The Biggest Music Streaming Service You’ve Never Heard Of
When we think of music streaming services, we think of Spotify, Apple Music, maybe even Amazon Music. But with over 66 million downloads, Musi might be the the biggest streaming service you’ve never heard of. That is, until it was taken down in late 2024…
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 intro
00:33 what IS Musi?
03:07 what happened to Musi?
04:09 Musi fires back
05:54 Musi is screwsi
09:59 what about artists?
11:30 who even uses Musi?
15:52 what’s next?
17:46 Mack & Me
SOURCES SHOWN IN VIDEO
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/09/27/youtube-wrapper-app-musi-finally-pulled-from-the-app-store/
https://torrentfreak.com/apple-removes-parasitic-streaming-app-musi-following-persistent-complaints-240926/
https://completemusicupdate.com/musi-sues-apple-over-its-app-store-banishment/
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69221329/1/musi-inc-v-apple-inc/
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69221329/30/musi-inc-v-apple-inc/
https://www.wired.com/story/free-music-streaming-app-musi-too-good-to-be-true/
https://completemusicupdate.com/apple-wont-be-forced-to-let-musi-back-into-its-app-store-rules-judge/
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2021/11/10/daniel-ek-helsing-investment/
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/07/31/new-yorker-writer-decries-the-enshittification-of-spotify-design/
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@Meathead54
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
I was one who paid the $7.99 for Musi years ago. I still use Musi every week to listen to all kinds of videos… including this one… without ads, and it gives me the ability to listen without video or my phone screen on. It works great!
@Titan_Speakerman-cooks
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
this is so damn annoying i miss musi
@toby-kvg
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
musi still down btw
@EG_MONEY_MANE
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
I got a new phone and transferred all my stuff to my new phone, then wiped my old phone not realizing that Musi will no longer work on my new phone. Itās so frustrating and annoying and sad. I want to scream, yell and cry.
@_07561
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
My phone deleted the app for optimised updating Iām furious musi need to put it back
@RavenMoon99
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
I still have and use the app. No other app where itās free and the ads donāt play over the music. I love it! Never deleting it.
@michellebooker1786
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
Hey āMicTheSnareā I think Musi is back! I just received a pop-up ad itās called Music X it looks like the Musiās platform. Can u do a update
@Boterkoter
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
17:04 yo thats ROMCOM
@Jollyboy19
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
The best music app EVER
@Ch4mp3r0
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
15:29 well, here's an even cringier idea: the use while the phone is locked should be a native feature, even with youtube non-premium. Removing ads? Downloads? Sure, pay-wall them.
@princesszelda1997
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
The difference between music and games is that finding physical copies for old games is more expensive (and you have to find the console or a PC that can run them, I can't run some of my old PC games on my new laptop) and the companies who own the rights will sell them to you again like it's brand new, music probably has a lower financial barrier of entry
@trentj4132
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
Who still has the app??
@alenietouh4789
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
The real fourth group is people who want to listen to Nintendo music, without using the Nintendo music app because itās shit
@jsnxww
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
I use Musi (have been since high school) almost exclusively for gym music, a large majority of which can't be found on any other service.
@MartaLabra-d8b
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
Guys I think Musi is back
@Nostagefright
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
The reason I loved Musi was the EQ band it provided, many music sites donāt have one and if they do it doesnāt have the full range of frequencies like Musi does, you can literally decorate albums how you want you can rename them and put your own cover arts on them, you were able to change the colors of the buttons on the app, you can rename songs, you can sing along because genius was attached to Musi, a one time forever ad free payment, you had crossfading, playback speed, and you can even save multiple custom EQ modes that app just had it all but the only time it came a problem was when there was a song that was age restricted you were forced to listen to it on the actual YouTube app other than that Musi had it all I really hope they bring it back man it was amazing
@Anon2763-r2v
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
i am eMBARRASINGLY reliant on this app; like nothing else will cut it for me, littārally ššš š¾āāļø
@bunchhunchhieng
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
But Sadly it has removed from the App Store š¢
@SlammedPOVs
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
I used to use it. Worked pretty well
@scarletafton4948
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
I used it
@turtlelizard1531
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
Update: I used Musi! Itās dope. Or should I say was. I lost so much good music and playlists when it went down.
@kyceessadki2501
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
I think musi is trying to argue since that the money doesn't directly come from people playing the songs (that are from youtube) they aren't making money from the videos, they are only making money from people being on the app, regardless of whether they play music or not since the ads musi plays aren't dependant on you actually playing music, just having the app open
but that's not how that works lol
@dustinrios7745
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
YouTube premium is roughly $250 a year when Musi is $6 one time forever. Musi was for the people. All of these companies, apps, artists already have so much of our money. Just want to drain us for every dollar they can. Smh R.I.P Musi..
@sohoarnaud8722
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
They just took it out the AppStore, I am so pissed š¢
@Cristian7522
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
There is another app like Musi, called Demus. Hope YT and Apple are gonna take it down. They have their own ads and dont show the YT Music ads. And they also have a one time payment to remove ads or even a monthly subscription(very cheapā¦still sus)
@Orleansluesianaaaa
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
I deleted the app to free up some storage temporarily. Went to go reinstall it and found it was removed from the app store! Hope it comes back!!!
@YoutubeUsedMyRealName42Long
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
that was a really good Kendrick joke
@heavenlynobodies
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
the fact that i used to use musi and yet this whole time it apparently was worth millions of dollars and was extremely succesful….im ngl this whole time i thought it was newpipe b4 newpipe
@JackobMoreno-i9j
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
I got it before it was down
@BrianGon89
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
revisiting this concept after AI crawlers and AI browsers consume web content pretending to be people, violating ToS's.. is it really such a controversial take that people have a tool to do this on the client-side device instead of at an industrial scale by these AI companies for some agentic-operator to provide answers?
@djyochill
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
Itās because they play the ads WITHOUT STOPPING the music. Thatās the gold!
@SuperAlfern
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
If the app never comes back, I hope they give us our playlists back.
@nekoest
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
Does anyone remember Grooveshark?
@ianneeley7479
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
QUNYON MENTIONED GO BIRDS
@artsyfartsy748
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
I used to use Musi a lot to watch ASMR videos at night cause I would be able to turn my phone off and still have the sounds play and also this make me able to stream remixes and certain live performances of songs I really liked
@MmapulitaInChicago
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
I was wondering what went wrong
This app was my road hook up š¢
@justalilbugman
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
I use YouTube Premium and don't worry I also hate myself.
"What streaming service do you use?"
The absolute most terrifying question someone can ask
@AttractionSpot
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
So it's not available for android, you can't access it through your web browser even on a desktop or laptop computer and although it is exclusively for iOS it's not even available in the App Store at the moment and it had to be remove. Other people are complaining that they already paid $6 to remove ads and I guess they need to have the in-app purchases through apple and so I guess people are having to pay money again or something and are mad.
@AttractionSpot
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
I don't see how they can do this are you paid 699 one time and get songs ad free when YouTube charges $13.99 a month for YouTube premium that removes ads. Why would YouTube just let people pay a one-time fee of 5.99 somewhere else and listen to the music that's on there when they're going to make less money because ads are not on there any more.
@zackmaster79
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
I use musi in late middle school high school for its easy use of concert band music band music that I couldnāt find on like Apple or Spotify. It was a really huge convenience for concert band.
@user-rq8sx1xj8s
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
I used this app for years until it got taken off the appstore. The best music streaming service i ever used.
@normalguy4548
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
I used to have Musi so that I could listen to Limp Pumpo.
@mr.doodytp3793
April 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm
I used to use musi on my phone… I deleted it because it randomly redirected me to a sketchy Amazon scam site.