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hahaha - I'm following the FAFO method to musical education right now, and this advice is reassuring.

Maybe you have unrealistic expectations. Have you tried thinking even lower of yourself?

Well, its most of the normal music and then a bunch of pirated music. It's like YT music but with a better "Start Radio" button.

Soundcloud might be an alternative worth looking into. For the music I tend to search for, I find I'm more likely to find it on Soundcloud, and it can take years to migrate from SC to YTM.

While YTM and SC were both $10, putting up with the worse platform was a reasonable price for no YT ads. Now that the grandfathering is ending and the price is jumping to $14, for US folks, I'm feeling the pressure to migrate.

Spotify has invested significant $$ in upgrading their platform.

YTM lets you access user-uploaded content. With that comes more in the way of remixes and Indy artists. The platform itself is pretty dogshit, though.

Your mileage may vary coming up in December. The $10 crew in the US will see a 40% increase at or near the end of the year. Grandfathering is going away.

This brings the cost of Google's video/music service to match Amazon's video/music service. Are those services of the same quality?

Soundcloud ($10) Is the real competitor to YT-Music in my book. Both benefit from user-generated and user-uploaded content. While there is crossover, I have found more tracks on Soundcloud that aren't on YT than the other way around.

The article became increasingly redundant as it continued. The crux seems to be Google isn't their employer. These workers work for a subcontractor, Cognizant. Cognizant performs services for YouTube Music.

Cognizant is refusing to bargain citing the ongoing relevant litigation* between its employees and Google.

• I'm not sure what the legal process is called for union claims.

Some of the employees are striking for 1 day.

I don't understand your comment. To put it another way, vaccine was less bad than covid. Or Covid was worse than the vaccine. Do you still object with the simplified phrasing?

It does make sense. And it is so so easy to get tangled.

Agreed. I misremembered what the issue was. It's been a second.

The issue was balancing risk of serious side effect versus risk of serious complication.