YouTube Music 12+

When you tube music firs started I have to admit I hated the app starting a station would only give you eight songs and then it would go on repeat, I got fed up and reached out to google customer support and definitely one of the best customer service ever, the representative that help me out tried everything to figure out why it wouldn’t auto play continuously, finally we gave up and the problem continued, finally google reached out to me again and asked me how my experience with the app was and I was on the verge of canceling my service but the amazing people at google took my threat seriously and fixed the issue right away, now every time I start a station new songs keep popping up, I am definitely a happy customer and will be referring others to google instead of all the other platforms, Thanks Google for fixing the issue I’ am one happy customer who will continue using your services if I had 4 thumbs they’d be way up 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

Update: Tempted to drop to 2 stars because the “radio station” function has gotten worse. This was my favorite function because I liked discovering new bands and songs based on a band or song I liked, but now it plays the same songs by the same bands over and over and over each time I start the radio station. On the rare occasion it tosses in something new and I “like” it, then that band gets endlessly added to the mix with the same couple of songs. It totally defeats the purpose of the radio function!!!! The only reason I’m staying with 3 stars is that the app stopped crashing on me constantly as I’d noted in my original review (below).

Original: I never had problems with Google Play Music, but this app crashes a lot and has below average shuffle capabilities (i.e., won’t play all songs in a band’s catalog before turning off and puts the same set of songs in the beginning of every shuffled play session instead of truly shuffling the whole list each time.) I do love the concept of the auto-generated “My Mix” playlists, though. Instead of just creating a playlist of your likes or of songs that match ANY of your likes, the app creates “Mixes” that are based on genres/logical groupings of your likes. These are usually pretty good.

When I first got the App years ago it was great. The app is still working wonderfully when it comes to finding songs, getting recommendations, and adding music to a playlist. And I really like the inclusion of accessing community playlists. What irks me is that I’m having issues editing my playlist off the app. I’ll spend time, kill a GOOD bit of time, editing a playlist and it won’t save! I’ll hit the editing pencil icon, move songs around, hit done, then I refresh the playlist to find that it’s still the same. It’s really really frustrating! And I can’t get continuous play off my downloaded playlists often. It will stop play early in the playlist, or glitch out altogether and stop at one song. When it stops at one song it will usually say, “unable to find playlist.” Really tired of this as well. These really shouldn’t be issues. It’s kind of the core of the App to have these functions. It’s like having a movie service subscription, but you only get to watch on odd numbered days. What’s the point?! Really shouldn’t have to point out that the focus on the developers should be to make sure the core services that the App provides are working as they should. Let’s make sure the App does what it’s advertised to do before we get ambitious.