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YouTube Music may not be perfect, but the app has a lot going for it. As far as music streaming apps go, I actually prefer it to the others. That said, I normally don’t default to streaming music; I generally prefer to listen to my own music files that I’ve collected over the years. I’m no audiophile or anything, it’s just how I prefer to listen to music most of the time.
That leads me to one of the biggest annoyances with YouTube Music: its seeming inability to read device audio files. The app even has a section in the library dedicated to device files, but opening it takes forever to load, and actually trying to use it is even worse. Try to play a track, you’re waiting at least 25 seconds for it to start, a total of 45 for the song information to actually load, and don’t even think about trying to skip to another song unless you want to find yourself sitting in another awkward silence as it tries to load.
This normally isn’t something I really have to deal with, having stuck to LG and Samsung phones throughout the years. These companies ship built-in music players with their versions of Android, which has been incredibly convenient. The thing is, not every Android OEM does this, and that’s usually where I run into problems.
I’ve reviewed a number of phones over the past few years, and oftentimes, my biggest annoyance is that they can’t play my music files because they don’t come with an app that can do it well. Even when reviewing the Pixel 7, I’d get annoyed at its lack of a music player other than YouTube Music.
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