With two years of waiting from the initial release in the USA, Youtube Music has also arrived in Italy proposing itself as a high-level alternative to Spotify and Apple Music, giving the possibility to listen to non-stop music streaming from PC and smartphone without limitations, with or without advertising. Youtube Music is a service parallel to the classic Youtube, focused only on music, with an interface that makes it easy to select songs, create playlists and search for original songs.
While it is possible to listen to music from Youtube for free streaming without problems, you can pay a subscription to remove the advertisements, leave the music playback without interruption and, above all, to listen in the background on your mobile phone, without having to keep the screen on .
Background playback is, perhaps, the best part of Youtube Music, because it allows you to hear music without necessarily seeing the video and because, above all, you can also use it offline without internet connection, by downloading the songs first.
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To access Youtube Music for free, you must go to the Music.youtube.com website.
The page immediately presents some automatic and ready-made playlists, with selections divided by genre, rhythm and time of day.
There are therefore playlists with music to be in a good mood, quiet music, Italian music, latest hits and so on.
Once you have chosen a list, you can start listening, with the video playing.
Unlike normal Youtube, you can press the button at the top of the video to make it smaller to the side, which is convenient for continuing to browse Youtube Music, watching song titles in other playlists and doing searches, all without interrupting listening .
The playback controls in Youtube Music are not on the video but are at the bottom, with the Play and Stop button, the progress bar and the other volume buttons, to mark the song as a favorite or add it to the playlists.
When doing a search on Youtube Music, the results will give not only the titles of the songs, but also the playlists in which they are contained and the albums, so that you can listen to them freely and in full.
If you move the mouse over the title of a song, the Play button appears to listen to it and a button on the right to add the song to a personal playlist, so you can collect your favorite songs and then listen to them all together one after the other.
Every time you start listening to a song, the radio function is activated, with the automatic creation of a playlist based on the chosen song, so as not to interrupt listening and discover new music.
The Hotlist section shows the videos of the moment, the most popular songs.
In this regard, I remember that youtube also has a section dedicated to the charts of the most listened songs on Youtube.
Youtube Music is also a new app for Android and iPhone, which can be downloaded and used for free.
The app for smartphones and tablets is practically the same as the website, with the sections of the automatic playlists also based on the position, with the section of the Hotlists of the moment and then the personalized collections of music.
While listening is free, on the Youtube Music application there are the main advantages of a premium subscription .
If you switch to youtube Music Premium, in fact, you can listen to streaming music without advertising and, above all, without uploading videos, with the only audio mode that saves network bandwidth and battery.
In addition, the music does not stop if you lock the phone and put it in your pocket, but it continues in the background, for a freer listening wherever we are.
The third advantage of the Music Premium subscription on the app is that you can download your favorite music and playlists to be able to listen to them without the need for an internet connection.
To subscribe to the Youtube Music Premium subscription you can start from this page, activate the promotion of three free months and then pay 10 Euros per month for free and unlimited listening to music both on PC and on your mobile phone.
You can also use the Family subscription option which costs 15 Euros per month and allows you to use Music Premium for up to 6 people who live in the same house.
Then there are the Youtube Premium subscriptions for 12 Euros per month and Family Premium (at 18 Euros) which include other exclusive content besides music, such as films (but at the moment it is not worth the effort).
It should be noted, to close, that Youtube Music is disconnected from Google's other streaming music service, namely Google Play Music, still active and functional, convenient for listening to your favorite songs by uploading them online to the service from the PC.
