YouTube music premium in this video I'm going to go over and do an in-depth
review on YouTube music premium and I'll also touch on YouTube premium not to be
confused with YouTube music premium but right now let's focus on YouTube music
premium. So YouTube music premium has been in the market now for a while and
Google is really trying to slow the growth of both Spotify and Apple music
as the main dominant players in the music streaming game. Google has already
tried to slow the growth already with some products like YouTube Red but now
Google's main product YouTube music premium is actually a product that I
think will be able to slow the growth of both Spotify and Apple music I want to
touch on five topics in this in depth review on YouTube music premium I'm
going to touch on the price, I'm going to go over the overall features of YouTube
music premium then we'll take a look at what it's like an iPhone or mobile and
then we'll take a look at what it's like on desktop and then we'll do a quick
comparison on how YouTube music premium compares to other services like Spotify
and Apple music. I will be referencing some time in this video to YouTube
Premium which is not YouTube music premium. Google has two products one is
called YouTube Premium and one is called YouTube music premium. YouTube
music premium is the music service and YouTube premium includes YouTube music
premium but it also has extra features like YouTube content originals that you
can get for free. Let's start with pricing YouTube music premium pricing
comes in at $9.99 a month which is the same as Spotify and Apple music there is
a three month free trial you can also start with YouTube music premium on your
own YouTube also has the family plan at $14.99 a month and the student plan at
$4.99 a month if you want to try the family plan at $14.99 a month you can do
so for free with a one-month free trial this is basically the same as Spotify
and Apple music and most other streaming platforms so there's no real cost leader
here when it comes to price quickly I'll mention YouTube's premium which is also
another server that includes YouTube music premium and
YouTube premium comes in at eleven ninety-nine a month so if you do want to
spend two dollars more a month you can get some extras like YouTube content
originals and also there's a family plan coming in at $17.99 a month and a
student plan coming at $6.99 a month now I can assume from looking at these costs
that Google is likely trying to push YouTube premium and so people will be
willing to spend that $2 extra a month so they can increase their revenue but
also they can increase their growth of YouTube premium which includes YouTube
music premium I'm not sure why they decided to call them basically the same
in general though the YouTube music premium price is competitive and it's
not any less or more than any of the other music streaming services so let's
move on to the next section let's go over the overall features of YouTube
music premium let's start with the first feature of music discovery and
recommendations and I thought that YouTube music cream has really only been
the big competitor to Spotify when it comes to new music discovery and that's
because well Google right and the Google recommendation algorithm that is the
underlying kind of engine to youtube music premium now the second thing to
talk about under features would be the user
experience or the ease of use on how to use the application both on mobile and
desktop and in general I found it quite easy and fun to use almost in a certain
way but because it was so easy to use that kind of could be taken as a bad
thing or a good thing it's a good thing because it was easy to use and I was
able to find everything quickly and there were there weren't many
distractions in the app there was a very simple navigation home hot list and
library and I was able to find everything very easily now it could also
be looked at a bad thing because YouTube is quite immature in terms of their
features so they actually don't have to pack in many things to their product yet
because they're missing out on a lot of power features that most music streamers
want that Spotify and Apple music do have an example would be having the
option to EQ the song or maybe crossfade songs in a playlist these are two power
features that Spotify does have YouTube music premium does not have so I
do say that YouTube music is quite nice and easy to use right now but I do have
a feeling over the next few years as they start to pack more power features
into the app it might start getting a little busy
another great feature that seamlessly works with YouTube music premium is the
ability to hook it up to your Google home or chromecast in your home and
that's very simple just say hey Google Minds listening right now stop another
feature is how YouTube music premium on boards their users just like Spotify and
Apple music do they ask you at the beginning what type of artists like and
from there they can build a catalogue and recommend new artists to you and
what I really noticed and what I thought was really great with YouTube music
premium was yeah they did that and you could go you could scroll through and
choose artists you like so they can build a bit of a picture for you but a
big thing of what I noticed right away was inside my youtube music premium app
I already had my liked videos which I had previously like way before I even
had YouTube music premium of videos on YouTube so there is another sign that
the YouTube music and Google algorithm the engine underlying all of this is
working behind the scenes and starting to recommend videos and songs to me that
I've already liked in the past moving on let's take a look at music and actually
why we're streaming music from youtube music premium I haven't noticed any
songs that YouTube music premium is missing out on comparing it to Spotify
or Apple music for example the only thing I notice is that YouTube music
premium has more songs than Spotify and Apple music because it has all these
music videos and I'm not talking about just the official music videos for
professional songs but all the live videos that are hosted on YouTube music
you can actually stream those and put them on your Google home or put them on
your chromecast or listen to them on your headphones wherever that's a big
feature I really like about YouTube music premium and something Spotify and
Apple music will likely never have because artists aren't releasing these
songs on those services but they are putting YouTube videos
and just it so happens that YouTube music premium can get these songs and
people can listen to them as audio files not videos let's take a look at the
quality of music that we get from YouTube music premium and compared to
some of the other services now we all know that title does have the best
quality of music but if you're using Spotify or Apple music I mean I'm a
Spotify user and I tend to sometimes do see the lack of quality in some songs
but I have a really good pair of studio monitors and with my Spotify account I'm
okay with the quality I get from Spotify however with YouTube music premium I was
worried about the quality because most of the time when you're watching a video
the audio quality is more poor however luckily YouTube music premium has
thought of this already and if you want to listen just in your headphones and
not watch the video you do have the option just to click an option that just
says let me listen to the audio and not watch the video and then you'll get a
higher quality audio file lastly let's look at podcast YouTube music Premium
does not have podcasts yet although you can go and listen to any other podcast
or your favorite podcasters that already put out YouTube videos you can do that
but like Spotify YouTube doesn't have such a large breadth of podcasts yet on
YouTube music premium however I believe that will change in the future so let's
take a look at YouTube music premium inside Mobile and so I hear I am a very
simple navigation as I was saying at the bottom you have a home hot list and
library inside our home we have everything that you are usually used to
for example recommended music videos today's biggest hits brand new music fun
at work boost your energy so more or less staples of what you would have in
any music streaming services hot list is a series of music videos and from what
I've noticed there are about 20 new cool and trending videos here and you can go
scroll down to the bottom and come back and scroll up to top and so this does
change daily and gives you a new video hot list let's move on to the library
section and this is basically our library where our playlist album songs
and artists would be I mean I like it obviously you can see I was playing
Taylor Swift recently and so I mean I enjoy the simple dark mode UX that's
here it just seems to be very clean and slimmed down and so if we go into any of
these sections you'll start to notice inside playlists these are already my
playlists that I have on my own YouTube channel and for songs as well I can see
here are already songs that I've already liked on YouTube music and so already
the algorithm is knowing me quite well let's go back to home here and then take
a look at the sections at the top we can connect a device I mean I have to Google
homes so I can send to my living room or more it's a speaker and then also I
mentioned the search function you can search by a voice as well so that's what
YouTube music premium looks like on a mobile device in my opinion very clean I
really enjoy the dark mode I really enjoy the super simple UX that it has
and so I hope they can try and maintain that simple UX as they begin to move
more power features into the app alright now let's move on to YouTube music
premium on desktop and really no surprises here it's almost the exact
same but just in a wide format we have home hot list and library my liked songs
my playlists there is a simple onboarding section as well if you prefer
to on board on desktop where you can choose the artists you like so I'm not
gonna get too deep into this section YouTube music premium on desktop because
it actually is a mirror of the mobile application there are some settings
differences where actually you can do more things on the mobile device where
you can't understand one of those is for example when I was mentioning audio
quality you can change the audio quality on your mobile device which you cannot
do on desktop okay now let's take a look at comparing YouTube music premium to
Spotify and Apple music I think you know what I'm gonna say but in general I do
really like YouTube music premium I'm a big user of watching YouTube music
videos and just YouTube videos in general so I'm a
big fan of YouTube music I think they have a long way to go when it comes to
building in those power features like I was saying I feel like I'm saying power
features a lot in this video but I watch more YouTube than I do
I think Netflix and so therefore I'm just on YouTube more and if I can if I
can have my streaming music service tied in directly to YouTube on a desktop and
on mobile I think that would just save me a lot of time and I could have
everything in one place so let me know what you think in a comment what are you
going to switch to will you go to youtube music premium will you stay on
Spotify will you stay on Apple music please let me know in a comment what you
think I do reply to all the comments so I'm curious to what you think feel free
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