YouTube unveils Music Key, subscription service

[newarkhiphop]

YouTube Music Key is the paid service we've been hearing about, and launches as a beta today in the US (plus Spain, Italy, Portugal, Finland and the UK). The service costs $10 (or £10/10€) a month, and gives you ad-free playback, the ability to listen in the background (essential for mobile users), offline music , endless playlists (like Spotify song-based radio stations) and -- most significantly -- access to the entire Google Play Music library. In short, one subscription gets you in to both of Google's large music platforms (video and audio). An update to the Play Music app will soon let you watch the official video for a song without having to break out to YouTube, and recommendations will now be based on your listening habits across both platforms (so be careful who uses devices where you're logged-in to YouTube!). This also means you'll be able to listen/watch via compatible services (like Sonos), and stream over Chromecast -- so it's going to be fairly versatile.

http://www.engadget.com/2014/11/12/youtube-launches-music-key/

 

[Liquid]

YouTube is eventually going to be a locked down POS. I will NEVER pay for anything on YouTube, FOH

Time for young developer to come out and something for us.

 

[STAN JONES]

Why would anyone pay for this?

No ads? Just install a adblocker

Play music in the background? I can already do that on my 6 Plus

Access to google play library? Im good i got my own library plus 4 other free apps that has damn near every album and mixtape i can think of

Seriously,why would anybody pay for this ?

 

[Why-Fi]

YouTube is eventually going to be a locked down POS. I will NEVER pay for anything on YouTube, FOH

Time for young developer to come out and something for us.

in the meantime theres vimeo. something actually worth paying for

 

[Romell]

I pay for Google Music Access so these additional benefits are cool with me

They've already pushed changes to my youtube

 

[NatiboyB]

Why is this separate from Google play?

 

[Romell]

Why is this separate from Google play?

Their press release is confusing, but people who pay for access to one has access to the other.

 

[NatiboyB]

Their press release is confusing, but people who pay for access to one has access to the other.

I'm tripping I thought it was out now...I do have access...I think spotify is about to go into the bushes now,

 

[AB Ziggy]

You nikkas don't read the fine print for shyt.


Youtube is not forcing you to pay for music. It's only for the additonal perks which are similar to the perks Spotify offers for their subscription model. You can still play your video with ads just fine like you always have been(with ad block of course). The benefit is primarily for Google Music users who will have free access to Music Key.

 

[Jax]

YouTube is eventually going to be a locked down POS. I will NEVER pay for anything on YouTube, FOH

Time for young developer to come out and something for us.

Youtube(Google) paying everybody and locking shyt cause they got vevo now. Twitch? Oh yeah, you play shyt from our clients in your stream, you get closed down!

 

[Tunez]

 

[The Phoenix]

Why would anyone pay for this?

No ads? Just install a adblocker

Play music in the background? I can already do that on my 6 Plus

Access to google play library? Im good i got my own library plus 4 other free apps that has damn near every album and mixtape i can think of

Seriously,why would anybody pay for this ?

You doing that without a jailbreak? If so.....let your boy know how. And what is this mixtape app. I don't have enough hours in the day like I use to to discover all this stuff on my own. I need a Coli shortcut......