YouTube Music Premium

glenimp617 · 27 Sep 2018 at 08:07

HI Everyone,

Just wondering what's everyones thought on the YT Music premium service. My contract is coming up to an end now so I need to decide if I'm keeping spotify, or switching over to something else.

IIRC

Single

£9.99 Youtubue Music Premium - Just the music
£11.99 Youtube Premium - same as above, but ad-free videos in youtube along with movies and tv shows

Family

£14.99
£17.99

glenimp617 · 27 Sep 2018 at 10:19

uvarvu said:
I use it every day but for videos not music. They gave me a three month trial which has just expired and I'm going to keep it going. When I get round to walking through the bluetooth headphones minefield then I'll probably use the music aspect more often. The no advert aspect of youtube is brilliant and I've found myself use the picture in picture mode a fair bit as well which surprised me.

Thanks, are you going to pay the £9.99 or the family plan and try to get them to give you something towards it?

glenimp617 · 27 Sep 2018 at 12:52

There is an option now "always high" whatever that means

320 should be standard imho

glenimp617 · 27 Sep 2018 at 17:17

GPM properly supports bluetooth metadata, whereas spotify and YT music doesn't

glenimp617 · 18 Oct 2019 at 16:42

Forgot I made this thread

I stuck with Spotify and added a YouTube premium family membership via Indian VPN for £2 a month

glenimp617 · 18 Oct 2019 at 19:51

FishLicker said:
Is that how much it costs over there?! Any drawbacks?

No, none

It's brilliant. Added my sister's family and my parents to it. Can't grumble for a couple of quid.

Using the Google rewards app I don't think I've ever actually paid for it.

glenimp617 · 18 Oct 2019 at 22:44

GMac11 said:
By using the VPN is that just to get signed up for Indian price or do you have to have the VPN enabled every time you want to use the app?

No only to sign up. It's a doddle

glenimp617 · 21 Oct 2019 at 11:49

Steven Rimmington said:
I have had a look at the VPN method and its £1.28 for a basic and £2.05 for the family plan, madness! Does this work?

Yup, been a premium member for about three/four months.

glenimp617 · 20 Nov 2019 at 15:00

Guys, if you download the google rewards app and answer a couple of questions every now and again you can use that to pay for the YT subscription.

glenimp617 · 20 Nov 2019 at 19:24

GMac11 said:
I mentioned that over on the my Google Play thread and posed the question how. I ended up using my Revolut card as I said. I went back into my subscription section today after a couple of users pointed out you CAN use credits for YT premium but I still cannot see an option for it. It only allowed me to use debit/credit card.
Do I need to do it somewhere else?

You know what....I think I am mistaken after looking through my google pay and natwest apps. I just had this feeling that after all these months I was automatically paying for it through google credits. I don't think I actually am.

Ignore me!

glenimp617 · 22 Jun 2020 at 13:01

YouTube music is great for the price. If you want something better, pay a lot more and use spotify.

glenimp617 · 22 Jun 2020 at 13:15

tom_e said:
A lot more? Spotify is the same price if you're paying proper YouTube music prices.

If you are happy paying normal prices, switch to spotify. I certainly wouldn't pay it, as I don't believe the service in its current form warrants it. £2 a month, yes.

glenimp617 · 22 Jun 2020 at 18:09

Jesus, after using Apple Music for the last six months, then trying Spotify again I didn’t realise how awful the sound quality is on Spotify. YT music is ok though.

I’m sure Spotify didn’t use to be that bad, maybe I just never noticed before.

Tried the quality and equaliser settings but it pales in comparison to the other two.

glenimp617 · 24 Jun 2020 at 13:03

Sorted

Spotify has a default setting called audio normalisation which needs turning off

It now sounds as good as the others

glenimp617 · 28 Jun 2020 at 18:00

I really don't understand why everyone expect Apple rushes out technology before it's ready. Why? It just gives them a bad name

glenimp617 · 7 Jul 2020 at 18:33

Scam said:
lol YTM is so gash. I'm trying to give it a go but it just does my nut. What's the point in subscribing to artists? You end up with them filling up your (main) YouTube subscriptions. I don't care about videos for artists; funnily enough I just want to listen to them!

I woke up this morning and wanted to listen to some Metallica (or at least their Ennio Morricone intro music and then the first few songs from S&M or Live ****). How hard do they make it? Honestly putting some stupid YT fan-uploaded videos above the videos in my library? What? Are they smoking crack? The whole thing is ridiculous. 3 extra clicks to find a proper album in my library.

I see Spotify have just launched Premium Duo for £12.99/month. That's less than my current lifetime deal of £7.99/month for GPM and has the benefit of Duo Mix (like Family Mix) which will help stop the arguments about music when cooking etc.

Just do the Indian family plan. It's crap yeah, but when your only paying £2 a month you kinda put up with it.

That said I'm also using Spotify at the minute but mainly because YouTube doesn't work with Amazon echos. Before that I was using Apple music which I have a real soft spot for. It just doesn't seem right though using Apple music on an Android phone lol

glenimp617 · 8 Jul 2020 at 08:37

Scam said:
You mean for YTM or Spotify? Is there a guide for setting that up on Spotify? To be honest £12.99 between two is not bad at all.

Just connect to an indian VPN and sign up to youtube premium on the family plan. You still use your existing google account. Once you have subscribed, you don't need to use the VPN again. Youtube premium gives you music as part of the package.

glenimp617 · 8 Jul 2020 at 11:54

Scam said:
Ok fair enough. I was reading about doing the same for Spotify where users were saying it is a much smaller library. I wonder if YTM is the same.

Either way it's not money that's the issue. Granted it's better to pay £2 rather than £7.99 for a service I don't like -- but I'm probably 85% certain I'll be switching to Spotify Premium Duo once I get the girlfriend to sign it off/approve, as it were

No worries. Regarding content, it's the same, but you do get indian recommendations on the homescreen. It's ok for searching and adding to playlists though.

glenimp617 · 13 Sep 2020 at 18:38

Just recently I been forcing myself to use YTM over spotify. I'm just a tight arse really.

You know, I'm starting to really like it. The history and having it guess what songs I might like is really quite brilliant. I've found a lot of great songs I wouldn't have found using spotify.

Spotify kept playing me bloomin harry styles and dua lipa on repeat just because at some point in time I might have stumbled across a now album

glenimp617 · 14 Sep 2020 at 18:36

Scam said:
Isn't YTM the same price as Spotify? Or are you doing some weird Indian VPN thing?

It might be a new feature, but Spotify lets you mute artists and dislike songs. Seems a little better than a thumbs down on YTM.

Anyhoo, I just cancelled my YTM at £7.99 and we're now on Spotify Premium Duo for £12.99 (so cheaper per month, each). Infinitely better straight away, I used Soundiiz to copy all my library which actually worked very well indeed. I was surprised. (I've also now revoked it's access, cancelled my sub, and change all of my passwords ).

We've only used it a couple of times, but it's an absolute pleasure sticking on the Duo Mix when cooking etc. No more flippin' arguments 3 songs in when I put my stuff on shuffle "I don't know who this is, I didn't choose it, it's on ****ing shuffle for the hundredth time!"

Yeah, I pay £1.99 for the family plan (YT premium with no ads and music)

for the money I pay, I'm more than happy with it