*Possible* 6 Months FREE Music Streaming [YouTube]

AlanS181824

Hi all,

I just said I'd post this as a bit of a PSA as not everyone can get it and I didn't see a thread on it previously.

YouTube have launched a new music streaming service similar to Spotify called YouTube Music Key and it's currently in a beta for 6 months and €7.99/month thereafter.

It also links in with Google Play Music All Access so you get both.

The prerequisites are you need to have a card linked with Google Wallet, if you're an Android user you'd probably have this anyway. You also need to have YouTube a lot for listening to music, watching videos etc.

Then go here and hopefully there'll be a big blue box saying try it free.

YouTube Music Key wrote:

You're invited

Enjoy music ad-free, offline, and in the background. Limited time only.

€7.99/month. Try it free for 6 months.

Be sure to set a reminder to cancel!

Hope it's of some use to some of you!

jessie_pinkman

none for me

AlanS181824

jessie_pinkman wrote: »

none for me

Yep, unfortunately it seems very selective, I use YouTube a lot for music even though I've Spotify Premium and I got it.

Just said I'd post it here anyway.

Hope it works for some of you!

DoYouEvenLift

With this launching does that mean we'll no longer be able to just go on music channels and play music videos?

AlanS181824

DoYouEvenLift wrote: »

With this launching does that mean we'll no longer be able to just go on music channels and play music videos?

I highly doubt it, YouTube/Google would be shooting themselves in the foot if they did that.

Almost an incentive for you to join YouTube Music Key they have 30 second ads on certain videos which aren't skippable.

YouTube Music Key has no ads which is good imo.

djburchgrove

If anyone cares, I already subscribe to Play Music and thus get You Tube Music Key.

It is an excellent service, also the added bonus of being able to watch the video (if there is one) of songs if you want is an excellent feature.

The music discovery system is as good, if not better than Spotify (i've used SPotify a lot too) as it uses both Play Music and your You Tube likes/favourites to determine what you're into.

I also like that my favourites on YOU TUBE can now be played in the background while I use other apps.

FOR 3 Users:

I'm on the PAYG €20 a month plan with Three, where you get a free tenner credit every month too. This is plenty of credit to use on other things and 3 allow you to use it to pay for things in the Play Store.

So if you Enable 3 billing on your device, you can use that free €10 credit to pay for this service every month, effectively in my eyes making it free. No option to do that with Spotify!

Fresh Pots

djburchgrove wrote: »

If anyone cares, I already subscribe to Play Music and thus get You Tube Music Key.

It is an excellent service, also the added bonus of being able to watch the video (if there is one) of songs if you want is an excellent feature.

The music discovery system is as good, if not better than Spotify (i've used SPotify a lot too) as it uses both Play Music and your You Tube likes/favourites to determine what you're into.

I also like that my favourites on YOU TUBE can now be played in the background while I use other apps.

FOR 3 Users:

I'm on the PAYG €20 a month plan with Three, where you get a free tenner credit every month too. This is plenty of credit to use on other things and 3 allow you to use it to pay for things in the Play Store.

So if you Enable 3 billing on your device, you can use that free €10 credit to pay for this service every month, effectively in my eyes making it free. No option to do that with Spotify!

Can't seem to get the videos to play in the background. Is there anything I need to do apart from subscribe to get this working?

djburchgrove

I didnt have to do anything special. Is YouTube and Play MUsic updates to latest version.

Fresh Pots

djburchgrove wrote: »

I didnt have to do anything special. Is YouTube and Play MUsic updates to latest version.

Yeah both up to date. Just wasted a tenner so as I only subbed for the background playback. Doesnt seem you can get a refund on this sub.
Sorted: Have two accounts in gmail. One being my name, the other my email address, when I switched it to email address the background playback started to work.

djburchgrove

I'm sure you can enable it somehow.

djburchgrove

Go into app. hit settings up top right, settings/background and offline/ Enable background playing.

loyatemu

worked for me - cheers OP

AlanS181824

I have Spotify Premium for €5.99 a month through Vodafone which in itself is a great deal but 6 months of totally free music is good too!

A great thing about it is that because it's YouTube any playlists I make while I've YouTube Music Key will still be there once my trial expires.

This was dissimilar to Google Play Music All Access whereby once my subscription had expired all playlists were lost.

grimm2005

AlanS181824 wrote: »

This was dissimilar to Google Play Music All Access whereby once my subscription had expired all playlists were lost.

The playlists remain but it'll only play songs from your personal library that are on the playlist (part of the 20,000 song free upload) but once you renew the sub the playlist comes back in full.

moonboy52

With Songza integration, that was enabled a few days ago, my €7.99 is great value for the Music Key service

DoYouEvenLift

Anyone who is on PAYG and mostly uses the internet/data and are looking for the best package for using stuff like this and Spotify and possibly Netflix should really check out that 48 network. I can't find any other networks with a plan as good as one of theirs which is 15GB of data for €15 /month...if anyone knows a better deal than this then please aware me lol

AlanS181824

DoYouEvenLift wrote: »

Anyone who is on PAYG and mostly uses the internet/data and are looking for the best package for using stuff like this and Spotify and possibly Netflix should really check out that 48 network. I can't find any other networks with a plan as good as one of theirs which is 15GB of data for €15 /month...if anyone knows a better deal than this then please aware me lol

Three, €20 All You Can Eat data. Some reporting no limit and others one of around 15GB.

DoYouEvenLift

AlanS181824 wrote: »

Three, €20 All You Can Eat data. Some reporting no limit and others one of around 15GB.

Is that 4G too? And do they have many texts/calls included in that package? 48 don't have 4G which is a big disappointment really

djburchgrove

AlanS181824 wrote: »

Three, €20 All You Can Eat data. Some reporting no limit and others one of around 15GB.

Yep, and they give you €30 credit for your 20 quid.

Ive used 60GB this month, Fair usage policy is 15GB, In their T&C's they reserve the right to "reduce" or "limit" your service after this point (Not cut you off, more so limiting your download speeds)

moonboy52

djburchgrove wrote: »

Yep, and they give you €30 credit for your 20 quid.

Ive used 60GB this month, Fair usage policy is 15GB, In their T&C's they reserve the right to "reduce" or "limit" your service after this point (Not cut you off, more so limiting your download speeds)

Was that €30 for €20 a special deal? I never knew i got €10 extra

djburchgrove

dunno, I get a text every month saying thanks for topping up, your extra 10e credit has been added.

moonboy52

djburchgrove wrote: »

dunno, I get a text every month saying thanks for topping up, your extra 10e credit has been added.

Must have been a special offer djburchgrove, damn good deal though

grimm2005

djburchgrove wrote: »

dunno, I get a text every month saying thanks for topping up, your extra 10e credit has been added.

It was an offer they had originally when they launched the €20 AYCE deal and I think it only applied to people signing up within the first couple of months of the offer but it applies for life (I get the same deal) but new customers won't get the €10 free.

DoYouEvenLift

djburchgrove wrote: »

Yep, and they give you €30 credit for your 20 quid.

Ive used 60GB this month, Fair usage policy is 15GB, In their T&C's they reserve the right to "reduce" or "limit" your service after this point (Not cut you off, more so limiting your download speeds)

How much of a difference did you notice in speeds after 15GB? Also, how do you use 60GB on mobile Internet? Lol


This deal with three has 4G also, does it?

AlanS181824

DoYouEvenLift wrote: »

Is that 4G too? And do they have many texts/calls included in that package? 48 don't have 4G which is a big disappointment really

Yep 4G and alright speeds too.

25/20Mb in Carlow.

48 run off O2 and as O2 is Three now I'd expect 48 to offer 4G very soon.

jessie_pinkman

AlanS181824 wrote: »

Three, €20 All You Can Eat data. Some reporting no limit and others one of around 15GB.

nice

Animo

AlanS181824 wrote: »

Yep 4G and alright speeds too.

25/20Mb in Carlow.

48 run off O2 and as O2 is Three now I'd expect 48 to offer 4G very soon.

I tweeted them about two or three weeks ago asking if they had any estimate on when they would get 4G and they said they don't have any plans to provide it atm.

The lack of 4G is making me considering switching but I haven't done it yet.

djburchgrove

I haven't noticed much to be honest, I can still stream Netflix in Full hd and get fast enough download speeds.

I run my own digital business and I'm constantly receiving files 2gb plus for downloads through we transfer and sites like that, images for design purposes etc.

mass_debater

Back on topic, is there any deal to be got on Google music?

loyatemu

mass_debater wrote: »

Back on topic, is there any deal to be got on Google music?

the one in the first post is for Google Music as well as YouTube Music Key.

mass_debater

loyatemu wrote: »

the one in the first post is for Google Music as well as YouTube Music Key.

It's not working

feelgoodinc27

Animo wrote: »

I tweeted them about two or three weeks ago asking if they had any estimate on when they would get 4G and they said they don't have any plans to provide it atm.

The lack of 4G is making me considering switching but I haven't done it yet.

O2 sent out an email about 2 weeks ago saying 4G was coming in a couple of months

loyatemu

feelgoodinc27 wrote: »

O2 sent out an email about 2 weeks ago saying 4G was coming in a couple of months

in June at the earliest.

adox

So am I missing something obvious? If you subscribe to Google Play Music for €9.99 a month you get the Youtube Music Key included.

If you subscribe to Youtube music Key for €7.99 a month you get Google Play Music included.

Is that right? Ive been on a two month free trial with Google Play Music and have the Youtube Music Key too and the trial ends at the end of the week. I`m thinking of keeping the sub but if I can sign up for the youtube sub, I`m getting the same service for €2 less a month?

AlanS181824

adox wrote: »

So am I missing something obvious? If you subscribe to Google Play Music for €9.99 a month you get the Youtube Music Key included.

If you subscribe to Youtube music Key for €7.99 a month you get Google Play Music included.

Is that right? Ive been on a two month free trial with Google Play Music and have the Youtube Music Key too and the trial ends at the end of the week. I`m thinking of keeping the sub but if I can sign up for the youtube sub, I`m getting the same service for €2 less a month?

Yep, €7.99 is simply an introductory price.

Google Play Music All Access comes with YoutTube Music Key and YouTube Music Key comes with Google Play Music All Access!

Daith

Ahh, I was wondering why I didn't get this. I was signed in as my old Youtube account (though still registered to my Gmail account) and not the Gmail account,.

talking_walnut

AlanS181824 wrote: »

Hi all,

Then go here and hopefully there'll be a big blue box saying try it free.

So when I click on this it just brings me to a normal looking YouTube page. No sign of a blue box or any mention of a subscription service. Can I assume this isn't working for me?

AlanS181824

talking_walnut wrote: »

So when I click on this it just brings me to a normal looking YouTube page. No sign of a blue box or any mention of a subscription service. Can I assume this isn't working for me?

Yeah so you go to YouTube and click on Music and if you're lucky there'd be a big blue box.

Google/YouTube have repeatedly said that this is for exclusive music lovers only which I assumed was just some clever marketing.

Maybe it isn't though.

charlie_says

I got the 6 month free Youtube Music key yoke. Crucially it comes with Google Play music full subscription for 6 months too, so super bargain alert.

Not sure why some aren't getting it. Worked first time for me. Perhaps you have to have a credit card already going on Google Wallet (which I don't like one bit).

AlanS181824

charlie_says wrote: »

I got the 6 month free Youtube Music key yoke. Crucially it comes with Google Play music full subscription for 6 months too, so super bargain alert.

Not sure why some aren't getting it. Worked first time for me. Perhaps you have to have a credit card already going on Google Wallet (which I don't like one bit).

It seems the main criteria are you've to use YouTube a lot for looking at music videos.

Other than that a bit of luck seems to help too!

talking_walnut

AlanS181824 wrote: »

It seems the main criteria are you've to use YouTube a lot for looking at music videos.

Other than that a bit of luck seems to help too!

I have a cc on my account but don't use YouTube much for music. This seems like the more likely explanation

marvin80

Didn't set a reminder to cancel this so unfortunately got an email to say I was charged today. I've it cancelled now!!

This might act as a reminder for other people hopefully.

looder

I find this great value. €7.99 after the bones of 6 months free. Spotify were charging me €10.

Obskure

Thought I'd just add that the Music Key beta is being retired on Nov 30. YouTube Red will be taking over in the States, initially, and hopefully spreading. If any of you find the service useful, @€;7.99 p/m it might be worth your while keeping up the sub. Play Music and YouTube Red are mutually inclusive so in effect you should get the two services for that grandfathered price. Otherwise, it'll be €9.99.
I got Music Key as I have a Play Music sub. I will miss it. Here's hoping that Red holds up to its promises. I don't want to switch to Spotify; if Play Music All Access doesn't have the song or artist, YouTube does.