YouTube Premium vs Spotify

I don't use YouTube much, because I find the ads very intrusive and a waste of my time because you have to go back to click on Skip to access your video. But if it cost 3 USD a month and had no ads, I would give it a try!

We will be waiting to hear your feedback, Splinter .

Can you also watch sports? My husbands occasionally watches Boca matches, and StarPlus only includes Liga matches. The Superclásico and other cups are NOT included.

Is YouTube Premium in Argentina the same as YouTubeTV in the USA?

I'm a cheapskate so put up with the YT ads. I don't use YT that often though. Really only use it for finding out how things are done. I stopped clicking those videos with scantily clad beach girls after the missus caught me.

Ha! YouTubeTV is different. It’s a streaming service comparable to Hulu. In the US, we pay about $80/month for it.

We have had it and liked it better than Hulu, which we currently use. I expect we’ll go back to it.

Having realized for awhile that my subscriptions were getting out of control, I’m trying to cut back on print as well as online subscriptions to magazines, journals, and newspapers. I’m hoping that having a more manageable number will help my absurd screen time as well.

Streaming services are also on the chopping block. I like serafina ’s plan to rotate services. We like so many of the BBC productions that we are momentarily down to YoutubeTV and Britbox right now, and we’ll trade Britbox for Netflix when the content starts growing thin.

I believe we no longer have a music streaming service, but still have our old iPod loaded with favorite music, so we don’t go without music.

[As for Alexa, can anyone explain to me what, other than as a toy, the point is?]

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[As for Alexa, can anyone explain to me what, other than as a toy, the point is?]

I use Alexa on the an Amazon Echo device. At its least It is a speaker that lets me listen to music streaming services and all the many radio stations around the world. No different than how you might already do on your mobile or computer. Because Amazon subsides the cost with regular sales, it is much cheaper than all the other Bluetooth radios.

All day my Echo is playing radio or music. I have an old echo device that allows configuration to not listen to our conversations. It only works when I press the button to speak a command.

Via Alexa I have enabled the TuneIn Radio Skill. It plays my saved Tunein.com favorites. This allows me to say e.g. "Play WWOZ from tunein" to hear New Orleans Jazz radio, or "Play WQED from tunein" to hear PA public radio classical, etc, etc... the many jazz, blues, classical, news, NPR public radio stations I know. I can send the list.

Then also I use the echo to play my Spotify playlists or anything I ask Alexa to play from Spotify (when I pay my streaming bill). Like. "Alexa ask Spotify to Play 80s rock" I do not use Amazon music streaming, but I have.

Configure an Alexa/Echo Routine to play the Argentina Public National Rock station when I say "Play Radio"

Configure to play Boston Harvard University morning jazz or afternoon Classical or weekend Bluegrass when I say "Play Harvard" because Alexa is often confused thinking I said "WHR V" when I really say "WHR B"

Beyond music, what is Alexa’s talent?

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Beyond music, what is Alexa’s talent?

That is about all I use it for, but it has the same talents as all the smart devices that can understand spoken commands, give an audio response, and perhaps automate some task you request. It can be a speaker phone if you ask it to call someone and have an hour long conversation. It can add items to your Amazon shopping list or your Grocery store shopping list for pickup later in the day. It can interact with you smart home devices to turn on lights or irrigation system.

It is the same as Apples Siri or Android's Google assistant. Alexa is the dumbest and worst interface of those three, though they promise to replace soon with AI instead of dumb voice controlled decision tree it uses now. All three of those are behind the trend of having AI assistance that automates so task you need done.

So basically it is a $25-50 device that is the Interface for interacting with other devices and services. Are you really asking about Alexa, which is the Amazon system for interaction, or are you asking about the cheap Amazon Echo hardware devices?

I guess I’m asking about all of them. They are so ubiquitous that I wondered if we needed one. Thanks to your explanation, aficionado , I see that we do not.