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YouTube Announces 'YouTube Music Key' Subscription Streaming Service for $7.99 Per Month
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Youtube is too buggy for something free, I would not pay 7.99 a month from the people that brought me buggy youtube.
They're trying to offer you a service where you don't have to resort to illegal methods of getting music.
The problem is it's Youtube, the streaming market is saturated, and it's too easy to go down the illegal method in the first place.
so if I am understanding this right if I have Google music All access I gain this as well?
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score if you have the All access you gain this for free.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+GooglePlay/posts/6ULdn2PwW3S
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score if you have the All access you gain this for free.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+GooglePlay/posts/6ULdn2PwW3S
I consider this part a bonus to me. The google music is the key part and it is chance to get it at a reduced rate.
Wow.......what a jerk move. You do realize people male money off people watching ads right? You are effectively lowering their income. For shame.
I often have to reload the page or revert to 144p (on a 20 mbps connection) just to watch a video on YouTube.
I'm not willing to pay just to experience some of this without ads (which always play fine) and have a legal offline mode for that subset.
I'm not willing to pay just to experience some of this without ads (which always play fine) and have a legal offline mode for that subset.
Honestly I find comments like the guy you quoted more showing people's age more so lack of maturity. 10 years ago that would of been my answer. Now I am at a point in my life that
1. I can afford to just pay for the stuff
2. It is more trouble and time than it is worth for me to pirated it.
Answer 1 and 2 are the exact reasons why I have things like Google Play All access for music and I got it at the $8 a month point.
They should have just streamlined it and say All Access now includes ad-free music videos powered by YouTube.
How hard would it have been to do that?
If Google really cared, they would have patched it years and years ago.
How hard would it have been to do that?
If Google really cared, they would have patched it years and years ago.
Music Videos? They still waste time making those?
I haven't watched a vapid music video in over 20 years. What's the point? There are more interesting and free things to watch on the internet then Miley Cyrus twerking to god awful music.
Also who buys a music video? Seriously if you wasted money specifically buying a music video you might have to acknowledge you have a serious problem because no sane person wastes money on a music video because it's kind of like wiping your ass with a $1 bill and flushing it down the toilet, and at least that dollar served a purpose.
I haven't watched a vapid music video in over 20 years. What's the point? There are more interesting and free things to watch on the internet then Miley Cyrus twerking to god awful music.
Also who buys a music video? Seriously if you wasted money specifically buying a music video you might have to acknowledge you have a serious problem because no sane person wastes money on a music video because it's kind of like wiping your ass with a $1 bill and flushing it down the toilet, and at least that dollar served a purpose.
Looking forward to the app update, then. Being able to put the display to sleep and have the audio keep playing is something the YouTube app should have had in version 1.0 or 1.1.
Dont care about it, but i'm afraid that youtube is going to start removing song videos that were uploaded by random people just so they'll force people to switch to this Youtube key if they'll want to listen/watch songs
And why is the "background listening" so special? I had that on iphone 3 years ago... they're bragging about it like Apple was bragging when it first introduced MMS in iphone 3g...
And why is the "background listening" so special? I had that on iphone 3 years ago... they're bragging about it like Apple was bragging when it first introduced MMS in iphone 3g...
Whats the bet this will make some YouTube execs richer, while artists will earn next to nothing out of it? Legalised piracy then, just like Spotify. As far as the artists are concerned anyway...
I read this today and I really think its worth a read:
https://news.spotify.com/us/2014/11/11/2-billion-and-counting/
Sure, its biased as hell but offered some new perspectives
LOL another streaming service asking for money.
Bet this takes off like iTunes Radio, right face first into the dirt.
Bet this takes off like iTunes Radio, right face first into the dirt.
Please. It every now and then resets the window size (from big player back to small player), it doesn't remember your preference on whether you want to autoplay the next videos or not, it can;t remember you annotations preference (on/off), black screens (although it has cut down a lot), mobile comments don't load as fast as they did, and on a touch screen device it is really easy to press on of the comments which takes you away from the video you were watching, if you have 1 tab in Safari on iPad which is Youtube in full screen then you to another tab then close the second tab it then has a white block at the bottom of the page as it can't resize automatically (you have to turn your iPad in portrait then back into landscape), no 480p option for HTML 5 playback (only 240p, 360p and 720p) and it still uses Flash as default (and it makes you select the HTML5 version from youtube.com/html5 as if you don't have Flash installed and you used Safari if doesn't load half the time without setting it up).
Plus there is the massive fact that if you have the Youtube app and don't use your account, the size of the app keeps growing and growing and there is no way to clear they history/cache it is building up as you are not signed in.
Need I go on, it is buggy on all devices I use (iMac, Windows PC's, tablets, phones).
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This will go down in flames in short order. The You Tube generation will not pony up for this when the likes of Adblock & others are out there, not to mention paying for low quality.
This will go down in flames in short order. The You Tube generation will not pony up for this when the likes of Adblock & others are out there, not to mention paying for low quality.