I don't pay for either but I use both and the youtube music desktop ui is really really bad. Plus the annoying thing of it often playing music videos instead of the normal song. I definitely like it better on mobile though

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can toggle video or song. I actually like yt music way more because it can play pretty much anything on YT, including hours and hours of mixes you won't find on Spotify.

[–] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can't really toggle video or song though, you can toggle video or thumbnail to video with video audio

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

I've had a different experience. When I have it on video, it'll play the music video version, and when I have it on song, it'll play the studio version. Maybe that doesn't work for every song, but it definitely has worked that way for me.

[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

It definitely is better, but it sill has some stupid quirks that in some cases could probably be fixed by few lines of code, like not locking the screen when you are on the lyrics screen. It also is very slow to start-up in offline mode, which drives me nuts. But otherwise it is much better performant than Spotify and has better ways to listen to new music, instead of the dumb intelligent randomize feature on Spotify.

[–] MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Honestly it's the social aspect. Everyone I know uses Spotify, so sharing playlists and tracks are super easy. I know there's converters out there but I can't be arsed to do that every time I want to send or receive a link. I've also got some shared playlists between friends we all contribute to. At social gathering I can turn on the party mode or whatever it's called and let people add stuff to the queue. The big one though is I've got a few friends with really good taste. I can check in on them from time to time to see what they're listening to right now. Found a lot of great stuff this way.