YouTube Music can now play locally stored music files

YouTube Music can now play locally stored music files

YouTube Music leverages YouTube'southward gargantuan library of official music releases along with covers, renditions, mixes, and everything related to music. This, aside from Google's AI prowess to search music based on loose descriptions, gives YouTube Music an edge over typical music streaming apps which only permit you listen to just official versions of the songs. Now, as Google's plans to replace Google Play Music with YouTube Music, the latter is adopting a key feature from the Play Music app and that is the support for your locally stored music files.

As expected, local music playback functionality volition allow you to play music stored on their smartphones' internal storage or SD menu via YouTube Music. It should grace your library with some rare gems, or certain special versions, that may not exist present on YouTube. You can notice your music files nether the Library tab where information technology is organized on the ground of Albums, Artists, Liked songs, Playlists, and Downloads (only for YouTube Premium users).

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Based on the screenshot shared past MSPoweruser, we can see that the Artists page is split into two tabs, 1 for "YT Music" and the other for "Device Files." Manifestly, the locally stored music is available under the Device Files tab. Meanwhile, we tin can expect that YouTube Music would restrict playing these local files in the groundwork to users with a YouTube Premium subscription.

Unlike Google Play Music which allowed you lot to upload music and listen to information technology on other devices, these local tracks cannot exist added to existing YouTube Music playlists or cast other devices. Further, there is no style to sync your existing Google Play Music playlists with YouTube Music, indicating that Google is not yet ready to evict the former from Android in favor of the latter.

The local playback functionality appears to be a server-side switch and may not be bachelor for many users yet (nosotros weren't able to apply it either), even if y'all sideload the latest APK. We can't say for sure simply it could too be a region-wise roll-out merely will update y'all when nosotros go to try the feature ourselves.

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Tushar Mehta

Tushar Mehta

I am a Senior Editor at XDA. I have been reviewing gadgets for over five years and gained experience by working for prominent tech publications in Republic of india earlier joining XDA. I enjoy fiddling with all smart objects and my love for software customization dates back to the Symbian S60 days. I like to devote my spare time idealizing the romantic union of technology and philosophy or spacing out on Pink Floyd. You may electronic mail me at [email protected]

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