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Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon (www.neowin.net)
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[–] 30 points 1 year ago (25 children)

Premium Lite? What paid benefits are there to YouTube other than removing ads?

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (24 children)

    YouTube music. But since Lite has ads then idk what it's different. I'm assuming Lite also doesn't have music.

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  • [+] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (22 children)
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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    YouTube music is better than music on youtube, particularly for people with slow or capped internet.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Moderately, it's still not as good as Play Music it replaced, and frankly the only reason I use it is because it comes with Premium (and Lite gets ads so fuck that deal), otherwise I'd subscribe to something else for music (aside from growing my album collection on Bandcamp).

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    I heard good things about play music but I was super pov when that existed and didn't pay for any online stuff, it was piracy or nothing.

    Thats the exact same reason I have YouTube music.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    In the time it takes for a video to even show up, I can have a song playing with a playlist behind it. One video is the same amount of data as many songs.

    My phone is my home internet and is often under 100KB/s, even at 240p YouTube takes way longer than YouTube music.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    And it's better for people who want to listen to more than just a few songs, for people who need an organized collections, playlists, etc. In other words, for those who need a music streaming service. YouTube isn't one.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    I remember when YouTube Music first came out it was pretty much just the audio from the videos in the most atrocious quality. Has it changed since then?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Oh good, I’m not missing out then. I moved around quite a bit between Deezer, Tidal, random piracy in FLAC until finally landing on Apple Music.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    You can mix TIDAL and piracy; I use tidal-dl quite a lot. The problem with streaming services is that they can close shop in five minutes, and all of “your” music won’t be yours anymore.

    (I think Apple Music has similar tools.)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    What I didn’t like about Tidal was their weird format being advertised as lossless when it wasn’t. It didn’t really sound all that great.

    There was an application called requiem (if I remember correctly) that could rip music from older Windows XP versions of iTunes; it was only available over Tor quite some time ago. I’m not sure what people would use these days (maybe just a [modified] DAC?).

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Youtube Music is pretty much just youtube with a different UI

    Lmao, what? YouTube Music is essentially Spotify with the ability to add YouTube videos to your playlists. It has an enormous music library comparable to other streaming services, it's not "youtube with a different ui".

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