Finally
YouTube Music is available on even more Wear OS 2 smartwatches
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The YouTube Music app is officially coming to more Wear OS smartwatches outside the Galaxy Watch 4.
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Play your favorite YouTube Music directly from your Wear OS watch
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YouTube Music has finally gotten a Wear OS app, and here's how you can start using it on your smartwatch.
Finally
YouTube Music finally makes this premium feature available to free users
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YouTube Music will soon enable free users to enjoy their music or podcasts without having to leave the app open on their phones.
Port at your own risk
YouTube Music can still make its way to Wear OS 2.0, with one big caveat
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A developer has ported the YouTube Music app to a smartwatch running Wear OS 2.0, but it suffers from a poorly optimized UI and other compromises.
Impressive
YouTube Music inches towards Spotify with 50 million paid subscribers
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YouTube's video-centric music streaming has crossed the milestone of 50 million paid subscribers.
RIP
YouTube Music won't let you sideload the app on older Wear OS smartwatches
YouTube Music for Wear OS is compatible only with Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 4 smartwatches, and even sideloading the app onto older Wear OS smartwatches won't do any good.
Play it now
YouTube Music finally comes to Wear OS in a way that'll likely tick you off
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YouTube Music has been absent from Wear OS since it replaced Google Play Music. That problem has finally been fixed, but only for an elite few.
Let’s get appy
These are the top 10 apps that rule my phone — and my life
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Our lives are on our phones these days, and while many of the most popular and useful apps will surprise no one, the sheer number of apps I rely upon in my day-to-day is much higher than I would have originally thought.
A stealthy addition
YouTube Music quietly gains improved playlist discovery
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Google has improved YouTube Music's playlist discoverability by surfacing both user-generated and editor-curated playlists directly to listeners.
Out of sight out of mind
Google Play Music receives its last update so you can finally hide the app
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Google Play Music is being updated on the Play Store to give users the option to hide the app from their app drawer if it came preinstalled.
Future focus
YouTube needs to spend 2021 getting its 💩 together
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YouTube is the biggest video site in the world and a massive platform for movies, music, marketing, and misinformation. And after years of YouTube trying and failing to do what is needed, 2021 needs to be a big year for YouTube.
Reliving the hits
How to find your year in review playlists on popular music services
If you love bopping along to your favorite streaming music service all day, you're probably interested in reliving the top songs you listened to all year. Here's how to find your 2020 year in review playlists on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and Amazon Music Unlimited.
Wanna put this song on replay
YouTube Music Year in Review playlists are rolling out to users now
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YouTube Music has gained a year-end playlist like Spotify Wrapped, and the inaugural mixes are rolling out to users right now. This will show you your most-played songs of 2020, a handy tool considering that YouTube Music still lacks a way to see play counts the way you could on Google Play Music (RIP).
share your music
YouTube Music will soon let you share songs on Instagram & Snapchat stories
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YouTube Music, which will soon be Google’s only music service, will soon allow users to share a song they’re listening to in a Snapchat or Instagram story.
Video Killed the Radio Star
Can YouTube Music overtake the music streaming throne from Spotify?
YouTube Music isn’t just another in a long line of music services for Google; it’s coming to shake up and take over the music streaming market. Can the biggest name in streaming video overtake the biggest name in streaming music?
DJ Turn It Up
YouTube Music now has Spotify-like personalized daily mixes
YouTube Music today is getting support for personalized mixes in a move that brings the service closer to Spotify.
State of play
Are you happy with the current state of YouTube Music?
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Google Play Music is dead, and in its place, we have YouTube Music. How are you feeling about the current state of Google's streaming service?
Rest in pease
Remembering Google Play Music: A mixtape for my favorite streaming service
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After years of calling the service dead, it finally happened. Google's original music service has shut down, and I believe the best way to process that grief and emotion is through another age-old musical tradition: the mixtape.
Giving the algortihm a hand
You can now hide your YouTube likes from YouTube Music
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Google had integrated YouTube liked content with YouTube Music likes since launch. Now the company has separated them in a move that acknowledges people use both services in different ways.
Took you long enough
YouTube Music on smart TVs is finally getting much-needed basic features
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The YouTube Music app on smart TVs gets better today as Google announces that you'll be able to access your own music library. On Android TVs, you'll now be able to playback your own uploaded tracks.