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#303137 19-Jan-2023 10:13
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We're looking to trial YT Premium as a substitute for our long-running Spotify Premium sub, primarily to get rid of the ads on YT.

 

I understand existing YT Premium holders can provide a referral link by which they get a discount - are there any current subscribers that would care to share a link with me via DM?

 

We'll be getting a Family account, so not sure if this is available via such referral or whether it requires a referral from someone else holding a family account (couldn't find info on this).

 

I know there's a one-month free trial option, which I'll take if there's nothing longer via other means, but I thought it was worth asking.

 

Cheers.


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  #3023576 19-Jan-2023 10:16
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I am a YouTube premium subscriber but not family plan

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  #3023586 19-Jan-2023 10:55
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Have you read through this thread? I am currently using that method for a single-user plan paying $3.50 a month. Only reason I got it was to be able to use my Nest Mini properly lol


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  #3023592 19-Jan-2023 11:07
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Thanks, I hadn't read that specific thread but had come across the VPN trick.

 

I'm in two minds about this - first was a concern it would impact what we were served (so good to know this isn't an issue); and second whether it was the right thing to do. That said, that's how we got Netflix for years before it was available in NZ (and a bit after!). 

 

Perhaps it's worth a go, though; at that price it could still be useful carrying on with it (for no ads) even if we return to Spotify Premium - because if the music side of YT Premium doesn't live up to the broader family expectations/requirements, we'll be going back to that! (As we're very much in the Google ecosystem, with GH devices in every room, we need a music service supported on their devices.)




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  #3023594 19-Jan-2023 11:11
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jonathan18: and second whether it was the right thing to do. That said, that's how we got Netflix for years before it was available in NZ (and a bit after!)


Yeah, I was worried that Google might ban the account but after reading someone had been using this method for 3 years, I just went for it

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  #3023644 19-Jan-2023 11:18
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Before switching your Spotify account just remember your Tesla doesn't have YouTube Music support (at-least yet). As WAF is a factor to you from all your previous posts it could be just worth keeping Spotify but using the method above to get YouTube Premium also. That is what I personally do.





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  #3023670 19-Jan-2023 12:24
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michaelmurfy:

 

Before switching your Spotify account just remember your Tesla doesn't have YouTube Music support (at-least yet). As WAF is a factor to you from all your previous posts it could be just worth keeping Spotify but using the method above to get YouTube Premium also. That is what I personally do.

 

 

Yeah, fair point!

 

We did think about this prior, and I believed there was a solution: we do have the Tesla premium sub so had planned to use its own Spotify premium account for the car (currently we don't use this, but rather we use a spare account that's part of our Spotify family). While I knew I couldn't use the Tesla Spotify account on other devices, we assumed all we'd need to do is share our own playlists with that account. (Obviously this would be trickier once we moved away from Spotify, if our playlists are maintained in YT Music.) Apart from the issue with maintaining current playlists, would this work in practice?

 

But, yep, I've signed us up via Turkey; initially tried using India but that won't accept o/s CCs, and my VPN doesn't include Argentina. So at this stage we'll run both parallel and see how it goes before making a final decision; just need to copy Spotify playlists across to YT.


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Just make sure to create you family before subscribing to premium. Once you've subscribed to Premium you can't add family members after.


 
 
 
 

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  #3023768 19-Jan-2023 12:40
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Senecio:

 

Just make sure to create you family before subscribing to premium. Once you've subscribed to Premium you can't add family members after.

 

 

Thanks; yep, all good on that front as we had a family set up given we've been using Family Link for managing the kids' devices.

 

The frustrating thing is that YT Premium isn't available for parentally managed Google accounts so I've had to remove this off my eldest kid's account and my younger kid won't be able to use it via his current Google (ie, legit age) account at all. Not sure why this is the case?


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  #3023865 19-Jan-2023 12:53
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I signed up to YT premium this week in Turkey. ~NZ$5/month for family. No issues creating and adding family members afterwards. 


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  #3023891 19-Jan-2023 13:36
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You're not in New Zealand now, Dr Ropata! (Bit slow to realise why I didn't recognise 95% of the names of the proposed artists I may like!)

 


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Nate001:

 

I signed up to YT premium this week in Turkey. ~NZ$5/month for family. No issues creating and adding family members afterwards. 

 

 

 

 

That's good, they must have changed that restriction since I set up my family account.


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  #3024003 19-Jan-2023 14:57
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Nate001:

 

I signed up to YT premium this week in Turkey. ~NZ$5/month for family. No issues creating and adding family members afterwards. 

 

 

What VPN did you use to do this?  I tried a range of them and could never get to the final step.


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If using a VPN on the TV streamer (Fire TV Stick) I would need to set it up smart so the VPN would switch on for this, but otherwise be off so TVNZ, SkySportNow etc still work. Could never get that working.

 

[Edit] - On re-reading... only need the VPN on for the signup?

 

 

 

 


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  #3024017 19-Jan-2023 15:20
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rp1790:

 

Nate001:

 

I signed up to YT premium this week in Turkey. ~NZ$5/month for family. No issues creating and adding family members afterwards. 

 

 

What VPN did you use to do this?  I tried a range of them and could never get to the final step.

 

 

@rp1790: I just used the VPN that came with my old 'lifetime' Getflix sub to create the Turkish account; it worked fine.

 

By 'final step', which step are you referring to?


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  #3024039 19-Jan-2023 15:50
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rp1790:

 

Nate001:

 

I signed up to YT premium this week in Turkey. ~NZ$5/month for family. No issues creating and adding family members afterwards. 

 

 

What VPN did you use to do this?  I tried a range of them and could never get to the final step.

 

 

I have a windscribe account. What do you mean by final step?


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