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  • #62
    nephster
    Registered Users Posts: 434 ✭✭nephster


    Lucas Hood wrote: »
    I've added people to my family account after signing up and not had an issue.

    Just tried it myself with my secondary Gmail, and it failed, telling me I was in a different country to the family manager.
    My primary account has its payment set to Argentina, to get the Argentinian rate.


  • #63
    Lucas Hood
    Registered Users Posts: 7,205 ✭✭✭Lucas Hood


    I just tried adding my work account and it worked fine.


  • #64
    Peig Sayers
    Registered Users Posts: 1,073 ✭✭✭Peig Sayers


    Worked with my VPN set to India. Great value for €1.45 per month and I got a free month's trial!


  • #65
    SteM
    Registered Users Posts: 6,522 ✭✭✭SteM


    So I've just cancelled my YT Premium account and it ends on 08/02. On 08/02 I just login to my google account via VPN set to India and re-join for the lower cost - is that it?


  • #66
    ShaneU
    Registered Users Posts: 14,812 ✭✭✭✭ShaneU


    kaerobe wrote: »
    You need the VPN to sign up, not to continue to access.
    My YT on my TV has Irish music/new releases.
    My YouTube music app on my phone is full of Indian music. Top 100 chart is mostly hindi stuff. Not using a VPN.


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  • #67
    Lucas Hood
    Registered Users Posts: 7,205 ✭✭✭Lucas Hood


    ShaneU wrote: »
    My YouTube music app on my phone is full of Indian music. Top 100 chart is mostly hindi stuff. Not using a VPN.

    It shows the indian charts and stuff but all your normal music is there. Once you listen to some stuff it'll show you your usual stuff.


  • #68
    nephster
    Registered Users Posts: 434 ✭✭nephster


    Lucas Hood wrote: »
    It shows the indian charts and stuff but all your normal music is there. Once you listen to some stuff it'll show you your usual stuff.

    This.
    If you *really* want to listen to the Top 100 Irish Songs (or wherever):
    You can change the chart location in the YT Music app - Explore > Charts. Under the title Charts is a dropdown, you can set it to Ireland. But in my experience it reverts to the payment country when you leave.
    So, when in the Irish chart click See All. That takes you to the current playlist of those 100 songs, and then you click the "add to library" "+" icon. It will now be in your Library tab, to play when you want. The playlist *should* update automatically when songs are added and removed by Google.
    Cumbersome? Yes. But it's an option if you want the Irish chart.


  • #69
    Snake Plisken
    Registered Users Posts: 12,413 ✭✭✭✭Snake Plisken


    Is India the cheapest? Also of your already signed up to google drive will that affect trying to do this via vpn?


  • #70
    Jofspring
    Registered Users Posts: 4,001 ✭✭✭Jofspring


    YouTube is fantastic this way.

    Very tempted by Tidal. Been a Spotify family member for years but that's €15 a month. Main issue is knocking the rest of my family off it and Spotify works very well with Google home. Might just scrap Spotify for the moment and stick with YouTube music.


  • #71
    wiz569
    Registered Users Posts: 1,693 ✭✭✭wiz569


    Mine shows all the normal Irish/English music as per usual with no mucking around like the above.


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  • #72
    Peig Sayers
    Registered Users Posts: 1,073 ✭✭✭Peig Sayers


    Jofspring wrote: »
    YouTube is fantastic this way.

    Very tempted by Tidal. Been a Spotify family member for years but that's €15 a month. Main issue is knocking the rest of my family off it and Spotify works very well with Google home. Might just scrap Spotify for the moment and stick with YouTube music.

    Get yourself onto a Spotify plan on Boardss. Only cost €30 per year!


  • #73
    Jarren1
    Registered Users Posts: 23 ✭Jarren1


    Thanks OP!!


  • #74
    uli84
    Registered Users Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭uli84


    Peig Sayers wrote: »
    Get yourself onto a Spotify plan on Boardss. Only cost €30 per year!

    Like how?


  • #75
    Soarer
    Registered Users Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭Soarer


    I know this is going OT, but....
    Jofspring wrote: »
    YouTube is fantastic this way.

    Very tempted by Tidal. Been a Spotify family member for years but that's €15 a month. Main issue is knocking the rest of my family off it and Spotify works very well with Google home. Might just scrap Spotify for the moment and stick with YouTube music.

    This is a walkthrough I created around Black Friday time for Tidal. Assume it's still relevant, bar the black Friday sale part.
    Soarer wrote: »
    Right guys and gals.

    Complete novice walkthrough. If I can do it, anybody can.

    This is for a single sub, not a family sub.

    1. Found a free VPN here https://www.hotspotshield.com/
    2. Registered for their Premium service, which gives a 7 day free trial.
    3. Installed the VPN, opened it, and set it to Turkey.
    4. Clicked on this link https://www.tidal.com/blackfriday
    5. Followed the registration process my Revolut card.
    6. Registratrion went through for the 4 months @ TRY1.99 a month, and will continue @ TRY19.99 after that.
    7. Installed Tidal on my phone, and logged in to make sure everything was working.
    8. Logged back into HotSpotShield and cancelled my subscription.

    That's pretty much it from start to finish. Literally took less than 10 minutes for everything.

    P.S. At today's rates, the monthly sub is costing €0.22 per month, and the full rate will be €2.13 per month.

    EDIT: Don't know how this sort of witchcraft works, but if you go to tunemymusic.com, you can transfer your playlists/songs from one service to another.
    It mightn't catch them all, but it's pretty accurate.


  • #76
    DavyD_83
    Registered Users Posts: 1,991 ✭✭✭DavyD_83


    Aquos76 wrote: »
    https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/youtube-premium-ps136month-3540366

    That's the exact guide I used before.
    I hadn't used VPN for anything before so put it of for a while because I assumed it would be awkward and complicated. Or is easy easier than it even sounds.
    Go for it.
    I'm paying 189 rupees a month for unlimited music Anne videos (which I hardly ever use)without ads; have also shared with my wife and both my parents as family members in same cost
    You literally only need the VPN for the tone it takes to sign up. Then go back to using normally and can add people to your family same as always.

    The only minor downside is that on YouTube music the recommendations are mostly Indian artists even though my usage location is set to Ireland in every way I can, So far, I haven't found any way of adjusting this . If anybody has, of love to know


  • #77
    TheDriver
    Registered Users Posts: 12,386 ✭✭✭✭TheDriver


    Jofspring wrote: »
    YouTube is fantastic this way.

    Very tempted by Tidal. Been a Spotify family member for years but that's €15 a month. Main issue is knocking the rest of my family off it and Spotify works very well with Google home. Might just scrap Spotify for the moment and stick with YouTube music.

    Tidal family is about 1.80 a month for the whole family. Only snag is Amazon echo, it only works on US anaxon devices.


  • #78
    ablelocks
    Registered Users Posts: 4,672 ✭✭✭ablelocks


    TheDriver wrote: »
    Tidal family is about 1.80 a month for the whole family. Only snag is Amazon echo, it only works on US anaxon devices.

    ah balls.


  • #79
    degsie
    Registered Users Posts: 8,726 ✭✭✭degsie


    TheDriver wrote: »
    Tidal family is about 1.80 a month for the whole family. Only snag is Amazon echo, it only works on US anaxon devices.

    Works on UK Echo? scratch that, FireTV :(

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/TIDAL-Music-AS/dp/B0119DBAW8


  • #80
    TheDriver
    Registered Users Posts: 12,386 ✭✭✭✭TheDriver


    Works grand on my echos but I use an Amazon dud US account for my firestick and echos rather than my UK account.


  • #81
    psicic
    Registered Users Posts: 986 ✭✭✭psicic


    Some earlier posters asking about existing Youtube Premium members. I was an existing Youtube Premium member (was worth it back in the day when they made their own content). These are the steps I took to get Family membership in India:
    1. Cancelled my current YouTube Premium membership (after cancelling I had one week left of premium benefits)
    2. Set up a Google family here https://families.google.com/families - as per nephster's post above waited til all family members had accepted
    3. Set up a VPN - my current one (AirVPN) didn't have India or Turkey so went with Surfshark (if you haven't looked at VPN features in a while, the bigger brands have come on a lot)
    4. Just as an added step, I dug out my passport and finally finished registering for Revolut. I understand it wasn't necessary to use Revolut and you can use your normal card, but sure why not
    5. Went to the YouTube Manage subscription page here: https://www.youtube.com/paid_memberships and clicked in to the Family Membership (if going solo, the premium link is also on this page)
    6. Turned on the VPN and refreshed the page
    7. Prices changed to Rupees
    8. Clicked on the subscribe buttons - 10 rupees for the next week, then 189 for next month.
    9. Only asked me for an Indian State - not a full address. (Dehli, by the way!)
    10. That's it, access was instant.

    Also, I would suggest making sure your family members you invite are their gmail addresses, just for ease of them using on their phones.


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  • #82
    Fingers Mcginty
    Registered Users Posts: 2,557 ✭✭✭Fingers Mcginty


    Do you have to have indian rupees on your revolut for this to work using an indian address.

    I've just setup everything up and revolut says theres a temporary hold on my card??


  • #83
    Peig Sayers
    Registered Users Posts: 1,073 ✭✭✭Peig Sayers


    uli84 wrote: »
    Like how?

    Search spotify family, there's a post about three weeks ago. Same thing as you tube - use a VPN and sign up to whichever country it's cheapest in. You don't have to set up a family plan but it will work out cheaper if you have other members.


  • #84
    Peig Sayers
    Registered Users Posts: 1,073 ✭✭✭Peig Sayers


    Fingers Mcginty wrote: »
    Do you have to have indian rupees on your revolut for this to work using an indian address.

    I've just setup everything up and revolut says theres a temporary hold on my card??

    Same thing happened to me earlier on. There was a 2c charge on my Revolut card but it's been reverted now.


  • #85
    Snake Plisken
    Registered Users Posts: 12,413 ✭✭✭✭Snake Plisken


    Just to repeat a question can you cancel your Google drive sub and take it out in india as well and save on the €1.99 per month similar to premium?


  • #86
    psicic
    Registered Users Posts: 986 ✭✭✭psicic


    Fingers Mcginty wrote: »
    Do you have to have indian rupees on your revolut for this to work using an indian address.

    I've just setup everything up and revolut says theres a temporary hold on my card??

    Don't know if this helps, but:

    Started the sign up to Revolut just after work, so around 6-ish this evening.

    After all the sign up,I just added 75 euro to my Revolut (amount chosen at random by me - no particular reason except I wanted enough to cover a few months of Youtube).

    Then I realised account was limited until I verified my identity. Did the whole passport scan and selfie thing.
    Also realised you have to go into settings and verify your email address.

    Approx 50 minutes after starting the process - at exactly 6.50pm - I got an email that my Revolut account was now fully setup and I could use it to 'manage' my money. Jokes on them - I'll be using it to spend it instead!

    Then I just entered the details as you would a normal mastercard debit card on the Youtube sign-up page mentioned in my previous post.

    According to Revolut, this was about 7.12pm when I signed up to Youtube Premium, so the process took somewhere between and hour and an hour and a half.

    I did not fill in anything on Revolut about India.


  • #87
    Mecrab
    Registered Users Posts: 88 ✭✭Mecrab


    Surfing from India using NORDVPN and the YouTube premium sign up page is displaying the price in AED which I googled and is the currency of United Arab Emirates? This happening to anyone else? It works out to 5 euro a month when converted so not quite as good as rupees..


  • #88
    Beersmith
    Registered Users Posts: 1,389 ✭✭✭Beersmith


    psicic wrote: »
    Some earlier posters asking about existing Youtube Premium members. I was an existing Youtube Premium member (was worth it back in the day when they made their own content). These are the steps I took to get Family membership in India:
    1. Cancelled my current YouTube Premium membership (after cancelling I had one week left of premium benefits)
    2. Set up a Google family here https://families.google.com/families - as per nephster's post above waited til all family members had accepted
    3. Set up a VPN - my current one (AirVPN) didn't have India or Turkey so went with Surfshark (if you haven't looked at VPN features in a while, the bigger brands have come on a lot)
    4. Just as an added step, I dug out my passport and finally finished registering for Revolut. I understand it wasn't necessary to use Revolut and you can use your normal card, but sure why not
    5. Went to the YouTube Manage subscription page here: https://www.youtube.com/paid_memberships and clicked in to the Family Membership (if going solo, the premium link is also on this page)
    6. Turned on the VPN and refreshed the page
    7. Prices changed to Rupees
    8. Clicked on the subscribe buttons - 10 rupees for the next week, then 189 for next month.
    9. Only asked me for an Indian State - not a full address. (Dehli, by the way!)
    10. That's it, access was instant.

    Also, I would suggest making sure your family members you invite are their gmail addresses, just for ease of them using on their phones.

    So you just have to wait until premium ran out before resigning up yes?


  • #89
    logically
    Registered Users Posts: 169 ✭✭logically


    Mecrab wrote: »
    Surfing from India using NORDVPN and the YouTube premium sign up page is displaying the price in AED which I googled and is the currency of United Arab Emirates? This happening to anyone else? It works out to 5 euro a month when converted so not quite as good as rupees..

    Yes, same for me with Nord. Tried multiple times connecting and disconnecting to the 2 available India choices.

    After 10 minutes faffing about, I downloads hola temporarily and got connected and signed up no problem.


  • #90
    Tipsy McSwagger
    Registered Users Posts: 9,065 ✭✭✭Tipsy McSwagger


    Just done it for premium, so happy.


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  • #91
    Mimikyu
    Registered Users Posts: 18,903 ✭✭✭✭Mimikyu


    Fingers Mcginty wrote: »
    Do you have to have indian rupees on your revolut for this to work using an indian address.

    I've just setup everything up and revolut says theres a temporary hold on my card??

    No you don't need to convert on Revolut for it to work. Revolut will do the conversion out of your Euro account. The temporary hold should drop off shortly.

    Mecrab wrote: »
    Surfing from India using NORDVPN and the YouTube premium sign up page is displaying the price in AED which I googled and is the currency of United Arab Emirates? This happening to anyone else? It works out to 5 euro a month when converted so not quite as good as rupees..

    This is a common problem with Nord from what I've read. As another poster mentioned Hola should work.


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