• echo64@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    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

      • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
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        9 months ago

        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.