I mean I get why they're doing it, they're trying to make the UX more akin to Youtube and then, further into the future, Youtube Shorts.

Modern media sales is all 0-attention-span instant-engagement with as little actual content as possible. Hence why instead of reading a joke and laughing about it, people will watch a short video about some guy reading off the line then laughing about it for you. Which is just wild to me, and all the time having his head in the way of actually being able to read the line he has on screen.

And now it's bleeding into music UX design, which is even worse because by its nature, audio content of either type (story or art, or both) is not the same as video content. No matter how little content the video even has.

They had it so right with GPM. I wish they had gave more shits about it. I even paid for that shit because it was good enough to remind me of the old days of using foobar to listen to music.

I just recently left YTM for Tidal and have been really enjoying the scaled-back lack of algorithmic social BS. Tidal is about the music and the artists, almost none of the social stuff and algorithms that try to get you to spend every waking moment on the app. I have the same issue with Spotify. They have a live sharing feature, but you can turn it off so that you don't see any of it.

It's like if you had a music player for just the music files you own, but it's streaming.

I'm absolutely done with YTM and all its bullshit.

Don't you want to read hundreds of comments with "Who's listening this in [insert year here]?" or how that song was the favourite of a dead relative? Lame.

No, seriously. Those are 90% of the comments I read in music videos on YouTube. Another 5% are the lyrics pasted continuously.

I need comments enabled to know if people are listening to a song in current year.

The Android Auto client is still utter trash. Want to search for an artist or song - too fucking bad, it better be in a playlist or you're SOL

Genius used to be a part of Spotify and it was removed then they brought back a worse lyrics feature.

The number 1 feature request is to disable censored songs, I never want the clean version and its a coin toss which I get.

Spotify is the best of a really shit bunch.

The negativity is stark here. If you don't want it, don't use it. It is an itsy bitsy icon, easy to ignore.

It's really a shame. I switched to Spotify and it's really just as bad. I listen to way too much different music to be able to afford to buy all of it though. Maybe Pandora for radio and buying albums is the way of the future.

Seriously? I'm still on an ancient version of YT Music Vanced cause I've been too lazy to update (not ReVanced, but the OG Vanced). No Shorts for me. Guess I'll never update it.