Spotify has penned a new multi-year partnership deal with controversial podcast host Joe Rogan, whose enormously popular show will soon also be available on competing platforms, including YouTube a…
Pretty much everything on spotify is on YouTube, plus all the stuff that isn’t on spotify but was uploaded by one person in 2009, plus all the mixes and non published music (video game, soundtrack stuff)
I probably listen to more on YouTube than I do tidal (my personal rental service of choice) these days
YouTube streams adaptive videos, which are not going to load the video-part of the playback unless you actually have the video on.
You can notice this effect most clearly in certain apps that stream adaptive video in that when you turn the screen on and off it takes a small time before the video segment actually loads - those bytes don’t make it to the device unless they are actually necessary for the experience.
No contest on the point about bitrates for the audio stream.
Pretty much everything on spotify is on YouTube, plus all the stuff that isn’t on spotify but was uploaded by one person in 2009, plus all the mixes and non published music (video game, soundtrack stuff)
I probably listen to more on YouTube than I do tidal (my personal rental service of choice) these days
And to be clear, YouTube, not YouTube music
YouTube has the issue of having a video stream in parallel thus more bandwidth, and piss poor bitrate.
The bitrate is the primary issue for me. Sounds like absolute ass on my main system.
YouTube streams adaptive videos, which are not going to load the video-part of the playback unless you actually have the video on.
You can notice this effect most clearly in certain apps that stream adaptive video in that when you turn the screen on and off it takes a small time before the video segment actually loads - those bytes don’t make it to the device unless they are actually necessary for the experience.
No contest on the point about bitrates for the audio stream.