You're telling me, I'm over here with Apple Music when all my friends have Spotify. I stopped using Spotify as they started pushing podcasts to the forefront of their platform (PocketCasts ftw).

I still have YTM due to Premium, but I only really use it for stuff that is only on YouTube.

I used GPM until the day Google shut it down. YTM was trash when it came out and still trash when they shut down GPM, not sure if that is still the case. I never canceled my YTM subscription because I use the YTP it comes with. I made the switch to spotify for my music streaming and have no regrets other than the fact they shut down GPM.

I moved to YTM when Spotify just would not stop trying to shove Rogan down my throat at every opportunity. The iOS app itself has some rough edges but otherwise, no regrets. I used a tool to transfer over my playlists and likes, and from there it's been perfectly good. Plus YT Premium is nice to have, too.

I've mostly used YouTube Music, though my friends use Spotify, and I think the addition of being able to watch/listen to YouTube videos in Music is huge. Spotify is great if you only listen to label-published artists, but when you want to include tracks and mixes from indies, YTM is just the only way to go

Me as a bandcamp user : 💀

reading that just once again reminded me of how much requirements for those services can differ from person to person. especially that section about integrations. never threw money at spotify or youtube music fwiw

tfw you are the guy who just gets free bandcamp codes from discords, downloads the FLACs, archives them in triplicate (NAS, offsite backup, cold storage backup), then converts them to opus, and then puts the .ogg files on your phone OR records from the flacs onto cassette for in the woods listening with the knockoff walkman you've had since childhood.

YTM and Spotify and the ilk just seem like too much work.

I have YTM through a family plan with a friend and Spotify through the student discount program, so YTM is for the music I listen to over and over and over and over and Spotify is for like, big boy listening times where I'm sitting down with an album (until I get speakers for my record player anyways)