[shunyaekam]

As an aside, I think YouTube Music is superior to Spotify in terms of music catalog.

You get "everything on Spotify" (high quality audio) plus the YouTube videos (eg mixes that are put up) in a battery-friendy player (possibility to go audio only on these videos). Of course minimizable with YT Premium.

I believe that the discoverability algo is much better with YouTube Music as well, which is important to me...

I pay ~$15/month (in my local currency) for YouTube Premium which also gives me the ad-free experience on YouTube.

[AlecSchueler]

YouTube is also better if you're looking for original mixes and not the remaster, as well as for anything out of print.

[mattmaroon]

And live stuff. Bands that allow fans to patch into the audio board, or stream, their concerts live on SiriusXM, get them all uploaded to YouTube.

Also, covers by random people. Some of my favorite music is basically just a dude doing an acoustic guitar cover of a great song.

https://youtu.be/2rFpZL6BiCs?si=5qFHjGQLHTfDB1zG

[artninja1988]

The only thing Spotify has over YouTube are the playlists and recommendation engine imo. The ai dj feature is also neat

[squid_fm]

Fully agree, it is the most underrated platform.

Ultimately, it comes down to the catalog. Anything even slightly more obscure (older house music, rare b-sides, unreleased tracks) just isn’t found on Spotify. Pretty much everything is on YouTube though.

[smt88]

Unfortunately YT Music pays the least to artists.

[mrtksn]

I actually like YouTube itself for casual listening, it has everything. My only problem with it is that on autoplay will put 2 hour long albums as a single video instead of picking the most relevant next song.