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I use youtube music, but I am looking for alternatives (but not spotify for various reasons).", "context": "", "use_case": "music streaming", "switched_from": "", "story": "Fastpotify"}, {"id": 792311202, "item_id": 49519450, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49519450", "by": "yard2010", "date": "2026-09-01", "stance": "warn", "quote": "In youtube music after adding 30 tracks to the play queue, tapping 1 track accidentally deletes the play queue and plays this track.", "excerpt": "While moving from spotify to youtube music a few years ago I bought a vinyl player to listen to full albums and fell for it. Then when I moved to curate and self host my collection with Plex and Plexamp I realized I'm not using the player anymore since I'm using Plexamp to listen to albums. Plexamp is not perfect and not open source unfortunately, but it's a really good non-enshitified product. I had to migrate away ", "context": "", "use_case": "music streaming", "switched_from": "Spotify", "story": "Fastpotify"}, {"id": 786211906, "item_id": 49138244, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49138244", "by": "Quothling", "date": "2026-08-01", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "any of their products other than google pay, maps and youtube music", "excerpt": "I have nothing to contribute to the google discussion, it's been a while since I used any of their products other than google pay, maps and youtube music. The big migrant crisis in Europe was in 2015 though. We get these things in smaller scale like what is happening in Ceuta and with the Spanish supreme court, but the big thing was back in 2015. In 2021 everything was locked down. Unless you're speaking about a spec", "context": "", "use_case": "music streaming", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google News is just Forrest Gump's shrimp boat now"}, {"id": 775188464, "item_id": 48449279, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48449279", "by": "linsomniac", "date": "2026-06-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use and \"like\" youtube music", "excerpt": "Wow, thank you! I use and \"like\" youtube music, but it seems like every time I'd start a google meet call (IIRC) or otherwise interact with audio on my MacBook it would bring up Apple Music. If I quit it, it would pop back up the next time I had audio playing, but if I just left it running it would be fine. So I'd always have this Apple Music in my list of running apps. Kind of annoying. I ran the above and then quit", "context": "", "use_case": "music streaming", "switched_from": "", "story": "Stop the Apple Music app from launching"}, {"id": 763395633, "item_id": 47712227, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47712227", "by": "al_borland", "date": "2026-04-09", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I pay for Apple Music and hate YouTube Music a lot.", "excerpt": "It looks like the yearly plan went up $20 as well. Of course, the yearly plan doesn\u2019t auto-renew for whatever reason, so at least people can\u2019t forget and unknowingly get a higher charge. I\u2019ll have to debate between now and October when my Premium service runs out if I want to renew. I tried to go without it last time and made it all of 18 hours before giving in and signing back up. I\u2019m still rather frustrated that Yo", "context": "", "use_case": "music streaming", "switched_from": "", "story": "YouTube Premium just went up to $15.99 / mo (US)"}, {"id": 758883648, "item_id": 47430228, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47430228", "by": "embedding-shape", "date": "2026-03-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "not all videos are available in \"YouTube Music\", so you can't just play back any of the videos from YouTube while using YouTube Music via Carplay", "excerpt": "I tried YouTube for music a year ago or so, as it was included when I tried out a paid YouTube plan to remove the ads. Apparently (at least at that point) not all videos are available in \"YouTube Music\", so you can't just play back any of the videos from YouTube while using YouTube Music via Carplay, instead you need to then use YouTube itself, which of course you can't use via Carplay. After being disappointed again", "context": "", "use_case": "music streaming", "switched_from": "", "story": "Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers"}, {"id": 752940738, "item_id": 47058796, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47058796", "by": "0xCE0", "date": "2026-02-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "YT music is even more horrible especially with playlists.", "excerpt": "And it shows. Desktop app gets laggier and buggier on every update. And recently like 1 of every 10 consecutive songs just doesn't play. When clicking on the song, it feels like the app tries to redirect original song link (the \"app\" is a website) to some other link and it doesn't find it. As an example, Madonna - Frozen (from 1998 Ray of Light album) just doesn't play, just tried. I have been paying Spotify customer", "context": "", "use_case": "playlists", "switched_from": "", "story": "Spotify says its best developers haven't written code since Dec, thanks to AI"}, {"id": 752848464, "item_id": 47053029, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47053029", "by": "barrenko", "date": "2026-02-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I find that it works much better for music on music.youtube.com", "excerpt": "I find that it works much better for music on music.youtube.com", "context": "", "use_case": "music recommendations", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Why is YouTube's recommendation system so bad?"}, {"id": 746399552, "item_id": 46649972, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46649972", "by": "DoesntMatter22", "date": "2026-01-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "now I use YouTube Music myself and it's great. Saves me money and I love it", "excerpt": "I have youtube premium to avoid youtube ads and now I use YouTube Music myself and it's great. Saves me money and I love it", "context": "", "use_case": "music streaming", "switched_from": "Spotify", "story": "Spotify increases its US subscription prices for the third time in 3 years"}, {"id": 732911686, "item_id": 45806980, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45806980", "by": "_-_-__-_-_-", "date": "2025-11-03", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "When I'm in the car or on mobile, I use YouTube Music", "excerpt": "I have a music folder 45000+ tracks and counting dating from as far back as 2003. I sync this 450 GB folder to two computers using syncthing and then use rsync to synchronize a subset of these albums (folders by format) to SD Cards inside iPod's. I use Strawberry player for listening (a fork of Clementine) and a combination of beets and MusicBrainz for tagging. Then, I scrobble my listens on ListenBrainz. When I'm in", "context": "45000+ track music library since 2003", "use_case": "mobile listening", "switched_from": "", "story": "Maintaining a Music Library, Ten Years On"}]}