integrated podcasts which is not available in my country yet.
We're supposed to be adding podcast for all countries by the end of the year
It's here and I'm gladdd
How can i sync my downloaded songs to another device? Because it would be such a hassle to redownload all of my music again.
The youtube music app on iphone is really buggy for me. Sometimes it will crash, and alot of the time it will display the wrong song titles when I am using downloads, plus a bunch of other little bugs..
The big reason why I like TH-cam music is not only the wide song selection but also the ability to actually chose your songs, like Spotify free makes you unable to chose your own song without skipping, and you only get 6 skips an hour
not being able to close yt music is a much lesser tradeoff than that so yea also same reason why i used yt
@@davids7646 tho tbh it kinda does turn into a glorified TH-cam because it does everything that normal TH-cam does but just with music only
That Spotify DJ feature must be restricted to some countries. It does not appear on the Portuguese version even do I run it in English as I do for all my software.
I’ll switch from Spotify the moment YTM adds one simple feature: be able to search within your playlists. If your playlists are anywhere remotely large, this is a huge problem and I don’t see it get talked about enough. I shouldn’t have to use a PC and ctrl+f to find a track which doesn’t even work all the time.
The Audio Tuner is game changer on YT Music. Thanks for the tip
In my country (Bangladesh) spotify costs BDT 199/month (around USD 1.80). Sporty podcast is not available. TH-cam premium + youtube music cost BDT 239/month (USD 2.20). TH-cam premium totally worth it for me.
One big reason for using Spotify is podcast.
Not as many as and my favourite content creator's ain't in YT music .
There's a separate Google app for podcasts: Google Podcasts. The way it functions is quite similar to Apple Podcasts, though: Both of these are a free service separated from YT Music and Apple Music respectively, and ads from Google and Apple are baked into the recording.
If having a separate podcast app is a deal-breaker, that's fine, but I didn't mind this when I had Apple Music, and I don't mind it with YT Music now, since at least there's a clearer separation between the types of content I listen to.
Does anyone know how to get around not having an equalizer option on iOS with TH-cam music? I just switched to an iPhone after a decade of android phones.
I can control YT music from any device. I can also control it the desktop app or web app if I started it from the phone or my smart speaker. I don't know if its a premium feature or not.
As an infrequent music listener, TH-cam music suits me fine because it is free with my TH-cam Premium membership that I must have and the YT Music part is an added bonus.
I have never really used TH-cam music and only keep Spotify around for the access to my podcasts but I subscribe to Tidal for my music. I made the switch after I started investing into a nice dac and headphones and wanted to take better advantage of that and have access to higher quality audio. and I agree Dolby Atmos for headphones has come a long way and sounds fantastic with my M50x and HD600 headphones. now my next big upgrade is to upgrade my home theater system from a 5.2 system to one that supports Atmos.
I'm thinking of making the switch, but can't find anywhere what the download cap is, I can see what it is for a playlist (YT's not being as good as Spotify's) but can't find a figure for YTM overall library cap
4:36 for this issue, log into your music account on an incognito tab
This is great Josh. I subscribed for 3 months to to Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, and TH-cam music to try all of them together. All of them are good, but TH-cam has the best recommendations, and I kept Apple Music as well for a lossless audio experience with Atmos. A note on Apple Music, it sounds best when played through the Sonos app to your Sonos set up, as opposed to Air-playing it to your Sonos system. Seems to be some sort of deep integration with the Sonos app.
Yeah, it’s because Atmos can’t be streamed over Bluetooth or AirPlay, which is low key annoying, but I’ve been fine using the Sonos app to pull down the Atmos tracks from Apple Music. Im hoping Apple/Sonos work on Atmos over AirPlay. - Josh
@@6MonthsLater Honestly i have tried apple music i would say i love the atmos experience , with spotify i love its algorithm ( although where i live there is no dj feature unfortunately ) and youtube because family plan is a lot cheaper and also ad free youtube
TH-cam is way better than Spotify for recommendations, but Soundcloud has the best algorithm to find new songs by far.
Soundcloud has a feature to find really nice songs, its two playlists. One is updated every day and the other one once a week, They each recommend 30+ Newly released (sometime solder songs), and till now 90% of these songs always did fit my taste! A lot of these songs/ Tracks are only week of few days old from smaller artists, with songs that even have like 500 plays. But they still fit my taste, as the algorithm just knows what I like!
But sadly the biggest downturn for SoundCloud is that you can't really sort songs in your self-made playlists... But i would still recommend it for finding new songs! and then taking them to other platform like TH-cam/Spotify.
YTM is lacking the one thing you didn't mention.....crossfade. And tbh that's the deal breaker for me personally. I've used all 3 platforms extensively (including Apple) and other than audio quality and, well, a better *looking* interface on AM, Spotify wins pretty well every other category. YTM is quite good though, and if you're already buying YT Premium, it makes good sense to just use that service.
Crossfade and volume leveling are really rough omissions in YT Music in my opinion. I really do love the service but constantly adjusting the volume between songs is ridiculous in 2023
It does not bother me without this crossfade feature.
It's not a deal breaker but I do wish that they did have Crossfade as someone that does use TH-cam premium
Also Spotify Connect is a massive dealbreaker, find myself using YTM only for songs that are not available on other platforms.
The UI/UX is also pretty gross. YTM is nowhere near the top of the music streaming services. In fact, it's so bad, I have Apple Music so I have a good music streaming service.
4:45, the trick is create new chrome profile. it's easier for anything else also
Doesnt TH-cam music have google cast now? basically the same as spotify connect but across cast enabled speakers.
I am more than satisfied with Spotify and with all the time I have spent listening using the app, I can't imagine discarding that history and starting from scratch on TH-cam music. The only question for me is whether I would add TH-cam premium to my streaming service inventory. Would be nice to watch TH-cam videos ad free. Throw in the music service for a couple extra bucks.
That’s a really good point, trying to rebuild your listening patterns, history, likes and library between these services is very time consuming. Makes switching costs higher than they really should be. - Josh
Is there a way to transfer your playlists etc from Spotify to YTM?@@6MonthsLater
I have both apps, and I prefer TH-cam.
The in car display on your phone is “always on” on Spotify but I can’t find how to have that with TH-cam app on IOS. Your screen goes black and you have to wake the screen up and the user controls are in small version. I put up with this because I subscribe to premium and no ads on TH-cam is… well… just better. If anyone could help with the car display that would be great!!
How to turn on the volume normalization/equalization in YTM??
I've been using Spotify since 2015 and I've tried to change to YTM and Deezer and both times I came back to Spotify in less than a month. It's almost 9 years of tuning my taste profile and the way it has evolved over the years, I feel like their algorithm knows me better than some family members. Even after exporting my entire profile to those other two platforms, I still felt they kept recommending stuff in which I had absolutely no interest at all. I really want to switch services, I have a lot of moral issues with Spotify, but I keep being a hypocrite over convenience...
So I already have TH-cam premium membership and I've tried to use TH-cam Music but I realised that whatever songs you like will appear in the Liked videos playlist which irritates me incredibly because my videos and music are two separate stuff to me
Agreed, but I still use YT Music over Spotify cause I don't wanna pay for another service I'm already paying for. Plus YT Music has far more songs.
Quick tip on that, You can turn that off via a setting in TH-cam Music actually. It’s under Playback and restrictions. You can also disable TH-cam Music from playing music videos in that same settings area as well - Josh
You can turn that off
@@hamsterbrigade how?
@@6MonthsLater nothing showing up for me. I see no option on my end.
I've never used Spotify much, but I really love YTM. The fact that every msuic video I like in regular YT gets added to my "liked" list in YTM is awesome. And the enormous breadth of the library is pretty amazing. I listen to a lot of unusual stuff like a variety of Asian indie bands that I think might not be available in Spotify. Plus so many live performances from broadcast sources in addition to fan cams. Since I subscribe to YT Premium I don't feel a need to go outside the ecosystem. It's a little cheaper if you get the yearly subscription.
You are so right!
All I want is a way to listen to TH-cam sleep music from my computer to my iPhone for the 11 hours listed. It helps me sleep. So - Computer on TH-cam to iPhone - how do I learn how to pair them?
As a student, the TH-cam student subscription is a damn good deal. It's a bit more than half the price of TH-cam premium (at least in my country) and includes TH-cam Music premium. I also really like the recommendations that TH-cam music provides.
People that hear music in TH-cam uses TH-cam not TH-cam Music. They should've customized TH-cam to be way better to listen to music, like, an option to make it more like a music streaming service instead of making a whole new app that I ain't using and stil has some videos that ain't even avaible. Like, older people use TH-cam as a music streaming service old people do not want to lean to use an new app tho. I think Spotify is WAY better than TH-cam Music it's because of UI, community, etc... I used TH-cam Music for a while and I jsut got tired of how simple it is. I want good UI choices and a good algorith.
i have a few playlists on youtube of indie bands playing popular songs (like a version, is an example) . having all this available on youtube music without creating new playlists is amazing and does not exist anywhere else
I have both at the moment but YTM has music videos which is something Spotify may never have plus for a few dollars more you get TH-cam with no ads both are great IMO
Spotify has a better convenience experience , TH-cam has more music
Downloading music>>>>>>>
You can have an amazing interface and social features or widespread availability, the number of songs and recommendation on YT will win for me
I wanted to listen to Mylo's Doctor Pressure. Was surprised that spotify didn't have it. This led me to explore TH-cam Music and have been using it since then.
Both of these are good. Apple Music is just bad, app experience wise
I cancelled my Apple Music subscription because TH-cam Premium with YT Music was a better deal, since I watch TH-cam a lot. That being said, the user experience for me on Apple Music was better than YT Music for my music listening, which is to just listen to an artist's album rather than fire up a playlist. That might just come from me preferring to spend money on buying digital albums and especially CDs, since there are songs that I listen to that aren't available on any streaming service.
In India Spotify had almost all features free Very different from other countries. You didn't need a premium to enjoy music except for sound quality and ads. And it had every song I listen to.
In youtube's case i can't even listen it in background without premium😒
I was using Spotify for 3 years and the new update is trash. Now you need premium for basic features it had.
Now both are equally trash😊
Been using YT Music ever since they phased out Google Play Music. Love that its included with my YT Premium. Can pick a song in the car and let autoplay take the wheel for the rest of the drive. It knows what vibe I'm looking for.
What sound quality is youtube music high quality setting on windows 24 48 etc.
After watching this, I will still use the old piracy method and making my custom library
I have been using TH-cam music for years now and there are still unfortunate bugs that seem to never get fixed. And lots of missing features that would make it the best music app. Some of them super simple and overlooked. For example you can’t remove a song from your playlist. You can’t sort songs by anything or move them around. You can’t can’t sort your songs by artist. Downloading is iffy, sometimes it doesn’t download and then when I go to download it again there is now a duplicate which can’t be deleted. “Remove download” literally has never worked. So many of my songs disappeared or become “unplayable” and again, can’t delete a song sitting on my playlist that is unavailable. I don’t understand how you can have any media app that doesn’t allow you to edit or delete or sort any playlist you create.
6:15 The entire catalog of Lapfox Trax and Halley Labs music (over 800 tracks) which is only available on TH-cam and Bandcamp
a /lot/ of underground 90s hiphop and my favorite punk tracks just aren't on spotify, youtube is really smart with just converting videos to their music app. Also bundling it with premium and being extremely unfairly annoying with ads on their video service is a good marketing strategy. I paid for both for a while and moved to youtube music because it felt like I was paying double for youtube premium and spotify together
I use Deezer mainly for the placebo of HiFi since I mainly use bluetooth headphones or speakers. But also to tune into the Info wars podcasts XD
I tried Spotify too; I think almost a year. But before that I am already a YT Premium subscriber. And after that, I returned to YTM since a lot of things missing. Like YTM will suggest great songs by just picking 1song. Also, the best part, all music can be found on YTM since most musicians uploads first on YT. Like the special versions, mixed versions, or a fan-made versions. Also, regarding of playing music on different device, I mean on ANY DEVICE, you can just cast to it as long as you're connected to the same network.
Hey!! I'm not that good figuring out how these apps work, so if anyone of you could help me.
I don't really care about albums, singles, covers, etc. I just want to enter an artist page, press play and listen to every song on their playlist. What app is better for that? I can't find the option on yt music, just a random button that just let me hear about 10 popular songs and nothing more. (I'm using yt music just bc I pay for premium)
My only real issue with YT Music is that the queue/up next system is absolutely dreadful in comparison to Spotify
one thing that i think it was not talked about, and that is key to me, is that in mobile devices, you can listen to music on spotify while your phone is turned off. It's something that increases life battery (even if it's just a little bit) and is a lot more convenient for walks, because you don't have to worry about, inadvertently, clicking one wrong button (which had happened to me on youtube music).
Haven't heard of wireless earbuds that allows you to play previous/skip tracks with a few pushes on the ear.
Thankyou ,it really helps me which one to choose.
Can I listen to TH-cam music without my phone or internet nearby on my smart watch
what about free version without out advertisement is possible? It is really annoying advertisement came in the middle of music.
Been using both platforms pretty equally for the past year and youtube music definitely has the better recommendations. for some reason spotify just has a tendency to miss completely with its recommendations and even when blocking the artists they still find their way into my queue. i do ofc enjoy spotify's UI more but youtube music still has that massive library for covers and remixes, so thats what im usually playing from.
In India when Spotify and Zee music companies break their connection it becomes really difficult for me to listen to my favourite songs, then I shifted to Gaana but it has so many unnecessary songs and so many songs were missing ( the bass and loudness was better than any other music apps ) from here so few days ago i shifted to TH-cam music and my experience is top notch. From the user interface to the availability of songs are so high that you'll never think to turn around and join Spotify or any other apps again.
As a TH-cam Music user
I use it for its recommendations (and its ability to be modified) and because most of my favourite creators are small creators who arent on spotify (main reason I switched on its release)
I miss TWO feature from spotify a lot:
1) being able to personally remove songs from other's playlist
2) playlists are WAYY well organised on spotify by them having a LIKE of their own. With use of its algorithm, it used to show really nice playlists in my recommended
U can save the playlist for urself and then edit it. Yes its an additional step but it works as a workaround
You are so right!
I've had Spotify premium since 2017, and had no clue it even had a dj feature. Doesn't even seem like anything I would use. I guess the biggest question I have about YT Music is their Podcast selection. Nothing was mentioned about that.