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 simply allow yous listen to only official versions of the songs. Now, every bit Google'due south plans to supervene upon Google Play Music with YouTube Music, the latter is adopting a key feature from the Play Music app and that is the back up for your locally stored music files.

As expected, local music playback functionality will permit you to play music stored on their smartphones' internal storage or SD carte via YouTube Music. It should grace your library with some rare gems, or certain special versions, that may not be present on YouTube. You can observe your music files under the Library tab where it is organized on the basis of Albums, Artists, Liked songs, Playlists, and Downloads (only for YouTube Premium users).

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Based on the screenshot shared by MSPoweruser, we tin run into that the Artists page is split into ii tabs, one for "YT Music" and the other for "Device Files." Evidently, the locally stored music is available under the Device Files tab. Meanwhile, we can look that YouTube Music would restrict playing these local files in the background to users with a YouTube Premium subscription.

Unlike Google Play Music which allowed y'all to upload music and mind to it on other devices, these local tracks cannot be added to existing YouTube Music playlists or cast other devices. Further, there is no mode to sync your existing Google Play Music playlists with YouTube Music, indicating that Google is not yet ready to evict the quondam from Android in favor of the latter.

The local playback functionality appears to exist a server-side switch and may non be available for many users yet (nosotros weren't able to use it either), even if you sideload the latest APK. We can't say for certain but it could as well be a region-wise roll-out just will update you when we get to try the feature ourselves.

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Tushar Mehta

Tushar Mehta

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