Based on the press release, it doesn't seem so. It's basically just added a "music only" option, but otherwise it seems to just be a curated section of Youtube that only involves musical content. The same experience you get with vanilla Youtube seems to be applicable.
And looking at the pricing, you still get all the battery pitfalls baked into Youtube unless you buy premium.
Honestly, it feels more like an attempt to curate Youtube rather than developing a music app. Right now the top video content competes with the published Music content and likely just creates a really weird imbalance in the algorithm toppers.
Personally, I think they could have just handled this with some better organization within Youtube, but here we are with a new app.
Based on the press release, it doesn't seem so. It's basically just added a "music only" option, but otherwise it seems to just be a curated section of Youtube that only involves musical content. The same experience you get with vanilla Youtube seems to be applicable.
And looking at the pricing, you still get all the battery pitfalls baked into Youtube unless you buy premium.
Honestly, it feels more like an attempt to curate Youtube rather than developing a music app. Right now the top video content competes with the published Music content and likely just creates a really weird imbalance in the algorithm toppers.
Personally, I think they could have just handled this with some better organization within Youtube, but here we are with a new app.