YouTube Premium is the only reason I stick with YouTube Music. I was a Google Play Music user, and that was fine. Getting both was a boon. I would say though that YouTube Music has been an overall downgrade.
Google Play Music was pretty good, especially the auto-generated playlists (albeit a bit repetitive after a while), made me discover a lot of artists, so of course Google had to kill it.
Nowadays I use Deezer and it's definitively worse.
Eh, I just left Youtube Music considering to go back to Spotify. Youtube Music has a terrible UI, lacks features, and feels like an afterthought to entice people to get Youtube Premium.
Honestly, if you're paying for Youtube Premium, you might as well use YT Music, but it's all around worse than Spotify.
Yup yup. I tried. I really tried to like YouTube Music, but it is just not working. I sent multiple feedbacks, but things aren't improving nor have I heard back from them.
I am currently back to Google Music...! Sooo much better. I'm not sure what I will do after they shut it down for good. Probably resort back to last.fm for recommendation and hop to another streaming platform.
Google Play Music wasn't very popular, but it was surprisingly good. YouTube Music is ok, but it lacks that quality without a name and has many small glitches that make it much less pleasant to use.
Google's contact has been utterly disappointing so far.
They kept saying for months that they will port all missing features from Google Play Music to Youtube Music and they kept advertising that you can transfer everything over.
Guess what, they haven't transferred a single feature over and no, you cannot transfer everything over.
I'm still staying with YT Music because they have the second best recommendation engine —Google Play Music had the best by far.
I did buy subscriptions to both Deezer and Spotify (and a 3rd party service to sync my collection over) to test, but their recommendations / radio features are way worse.
That was an annoying and janky migration, but Youtube Music has a better interface than Google Play Music ever did.
Though conceptually it's still just weird. A video that I like on youtube because of the video component isn't necessarily a song I want to listen to as music. Also it really needs the ability to block music from certain artists.
I hope this will, through rivalry with Apple, push Google to up the maximum quality of their audio streams on Youtube Music.
There was a significant decrease of quality since they migrated from Google Play Music (the difference can be heard especially with a good audiophile setup), and I hope they can undo that.
Google Music libraries were automatically migrated to YT Music, which honestly is a better product now. They didn't "kill" the functionality and didn't force you to migrate anywhere...
Google Play Music was so trash but I stuck with it because I had too many tracks sent by friends/my own on it (which Google Play would randomly delete altogether at times).
When they forced the transition to YouTube music, I gave up the service for good.
I was a long time user of Google Play Music until they killed it and moved everyone over to the inferior YouTube Music product. I suffuer through it mostly because it comes bundled with YouTube+ which removes ads.
Weird, I switched to Spotify once Google Play Music (or whatever silly name it had when Google ate songza) became YouTube Music because I found it such a poor experience.
Perhaps I was missing something but the change def did not improve the recommendations - it made them drastically worse.
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