Spotify vs. YouTube Music in 2024: Which streaming service is best for you?

In this video, we'll compare Spotify against YouTube Music to see which streaming service you should use in 2024. Is it finally time to switch? Find out in our video!

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00:00 Introduction
00:49 Content Library
04:00 Search & Recommendation Features
08:48 Sound Quality
10:14 Price
11:03 Spotify's Free Plan vs. YouTube Music's Free Plan
12:12 Should you use Spotify or YouTube Music?

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[fabio]

As a Spotify user (heavy music listener), I have to say that there are a few things that really bother me. The radio option would be a cool feature, but it only mixes songs into the playlist that I already know and like. Very rarely new content is shown. The playlists generated by the Spotify algorithm mostly contain music that I already like or have listened to before. So I'm only shown music that I already listen to or know and everything starts to sounds similar. Spotify also pushes its playlists and floods the user interface with its computer generated playlists. You can hardly find any playlists that weren't generated by a computer. Also, podcasts keep getting pushed into my recommendation feed, which I don't care about because I want to listen to music, but there's no way to remove content so the algorithm could learn. Since their playlists are mostly bad, I always like to listen to music selected by other users or curators. Another negative point is Spotify's user interface, because it sucks. It's cluttered, makes it hard to find anything and the search function really sucks. You type one letter wrong and the search finds nothing. Adding to it, the playlist and the like system also sucks as it takes more time compared to previous versions.

[svcross-do]

The thing i love the most about YouTube music is that i can easily upload my own media files to stream, i know Spotify also can, but it's a pain to do.

[Fynal]

You've miss one thing in this compression, on what devices you can use those services. For example Alexa devices don't support Youtube music, so that can be a big issue for a lot of people.

[JacobWilson]

YouTube music does have an AI DJ. it's an experimental feature right now. left Spotify since I couldn't justify having it and YouTube premium and Spotify. I have to admit; I don't miss Spotify at all. been very happy using YouTube music and find it's recommendations pretty much spot on.

[fvv]

if you compare Spotify to YTM alone spotify wins but with YTM you get all the benefits of YouTube so you get 2 complete useful services for the price of 1. Who doesn't uses youtube in the world ?? (i know china, russsia and some others buts thats bureaucratic bs they can't watch this vid anyway) so getting rid of those annoying adds is value enough . Now if Spotify gives you better recommendations is bc you feed that algorithm more often /constantly.

[kindofanmol]

Spotify's UI/UX, algorithm, social and statistics features, playlists and Spotify Connect make it far superior for me.

[AirBudProMax]

It just seems like YouTube premium/music is such a better value. I’ve had Spotify since it was in beta in the US. I wish I didn’t have over a decade of liked songs for the algo to work with. Because the algo is quite good. If it wasn’t for that I would just pick YouTube.

[kenpachizaraki]

I don't like YouTube Music's integration with my YouTube account. I wish they were separate things. For instance, on Spotify I can follow JID, and I get release notifications and he is in my Daily Mixes more often. On YouTube Music I have to subscribe, which directly affects my YouTube algorithm to have anything he posts on my YouTube page.

If YouTube Music was distinctly separate from YouTube itself, I'd give the edge to YouTube Music.

[zsmeadws]

I’ve had issues where I have had to force close YouTube Music every time for it to update my library or liked music. This became enough of an issue to where I no longer use the service.

Sadly, really liked what YouTube Music had to offer.

[Envie]

Spotify's release radar is not that good. Youtube recommendations are better. Any tik tok remixes like Adele x Bruno Mars are not available on Spotify. There have been multiple times that I have Shazamed a beat and is only available in youtube. Spotify may have a better sound quality but if you're not a "casual songs" listener or even if you like to listen to songs from your country (i.e. Balkan songs that may not be available in Spotify), I think that YT music is more worth it. I transferred my playlists from Spotify to YT music this week and will cancel my Spotify's subscription. I will revert in a few months to share my feedback.

[JohnMhelSanAndres]

YTM WON'T LET ME BUY ITS PREMIUM 😭 HELP. It always says "there was an error on our end." I HAVE THE BALANCE

[walterbartek]

Daylist is great but its pretty annoying that spotify doesn't have a usable shuffle mode.

[lbrxthd]

I once tried YT music. 1 day later I deleted spotify. Boy what an awesome algorithm YTM has. Recommendations are great. And it becomes better since it syncs with YT cuz it's got more to learn from.

[THExDUDEx]

I tried all the big music apps. Imo YouTube music is the best. Bundle with YouTube and it's like 13 or 14$ a month for both.

[HasanAlKharfan]

Do tidal vs Amazon Music vs Apple Music

[dylanwhite]

256aac is fair higher quality than 320 mp3 files.

[st]

Spotify is much better than YouTube music at least let u listen when off the background of the phone.