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Dear YTM community,
We’re excited to share a unique opportunity with you. Our YouTube Music product team would like to hear your questions and feedback about the new music experience and in return, will share their knowledge with you.
Starting today, you can submit your YouTube Music related questions and feedback in the comments below and we’ll respond on Friday!
On Friday September 21st at 9.30am PST, our YouTube Music team will be here in the community answering as many questions as possible–right here on this thread. We look forward to hearing from you!
Happy listening,
Felicitas - YouTube Music Community Manager
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We saw a lot of questions about GPM to YTM migration, and we wanted to provide answers to the most commonly asked questions on that topic:
When is Google Music going to get replaced by YT Music?
Along with building new, innovative features that weren’t on Google Play Music, we are working hard to make sure we support the most important GPM features in YouTube Music (including personal uploads) before migrating users over. There is a lot of work to do, so we don’t have a specific timeline at this point.
When will Google music playlists be ported over from GPM?
We want to make it really easy for you to bring over your library (including playlists), uploads, and history from GPM to YTM, but we don’t have a timeline as mentioned above. Our goal is to phase the migration, so we'll start by allowing you to migrate non-uploaded content, and then eventually support full migration including uploads.
The majority of people I have talked to will not leave GPM because current music and playlists will not port over to YTM. No sense creating lists in YTM if the port is going to screw things up in the future. How can you ease their (and my) concerns by explaining how and when the music transfer is going to happen?
Our plan is to have it be as simple as tapping a single button to migrate all of their GPM content over to YouTube music. A lot of the work we will be doing to make this seamless is around ensuring that we resolve duplicates and give users the library they expect even if they've used both apps (like I have).
When our GPM data finally moves/transfers to YTM, will it "replace" what's currently in YTM, or "merge" with it? Basically I'm asking, if I start using YTM now, will my data from both services merge seamlessly, or would my YTM data be overwritten?
I talked a little about this above, but this is something we are very focused on. Some data will be purely additive, like bringing over your playlists. Some data will be merged, like our understanding of which artists you love and your thumbs ups. To get to the heart of your question, our plan here is seamless merging, not overwriting.
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Hey everyone! I'm a product manager on YouTube Music, and I'll be trying to answer as many of your questions as possible for the next hour. Before joining YouTube Music 18 months ago, I had worked on Google Play Music for 6 years. I'm very familiar with both products and care a lot about making YouTube Music the best music app and making sure migration from Play Music is as easy and delightful as possible.
One exciting update for today is that we have fully launched audio quality (and download quality) selection on both iOS and Android for YouTube Music Premium users. See here for more information: https://support.google.com/youtubemusic/answer/9076559
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We want to make sure to strike a good balance between amazing sounding audio and also not burning through your data. Here are some specifics about audio quality in YouTube Music:
What's your current audio quality and what audio quality are you going to give in the long run?
Right now if you stream at Normal quality, you are getting 128kbps AAC as your bitrate. For premium subscribers, we offer High quality which is 256kbps AAC. If you have flaky network connectivity or want to save data, you can switch to low quality which is 48kbps HE-AAC. 256kbps AAC is equivalent in audio quality to the 320kbps CBR mp3 that we had for GPM, but it uses less data.
As mentioned in my intro post, Audio Quality selection is now live for both iOS and Android for YouTube Music Premium members.
HQ audio (higher than 256kbps)?
Right now we don’t have any plans for audio quality higher than 256kbps. Our deals would require us to charge more to stream FLAC, so at this point we are focused on improving performance rather than supporting lossless streaming.
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We've heard your feedback about missing music, and we are actively reading all your feedback for albums, songs, and artists. We are continuously working to add your favorites into YouTube Music. Please continue to leave feedback in the app!
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We noticed some questions regarding playlists, and I've responded to the top questions here:
The library team is working on a number of playlist improvements, including better sorting within the songs of a playlist. We don’t currently have a plan for filtering, but it’s a feature request we have heard from you.]
Do you have any plans on separating YouTube playlists and subscriptions from YouTube Music?
We did separate albums & playlists from YouTube Music so they don’t show up in YouTube.com. We are now looking at allowing the users to do this for subscriptions as well.
Add a 4th option on bottom menu for exploring different playlists (genre, decade, age, etc.)
The ability to browse the amazing, deep YouTube catalog is a definite priority for us. For now, you should be able to search for genres, decades, and moods and find great playlists for all those occasions.
Can we subscribe to other playlists similar to GPM and Spotify? How can we share those playlists, or find them from other folks?
You can add playlists to your library, share playlists with others (even non-subscribers), and search for user-created playlists. For example, here’s a fantastic playlist from NPR Music of the 200 greatest songs from 21st century women: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy2PCKGkKRVZ-6OfKINL6_bkus7MDZJMn
When will gapless playback work?
It’s something the team is actively working on, but we don’t have a date on that for you at this time.
When will you bring Gapless Playback, which is essential for those of us who listen to albums by bands like Pink Floyd?
Mentioned above, but we do know that Dark Side of the Moon just isn’t the same without true gapless and are working on it :)
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Why do you only allow certain songs for Premium members? None of that was talked about in your benefits
Artists and their labels are able to designate a certain song or album to be premium-only, in which case it is only allowed for premium members; this is not a decision made by the YouTube Music team.
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Are any efforts being made to make YouTube Music more stable when using it with Chromecast and Google Assistant?
There are folks on the team actively working on making cast and assistant more stable and faster. We are always always working on improving the results in assistant queries.
When can we play personal playlists in YouTube Music via Google Assistant?
Coming later this year; stay tuned!
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I saw some questions about the difference between features on iOS and Android. In general, our strategy is to develop and release features across both clients simultaneously. There are some cases where a feature is client-specific like support for the equalizer on Android, which is coming very soon, but that shouldn't be the norm going forward.
Why does it seem that iOS always get the better updates over Android? I guess my question is, why does it seem that YouTube Music Devs, prioritize iOS over Google's own Android?
In the particular case of Audio Quality, we found a bug during launch of both iOS and Android that only affected the Android build, so it took us a little bit longer to roll that feature out on Android (though it’s live today for subscribers). In general, our goal is to launch things across iOS and Android simultaneously, and you will see this with our upcoming launches happening throughout the rest of the year and beyond.
Mentioned in my intro post, but we are fully live now with Audio Quality on Android as well.
Are you going to keep pushing strict A/B testing on Android (90% still don't have audio quality controls in their settings)?
We actually do testing and experiment ramp-ups on both clients, but as mentioned above audio quality launched first on iOS due to a bug we found in the Android implementation.
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We have heard all your feedback regarding organization features you'd like to have when looking through your Library. We're working on ways to improve browsing your content and building ways to make it easier to find the music you love and have saved in your library. Stay tuned for feature updates!
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A few of you mentioned that your recommendations haven't been as relevant as they could be. We are constantly learning from your plays and thumbs to make sure that our homepage delivers a truly personal listening experience. When you first use the app, we have a way for you to tell us artists you like, and will soon allow users to retake that quiz to adjust their recommendations.
Will there be recommendations similar to GPM, not just the "Hot List"?
The Home page is full of recommendations beyond the family of “Hotlist” playlists, but search also provides a great path: search for any song you’re in the mood for, and you get that song followed by an unending station of related songs.
Will the song recommendations improve soon? If so, how soon? Quite frankly it's terrible right now. I listen to indie music exclusively (lo-fi, indie rock, bedroom pop, darkwave, dream pop — you get the picture), but I keep getting terrible recommendations (think: Kanye West, Eminem, Dua Lipa)
I’ll start anecdotally that I have a somewhat broad set of tastes with my big three genres being indie rock/electro, black/death metal, and hip-hop. My Home page is pretty spot on for recommendations. The New Release shelf this morning had some new hip-hop and indie, and my Listen Again shelf was my favorite playlists for working in the morning, including a curated Dream Pop playlist. The more you listen and thumbs up, the better we get at learning.
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I saw a lot of questions about general feature differences between GPM and YTM. I was the PM for most of GPM's existence, and I'm definitely aware of what work we still need to do here. That said there are a lot of really incredible things that YouTube Music already does better than GPM (sharing, Playlist creation, ability to have videos and songs side-by-side to name a few).
Still official album gaps between YTM and GPM. Plans to address?
Yes - this is very much still in progress. And hopefully you’ve seen those gaps shrink in the weeks since YouTube Music relaunched. Our teams are hard at work bringing remaining artists on board for the countries we’ve already launched in, and the countries we’re launching in soon.
I really relied on the play counts on Google Play Music to tell if I listened to an album or song. Will this be coming to YouTube Music? Another option, what about badges when someone has listened to an album in it's entirety? Or check marks. I think this would be a neat feature.
Individual user play count will be coming to YTM before the GPM migration. I do like the idea of some sort of UI that shows when you've listened to an album as long as it doesn't feel too much like unread emails :)
Will there ever be Radios on the homepage like in GPM?
Single song and video playback automatically starts radio based on that play. You can also double-tap on any of our playlists to play them back in a smart-shuffled order that is similar to GPM’s curated stations.
No caching ability in the Android app?
We do cache the next song in YouTube Music and are working on a long-held cache in YouTube Music that’ll behave like GPM’s does today.
Why is there a delay in new content being posted on YTM? Often new albums/singles appear on other streaming services including Google Play Music way before YTM
New albums do appear on the artist page at 12am ET on Fridays, and if they’re from an artist that you like they’ll show up on the New Releases shelf on your Home page. Sometimes there is a delay in search, but last night at 9:01pm my time, I was able to see the new Mountain Man record in search right away: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ngLm9fjsXHKBx8VUSX4ol0lIdHq4lpW9Q
How come new albums arrive much later on YouTube Music than it does on Spotify and Google Play Music?
This was definitely the case for albums that were delivered last minute (what we call a “rush release”) when we first relaunched YouTube Music. Since then, we’ve sped up our ingestion a great deal and don’t typically see this lag in important places like search, the New Releases shelf on Home and the artist’s album shelf on their profile page.
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I've gotta wrap this up and get back to making YouTube Music even better. I just wanted to thank everyone for the amazing questions and for allowing us to fill your ears and eyes with sweet, sweet music. Have a great weekend and look out for some of the amazing launches we've got coming the rest of this year and beyond!
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One new experience we launched this year was a rich desktop web player at music.youtube.com. We did get a few questions about a specific desktop app. There are no plans to build a desktop application, but we are working on adding a lot of features to make the web feel more like a desktop player including media kets support.
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Being YouTube Music, we want to make sure that people get the best experience across both audio and video. For example, you can create and share playlists that have both songs and videos in them in order to get the most complete view of your favorite music. We are working hard on improving the interaction between the two, which will address a lot of the questions below:
Often when playing a song in 'audio only' mode the music video version of the song will play. In some cases these have dialogue or other sound effects present in the music video but not the official track. Are there any plans to address this and play the correct version?
The team is working on a really exciting overhaul of how we play audio and video in order to really show off YouTube’s amazing catalog of content. I can’t discuss much more about it, but it’s something we want to launch in the near future.
I have 2 big issues with YTM, one was already mentioned in this thread (missing albums) so I'll ask about the other one. There seems to be a lot of inter-mixing of music videos and just songs even within albums. I understand that's it's a YouTube app but this mixing kinda sucks. Even if it's on audio only, it's the audio of the music video. Music video have all sorts of nonsense going on when I just want to listen to the song. Is this something that's gonna be changed in the future or is this how you guys intended it to work?
If you are a subscriber of YouTube Music Premium, playing back albums will only play the audio version of all the songs instead of mixing in music videos.
Option to exclude videos from search results. Many users like myself are only interested in the audio aspect of a music subscription service
You can filter search results by song or album to hide the video searches, and we are working on better search ordering based on the content you primarily consume.
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I have similar questions that the others have (Android Auto, music selection, etc.), but also I noticed that the edited version gets played in my playlists randomly. Will there be a way to only have the explicit version of a song play?
In general, we always try to prefer the original (explicit) version. Certainly if you added the original version, we should be respecting that.
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Thanks for your feedback on Android Auto! This is something we are aware of and working towards.
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Hello! I'm a product specialist on YouTube Music, and I'll be joining Brandon in answering your questions. We read through all your questions, and we love all your feedback. Thank you all!
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The majority of people I have talked to will not leave GPM because current music and playlists will not port over to YTM. No sense creating lists in YTM if the port is going to screw things up in the future. How can you ease their (and my) concerns by explaining how and when the music transfer is going to happen?
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Is there a timeline to being able to filter songs in a specific playlist (search for a song in a playlist)?
I'd also love to cast audio from my computer!
I'd also love to cast audio from my computer!
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Why does it seem that iOS always get the better updates over Android? I know that for Android it's a staged rollout but that promise of updating the app more frequently seems to only apply to iOS. I personally love this app and the service it offers, but we Android users also need updates, not just ios, it's hard to see iOS phones have the best version the app can be(with audio quality for example). We don't want to wait half a year for an update to come out for Android after it came out for iOS. I guess my question is, why does it seem that YouTube Music Devs, prioritize iOS over Google's own Android?
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Really, why didn’t you just add videos more to the GPM app and rebrand it instead of creating a public beta for YouTube Music? It is a more stable, feature filled app to begin with.
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Will VEVO playlists become available on the YouTube Music app?
Currently I can only find them in the regular YouTube app (even the vevo ads in YouTube music direct back to the regular YouTube app)
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