It’s YouTube, and as tech sites go it seems to be pretty well run. I use it pretty much every day for music, how-to, cooking lessons, history, road races, and reruns of Antiques Roadshow.

Commenters lament the increasing number of ads. I pay for YouTube premium and don’t see them, but even sitting through the ads is very small price to pay for the wealth of content available -content not available anywhere else. I like the fact ads revenues are shared with the content creators.

Your thoughts?

YouTube

I tend to agree. Especially for a musician like myself, the resource is staggering. Twenty years ago, if you wanted to hear rare recordings of master musicians from 100 years ago, or obscure music, you had to get to a rare-music archive or be a collector yourself. Now it’s all on YouTube, and enthusiasts post old recordings previously not known to exist!

My only gripe is that any TomDickHarry can post a living artist’s recording, and the $ proceeds go to that person, not the artist.

As for how-to videos, there’s no place better.

I largely agree as well

I do notice that content is sometimes taken down because the copyright owner objected, but I'm not at all familiar with how that process works or how effective it might be.

My biggest concern is misinformation or disinformation. When I watch how-to content, I often look at several videos and then have to judge who is really knowledgable.

I also wonder if I could find a more efficient search algorithm for topics that may interest me. The suggestion bar seems to focus on the general category I'm currently watching. A little more variety would be welcome. I've taken to sometimes subscribing to a creator, not because I just want to see their latest product, but because it gives me a jumping-off point for similar content.

Big Al

I sing in two choirs and can almost always find decent recording of our pieces to learn. Sometimes there are even practice tracks with my part highlighted. I create a playlist and can then listen over and over...

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Originally posted by rontuner:
I sing in two choirs and can almost always find decent recording of our pieces to learn. Sometimes there are even practice tracks with my part highlighted. I create a playlist and can then listen over and over...

I find this very helpful, too!

I post video knitting tutorials on YouTube. It’s an easy way to hold content online. And knitters find me that way, too.

If I’m looking for a tutorial to learn something, I’ll look at several and decide which one makes the most sense.