YouTube Music, a new music streaming service, is coming soon
The way Google brands products reminds me of Microsoft when they tried to attach an unrelated product to a moderately popular consumer brand (Looking at you Groove Music, I mean Xbox Music, I mean Zune Music)<p>There is nothing wrong with Google Play Music apart from the &#x27;Play&#x27; misnomer. Google Music should be a standalone product that competes with Spotify. It&#x27;s a well defined and well understood category. YouTube is a different product, used by different people, for different purposes and in different ways. Now you&#x27;re confusing everything. Can I get audio-only version of YouTube videos or just YouTube music videos or does it have to be an audio-only upload? Does that mean you can have audio-only YouTube videos now (even without putting in some reference image?)? Is it going to kill my bandwidth if I try to stream on LTE? Is it going to replace Google Music? Are my playlists in Google Music and YouTube going to be replaced? Will there be YouTube comments on music (I hope not)? Can anybody upload to YouTube music? A year ago Google added mediocre support for podcasts to Google Music instead of building a dedicated app - will YouTube Music handle podcasts? URGH!<p>All they needed to do was to add background playback to YouTube and maybe a little link to the YouTube video in Google Music, and if you&#x27;re watching a music video on YouTube, a link to a streaming service of your choice (like Google Music, Spotify or Apple Music).<p>Given how poorly this has been thought through, you just know in 2 years there will be another rebrand.