Why does YouTube suck so much on Android tV?

by Tired8281

I'm really having trouble understanding why they made the YouTube experience so bad on Android TV. They own YouTube, they own Android TV, do they hate YouTube? Do they hate Android TV? Do they just hate me?

The ways it behaves are bizarre. Today, I put some music on on YouTube, since I pay for Premium and it (should) play music without interruption. Except it waits a while, maybe an hour, then needily demands that I pull my hands out of the dishwater, dry them off, walk into the other room, grab the remote and click a button to indicate that I don't want it to stop playing the music I told it to play. I'm glad I'm not in a relationship with it, because if I was I would dump it for being so clingy!

After finishing up the dishes and tidying up the kitchen, I decided to sit down and surf some Reddit, still listening to music on YouTube on the TV. Saw some interesting looking posts on news about the protests, went to go look at one of them, and it plays for a tiny amount, before stopping the muted video I just clicked AND stopping the music on the TV, apparently because I may not watch one thing and listen to another thing at the same time. WTF? When did Google become the attention police?

So, OK, guess they really don't want me listening to music today. So I stop the music and decide to do a search on YouTube on my Android TV, looking for live streams of the protests. Should be no big deal, right, there's tons of that going on in this very minute. Nope. There's a live stream from KTLA, KGW, NBC and Bloomberg...and that's it. Oh wait, there's live streams of 24/7 news channels in Australia and somewhere in the Middle East. Meanwhile, going to YouTube on my laptop and there's more live streams than I can even count. After scrolling right on the TV for a long long time (and going past those same few channel streams repeated repeatedly), I can find some archived live streams from like a week ago....yes, that's exactly what I wanted when I searched "live streams", streams from a week ago, thanks Google!

Why do I pay for this again, and what is it even good for?

REDoneofone

sucks for you not for me. not on my sony 900f, not on my shield either. so since you provide exactly zero detail or technical info its just another useless rant describing only your situation. if it sucked then there would be plenty of complaints about it online.

latinriky78

Any complaints, suggestions, feature requests, bug reports, etc, can be made directly at their Youtube Feedback website. Have fun!.

E_l_0

So when you have Youtube Premium you can use the google music app for free.

It will play the music continuously

chethn

I decided to sit down and surf some Reddit, still listening to music on YouTube on the TV. Saw some interesting looking posts on news about the protests, went to go look at one of them, and it plays for a tiny amount, before stopping the muted video I just clicked AND stopping the music on the TV, apparently because I may not watch one thing and listen to another thing at the same time.

Were you playing the protest video on your laptop or phone? Were you playing music through Chromecast from your phone or laptop?

I play different videos from YT on different devices at the same time from the same account just fine. It happens all the time because most probably someone else will be watching the TV logged into my acct and I'll be in a different room watching something else on my Laptop or Mobile or iPad.