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Iā€™d rather have a cheaper version premium just for Youtube without ads though. Iā€™ve heard there is or was Premium Lite in some countries, but not where Iā€™m from. I donā€™t need Music, I already pay Tidal for that.

Or is YT Music with Premium so much better than the free one? When I cancelled my Spotify and were looking where to move to, I gave the free YTM a try. It would be two birds with one stone - YT without ads and a replacement music streaming service. But I just hated the whole experience. The UI, that my music ā€œfollowsā€ get mixed with YouTube subscriptions, and that it always plays a video with every song.

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Thatā€™s why I got Nebula. Itā€™s not everyone I watch on YouTube, but itā€™s a lot of the best people, and they get a much, much larger amount of revenue from me specifically than they do from even YouTube Premium at a better price since youā€™re not also paying for YouTube Music on top of it. I was a devoted Google Play Music All Access listener, but true to form Google forgot about it and then replaced it with a worse service that costs more money. Spotify and Nebula as separate subs is as close as Iā€™m going to get to the old school GPMAA/YouTube Red bundle and I donā€™t have to give a penny to Google for it

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Yeah basically the same. The video thingy only does it when the song is not available on YouTube Music and itā€™s playing a video.

Which honestly is the only thing why I switched to YouTube Music, on Spotify if the song isnā€™t there thatā€™s it, but YouTube music there is always a user or band uploaded video.

When is available there is switch to choose if video or music and well on the phone you can always use the audio only option as you can do with YouTube. The rest the same as you said it.

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I donā€™t like YT music at all, but it is a nice double dip and I learned to live with it. Iā€™d certainly switch to a plan without music if given the chance.

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