I need to decide before my trial expires. I’m using I phone 14 pm. Most of the time I listen to music via AirPods. Which is better music streaming?
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My cell phone carrier just added YT Premium as a benefit. Costs the same as Apple One.
Apple One: Music/TV/Arcade/Cloud. Realistically I only use the music and the cloud, and even the cloud I don’t really NEED.
YT Premium: Music, and Ad free YouTube (I view no ads as a big plus)
Thoughts? Ironically I recently moved to Apple Music because of the carrier deal, but YT Premium seems like a no brainer over Apple+ at the same price.
I’ve been using YT music since 2018 and for the past few months I’ve been messing around with different streaming apps and now im using Apple Music up until a few months ago. I don’t know if I made the right choice but I’m enjoying Apple Music as of right now. The biggest factor thats going to keep me from switching permanently is that with YT Music you can do more than just download music, you can download videos as well and old tracks you can’t find on Apple Music or Spotify. There’s about 300 songs I have on My YT Music library i can’t find on Apple Music or even Spotify. YT Music is slightly louder and you can tell the difference but Apples Lossless takes the cake, Spotify has HiFi and YT Music doesn’t have anything special just the regular high medium and low audio quality. The main problem that made me switch to Apple Music was with YTM Shuffling. Regardless if i was playing my downloaded songs or a regular playlist, it would be under “queue” and after about 20 songs I would have to restart my playlist, every single time which got really annoying, a really horrible update. Spotify I just never got into, I didn’t feel like I should waste my time building a library on there. Spotify is the type that if you don’t have some type of library built, it ain’t worth it and should build with Apple Music or YTM instead. On YTM I have 4,000+ songs and on Apple Music I have about around 1,500.
Spotify doesn’t have Hi-Fi. Max quality is 320 kbps OGG.
YTM maxes out at 256 kbps AAC.
Apple Music (non-lossless) at 256 kbps AAC. And of course their lossless and hi-res lossless offerings.
Absent Apple’s lossless tier, audio quality for the three services are comparable.
I also tried the big three (Spotify for years, Apple and YouTube Music mostly in the last year) and found Apple Music to be the best for me, since I value uploading my own songs and integrating them into my library on all my devices, which Apple does best out of the three.
I thought transitioning to YT music would be a breeze since most of my uploaded songs these days are YT covers, and being on the YT platform would save me the hassle of having to download and upload them to a different service. However, I miss the library integration Apple has where they don’t differentiate between saved and uploaded songs and let you edit tags so everything can be grouped the way you want it to. On YT they separate saved and uploaded songs entirely and force you to use playlists if you want to play saved and uploaded songs together.
I’m not a fan of it at all, but I’m still subbed since it comes free with YT Premium and saves me $10/mo compared to Apple. If I were more serious about music like you OP I would probably go back to Apple though.
Hey everyone,
I’ve been using both Apple Music and YouTube Music for the past 2 months, and honestly, I enjoy both. But now I need to make a decision and stick to one subscription, mostly for economic reasons.
Here’s how I feel about each:
YouTube Music: What I love most is the unlimited content — from remixes, live concerts, covers, to rare and fan-made uploads. It feels like a goldmine, especially when I want to explore beyond the official releases.
Apple Music: On the other hand, I love its interface, audio quality, and how well it fits into the Apple ecosystem. It just feels polished and seamless, especially since I use other Apple products.
I’m really torn. Each one offers something the other doesn’t. If you had to choose one, which would it be — and why?
Would love to hear your thoughts!
I can have any of them for the same price. I don't want to have both to save money from subscriptions. I think apple music is better than YouTube music. Also I can use free apple podcast instead of YouTube podcasts. If you were to choose which one. I'll follow your suggestions
Hey everyone,
I’ve been using both Apple Music and YouTube Music for the past 2 months, and honestly, I enjoy both. But now I need to make a decision and stick to one subscription, mostly for economic reasons.
Here’s how I feel about each:
YouTube Music: What I love most is the unlimited content — from remixes, live concerts, covers, to rare and fan-made uploads. It feels like a goldmine, especially when I want to explore beyond the official releases.
Apple Music: On the other hand, I love its interface, audio quality, and how well it fits into the Apple ecosystem. It just feels polished and seamless, especially since I use other Apple products.
I’m really torn. Each one offers something the other doesn’t. If you had to choose one, which would it be — and why?
Would love to hear your thoughts!
I have YouTube Premium which comes with YouTube Music, but I was curious if people thought Apple Music was that much better to pay for that service instead of the YouTube Music that is included with a service I already pay for.