Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike

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Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike
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For me, every other music app is missing alot of the songs I want to listen to (Cover songs, and remixes are the big 2) and they are only available on yt music.

Same + foreign artists. Lots of J-Rock artists that are hard to find on Western music services, let alone other countries. Only stuff like K-Pop I can find consistently on Western music services just because of how in demand it is.

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.

isn't SC pretty much only amateur rappers nowadays?

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.