When comparing Youtube vs Anghami, the Slant community recommends Youtube for most people. In the question“What are the best music streaming services?” Youtube is ranked 10th while Anghami is ranked 19th. The most important reason people chose Youtube is:
Huge variety of music to pick from including rare recordings, covers, mixes, etc.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Large catalog of music
Huge variety of music to pick from including rare recordings, covers, mixes, etc.
Pro Community created mixes and remixes
Because anybody can upload to YouTube, it has content from remixes of popular songs to hour long mixes and everything in-between. Much of this content can't be found on other music streaming services.
Pro Really good suggestions
YouTube has some of the best suggestions around. Almost all of the suggestions are similar to the song you're currently playing, and allow for an endless music streaming service.
Pro Multiple frontends available
There are Chrome extensions (UpNext, Streamus), webapps (The Parade) and even native desktop apps (Atraci) that are all powered by Youtube. They provide additional functionality and convenience on top of what Youtube already offers.
Pro Curated, recommended playlists and weekly mixtapes
You get recommended playlists based on your listening preference, plus each week you get a mixtape with tracks that's unique to you.
Pro Create and share playlists
You have complete freedom to create and share playlists with your friends.
Pro Seamless listening across devices
You can continue where you left off from your PC to your Phone or any other device connected to your account, it's like Netflix for music.
Pro Synchronized lyrics
Lyrics are there for almost any song and they are synchronized with the song as well.
Pro Radar Songs Playing Around You
When you hear a song playing around you, and you can't know it's title, or you want it in your library. You can radar it. Just press and hold on "Search" option, and it will automatically open radar, or you can press "Search" option, and press "Tap To Radar" Button. It's a great feature for me, also it's faster than Shazam.
Pro Play More Like This
When you find a song you like, you can chose "play more like this" option and it will suggest pretty similar songs, it works for me greatly.
Pro Upload music from your devices
You can upload your offline music to add to your Anghami streaming library.
Cons
Con Confusing service for music
There is a Youtube Music app, which allows one to stream music videos as well as just the studio audio versions of songs. This feature is not accessible on the Youtube website, or the regular Youtube app.
In order to get ad free service on the site as well as the music app, ones needs to subscribe to Youtube Red for $9.99 a month. This nets the user features, such as Youtube (Google) created movies and videos as well as a way to save musical playlists for offline use, but only in the Youtube Music app. This makes for a confusing and fragmented service that requires using multiple apps, a website, and a subscription to a paid service that encompasses much more than just music, in order to get the full use out of music on Youtube.
Con Lots of ads unless you buy a subscription
There are lots of ads on YouTube, even in the middle of long songs. Some of them can be skipped, however others cannot. Most of the time ads are only displayed between songs.
Con Rips artists off
YouTube pays artists $0.0007 / play, which is less than 6 times what Spotify pays ($0.0044), and Spotify itself is criticized for ripping artists off.
Con Ambient music monetization denied
YouTube doesn't allow the monetization of the ambient musical tracks.
Con Ads
The app has many advertisements
