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Youtube Music Revamps Offline Catching With New 'Smart Downloads'
The last major update to YouTube Music in May added local file playback on Android. Google today is revamping how its streaming service on Android and iOS handles offline caching with “smart downloads.”Premium subscribers can already download entire albums and playlists for playback when there’s no connection. One collection called “Offline mixtape” automatically choses songs “based on the music you listen to and rate.” In fact, it’s one of the best parts of the app and reduces the need for manual creation.YouTube Music today is expanding its automatic caching system with “smart downloads.” It physically replaces the “offline mixtape” toggle and slider in “Library & downloads” settings, with the number of songs that can automatically be stored jumping from 100 to 500.The offline mixtape is still available and makes up the first hundred songs saved by smart downloads. Like before, it will appear as “Your Mixtape” in the “Home” and “Library” feed, as well as the app shortcut.When users want more than 100 songs on their phone, YouTube Music will download your Liked songs, favorite playlists, and other frequented albums. To account for this new feature, the Downloads screen sees a slight revamp. Replacing “Offline mixtape” above is “Recents,” while other saves are arranged in alphabetical order below.Smart downloads in YouTube Music is rolling out now, and will be available for all users over the coming days.Update 6/30: Announced on Wednesday, the smart downloads revamp is now widely rolling out on Android. Visiting the Downloads page reveals an “Offline mixtape is now smart downloads” prompt that details the new feature.Every night when you’re on Wi-Fi, we’ll automatically download your favorite music so you always have something to listen to. Just pick the number of songs and we’ll do the rest.You can set how many songs you want stored locally with a slider, with controls to “Turn off” and “Got it.” This setting is also available in the “Library & downloads” menu. Below is a carousel of “Recent activity” with cover art and a full list of “All downloads” below that. Playlist and album smartdownloads are marked with a lightning bolt icon.
Manthan Vasani
YouTube monetization adds ‘Super Stickers’ and Channel Membership levels
Visit Tech AedgarAt VidCon 2019 today, YouTube introduced new ways for creators to monetize content and videos on the Google site. YouTube Super Stickers build off Super Chats, while Channel Memberships are gaining tier levels.With Super Chats, fans can purchase messages that stick and are more likely to attract the attention of creators during live streams or Premieres. According to YouTube today, 90,000 channels have received Super Chats. It is the top source of revenue for 20,000 channels, with some streams making more than $400 per minute.Sticky messages are will be joined by YouTube Super Stickers in the “coming months.” These animated graphics feature a variety of designs across different languages and categories, including gaming, fashion, sports, music, and food.Meanwhile, with Channel Memberships, fans can support personalities by paying $4.99 per month for unique badges, new emoji, and special perks. YouTube is now introducing membership levels, a highly-requested feature. Creators can set up to five different price tiers for access to exclusive live streams, extra videos, or shoutouts.We’ve been testing levels with creators like the Fine Brothers Entertainment on their REACT channel, who have seen their memberships revenue increase by 6 times after introducing two higher-priced tiers.The Google site is also expanding its merchandizing partnerships to include Crowdmade, DFTBA, Fanjoy, Represent, and Rooster Teeth. Teespring was originally the only store that integrated with YouTube to sell to fans directly.According to YouTube, these monetization efforts are “generating meaningful results to creators across the globe.” Specifically, thousands of channels have more than doubled their total revenue by using Super Chat, Channel Memberships, and merch alongside traditional advertising.
YouTube Music & Premium tidbits: Student pricing, Play Music plan, $7.99 grandfathering
YouTube Music & Premium tidbits: Student pricing, Play Music plan, $7.99 grandfatheringAbner Li- May. 17th 2018 4:20 pm PT@technacityAPPS & UPDATESThe revamped YouTube Music and new YouTube Premium were announced last night, but many questions linger ahead of the rolling launch next Tuesday. From questions about the family plan to Play Music membership, Google has provided us with several answers.Family plans & student pricingAt the moment, Red subscribers can pay $14.99/month so that six members in a household can access ad-free content, background playback, and offline downloads.Last night, the company did not detail how family plans will work with the new Premium offering. It’s unclear whether the new price will just be an additional $2 or if there will be a family option for just Music Premium. Additionally, it’s not known whether current users will be grandfathered into existing pricing like with single user accounts.Google tells us that details about family pricing are coming, while there will also be a new student pricing option for the new YouTube. The latter is likely intended to compete with the likes of similar university-friendly plans available on Spotify and Apple Music.What version of YouTube do Play Music subscribers get?Current subscribers to Play Music in the US, Australia, South Korea, New Zealand, and Mexico that already have access to Red will receive the full YouTube Premium service.Meanwhile, Play Music members in other countries that do not have YouTube Red will gain access to Music Premium when the rebranded services launch in the upcoming 14 nations.$7.99 GrandfatherThose who pay $7.99 today — as a result of being grandfathered in from a past service — will get to retain that pricing going forward and get access to YouTube Premium.
Sahil Vyas
YouTube for Android can now livestream games from your phone
Livestreaming gameplay has become very popular over the past few years, and YouTube is one huge platform for that content. In its latest update, the YouTube app for Android has added an option to livestream the content on your phone’s display, including Android games.Gaming has become a lot more important for YouTube recently, but the merging of the YouTube Gaming appwith the standard YouTube app has seen some features temporarily missing. As XDA-Developers points out, one of those features was the ability to stream live content from your Android phone’s display.With the latest YouTube for Android update, v14.31.50, this functionality is back. When going to start up a new livestream from the YouTube app, a prompt will appear at the top of the interface which highlights the new “screen broadcast” feature. Once selecting that option, the livestream changes to a gaming-focused stream, with an option to select a specific game title too.Once a livestream is started using the YouTube app for Android, you’ll be kicked back to your homescreen to select the game, and an overlay will sit on top for starting the actual stream. The overlay also displays a front-facing camera view of the streamer.
YouTube Premium gains 1080p offline video downloads on Android, iOS
It appears that YouTube is now adding the ability for Premium subscribers to now download videos in 1080p for the first time.If you didn’t already know, YouTube Premium subscribers get access to a number of neat perks and tools that aren’t available to regular YouTube viewers. You’re served no ads, can play videos in the background and even download videos locally to watch later. Until now YouTube Premium downloads were limited to 720p which makes the addition of 1080p downloads quite a big deal.The upgrade appears to be rolling out to both Android and iOS smartphones (via Android Police), although it was initially available on iPhones first, then appeared on Android phones. AP notes that YouTube was prepping 1080p offline downloads as long ago as February but the feature has only just now come to fruition.At present, it also appears that not all YouTube Premium subscribers have access to 1080p downloads just yet. The rollout appears to be taking place in stages, as I can confirm that the feature is not yet available on any of my devices in the UK. Alternatively, this could also be part of a server-side test of the new feature.It’s worth noting that 1080p offline videos downloaded using YouTube Premium will take up quite a bit more storage than the 720p equivalent. This may have been the reasoning for YouTube to enforce the limit to begin with — although there is no actual evidence for this.We also don’t know if 1080p downloads will come to nations where free offline video downloads are availablewithout a YouTube Premium subscription.If you are a YouTube Premium subscriber and are seeing 1080p offline downloads, be sure to let us know in the comment section below.
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