1 thing
I’ve been a longtime user and the best thing about YT Music is that you can access/play songs that aren’t available on any of the other platforms through videos from YT. They can be added to playlists just like any other track. That’s really the only advantage they have over the comp. I’ve tried a lot of the other popular streaming services but always come back to YT Music after finding that a decent amount of the music I listen to is unavailable. For me, that’s a big deal. 4 star worthy. The rest of the app & experience - meh. The recommendations/music discovery are average but on par with the other services. The “Start Radio” is hit or miss but rarely continues the musical theme that initiated the process. It’ll also use songs already in my library or playlist. But every now and then, the YT gods will bless me with a gem. I really wish they would allow search strictly within a playlist and enable some sort of light mode. Shuffle is mediocre and seems to recycle the same order pretty regularly.
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Took about 5 years, but
they finally added a sleep timer! Going to raise my review to a 4/5, now if they could bring better playlist editing (namely sorting from within the music app, and setting a default sort order to playlists) as well as more options for controlling the autoplay songs (eg. strictly only related tracks, maybe filter options to add conditions like release date, include/exclude artists, etc.) I'd be pretty happy with this as a music app.
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Leave You Tube Music alone
Can the developments team just leave the application alone. It’s worked perfectly fo years until greed took control and more advertising became a priority. In the last two month the application has more than 10 updates! This started from them adding a quite nasty need for non prem users to minimise the screen to view and skip the advertising before being able to listen to song truly dangerous for those than use the app in cars! Now they they seem to of back tracked but left the app glitchy. Some things are better left alone! Do the firmware updates but leave the layout and everything else alone. When will they learn.
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