YouTube Music

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Before 2020, I didn't watch YouTube very often, but when the pandemic struck, I found myself with plenty of time on my hands. YouTube came to my rescue.

We've looked everywhere and found the best music-listening and -creating apps in existence for Android and iOS, including Spotify, Apple Music, and GarageBand.

Google Pixel phones have a feature called "Now Playing" that automatically identifies music playing around you. You can add these identified songs to a playlist to continue listening to them after you've left a public space that plays music. We'll show you how.

Apart from the custom 'My 2020 Year in Review' playlist, YouTube Music has also put up distinct playlists showing the top songs of the year.

Earlier this year, before the demise of Google Play Music, I moved to YouTube Music to see if had improved from the first time I tried it. It hadn't, and I was disappointed. Fast-forward to today, and I've still been using YTM--albeit begrudgingly. But as much as I've trashed it as a pathetic streaming music service over the last half-year, it recently got a killer feature that I love: Mixes.

Subscription services like Apple Music, Disney+, and PlayStation Now allow us to escape life for a moment and enjoy new and classic music, movies, TV shows, and video games. We compiled a list of the best streaming services that allow you to buy a gift subscription, so you can treat your loved ones to some much-needed entertainment.

We often message links to new music we discover with friends. But sharing links is cumbersome, and if the recipient doesn't open it immediately, the text can easily get lost in the shuffle. Fortunately, if you're a YouTube Music subscriber, there are collaborative playlists.

Google Music is dead, and with it one of the few remaining connections I have to the company that doesn't feel like a gun to my head. The service, now merged haphazardly with YouTube Music, recalled the early days of Google, when they sometimes just made cool internet things. It made it nearly a decade, [...]

A new activity bar has filters for mood-centered playlists.

YouTube Music is taking another cue from Spotify with today's launch of a set of personalized playlists that are essentially YouTube Music's own take on Spotify's "Daily Mixes." Each of these new "My Mix" playlists will feature a different aspect of a user's tastes and interests, allowing users to dive in to a particular vibe [...]

The bring-your-own-music crowd can now use Google speakers without a monthly fee.

Google's plans to wind down its Google Play Music service in favor of the company's newer YouTube Music have been known for some time. But Google this week has given users a deadline on making the switch. The company says YouTube Music will fully replace Google Play Music in December 2020, at which point Google [...]

August begins the four-month Google Music shutdown.

The service heads to the digital graveyard as the company switches focus to YouTube Music.

Here's what those who own a music collection can do after Google Play Music shuts down.

YouTube Music charges a monthly fee to play my music on my speaker?

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Google Play Music users finally get a transition path to YouTube Music.

Google products are like Game of Thrones characters: Don't get too used to the ones you like. Are you sticking with YouTube Music after GPM shuts down?