Amid the seemingly never-ending war between the music industry and YouTube, the popular video-sharing website's sister app, YouTube Music, has released an update.
Launched in late 2015, YouTube Music is fundamentally a YouTube app designed to focus on music content. It was launched at a time when YouTube was considered the largest streaming service for music and music videos. Because of its dominance in the music streaming scene, YouTube Music was made, as per The Verge.
Eight months since its launch, the app is getting another update: version 1.29.4. This update enables users to stream through YouTube playlists directly inside the YouTube Music app.
So, when users create or save a playlist on their YouTube accounts, they can access this playlist via the YouTube Music app. Another upside to this update is that it fixes the bug that preventing users from controlling the Offline mixtape, MobiPicker has learned.
Using the YouTube Music App is free, but it is limited to listening to music online and viewing music videos rife with ads. To remove these limitations, users can sign up for a YouTube Red membership, which also allows them to try the app for free for 14 days .
Since the update has just been released, it is of limited availability as of late. For users who want to enjoy the updated version immediately, there's a downloadable APK file available on APKMirror.
Meanwhile, YouTube continues to face the rage of the music industry that has since expressed its strong contradiction over the amount of money the famous video-sharing site has been paying music labels. Music labels have been providing YouTube music videos and songs for the longest time now and such content helped the site establish its name in the international market.
YouTube insisted that its payment of $3 billion to the music labels is reasonable. However, the music industry refuted that music streaming service Spotify pays them the same amount and the latter does not even have video content to host, The Verge has learned.
The two parties are currently in talks of drafting licensing deals, so hopefully this would be the answer to the ten-year-old spat between the two.
