Google may be planning to re-brand YouTube Music Key as premium service nears first anniversary

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

Last fall, Google introduced its YouTube Music Key premium service, offering users features like the ability to view ad-free content and enjoy YouTube streams in the background while working with other apps on their phones. Even with attractive options like those, Music Key failed to really make much of a name for itself, if due only to feature overlap with Google Play Music unlimited. Maybe a little re-branding is just what the doctor ordered, and now a new app teardown suggests that what we now know as ...

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Sweeter Android, musical YouTube, Microsoft-ier Lumia | Pocketnow Weekly 122

Posted on by Michael Fisher

Updated with high-quality download and streaming links, as well as timecodes. We’ll see you next week!Android gets sweeter, YouTube gets more musical, and Lumia gets more Microsoft. Those are the headlines this week in tech news and views (backed up by a lot of crazy happenings from Samsung, LG, Sharp and more) and by sheer force of will, we’re going to try covering them in 90 minutes or less on the fanciest podcast this side of Tuxedo Alley.Joining us this week to help with that monumental task is Joshua Vergara of Android Authority, a veteran of our live recording session ...

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YouTube Music Key finally arrives: no ads, background and offline playback

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

For the longest time now we’ve been hearing about some big ideas Google has for YouTube, introducing a new subscription component to the service while simultaneously delivering long-overdue features like offline playback and the ability to keep audio from clips playing in the background on our phones. Back over the summer a rich new leak arrived that attempted to detail much of what we could expect, while also ...

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YouTube Music Key subscription service details leak

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

Going back quite a while now, well into last year, we’ve been hearing about the idea of Google expanding its subscription music services beyond Play Music All Access to bring a subscription component to YouTube. It looked like it might arrive as YouTube Music Pass, and Google’s even played on our awareness of that name to mess with the ...

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