YouTube music

spotify is way better than this trash

No equalizer function in music streaming app? Seriously??

I miss Google Play. It was so much easier to navigate and manage. This is such a letdown. And please, at least give users the options 1. to separate their YouTube watch history from their YouTube Music account and 2. To turn off that awful autoplay/up-next feature. Who needs an algorithm forced on them that decides what they’re going to listen to next? The dreck that ends up in some of those up-next queues...

Keeps forgetting the currently playing Playlist as soon as I pause the music and some time goes by. Sometimes it also stutters and crashes. I'd have switched to another music service if YouTube music hadn't made it so hard to migrate.

I give this a 10/10 because I love listening to music and they don’t have adds

Impossible to cancel subscription if you had premium on an android and switched to iphone. Literally only paying because i cannot manage my subscription. Please fix this asap. Unacceptable.

Keeps reverting back to Auto video quality (potato) on the next video even though 1080p was selected. Internet connection is more than capable. Not sure why a premium service would downgrade their video quality after force selecting high definition. The regular YouTube app doesn’t have this problem.

Way better than Google Play, and easy to transfer

I use every Google product out there. When I switched to YouTube Music because Google play was being taken down, I transferred my music (that went smoothly) and I thought it would be the same interface as Google Play, but it’s incredibly worse. Here are a lists of things I hope to see in future updates. 1) When you add a new song to a downloaded playlist, the song should automatically download instead of having to re-download (or refresh) the whole playlist. Google did this perfectly, not sure why YouTube can’t. 2) Ability to select multiple songs at once to transfer to playlists/download. 3) The app saves your playback settings. Having to select “loop” every time I play a playlist is ridiculous. I want to be able to hit “shuffle” and not have to worry about that extra step. Especially since you have to select the queue and then hit loop. 4) The ability to download the whole song library. Again, Google made that easy but now you have to download everything separately, or add everything separately to a playlist. 5) Quick navigation between Albums, Artist, Playlist and library. I respect that YouTube music is trying to get more people noticed by adding a bunch of recommendations and exploring options, but at the end of the day, 9 out of 10 times when I use the app, I just want to listen to the music I have in my library. Every now and then I love how easy it is to find new music when I want to, but that shouldn’t be a priority above the music I already enjoy. 6) “Downloads” should be categorized, having songs, albums, and playlists all in one line gets aggravating when I’m looking for one playlist. 7) the “download only” switch on Google was absolutely amazing. I can open the app and start playing music instantly. Now I have to wait for it to buffer and load but I know it’s not loading my music, it’s loading all the recommendations and explore stuff when I don’t need that. Which again, furthers my point that it shouldn’t be a priority to have all that. I love Google products and YouTube, but I really didn’t think the switch to YouTube music was going to be so aggravating. It got to the point where I’m looking for alternatives because I have never experienced so much irritation with a music app before. I never ever write reviews, but I want this app to work so well that I am writing this in hopes these adjustments are made.

Not worth without premium

I was a Google Play customer for years, made playlists with thousands of songs, I took pride in my playlists. After the move to YTM, I’m unsubscribing. I’ve given them time to tweak the minor UI pieces with no luck. It’s a shame that I’m going to lose all that music from the playlists but this system is now garbage. I’ve already paid this month, told the family we’ll be moving to Apple Music so get to migrating their playlists and get ready to say goodbye to YTM. To the developers, you had an easy task from a customers perspective. You should’ve just rebranded Google Play and left he platform alone.

Hopefully, writing this review will get YouTube off my back about writing a review. I like the app, but pressuring me for a review e v e r y d a y is sooooo annoying. Come on guys, get a life. We like you, ok?

I love this app because it’s very easy to use and it plays even while the iPhone is off which is very useful

Don’t like this at all. Too cumbersome to find and go through my own uploads. I don’t care about signing up for even more streaming services. I only need this to listen to the stuff that used to be on google play/music... whatever it was called. Constant changes by tech overlords make me want to install a cd changer in my car or maybe an 8 track.

Big library, nice UI, free if you already are a YouTube Premium subscriber. But some weird bugs, like if you rate anything negatively (like a song you are not currently listening to) it switches the song you are currently listening to every time.

Too expensive

You can add songs to a queue but it NEVER works . This app is terrible

The app will not play music uninterrupted unless you upgrade and pay a monthly fee. Change screens, won’t play. Turn off your screen, won’t play. Use any other app, won’t play. Just awful. I’m going to find another place for my music.

App won’t load

Why on earth are you guys neglecting such a basic feature that literally every music player (including GPM that you forced people to switch from) has??? There’s a million different AI customization playlist options but you can’t let people start a queue without a hundred different songs they didn’t ask for?? If I want to listen to a radio I can start it myself from the dot menu, we don’t need YTM to force feed us one every time we want to add ONE song to start a queue. Also, on iPhone, when you hit add to queue on an empty queue, the song doesn’t even show up. It’s baffling that such a brain dead basic feature hasn’t been implemented yet. Imagine ending GPM for this.

Used Google play for years. Liked it the best out of all the platforms I have access to. The YouTube app has been good so far and I am digging the playlists feature quite a bit. The only thing missing I feel is there is no sleep timer like Google Play has. I am still using Google Play at night or when I want the music to stop after a preset time. If YouTube coders could add the sleep timer this would be a 5 star app for me. Thanks! Jeff

This app works fine for streaming music, but at the same price as apple music and spotify, it feels like a let down. Go with apple or spotify instead, you won’t regret it.

So I converted my google play music to YouTube music and I’m relatively happy about it. There’s 2 things that need improvement: the only way I’ve found to find the repeat button is to click on the full screen and then you can put a song on repeat. However, when you put it in full screen, it cuts off the top and bottom parts of the album art. That’s about the only part(s) that’s I think need some improvement.

It’s just YouTube with less music and costs more just pointless.

The transition over to YouTube music has left me angry and annoyed. I have 3 google home speakers that are now useless. I cannot voice command any of them to play the music I purchased and own. I must now be a YouTube premium subscriber, had I known google would do this I would have never invested in a google home. These speakers are useless now. What’s next, you must pay a monthly membership to turn on/off your connected lights???

No equalizer??? Trash! Leave Play in service until this is fixed

I’m thinking about switching back to Apple Music unless this app really becomes good. I would like a volume scrubber and more ease of use. A more simple ui like Apple Music and I keep my premium membership. I think I don’t like this app because it’s not very simple to use.

this app used to be my go to but now when i type in a song it always gives me the instrumental or a cover by someone else. and i can’t even click on one of the picks they have for me it says playback failed every time. now i’m stuck listening to the same songs of the same type of music and im getting tired of it.

When you try to customize a playlist it rearranges it every time you refresh. I’m going back to Apple Music

Why am I paying so much if I can’t listen to music with my iPhone locked!!

I think there might be some bug that need to be fixed. I have YouTube premium and it says I’m offline.

:(

I feel like my music collection was kidnapped and being held for random and one must pay this randoms monthly otherwise they take your purchased music again. I cannot download my purchased music from google and download it to the app. They want me to stream my purchased music or pay a subscription to play albums I purchased on google!!! I feel like google play owes me all the money I spent on albums the last 10 years!!! If you actually appreciate music and curated a collection through google purchases this app is a nightmare. The app is also unsafe to use in the car. It forces you to dig through menus to access your own paid for music and does not play continuously forcing you to look at the screen. YouTube music is literally a n accident waiting to happen. Whoever’s grand idea it was to hold people’s purchased music hostage there is a special place in hell for you!!

It would be so convenient if this app had a feature where we can mix around the order of the songs downloaded, instead of shuffling it. Out of the many songs that I downloaded, I have my favorites and it would be good to just pick one at the top instead of scrolling all the way to the bottom.

Why pay for Spotify when YouTube’s music platform is just as good, probably better. If you use YouTube for both videos and music it’s a two-for one deal.

Great!!!!

Literally any song you want that’s on YouTube... thats sells me lol.

Can’t play music in background unless you have a premium subscription something others apps do for free. Look elsewhere.

This is so poorly designed. It’s confusing to use. Why so many down arrows and back arrows and lists within lists within lists. I get the theme is black and red, but how about a little color to differentiate between an artist page and a playlist? The app is slow to rotate whenever I turn my phone. Sometimes it’s impossible to exit the full screen when holding horizontal...also: why is that even the default? A user should choose to enter full screen. I also noticed the same flaw here as in Google play. I have 200+ songs on a playlist but it only plays the same small group of songs no matter how many thumbs up I give songs or how many times I hit shuffle.

This app is horrible and not a worthy replacement for google play music. It’s not smart about picking playlists, and when I run the radio off of my playlists it doesn’t make the list long enough. I used to make a station off of my playlist on google play and could drive 3-5 hours without having to touch anything. The UI is bad, and just doesn’t feel like a music app at all, only thing that kept me subscribed is not having ads on YouTube, but that’s not enough to justify $10/mo now. Time to test out Spotify and Apple Music again

I’ve been using google music and because it was included with my YouTube premium, I was loving it all except the lack of Dark mode. Google music was hurting my eyes (for years) with the bright orange and white. I’m just extremely glad that YouTube music has a dark mode and I get to keep my playlist

Good

this app is just stupid . you can’t exit the app with out the music stopping. so it has no point. good day 😑.

Why do I have to pay extra to be able to listen to music and have the screen off. Shame on you for trying to get extra money out of people. Don’t you guys make money from the commercials between each song?

Great app works great!! Free of charge and amazing with all the music in our taste.

All of the songs are free you don’t have to worry about buying anything and the app is free too! I got YouTube music bc when I had Apple Music u have to pay for songs or get limited time for free songs.😭 YOUTUBE MUSIC IS AWESOME 🤩

I liked this app at first when I had a free trial now I hate that I have to leave my phone unlocked because it drains the battery faster so I recommend Spotify

The interface is confusing and constantly tries to stream music when all I want to do is play my music from my library. All my music transferred from Google Play Music is flat in timbre and pitch.

IMHO YouTube music provides the best system for accessing all genres of music. From new releases to old school classics, to YouTube videos and playlists, it all comes together in one place with this app and service.

Everything moved from play. I had a large library, it is hard to scroll through so it needs the alphabet down the right side of the screen to help get to a section. Also I have not see an edit feature. I have a few albums in which every song is doubled.

I’ve actually started listening to music less because this app is such a downgrade from google play music. How would anyone with sound reasoning even think this is an acceptable app? It is one of the worst migrations I have ever seen and is truly appalling that google/YouTube would think this is acceptable. They better make the changes everyone is calling for or they’re going to lose a lot of paying customers including myself

I don’t have a native YouTube music app on my assistant devices or car. Spotify is leaps and bounds better integrated. But, the music selection here is fantastic, especially on the Hindi songs side.

Just bring back Google Music. At least it was a real music app. I can’t even listen to music while I use other apps unless I pay for premium? Lame.

YouTube music doesn’t just have official music but also music done by other artists. Having music videos to watch is awesome. To me that’s the big Advantage it has over Spotify. Granted the price it has for premium does feel a little outrageous but it feels worth it. Because when I bought a subscription back in July this has truly helped me during work. I work at a grocery store having to deal with people is exhausting but having this has truly helped me stay calm. I am really grateful to have a lot of music on here. My opinion there is a lot more music here than Spotify. Spotify may have podcasts I enjoy using google podcasts more. Cause Spotify doesn’t seem to have many of the podcasts I like. Some that aren’t there I can find on google podcasts. I know I got off track but this was my best attempt at trying to writing a good review. Apple music I tried once but I did learn if you have purchased some songs then purchased a subscription you would have to have your purchase songs download onto your phone. Cause if you don’t it just a mess because you don’t know what songs that you have purchased and which songs you saved due to your subscription. Which is why I think Apple Music isn’t really the best for me. The only thing good Apple Music does have is the radio you can play any radio station you can think of but you have to know the right radio station there is no save feature. Which is why it’s better just to use either a iHeart, tunein, or radio.com. The only good thing about Spotify is if you’re using free tier you can listen to music while using any other app.YouTube music free tier in order to keep the music playing you do need to keep your phone on that is a major drawback but in my opinion it’s not that big of a deal. If I want to listen to music while using other apps I can just play one of the radio apps that I mentioned. Anyway I hope this Review helps you in someway.

Better than spotify, apple music, overall just so amazing. youtube premium has no ads, breaks, and u can download music free

I’ve moved back to apple products because of this bull with google play music. Enjoy loosing more customers!

This is the least functional music service that has ever been developed. It is insane to me that Google would replace their excellent Google Music app with this piece of garbage. You can’t automatically upload music anymore. You can’t even search for music of a particular genre. YouTube Music does exactly nothing.

YouTube music is my everything. I don’t need to download and play. All I listen when I’m on the road or doing something. With the $12.99 there is no ads and I love it. And I think I’ll keep the YouTube music like forever. Thank you YouTube

First off, this app is so unnecessary. I had no problems or complaints with Google Play. YouTube Music UI was poorly set up which is my main problem. Google, get rid of this and bring back Google Play!

I like this app but I do wish you could have an album and artist grid like you have for the “Your Favorites” section. You had this same format with Google Play Music - full-on album covers displayed in a grid. The icing on top would be to make it user-adjustable to have anywhere from say, 3 up to 6 albums per row. However, that part is not necessary as long as the album covers your can be fully displayed. The list format you have now is so tiny I have to strain to see it. The list view would make more sense on a phone but for an iPad, you need to take advantage of the extra screen size. Thanks.

It appears your rating is inflated, in comparison to your reviews, I just want to listen to my playlist that I bought and paid for , the first thing that happens when you open the app is they want you to buy a subscription, this is total BS , if I can’t figure out how to listen to my music without subscribing, you owe me $$$ for my music I paid for !! Greed will be your downfall!

i want to love this app, it’s nice to use just to listen to music, however today i went on to discover all of my downloads had just disappeared for no reason, i wish they could fix some pretty common bugs and it’s a bit glitchy for what i’m paying

The app is great for listening to music but there is one annoying issue. You can’t organize the songs in your playlist alphabetically

I was able to just listen to my purchased music in the background on play music, but there is now a paywall to access anything conveniently in YouTube music. The horrible layout makes it hard to find my play music transfers and relevant searches or suggestions. I could easily find and organize my library on play music, but not on YouTube music with all of its extra garbage. I absolutely hate this change and it is such a disappointing downgrade. I wish I could have negative stars since that is my experience and satisfaction with this new service.

When I download the app it keeps saying try again and I did it a million times but nothing happened 😤

There’s hundreds of years of classical music to choose from but the idiots at YouTube apparently think that it’s listeners who were forced into this trash app after Google Music quit are only interested in listening to absolute garbage new age classical “lite” Muzak. Please hire some people who actually have a CLUE to curate some real classical music. I want to hear Bach, Beethoven, Mozart ANYTHING. I clicked on a “classical Christmas” station this morning and got a Pentatonix song. OK fine, I can live with that. And then Mariah Carey came on. I mean, am I being punked?? What absolute nonsense. When I listen to their classical solo piano playlist it’s the same 10-15 modern “lite” listening songs. Well I’d like to introduce you to Chopin, Liszt, Schumann, Debussy, Mozart. They kinda wrote a lot of piano music - maybe they could be added! It’s so frustrating to have classical music get marginalized over and over. This is a rubbish app.

No Lock Screen controls when casting, makes the app sort of useless. I’ve had to switch exclusively to Spotify since I switched to iPhone from Android for this reason so will probably just cancel my YTM subscription altogether now.

What else can I ask of-I got it. Beautiful music.Beautiful, relaxing while listening to your favorite music.

Long time paying customer with YouTube Music until you raised the rate. I have cancelled my subscription and deleted the app. Never again. Spotify is way better and much cheaper.

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I’ve used YouTube music as my primary way to listen to music for ~4 years and it has some major flaws: If you listen to >500 songs the recommended songs will all be songs you already have liked. The ads are about one for every 3 songs you listen not including double ads (back to back) or ads that are 15 seconds-7 minutes long (my longest ever was half an hour) NO SCREEN OFF PLAY (unless you have YouTube music premium which is different from YouTube premium) Yes, YouTube has a much wider selection of songs than Spotify but Spotify has non of the problems listed above. This is not a scam and it works just fine but is only better than it’s main competitor in one regard while being drown out by several positives by Spotify TLDR: Spotify is objectively better, but this is ok.

Theres a “What a time to Be Alive” album by Drake and Future which had been missing for almost a year, youtube music has made over plenty updates. And in each update i expect the album to return but unfortunately it doesnt. Please fix this “Copyright” issue i was told youre having, i miss the old classic hit from an amazong duo, the overall app is great tho

This app is horrible. It rarely works. Unless I download the songs to my phone it almost never plays them. It doesn’t matter if I’m on WiFi or cellular network. Google Play worked great. Why is this such garbage?

Had this app for over a year and suddenly it deleted all the downloaded song I had already. It’s sad because I pay for a service that doesn’t stick to what you’re paying for!

I love this app, it’s way better than any other music app. But it’s really missing an equalizer. It’s such a must when it comes to audio. I know Android users have this ability. I just want to know why iOS haven’t had the ability to implement this into this app. It would definitely make things better than they already. Love the app, this one small change can be a game changer.

Where is the app control for the lock screen??? I would very much like to control the app and chromecast audio from my lock screen like Spotify allows. Google Home app media control as well as this YTM app needs lock screen access to iphone/iOS volume control PLEASE!

So now I have to dig deeper into my own account just to find the music history I’ve been listening to. If it was a feature YouTube decided to change, it’s worthless. It used to be 2 clicks away now it’s 5

They have all my songs!

Used Google music for years and now I’m stuck with this garbage. 12.99 a month

5 star

Fr fr I’ve had all other music apps and this one was the winner for me cuz it plays much louder and duhh music videos. Plus, who doesn’t wish there were no adds on the main site ❤️

Better than iTunes and SpotifyI love it Ken Sadhaka

I like streaming music because my phone is always with me . I started with a few selections and in the last 3 months - they have downloaded 6-8 discs that are a combination of my selections and music that is similar and they added discs that are specific to the kind of music I like when I’m falling asleep. They also add new releases albums that I like. I have only music - listening with commercials is terrible LS -2020- Dallas

When I first started my free trial ended and what’s the point of YouTube music of you turn your phone off and it stops!

The subscription model is abhorrent due to the requirement to regularly pay them to listen to music while doing things! Ghuuggh!🤮🤮🤮

I like this app. The look and feel is great. Unfortunately the “add to que” function does NOT work and it almost makes the app not worth subscribing to.

The only problem is that we have to pay to listen off app like what’s the point off this app then I’m jus using YouTube for now on

I used it before it merged with Google Play music and now it glitches all the time. Like I can’t even edit my queued music. It’s awful

Don't get me started on the autoplay nonsense. I mean, of course I wanna listen to upbeat country immediately after soothing indie 😒 But real talk I want a repeat option. Sometimes my whole DAY is A SINGLE song!! Without this I'm going back to apple music.

I miss google music with passion. I don’t like that now if you don’t want to hear annoying ads after every song I have to pay. Deleting and suffering the lose of my music I paid and collected along the way over years . RIP google music you will be missed

Bring back google play... YouTube music still needs work

Great app but we know these guys are pros, maybe a bit overpriced, though. $12 seems a bit much when other, more seasoned music apps offer subscriptions for less. Somewhere between $4.99-7.99 seems more reasonable.

Irritating experience if you are a free user. Ads galore and doesn’t play music in the background so forget about using it in the car, you will go nuts and ram into someone either out of frustration or trying to mess with the clunky UX. Google is letting this user-base roll downhill.

I am a lover of classical music. Have explored many avenues for streaming classical music. Youtube Music is by far the best! It seems literally every composition and artist is available. And the sound quality is wonderful! I have finally found what I need.

Have had many platforms for music but I have really enjoyed this set up and how great YouTube keeps track of your likes in your own playlist easy access to download your favorite jams

Same Thing happened to me I never subscribed to YouTube music premium and it signed me up for it I’m NOT going to pay for YouTube premium

We got rid of google play for a worst app They want you to pay money to get what Google play was and if you don’t play it’s basically just another YouTube app.Please add in the middle of the songs but also likes to pause or buffer repeatedly it makes listen to music and pain download Pandora or something else they really messed up by getting rid of Google play

Loved google play music and switching over is fine the only thing is downloading music, I miss the feature of just adding music to my library and it would download instantly. I wish that would happen because the lags of when music isn’t downloaded is very annoying and doing downloads manually, every single song one by one or album by album is annoying. Just a little disappointed.

YouTube music

spotify is way better than this trash

No equalizer function in music streaming app? Seriously??

I miss Google Play. It was so much easier to navigate and manage. This is such a letdown. And please, at least give users the options 1. to separate their YouTube watch history from their YouTube Music account and 2. To turn off that awful autoplay/up-next feature. Who needs an algorithm forced on them that decides what they’re going to listen to next? The dreck that ends up in some of those up-next queues...

Keeps forgetting the currently playing Playlist as soon as I pause the music and some time goes by. Sometimes it also stutters and crashes. I'd have switched to another music service if YouTube music hadn't made it so hard to migrate.

I give this a 10/10 because I love listening to music and they don’t have adds

Impossible to cancel subscription if you had premium on an android and switched to iphone. Literally only paying because i cannot manage my subscription. Please fix this asap. Unacceptable.

Keeps reverting back to Auto video quality (potato) on the next video even though 1080p was selected. Internet connection is more than capable. Not sure why a premium service would downgrade their video quality after force selecting high definition. The regular YouTube app doesn’t have this problem.

Way better than Google Play, and easy to transfer

I use every Google product out there. When I switched to YouTube Music because Google play was being taken down, I transferred my music (that went smoothly) and I thought it would be the same interface as Google Play, but it’s incredibly worse. Here are a lists of things I hope to see in future updates. 1) When you add a new song to a downloaded playlist, the song should automatically download instead of having to re-download (or refresh) the whole playlist. Google did this perfectly, not sure why YouTube can’t. 2) Ability to select multiple songs at once to transfer to playlists/download. 3) The app saves your playback settings. Having to select “loop” every time I play a playlist is ridiculous. I want to be able to hit “shuffle” and not have to worry about that extra step. Especially since you have to select the queue and then hit loop. 4) The ability to download the whole song library. Again, Google made that easy but now you have to download everything separately, or add everything separately to a playlist. 5) Quick navigation between Albums, Artist, Playlist and library. I respect that YouTube music is trying to get more people noticed by adding a bunch of recommendations and exploring options, but at the end of the day, 9 out of 10 times when I use the app, I just want to listen to the music I have in my library. Every now and then I love how easy it is to find new music when I want to, but that shouldn’t be a priority above the music I already enjoy. 6) “Downloads” should be categorized, having songs, albums, and playlists all in one line gets aggravating when I’m looking for one playlist. 7) the “download only” switch on Google was absolutely amazing. I can open the app and start playing music instantly. Now I have to wait for it to buffer and load but I know it’s not loading my music, it’s loading all the recommendations and explore stuff when I don’t need that. Which again, furthers my point that it shouldn’t be a priority to have all that. I love Google products and YouTube, but I really didn’t think the switch to YouTube music was going to be so aggravating. It got to the point where I’m looking for alternatives because I have never experienced so much irritation with a music app before. I never ever write reviews, but I want this app to work so well that I am writing this in hopes these adjustments are made.

Not worth without premium

I was a Google Play customer for years, made playlists with thousands of songs, I took pride in my playlists. After the move to YTM, I’m unsubscribing. I’ve given them time to tweak the minor UI pieces with no luck. It’s a shame that I’m going to lose all that music from the playlists but this system is now garbage. I’ve already paid this month, told the family we’ll be moving to Apple Music so get to migrating their playlists and get ready to say goodbye to YTM. To the developers, you had an easy task from a customers perspective. You should’ve just rebranded Google Play and left he platform alone.

Hopefully, writing this review will get YouTube off my back about writing a review. I like the app, but pressuring me for a review e v e r y d a y is sooooo annoying. Come on guys, get a life. We like you, ok?

I love this app because it’s very easy to use and it plays even while the iPhone is off which is very useful

Don’t like this at all. Too cumbersome to find and go through my own uploads. I don’t care about signing up for even more streaming services. I only need this to listen to the stuff that used to be on google play/music... whatever it was called. Constant changes by tech overlords make me want to install a cd changer in my car or maybe an 8 track.

Big library, nice UI, free if you already are a YouTube Premium subscriber. But some weird bugs, like if you rate anything negatively (like a song you are not currently listening to) it switches the song you are currently listening to every time.

Too expensive

You can add songs to a queue but it NEVER works . This app is terrible

The app will not play music uninterrupted unless you upgrade and pay a monthly fee. Change screens, won’t play. Turn off your screen, won’t play. Use any other app, won’t play. Just awful. I’m going to find another place for my music.

App won’t load

Why on earth are you guys neglecting such a basic feature that literally every music player (including GPM that you forced people to switch from) has??? There’s a million different AI customization playlist options but you can’t let people start a queue without a hundred different songs they didn’t ask for?? If I want to listen to a radio I can start it myself from the dot menu, we don’t need YTM to force feed us one every time we want to add ONE song to start a queue. Also, on iPhone, when you hit add to queue on an empty queue, the song doesn’t even show up. It’s baffling that such a brain dead basic feature hasn’t been implemented yet. Imagine ending GPM for this.

Used Google play for years. Liked it the best out of all the platforms I have access to. The YouTube app has been good so far and I am digging the playlists feature quite a bit. The only thing missing I feel is there is no sleep timer like Google Play has. I am still using Google Play at night or when I want the music to stop after a preset time. If YouTube coders could add the sleep timer this would be a 5 star app for me. Thanks! Jeff

This app works fine for streaming music, but at the same price as apple music and spotify, it feels like a let down. Go with apple or spotify instead, you won’t regret it.

So I converted my google play music to YouTube music and I’m relatively happy about it. There’s 2 things that need improvement: the only way I’ve found to find the repeat button is to click on the full screen and then you can put a song on repeat. However, when you put it in full screen, it cuts off the top and bottom parts of the album art. That’s about the only part(s) that’s I think need some improvement.

It’s just YouTube with less music and costs more just pointless.

The transition over to YouTube music has left me angry and annoyed. I have 3 google home speakers that are now useless. I cannot voice command any of them to play the music I purchased and own. I must now be a YouTube premium subscriber, had I known google would do this I would have never invested in a google home. These speakers are useless now. What’s next, you must pay a monthly membership to turn on/off your connected lights???

No equalizer??? Trash! Leave Play in service until this is fixed

I’m thinking about switching back to Apple Music unless this app really becomes good. I would like a volume scrubber and more ease of use. A more simple ui like Apple Music and I keep my premium membership. I think I don’t like this app because it’s not very simple to use.

this app used to be my go to but now when i type in a song it always gives me the instrumental or a cover by someone else. and i can’t even click on one of the picks they have for me it says playback failed every time. now i’m stuck listening to the same songs of the same type of music and im getting tired of it.

When you try to customize a playlist it rearranges it every time you refresh. I’m going back to Apple Music

Why am I paying so much if I can’t listen to music with my iPhone locked!!

I think there might be some bug that need to be fixed. I have YouTube premium and it says I’m offline.

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I feel like my music collection was kidnapped and being held for random and one must pay this randoms monthly otherwise they take your purchased music again. I cannot download my purchased music from google and download it to the app. They want me to stream my purchased music or pay a subscription to play albums I purchased on google!!! I feel like google play owes me all the money I spent on albums the last 10 years!!! If you actually appreciate music and curated a collection through google purchases this app is a nightmare. The app is also unsafe to use in the car. It forces you to dig through menus to access your own paid for music and does not play continuously forcing you to look at the screen. YouTube music is literally a n accident waiting to happen. Whoever’s grand idea it was to hold people’s purchased music hostage there is a special place in hell for you!!

It would be so convenient if this app had a feature where we can mix around the order of the songs downloaded, instead of shuffling it. Out of the many songs that I downloaded, I have my favorites and it would be good to just pick one at the top instead of scrolling all the way to the bottom.

Why pay for Spotify when YouTube’s music platform is just as good, probably better. If you use YouTube for both videos and music it’s a two-for one deal.

Great!!!!

Literally any song you want that’s on YouTube... thats sells me lol.

Can’t play music in background unless you have a premium subscription something others apps do for free. Look elsewhere.

This is so poorly designed. It’s confusing to use. Why so many down arrows and back arrows and lists within lists within lists. I get the theme is black and red, but how about a little color to differentiate between an artist page and a playlist? The app is slow to rotate whenever I turn my phone. Sometimes it’s impossible to exit the full screen when holding horizontal...also: why is that even the default? A user should choose to enter full screen. I also noticed the same flaw here as in Google play. I have 200+ songs on a playlist but it only plays the same small group of songs no matter how many thumbs up I give songs or how many times I hit shuffle.

This app is horrible and not a worthy replacement for google play music. It’s not smart about picking playlists, and when I run the radio off of my playlists it doesn’t make the list long enough. I used to make a station off of my playlist on google play and could drive 3-5 hours without having to touch anything. The UI is bad, and just doesn’t feel like a music app at all, only thing that kept me subscribed is not having ads on YouTube, but that’s not enough to justify $10/mo now. Time to test out Spotify and Apple Music again

I’ve been using google music and because it was included with my YouTube premium, I was loving it all except the lack of Dark mode. Google music was hurting my eyes (for years) with the bright orange and white. I’m just extremely glad that YouTube music has a dark mode and I get to keep my playlist

Good

this app is just stupid . you can’t exit the app with out the music stopping. so it has no point. good day 😑.

Why do I have to pay extra to be able to listen to music and have the screen off. Shame on you for trying to get extra money out of people. Don’t you guys make money from the commercials between each song?

Great app works great!! Free of charge and amazing with all the music in our taste.

All of the songs are free you don’t have to worry about buying anything and the app is free too! I got YouTube music bc when I had Apple Music u have to pay for songs or get limited time for free songs.😭 YOUTUBE MUSIC IS AWESOME 🤩

I liked this app at first when I had a free trial now I hate that I have to leave my phone unlocked because it drains the battery faster so I recommend Spotify

The interface is confusing and constantly tries to stream music when all I want to do is play my music from my library. All my music transferred from Google Play Music is flat in timbre and pitch.

IMHO YouTube music provides the best system for accessing all genres of music. From new releases to old school classics, to YouTube videos and playlists, it all comes together in one place with this app and service.

Everything moved from play. I had a large library, it is hard to scroll through so it needs the alphabet down the right side of the screen to help get to a section. Also I have not see an edit feature. I have a few albums in which every song is doubled.

I’ve actually started listening to music less because this app is such a downgrade from google play music. How would anyone with sound reasoning even think this is an acceptable app? It is one of the worst migrations I have ever seen and is truly appalling that google/YouTube would think this is acceptable. They better make the changes everyone is calling for or they’re going to lose a lot of paying customers including myself

I don’t have a native YouTube music app on my assistant devices or car. Spotify is leaps and bounds better integrated. But, the music selection here is fantastic, especially on the Hindi songs side.

Just bring back Google Music. At least it was a real music app. I can’t even listen to music while I use other apps unless I pay for premium? Lame.

YouTube music doesn’t just have official music but also music done by other artists. Having music videos to watch is awesome. To me that’s the big Advantage it has over Spotify. Granted the price it has for premium does feel a little outrageous but it feels worth it. Because when I bought a subscription back in July this has truly helped me during work. I work at a grocery store having to deal with people is exhausting but having this has truly helped me stay calm. I am really grateful to have a lot of music on here. My opinion there is a lot more music here than Spotify. Spotify may have podcasts I enjoy using google podcasts more. Cause Spotify doesn’t seem to have many of the podcasts I like. Some that aren’t there I can find on google podcasts. I know I got off track but this was my best attempt at trying to writing a good review. Apple music I tried once but I did learn if you have purchased some songs then purchased a subscription you would have to have your purchase songs download onto your phone. Cause if you don’t it just a mess because you don’t know what songs that you have purchased and which songs you saved due to your subscription. Which is why I think Apple Music isn’t really the best for me. The only thing good Apple Music does have is the radio you can play any radio station you can think of but you have to know the right radio station there is no save feature. Which is why it’s better just to use either a iHeart, tunein, or radio.com. The only good thing about Spotify is if you’re using free tier you can listen to music while using any other app.YouTube music free tier in order to keep the music playing you do need to keep your phone on that is a major drawback but in my opinion it’s not that big of a deal. If I want to listen to music while using other apps I can just play one of the radio apps that I mentioned. Anyway I hope this Review helps you in someway.

Better than spotify, apple music, overall just so amazing. youtube premium has no ads, breaks, and u can download music free

I’ve moved back to apple products because of this bull with google play music. Enjoy loosing more customers!

This is the least functional music service that has ever been developed. It is insane to me that Google would replace their excellent Google Music app with this piece of garbage. You can’t automatically upload music anymore. You can’t even search for music of a particular genre. YouTube Music does exactly nothing.

YouTube music is my everything. I don’t need to download and play. All I listen when I’m on the road or doing something. With the $12.99 there is no ads and I love it. And I think I’ll keep the YouTube music like forever. Thank you YouTube

First off, this app is so unnecessary. I had no problems or complaints with Google Play. YouTube Music UI was poorly set up which is my main problem. Google, get rid of this and bring back Google Play!

I like this app but I do wish you could have an album and artist grid like you have for the “Your Favorites” section. You had this same format with Google Play Music - full-on album covers displayed in a grid. The icing on top would be to make it user-adjustable to have anywhere from say, 3 up to 6 albums per row. However, that part is not necessary as long as the album covers your can be fully displayed. The list format you have now is so tiny I have to strain to see it. The list view would make more sense on a phone but for an iPad, you need to take advantage of the extra screen size. Thanks.

It appears your rating is inflated, in comparison to your reviews, I just want to listen to my playlist that I bought and paid for , the first thing that happens when you open the app is they want you to buy a subscription, this is total BS , if I can’t figure out how to listen to my music without subscribing, you owe me $$$ for my music I paid for !! Greed will be your downfall!

i want to love this app, it’s nice to use just to listen to music, however today i went on to discover all of my downloads had just disappeared for no reason, i wish they could fix some pretty common bugs and it’s a bit glitchy for what i’m paying

The app is great for listening to music but there is one annoying issue. You can’t organize the songs in your playlist alphabetically

I was able to just listen to my purchased music in the background on play music, but there is now a paywall to access anything conveniently in YouTube music. The horrible layout makes it hard to find my play music transfers and relevant searches or suggestions. I could easily find and organize my library on play music, but not on YouTube music with all of its extra garbage. I absolutely hate this change and it is such a disappointing downgrade. I wish I could have negative stars since that is my experience and satisfaction with this new service.

When I download the app it keeps saying try again and I did it a million times but nothing happened 😤

There’s hundreds of years of classical music to choose from but the idiots at YouTube apparently think that it’s listeners who were forced into this trash app after Google Music quit are only interested in listening to absolute garbage new age classical “lite” Muzak. Please hire some people who actually have a CLUE to curate some real classical music. I want to hear Bach, Beethoven, Mozart ANYTHING. I clicked on a “classical Christmas” station this morning and got a Pentatonix song. OK fine, I can live with that. And then Mariah Carey came on. I mean, am I being punked?? What absolute nonsense. When I listen to their classical solo piano playlist it’s the same 10-15 modern “lite” listening songs. Well I’d like to introduce you to Chopin, Liszt, Schumann, Debussy, Mozart. They kinda wrote a lot of piano music - maybe they could be added! It’s so frustrating to have classical music get marginalized over and over. This is a rubbish app.

No Lock Screen controls when casting, makes the app sort of useless. I’ve had to switch exclusively to Spotify since I switched to iPhone from Android for this reason so will probably just cancel my YTM subscription altogether now.

What else can I ask of-I got it. Beautiful music.Beautiful, relaxing while listening to your favorite music.

Long time paying customer with YouTube Music until you raised the rate. I have cancelled my subscription and deleted the app. Never again. Spotify is way better and much cheaper.

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I’ve used YouTube music as my primary way to listen to music for ~4 years and it has some major flaws: If you listen to >500 songs the recommended songs will all be songs you already have liked. The ads are about one for every 3 songs you listen not including double ads (back to back) or ads that are 15 seconds-7 minutes long (my longest ever was half an hour) NO SCREEN OFF PLAY (unless you have YouTube music premium which is different from YouTube premium) Yes, YouTube has a much wider selection of songs than Spotify but Spotify has non of the problems listed above. This is not a scam and it works just fine but is only better than it’s main competitor in one regard while being drown out by several positives by Spotify TLDR: Spotify is objectively better, but this is ok.

Theres a “What a time to Be Alive” album by Drake and Future which had been missing for almost a year, youtube music has made over plenty updates. And in each update i expect the album to return but unfortunately it doesnt. Please fix this “Copyright” issue i was told youre having, i miss the old classic hit from an amazong duo, the overall app is great tho

This app is horrible. It rarely works. Unless I download the songs to my phone it almost never plays them. It doesn’t matter if I’m on WiFi or cellular network. Google Play worked great. Why is this such garbage?

Had this app for over a year and suddenly it deleted all the downloaded song I had already. It’s sad because I pay for a service that doesn’t stick to what you’re paying for!

I love this app, it’s way better than any other music app. But it’s really missing an equalizer. It’s such a must when it comes to audio. I know Android users have this ability. I just want to know why iOS haven’t had the ability to implement this into this app. It would definitely make things better than they already. Love the app, this one small change can be a game changer.

Where is the app control for the lock screen??? I would very much like to control the app and chromecast audio from my lock screen like Spotify allows. Google Home app media control as well as this YTM app needs lock screen access to iphone/iOS volume control PLEASE!

So now I have to dig deeper into my own account just to find the music history I’ve been listening to. If it was a feature YouTube decided to change, it’s worthless. It used to be 2 clicks away now it’s 5

They have all my songs!

Used Google music for years and now I’m stuck with this garbage. 12.99 a month

5 star

Fr fr I’ve had all other music apps and this one was the winner for me cuz it plays much louder and duhh music videos. Plus, who doesn’t wish there were no adds on the main site ❤️

Better than iTunes and SpotifyI love it Ken Sadhaka

I like streaming music because my phone is always with me . I started with a few selections and in the last 3 months - they have downloaded 6-8 discs that are a combination of my selections and music that is similar and they added discs that are specific to the kind of music I like when I’m falling asleep. They also add new releases albums that I like. I have only music - listening with commercials is terrible LS -2020- Dallas

When I first started my free trial ended and what’s the point of YouTube music of you turn your phone off and it stops!

The subscription model is abhorrent due to the requirement to regularly pay them to listen to music while doing things! Ghuuggh!🤮🤮🤮

I like this app. The look and feel is great. Unfortunately the “add to que” function does NOT work and it almost makes the app not worth subscribing to.

The only problem is that we have to pay to listen off app like what’s the point off this app then I’m jus using YouTube for now on

I used it before it merged with Google Play music and now it glitches all the time. Like I can’t even edit my queued music. It’s awful

Don't get me started on the autoplay nonsense. I mean, of course I wanna listen to upbeat country immediately after soothing indie 😒 But real talk I want a repeat option. Sometimes my whole DAY is A SINGLE song!! Without this I'm going back to apple music.

I miss google music with passion. I don’t like that now if you don’t want to hear annoying ads after every song I have to pay. Deleting and suffering the lose of my music I paid and collected along the way over years . RIP google music you will be missed

Bring back google play... YouTube music still needs work

Great app but we know these guys are pros, maybe a bit overpriced, though. $12 seems a bit much when other, more seasoned music apps offer subscriptions for less. Somewhere between $4.99-7.99 seems more reasonable.

Irritating experience if you are a free user. Ads galore and doesn’t play music in the background so forget about using it in the car, you will go nuts and ram into someone either out of frustration or trying to mess with the clunky UX. Google is letting this user-base roll downhill.

I am a lover of classical music. Have explored many avenues for streaming classical music. Youtube Music is by far the best! It seems literally every composition and artist is available. And the sound quality is wonderful! I have finally found what I need.

Have had many platforms for music but I have really enjoyed this set up and how great YouTube keeps track of your likes in your own playlist easy access to download your favorite jams

Same Thing happened to me I never subscribed to YouTube music premium and it signed me up for it I’m NOT going to pay for YouTube premium

We got rid of google play for a worst app They want you to pay money to get what Google play was and if you don’t play it’s basically just another YouTube app.Please add in the middle of the songs but also likes to pause or buffer repeatedly it makes listen to music and pain download Pandora or something else they really messed up by getting rid of Google play

Loved google play music and switching over is fine the only thing is downloading music, I miss the feature of just adding music to my library and it would download instantly. I wish that would happen because the lags of when music isn’t downloaded is very annoying and doing downloads manually, every single song one by one or album by album is annoying. Just a little disappointed.