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YouTube Music Subscription Details Leak
Several readers sent word that Android Police has leaked details about YouTube's upcoming subscription service, Music Key. The benefits for users will include ad-free music, offline playback, and audio-only streams. It's expected to cost $10 per month. "Of course, one of Music Key's major value propositions is that users will have access not just to official discographies, but to concert footage, covers, and remixes. Play Music already houses some remixes and covers, but YouTube as a platform is significantly more open and workable for derivative content — the platform is much easier to add content to, and user discoverability is substantially different from Play Music." Others note Google still has to negotiate terms with many independent musicians, who could subsequently see their work blocked if they aren't willing to play by Google's rules.
There are many websites now you copy and paste a youtube link, then gives you an mp3 file. And there are browser ad-ons that download full videos for later viewing and can also do conversion to mp3 audio. Anyway, I don't like how this is sounding, next youtube will want money to view videos in HD or some other type of premium feature. Thats how XM radio started, you pay a low price for ad free music, then after several years more and more channels started playing ads and prices went up.
Sorry google, you missed the bus on the music thing.
Except the reverse is true. Music subscriptions are not on most peoples radar. Google hold a dominant position in the largest OS in the world on the most popular music devices in the world, and ownes the largest (Music) Video Site (in fact that is the whole point about the indie artist dispute) on the most used music player in the world. It is a market of few large players, and a large player like Google is eg. Microsoft with Xbox.
The only real question is how do they do it without bringing into question antitrust concerns.
The benefits for users will include [...] offline playback
Buy a Nintendo Wii-U and use the (stock) free YouTube app.
I thought YouTube just errored out and displayed "The content owner has not made this video available on mobile" on an attempt to view a monetized video on a platform that doesn't enforce ad viewing. Besides, good luck carrying your Wii U with you and using it offline.
I'm sorry you feel that way.
Chrome has definitely become the interface driver; I now find that more and more interfaces are difficult to navigate with poor vision, whether it be eyesight in general, low-light situations, glare situations, etc.
The Chrome UI is definitely different, and sheds a lot of cruft that was just there for legacy's sake, but the result is something that is only really an improvement if you're under 35 and operating in optimal lighting conditions.
Human Interface Design has gone downhill a lot in the last decade, with designers thinking they know better than what came before, instead of learning from it like previous generations did. That doesn't mean that there aren't good new design ideas coming out, just that as a whole, the implementation sucks for the majority of people for the majority of use cases. It attempts to get people to conform to the design instead.
if $ 0.00 is decent enough, try TPB; most of the stuff there is available as FLAC.
... a couple months ago. Youtube made a huge push in collaboration with the major record labels to set up deals with the major labels and de-prioritize or remove videos from independent artists. This push was questioned at the time, but Google/Youtube was wise to hide the *reason* for a couple month so as to 'disconnect' the two concepts from the non-diligent news reader.
Do no evil? How about "Do profit, f*** you". Why did youtube force all users to have accounts? Why is youtube turning into one commercial after another? Why is google more interested in the interests of big money corporate business than the interests of its viewers and its original content providers? By 'original content providers', I'm talking about how Youtube got its start (and still so up until recently) from user-generated content. Youtube made widely available the videos that used to be mass e-mailed around to friends. And now? What is this? A walled garden from the very people pretending to support the open-internet and wild-west style of the internet that surfers of the 90s are trying to remember. Google/Youtube is a liar. Money trumps 'good', and thus 'evil' prevails. They need to change their motto before they start being laughed at like Fox News - Fair and Balanced.
I agree that Chrome browser has a generally pleasant interface (to the point that other browsers feel cluttered, to me). However, look at everything else Google touches. It's always cluttered, clunky, and misleading. G+, youtube, youtube mobile clients, youtube clients on consoles and roku and other devices. Google Docs. Even Gmail to a degree. Google has two things that are pleasing as interfaces: Chrome and Google.com's main page. Everything else feels like an engineer tossed it together in a day after working on the backend for two years.
Granted, this is but one man's opinion. Maybe everyone else loves these interfaces...?