YTM bitrate was 320kbps while my GPM bitrate is 256kbps. It also includes subscriptions and comments, but these seem geared to YT videos. YTM includes my playlists which GPM doesn't seem to have available to download (but I'm sure I can find them hidden on my phone, which I'll tackle tomorrow). For YTM, I used Google Takeout and here's some surprising things I've noticed from the few files I've reviewed and cross referenced with the same in GPM: For GPM, I'm using the Music Manager to download all my songs. not sure where I'm going to go just yet, but I started the process of reclaiming my songs. If you upload a bunch of songs, or put it off to "take care of later", you'll hit a point where the effort isn't worth the reward.
The lack of Date Added and the disappearance of the auto-generated Last Added playlist has greatly increased the amount of time and effort needed to manage your library as again, each newly uploaded song needs to be individually searched for and put into a playlist before you forget about it. I've been collecting and curating my mp3 collection since the late 90s. You'll get an ad about every 3-7 songs now.ġ was the deal breaker for me for the following reasons: Both of us noticed that we NEVER heard any ads when we started listening to YTM content but after a few day or so, they came in and increased in frequency. Again, they are only on their mobile devices and I'm going to assume they can only be played using YTM player.Īnd last of my notes on YTM is they are quite sneaky with their ads. So somehow YTM has gotten around all the record companies war against pirating and now is serving up songs that can be downloaded to users not paying anything to have them on their devices. Both of us were able to download these songs to our mobile devices.
Both of us have just the free account and while my library was imported/uploaded from GPM, his was a bare account. Later I shared that playlist with him and it worked flawlessly. For instance, my friend and I were listing to a GPM playlist and every time he said he liked a song, I searched it in YTM and added it to a playlist. I will say that it does have some benefits to a certain type of user. If you want to share a playlist with someone, you have to find all the songs in YTM and add them into a playlist and then share that list. If you build a playlist and share it with a friend, all uploaded content will be removed from the playlist. Seems like while they allow you to upload music, they are making it difficult to use/find/access it.Īny uploaded music will not have access to Lyrics, etc even though they have the exact song in their library. So if you upload 25 new songs, you will need to do a search for each one individually, click Uploads as it ALWAYS defaults to YTM results, and then add it to a playlist. Last Added auto playlist is gone as well. Songs no longer have Date Added, nor Song Plays. Here's where I have found that it's lacking: I don't see them building features in to do so in the future either. YouTube Music is currently not configured for users who want to bring along their music library and curate it there. I did the transfer from GPM to YTM about a week ago and here's what I can share about my experience thus far: