As someone who’s never used Spotify I guess I don’t know what I’m missing out on but I found it interesting all the same to compare them. It’s just more economical to have YouTube premium with YouTube music added in for free!

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    You’re telling me, I’m over here with Apple Music when all my friends have Spotify. I stopped using Spotify as they started pushing podcasts to the forefront of their platform (PocketCasts ftw).

    I still have YTM due to Premium, but I only really use it for stuff that is only on YouTube.

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      I’m trialing Apple Music as we speak for that same reason. Spotify was by far the most stable service I used but I’m getting really frustrated by the non-music content they’re pushing. I have no problem with podcasts and audio books but there’s multiple better apps for both.

      So far it’s been pretty good, a little more buggy but just about everything I want is there and the quality is good, Win11 client is pretty bad tho ATM.

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        1 year ago

        Try the Cider client instead until they work out the bugs with the official client. I’ve used Cider since switching to Apple Music and it has worked better than the official client by far.

        You can find it on the MS store, they recently released a v2 of the app replacing their previous version.

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    tfw you are the guy who just gets free bandcamp codes from discords, downloads the FLACs, archives them in triplicate (NAS, offsite backup, cold storage backup), then converts them to opus, and then puts the .ogg files on your phone OR records from the flacs onto cassette for in the woods listening with the knockoff walkman you’ve had since childhood.

    YTM and Spotify and the ilk just seem like too much work.

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    I used GPM until the day Google shut it down. YTM was trash when it came out and still trash when they shut down GPM, not sure if that is still the case. I never canceled my YTM subscription because I use the YTP it comes with. I made the switch to spotify for my music streaming and have no regrets other than the fact they shut down GPM.

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    I have YTM through a family plan with a friend and Spotify through the student discount program, so YTM is for the music I listen to over and over and over and over and Spotify is for like, big boy listening times where I’m sitting down with an album (until I get speakers for my record player anyways)

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    I moved to YTM when Spotify just would not stop trying to shove Rogan down my throat at every opportunity. The iOS app itself has some rough edges but otherwise, no regrets. I used a tool to transfer over my playlists and likes, and from there it’s been perfectly good. Plus YT Premium is nice to have, too.

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      1 year ago

      What did you use? I recently migrated to YT Premium and want to move on from Spotify but… oh my playlists.

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        I honestly can’t remember. There’s some options listed here. I might have used Soundiiz? I seem to remember it was something I had to subscribe to, but only for a month just to get all my playlists and likes moved, and then once that was done, canceled the subscription. I remember there were a few cases where a song didn’t convert because the name or specific mix or whatever was different, but I could just search it on YTM and add it.