I definitely don’t want to see how many people like a song I’m listening to or what they have to say about it. I want my music experience to be more personal. I will just go to normal YouTube if I want to discuss something.
Ugh, I still miss GPM so much. YTM is worse to me in just about every way.
I mean I get why they’re doing it, they’re trying to make the UX more akin to Youtube and then, further into the future, Youtube Shorts.
Modern media sales is all 0-attention-span instant-engagement with as little actual content as possible. Hence why instead of reading a joke and laughing about it, people will watch a short video about some guy reading off the line then laughing about it for you. Which is just wild to me, and all the time having his head in the way of actually being able to read the line he has on screen.
And now it’s bleeding into music UX design, which is even worse because by its nature, audio content of either type (story or art, or both) is not the same as video content. No matter how little content the video even has.
It’s sad that music UX is adopting these principles, tbh. Music is inherently a long(er) form experience. It deserves separate treatment. The last thing I personally want is for music apps to try to suck my attention as much as text- and video-based apps do. I know I’m fighting against the app economy headwinds in that desire, but I still dare to dream…
There is already YouTube music shorts. Well not created by users (automatic or maybe artists can make it not sure 🤔 )but it is there already, it is called “Samples”.
https://imgur.io/a/3Tssgy8
They had it so right with GPM. I wish they had gave more shits about it. I even paid for that shit because it was good enough to remind me of the old days of using foobar to listen to music.
Don’t you want to read hundreds of comments with “Who’s listening this in [insert year here]?” or how that song was the favourite of a dead relative? Lame.
No, seriously. Those are 90% of the comments I read in music videos on YouTube. Another 5% are the lyrics pasted continuously.
I definitely don’t want to see how many people like a song I’m listening to or what they have to say about it. I want my music experience to be more personal. I will just go to normal YouTube if I want to discuss something.
Ugh, I still miss GPM so much. YTM is worse to me in just about every way.
I mean I get why they’re doing it, they’re trying to make the UX more akin to Youtube and then, further into the future, Youtube Shorts.
Modern media sales is all 0-attention-span instant-engagement with as little actual content as possible. Hence why instead of reading a joke and laughing about it, people will watch a short video about some guy reading off the line then laughing about it for you. Which is just wild to me, and all the time having his head in the way of actually being able to read the line he has on screen.
And now it’s bleeding into music UX design, which is even worse because by its nature, audio content of either type (story or art, or both) is not the same as video content. No matter how little content the video even has.
It’s sad that music UX is adopting these principles, tbh. Music is inherently a long(er) form experience. It deserves separate treatment. The last thing I personally want is for music apps to try to suck my attention as much as text- and video-based apps do. I know I’m fighting against the app economy headwinds in that desire, but I still dare to dream…
There is already YouTube music shorts. Well not created by users (automatic or maybe artists can make it not sure 🤔 )but it is there already, it is called “Samples”. https://imgur.io/a/3Tssgy8
*sobs hopelessly*
They had it so right with GPM. I wish they had gave more shits about it. I even paid for that shit because it was good enough to remind me of the old days of using foobar to listen to music.
Don’t you want to read hundreds of comments with “Who’s listening this in [insert year here]?” or how that song was the favourite of a dead relative? Lame.
No, seriously. Those are 90% of the comments I read in music videos on YouTube. Another 5% are the lyrics pasted continuously.