'YouTube Music is a Bad Product in Desperate Need of Improvement Before Anyone Will Care To Use It' (androidcentral.com)

Andrew Martonik, writing for AndroidCentral: YouTube Music as a service has been around for about three years now, though it really only existed in earnest once the revamped version of the YouTube Music app and dedicated website, as we know it today, launched in May. Whether you look at it as three years or just six months old, one thing is clear: YouTube Music isn't finished yet, is filled with issues and is incredibly frustrating to use on a daily basis considering it costs the industry-standard $10 per month.

YouTube Music is so unfinished and lacking features that I question whether Google has any intentions of following through with its vision of replacing Google Play Music entirely. Put simply, I can't believe Google thinks anyone will pay $10 per month for it when all signs point to Google itself not caring about YouTube Music's success. YouTube Music effectively doesn't work with Google Home. [...] YouTube Music also still doesn't work with Android Auto, which is just as inexcusable as not working with Google Home.

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Not a suprise

[110010001000]

This isn't a surprise. Google does most things halfway and will eventually cancel it.

Who the honest fuck cares?

[nightfire-unique]

Spotify is great. Why would anyone use anything made by Google if there are alternatives?

Good news is Google will most likely fold Music in another year or two, and the question will be moot.

Re:Stop me if you've heard this one before

[jwymanm]

I know, Google is a joke. You can't enjoy any of their products without having the thought in your mind it'll be gone tomorrow on some asshole VP's whim. None of them appear to eat their own dog food either. They probably all have fucking iphones under the table playing their Apple music. Because who the fuck in their right mind (and this is coming from someone who only uses Android/Youtube Music) will stick with/pay for a service that is going to abruptly end or get worse. They only care about their pressure behind the scenes AI gathering usage and user opinion. They don't give a damn about what people even think anymore.

I pay the $10/mo for the sweetner - no ads on YT

[FryingLizard]

main reason I use it is b/c it gets the whole family YT without the ads (as a side-perk), which I value very much b/c my 8-yr old is a YT fiend on her ipad and I prefer her un-brainwashed by commercials.
Off topic but...
Her personal choice (I monitor her YT history) is to watch endless home-made vids created by other 8-12 year olds, which - while occasionally annoying to overhear - are harmless kid silliness and much richer creatively than the hours of garbage-grade mass produced kid cartoons my generation watched on broadcast TV.
At one point I put netflix on her ipad and took it off two days later b/c she started binge-watching entire series of crap (sound familiar? ;-) - on YT that doesn't happen b/c - like anyone - she can't resist the random links and ends up watching quite a variety of stuff.
The "Annoying Orange" channel tho. Damn. Aptly named. That's fine tho; kids are meant to like some things that irritate their parents. ;-)

Re:Stop me if you've heard this one before

[careysub]

Many of us have learned not to adopt new Google services, period. They have taught us patiently over and over by rolling out Cool New Stuff and then deciding that it wasn't monetizing adequately (if they ever tried to do so, often they didn't) and pulled the plug, with little or no notice oftentimes.

Was it free? Not really, I am paying for it like other people do through Google's highly profitable ad business, and through my employer indirectly who uses their web business offerings and even GC. They just can't imagine that it makes sense to keep running services at modest cost as loss leaders to keep people happy with their ecosystem, and ready to adopt new offerings.

If Google offers anything new now I ignore it, since they are going to take it away anyway in a few years. They convinced me, finally, and I believe them.