YouTube Red and Google Play Music Will Merge To Create a New Service (theverge.com) 59
YouTube's head of music, Lyor Cohen, confirmed that the company is planning on merging its Google Play Music service with YouTube Red to create a new streaming offering. "The important thing is combining YouTube Red and Google Play Music, and having one offering," Cohen said. The Verge reports: Right now, YouTube's music ecosystem is unnecessarily complicated. There's YouTube Red, which removes ads from videos and lets you save them offline, while also giving you access to Google Play Music for free. Then there's YouTube Music, which anyone can use, but it gets better if you're signed up for YouTube Red. And YouTube TV is also a thing -- an entirely separate thing -- but it's not available everywhere yet. The merger has been rumored within the industry for months, and recently picked up steam after Google combined the teams working on the two streaming services earlier this year. In a statement to The Verge, Google said it will notify users of any changes before they happen. "Music is very important to Google and we're evaluating how to bring together our music offerings to deliver the best possible product for our users, music partners and artists. Nothing will change for users today and we'll provide plenty of notice before any changes are made."
Music is very important to Google (Score:2)
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Subject doesn't mean "first 8 words" (Score:2)
I suspect your comment was misunderstood because you started a sentence in the Comment Subject and finished it in the Comment. It's more common here for a subject to summarize a comment than to begin it. I would have formatted it like this:
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As long as we can continue to rip the free streams (Score:2)
As long as we can continue to rip the free streams, do whatever you want.
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I am starting to smell more reasons why the big shit at alphabet was cutting off payments to YouTubers, they were selling competing content. Doesn't matter what kind of content, but if eyeballs and ears are paying attention to YouTuber content instead pay to play content, Google make less money and even worse pays money to make less money. Google seem to be creeping their slimey way to pay to publish, even when they take the bulk of advertising revenue on other people's content, it will never be enough, co
Too expensive (Score:2)
The only feature I'm interested in with YouTube Red is the background play in my iPodTouch (e.g., iOS/iPhone). The monthly cost is too much to bother so I find the audio programs elsewhere.
Intriguing (Score:3, Interesting)
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Still occupies system partition space (Score:2)
Hide the icon if you don't want to see it.
Hiding an application's icon doesn't reclaim the space that the application occupies on the device's internal memory. This hurts especially on a device lacking a microSDXC slot because of Microsoft's exFAT patent. Even "Uninstall updates" followed by "Disable" leaves a copy of the app in the system partition.
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Give It Up (Score:1)
No one wants to pay for YouTube. Give it up.
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I gladly would but I can't (no YouTube Red in Europe)
I hate ads but I still want content creators to be compensated.
And direct payment (Patreon...) is not what I want. I watch videos from dozens of channels and there is no way I'm going to pay for each one of them, and I feel that only giving to the "best" ones is unfair.
Right now, the AdBlocker is on. But not only it is sometimes troublesome, especially on mobile, and it isn't a viable solution since both Google and content creators deserve to get paid. IM
How about actually offering it (Score:2)
Blah blah marketing... these two have been the same for the last year or so -- if you got one, you got the other. How about actually offering it? YouTube Red is available in five countries: United States, Australia, Mexico, New Zealand and South Korea.
Both are failing (Score:2)
YouTube has been free since it was created, Why pay for Red or YouTube TV when for the same price you can get Hulu and/or Netflix? Maybe that why subscriptions are flat.
Google Music is terrible. I was listening to stream and it kept pushing a style of music I don't like to me. The more I thumbs downed the style the more it played. Once its said I ran out of skips I knew it wasn't listening to my requests. It was just pushing was the record studios were paying Google to play.
I'll stick with regular You
That's not how it works... (Score:2)
I didn't sign up for YouTube Red and then got Google Music for free. I signed up for Google Music and they lumped in a useless service called YouTube Red that I don't use or care about. They better not F this up. I don't want to have to move my freaking music library AGAIN! I moved off of Amazon when they stopped supporting Linux despite using Flash for everything. It's just crap!
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I wish there were more details (Score:1)
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Don't even say it! Pocket Casts is my most used phone app and the last think I'd want is for Google to buy it and ruin it like they seem to have done with most things they've acquired and really what they've done to most of their stuff people actually use. Please don't give them ideas!
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Doing what Google is best at (Score:4, Insightful)
Stop trying to make YouTube Red a thing. (Score:2)
So you're saying, YT Red is pointless? (Score:1)
There's YouTube Red, which removes ads from videos and lets you save them offline
There are extensions for blocking adds and youtube-dl for saving the videos offline...why tf would I pay for YouTube Red again...?