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Google announces YouTube Music and YouTube Premium
Google just announced its new music streaming service YouTube Music, a Spotify competitor it seems. There is a free version available, with advertisements, you can also opt a Premium version that costs ten dollars per month.
Google also comes with YouTube Premium, the replacement for YouTube Red. Below a snippet from Google on the new services:
-- Google --
From Beyonce’s livestream at Coachella to landmark videos like “Despacito,” “New Rules” and “This Is America,” more than 1 billion music fans come to YouTube each month to be part of music culture and discover new music. It’s also where over 2 million artists come to share their voices and art with the world. YouTube is where artists and fans connect: creating and discovering a world of music.
But YouTube was made for video, not just music. On Tuesday, May 22, we’ll be changing that by introducing YouTube Music, a new music streaming service made for music with the magic of YouTube: making the world of music easier to explore and more personalized than ever. The days of jumping back and forth between multiple music apps and YouTube are over. Whether you want to listen, watch or discover, it’s all here. YouTube Music is a new music streaming service made for music: official songs, albums, thousands of playlists and artist radio plus YouTube’s tremendous catalog of remixes, live performances, covers and music videos that you can’t find anywhere else - all simply organized and personalized. For the first time, all the ways music moves you can be found in one place.
So what is YouTube Music exactly?
A new music streaming service from YouTube
- A reimagined mobile app and brand new desktop player that are designed for music.
- YouTube Music has thousands of playlists, the official versions of millions of songs, albums, artist radio and more, in addition to all the music videos people expect from YouTube.
Find more of the music you’re looking for
- Remixes, covers, live versions as well as deep cuts you can’t find anywhere else – from the biggest artists in the world to freshest voices breaking through.
- New and iconic videos from "God’s Plan" and "Havana" to "Thriller," "Sledgehammer," and more.
- YouTube Music search works even if fans don’t know exactly what they’re looking for … we’ll find it if they describe it (try “that hipster song with the whistling”) or give us some lyrics (try “I make money moves”).
Effortlessly discover new music
- YouTube Music’s personalized home screen dynamically adapts to provide recommendations based on people’s listening history, where they are and what they’re doing. At the airport? We’ll recommend something relaxing before the flight. Entering the gym? We’ll suggest some beats to get the heart-rate going.
- Thousands of playlists built to help you discover new music. That means no matter what kind of music you like, where you are, what you’re doing, or what mood you’re in, you can easily find the right playlist for that moment.
While fans can enjoy the new ad-supported version of YouTube Music for free, we’re also launching YouTube Music Premium, a paid membership that gives you background listening, downloads and an ad-free experience for $9.99 a month. If you are a subscriber to Google Play Music, good news, you get a YouTube Music Premium membership as part of your subscription each month. And if you use Google Play Music, nothing will change -- you’ll still be able to access all of your purchased music, uploads and playlists in Google Play Music just like always.
To extend the features of YouTube Music Premium beyond the music app, we’re soon introducing YouTube Premium, the new name for our YouTube Red subscription service. YouTube Premium includes ad-free, background and offline across all of YouTube, as well as access to all YouTube Originals including Cobra Kai, Step Up: High Water and Youth & Consequences. YouTube Premium will continue to provide an ad-free experience, background play, and downloads across the millions of videos on YouTube. But because it includes our brand new YouTube Music service, the price will be $11.99 for all new members. If you’re already a YouTube Red (soon to be YouTube Premium) member, don’t worry you’ll still enjoy your current price.
Starting Tuesday, we're rolling out the new YouTube Music experience in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and South Korea*. It will expand more broadly in the coming weeks. We’ll also soon be launching in Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. If you want to know when the new YouTube Music is available in your country, head to music.youtube.com/coming-soon and let us know you’re interested.
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#5547577 Posted on: 05/17/2018 10:36 AM
Youtube is a crock of sh1t nowadays anyway, it frequently doesn't even work properly and it almost always buffers when I skip the video even though the section I'm skipping to is shown to be loaded.
That's what happens when you've got no real competitors, you get a sh1t product.
Looks like a mess brand wise. Youtube, Youtube Music, Youtube Music Premium, Youtube Premium, Google Play Music.
Youtube is a crock of sh1t nowadays anyway, it frequently doesn't even work properly and it almost always buffers when I skip the video even though the section I'm skipping to is shown to be loaded.
That's what happens when you've got no real competitors, you get a sh1t product.
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#5547579 Posted on: 05/17/2018 10:51 AM
I already use Premium (no ads) it's called uBlock Origin.
I already use Premium (no ads) it's called uBlock Origin.
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#5547593 Posted on: 05/17/2018 11:52 AM
Try adguard for desktop.
I already use Premium (no ads) it's called uBlock Origin.
Try adguard for desktop.
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#5547655 Posted on: 05/17/2018 02:52 PM
I use uBlock Origin too. Since youtube changed terms and I lost the monetization of my channel, I enabled the blocking again.
Of course I disable it for GURU3D
I already use Premium (no ads) it's called uBlock Origin.
Try adguard for desktop.
I use uBlock Origin too. Since youtube changed terms and I lost the monetization of my channel, I enabled the blocking again.
Of course I disable it for GURU3D
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#5547717 Posted on: 05/17/2018 05:34 PM
I don't encounter the first problem - Youtube has always worked pretty smoothly for me. The only quirky "glitch" I commonly encounter is where the comments section sometimes doesn't load. Maybe a couple times a year I also get a glitch where I get 2 ads in a row. The 2nd problem you mentioned I get from plenty of websites; it isn't just a Youtube problem.
Vimeo and Dailymotion aren't real competitors? Anyway, I personally think it's a decent product. Of course, there's room for improvement, but I like it.
Youtube is a crock of sh1t nowadays anyway, it frequently doesn't even work properly and it almost always buffers when I skip the video even though the section I'm skipping to is shown to be loaded.
I don't encounter the first problem - Youtube has always worked pretty smoothly for me. The only quirky "glitch" I commonly encounter is where the comments section sometimes doesn't load. Maybe a couple times a year I also get a glitch where I get 2 ads in a row. The 2nd problem you mentioned I get from plenty of websites; it isn't just a Youtube problem.
That's what happens when you've got no real competitors, you get a sh1t product.
Vimeo and Dailymotion aren't real competitors? Anyway, I personally think it's a decent product. Of course, there's room for improvement, but I like it.
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#5547749 Posted on: 05/17/2018 08:11 PM
Vimeo is mostly used by artists, you know, real artists? short-movies and such, daily motion not even close, there are no competitors to youtube, if you look at the numbers.
Vimeo is mostly used by artists, you know, real artists? short-movies and such, daily motion not even close, there are no competitors to youtube, if you look at the numbers.
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#5547757 Posted on: 05/17/2018 09:31 PM
Never had a problem with Youtube....
Until now.
Subscribing to Google Play Music gives me Youtube Red for free.
Never had a problem with Youtube....
Until now.
Subscribing to Google Play Music gives me Youtube Red for free.
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#5547760 Posted on: 05/17/2018 09:42 PM
Is the audio quality also improved? I use yt just for convenience knowing the quality is generally poor.
Is the audio quality also improved? I use yt just for convenience knowing the quality is generally poor.
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#5547765 Posted on: 05/17/2018 09:51 PM
Pay 10€/month and then suddenly music you like gets flagged inappropriate and removed from their service...
Pay 10€/month and then suddenly music you like gets flagged inappropriate and removed from their service...
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#5547774 Posted on: 05/17/2018 10:19 PM
I don't encounter the first problem - Youtube has always worked pretty smoothly for me. The only quirky "glitch" I commonly encounter is where the comments section sometimes doesn't load. Maybe a couple times a year I also get a glitch where I get 2 ads in a row. The 2nd problem you mentioned I get from plenty of websites; it isn't just a Youtube problem.
Vimeo and Dailymotion aren't real competitors? Anyway, I personally think it's a decent product. Of course, there's room for improvement, but I like it.
lol same here. Still happy though, I don't know if I could live a sane life watching ads on YOUTUBE. I have FIREFOX and everything works 99% well with ABP and UBO.
I don't encounter the first problem - Youtube has always worked pretty smoothly for me. The only quirky "glitch" I commonly encounter is where the comments section sometimes doesn't load. Maybe a couple times a year I also get a glitch where I get 2 ads in a row. The 2nd problem you mentioned I get from plenty of websites; it isn't just a Youtube problem.
Vimeo and Dailymotion aren't real competitors? Anyway, I personally think it's a decent product. Of course, there's room for improvement, but I like it.
lol same here. Still happy though, I don't know if I could live a sane life watching ads on YOUTUBE. I have FIREFOX and everything works 99% well with ABP and UBO.
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#5547882 Posted on: 05/18/2018 09:09 AM
Youtube is a crock of sh1t nowadays anyway, it frequently doesn't even work properly and it almost always buffers when I skip the video even though the section I'm skipping to is shown to be loaded.
That's what happens when you've got no real competitors, you get a sh1t product.
A crap product that's needlessly censored, abused in every way, and politically manipulated while letting major BS through.
The "Hurr, it's a private company they can do anything they want!" false logic BS should be thrown into an active volcano. When a company has a GLOBAL monopoly on something, they should be subject to many more laws than normal. YouTube is outright abusive and manipulative as Facebook.
Youtube is a crock of sh1t nowadays anyway, it frequently doesn't even work properly and it almost always buffers when I skip the video even though the section I'm skipping to is shown to be loaded.
That's what happens when you've got no real competitors, you get a sh1t product.
A crap product that's needlessly censored, abused in every way, and politically manipulated while letting major BS through.
The "Hurr, it's a private company they can do anything they want!" false logic BS should be thrown into an active volcano. When a company has a GLOBAL monopoly on something, they should be subject to many more laws than normal. YouTube is outright abusive and manipulative as Facebook.
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#5547891 Posted on: 05/18/2018 10:22 AM
They need money. Like all video platforms before it, "services" like youtube struggle to make a profit, despite billions of $ being involved.
Losing youtube would be a lot more devastating globally than losing Steam. I have no problem admitting that youtube has also helped me save more money than any other service ever on the internet in many aspects of my life.
They need money. Like all video platforms before it, "services" like youtube struggle to make a profit, despite billions of $ being involved.
Losing youtube would be a lot more devastating globally than losing Steam. I have no problem admitting that youtube has also helped me save more money than any other service ever on the internet in many aspects of my life.
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#5547989 Posted on: 05/18/2018 03:38 PM
I always wonder how Google have not shutdown Youtube. Could be wrong but I think they are losing big money on providing this service. If the statistics are to be believed, 300 hours of video are added every minute. They probably bought manufacturing lines from WD and Seagate factories just to pump out hard drives only for them every day or maybe even whole factories so they keep up with their demand for just Youtube. :p And obviously storage for backup and multiple copies of the same data for CDN locations. And that's just the expenses for data storage.
Hey, maybe videos that are deleted for dubious reasons claiming that they are violating their terms is just to free up storage and cut down on expenses..
I always wonder how Google have not shutdown Youtube. Could be wrong but I think they are losing big money on providing this service. If the statistics are to be believed, 300 hours of video are added every minute. They probably bought manufacturing lines from WD and Seagate factories just to pump out hard drives only for them every day or maybe even whole factories so they keep up with their demand for just Youtube. :p And obviously storage for backup and multiple copies of the same data for CDN locations. And that's just the expenses for data storage.
Hey, maybe videos that are deleted for dubious reasons claiming that they are violating their terms is just to free up storage and cut down on expenses..
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#5548370 Posted on: 05/20/2018 07:34 AM
I think it should have been YouTube premium to begin with since the stuff they are offering premium stuff in YouTube/Google's eyes.
Youtube is a crock of sh1t nowadays anyway, it frequently doesn't even work properly and it almost always buffers when I skip the video even though the section I'm skipping to is shown to be loaded.
That's what happens when you've got no real competitors, you get a sh1t product.
Yeah BlipTV tried their hand in it but went under. Yeah YouTube has changed alot some good and some bad. Such as users loosing the ability to monotize their videos.
I think it should have been YouTube premium to begin with since the stuff they are offering premium stuff in YouTube/Google's eyes.
Youtube is a crock of sh1t nowadays anyway, it frequently doesn't even work properly and it almost always buffers when I skip the video even though the section I'm skipping to is shown to be loaded.
That's what happens when you've got no real competitors, you get a sh1t product.
Yeah BlipTV tried their hand in it but went under. Yeah YouTube has changed alot some good and some bad. Such as users loosing the ability to monotize their videos.
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Looks like a mess brand wise. Youtube, Youtube Music, Youtube Music Premium, Youtube Premium, Google Play Music.