Rate this App. One of the great things about having a smartphone, is that you also always have a music player on hand. You don't have to take your MP3 files on a separate device since you can listen to your favorite songs right on your phone; either because you have them downloaded, or because you listen to them online. Read more. With summer vacation well underway, one of the best options to beat the heat is to hit the beach or pool on the daily. Luckily, there are plenty of Android apps to help you enjoy your summer to the fullest.
The official music app from YouTube
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Google is slowly but surely getting ready to shut down Play Music, and YouTube Music is its replacement, for better or worse. The company has been adding features to bring YTM up to speed with GPM, but there are still plenty of areas in which it lags behind. Android TV support is one of those, and Google has solved this in a strange way. This tab includes the typical YouTube recommendations along with content from your Music account. The tab shows your likes and playlists from other users, your mixes, genre and mood stations, your own personal playlists, artist stations, and recommended playlists.
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We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. YouTube Music is the latest Google app that will come bundled as part of Android. The app will also come preloaded on new devices that ship with Android 9 Pie in the future. Since the launch of YouTube Music, Google has said the service will ultimately replace Google Play Music as its one and only subscription music platform. But the company has lagged in bringing over user uploads and libraries from GPM to YouTube Music, and people are unwilling to make the switch until that migration has proven successful. Even before this new bundled placement, YouTube has been aggressively advertising its premium subscriptions within the hugely popular app, displaying frequent pop-up screens that tout the benefits of YouTube Premium. Paying for YouTube enables an ad-free viewing experience, allows offline downloads, and includes a YouTube Music Premium membership. But the degree to which YouTube Premium is being pushed on people has irked some. Cookie banner We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from.
Abner Li. It downloads quickly as it is nothing more than a shortcut that adds a YouTube Music icon to the apps carousel. That said, it leaves much to be desired as the experience remains quite basic — lacking features like music search and background playback — and being nothing more than a section within the broader YouTube application. My colleague Ben Schoon speculate the reason behind this approach:. Why did Google opt for this bizarre integration? Eventually, all of those platforms will likely see this same Music integration. YouTube Music would do well to get a dedicated app down the road. When searching Google Play, it does not appear as the first result so try scrolling the carousel until you come across the familiar icon.
