I had gotten Youtube premium and enjoyed it. My subscription ran out and I find I have 90% use of it for free. I got it to listen to the app on my phone when I was out. However the app sucks ass. I would listen to one song and then the app would just crash. SO I never got to use it for the intended use.
So which would you choose? Youtube or Spotify? and how is the Spotify app on the phone?
I use innertune which uses yt music. Its a lightweight app. Does have its issues but my favourite of the lot
Does it play when the phone is in the pocket? That was the big issue I has with the youtube music app.
I self-host with navidrome. I fill up the library with spot-dl. I listen to it with tempo on Android.
Spotify on mobile is a torture test if you do not use a mod or have a subscription.
That’s why I’m asking. I’m trying to decide if I should renew YouTube or get a Spotify subscription. Spotify is cheaper with the three months free introductory offer.
Are you on android? So this exists It is the app you’re talking about, they just carefully don’t mention that to avoid obvious illegality. I’d also check out https://revanced.app/ for YT. The patcher also supports a number of other apps these days, including Spotify and Twitch.
These are slightly technical tools that will probably take you 10-20min of reading to understand. In think that is worthwhile to not hear ads and not pay a monthly subscription. But everyone has their tolerance levels.
If you’re on Android, NewPipe is a great option.
I use Deezer. Not quite the same selection, but unless you’re listening to something pretty obscure I don’t think it’ll matter.
Plus if you do iirc the creator gets more per individual listen from Deezer than other platforms (don’t quote me on that though)
Deezer also doesn’t host JRE and they didn’t provide a platform for literal nazis, so advantages all around.
Wait, what does JRE stand for on this case? Genuinely the first thing that comes to mind is Java Runtime Environment; and googling it doesnt help. It’s also pretty common to see apps developed in Java.
I wrote some allocators for IBM’s JVM eons ago, I get that. As much as I hate Java, I wish it would be related this time.
Unfortunately, I was talking about the Joe Rogan Experience.
