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Saturday 14 November 2015
YouTube Music keeps the mobile video groove going
RYAN NAKASHIMA is offering new users a 14- This photo shows the YouTube Music app on a mobile phone on Friday, Nov. 13, 2015, in Los
Associated Press day free trial to Red, but to
LOS ANGELES (AP) — If you continue commercial free, Angeles. If you were going to reinvent MTV for a mobile generation, you’d probably come
were going to reinvent you’ll need to pony up.
MTV for a mobile genera- YouTube Music is first and up with something like YouTube Music. It’s a video-first music service that also plays in the
tion, you’d probably come foremost a music-vid-
up with something like You- eo app, albeit one that background like you’d expect a music app to do. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
Tube Music. It’s a video- doesn’t forget that most
first music service that also people will be using it on the video to a little strip look for the next video. The — although again only if
plays in the background their phones. For those at the bottom of the app, app will even keep play- you’ve paid up for Red.
like you’d expect a music times you’d rather just lis- which keeps it playing in a ing if you switch to other There are some curious
app to do. That sets it apart ten instead of watching, cropped format while you tasks, like checking email omissions.q
from other music apps out you can hit a toggle that
there, many of which give switches the app to audio-
you a choice of videos only mode, which turns
or songs, but not inter- off the video playback
changeably. and swaps in a still image.
But while YouTube Music You can even turn off the
offers a lot of interesting screen and keep listening
features, most of them re- while you do something
quire a subscription to the else.
new YouTube Red service, But here’s the first gotcha:
which will set you back Audio-only mode only
$10 a month — $13 if you works for paid subscribers.
sign up through YouTube’s I also found the audio-only
iPhone app. Without Red, toggle worked far bet-
YouTube Music will play ter on a Samsung Galaxy
ads similar to what you see Note 4 than on an iPhone
on YouTube proper, and 5, where it introduced a
several other functions jarring pause.
won’t work at all. YouTube You can similarly shrink
