In the music streaming business, Spotify is still king, and Apple Music is often described as its biggest rival. Of course, there are also other players in that field, including what Google has separately played music and youtube music. The last one has now become Google and only competitors in the arena, but still have to make a blip in many radar music lovers. That because it has been left behind in some of its rival core features for a long time, which eventually began to change in one small but important way.
Music streaming services are intended to let customers enjoy and focus on music, don’t spend their time glide on the application screen. Able to continue playing music even when the application runs in the background has long been a staple feature in Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, Pairs, and the like. Instead, youtube music seems to think it is the main YouTube application and immediately stop playing when you navigate from the application or when the screen is off.
You can, of course, pay monthly fees to get the features offered by other services for free, which is one of the many reasons potential customers have turned away from YouTube music. That, fortunately, changes today because the service announces the arrival of the background listening to users at the free level. Now they can easily listen to their favorite songs when running or working without no need to drain their cellphone batteries by keeping the screen always burn.
But besides that, the same limitation for free accounts is still valid. It’s a traffic jam listening to the radio station that is cut off or attacks a personalized playlist. Of course, if you want to get rid of them and get other features, such as listening offline, you have to get out for the usual subscription fee.
The background listening to a free account will be launched for the first time to youtube music users in Canada starting 3. November. Unfortunately, YouTube does not provide other instructions when the same increase will be available elsewhere, leaving it in “Stay Tuned” for more information. Hopefully, it won’t wait too long to provide what has become a basic feature on other services.