YouTube Music will now allow you to listen to music offline from the web version. To download the content, keep it on your computer's disk and play it without the need for the Internet, you must meet certain requirements.
Among them, you must at least be connected to the internet once every 30 days, allowing users to continue enjoying YouTube Music offline. Let's find out more details about this functionality and when it will be available.
It is now possible to download songs and podcasts from YouTube Music to listen to them offline
YouTube Music is a service that is part of YouTube, but specialized in musical content and podcasts. Currently, from the platform owned by Google It will be possible to download content, store it on your computer and enjoy them without having to have an internet connection..
For now, the functionality will be available in the web version and if you run out of internet you will be able to listen to music and podcasts from your computer. Of course, it will require some requirements that consist of:
- You can download songs up to a limit of 10 devices linked to the user's Google account.
- Downloaded content will not remain available on your computer's disk forever, unless it is connected to the internet once every 30 days. Otherwise, you will no longer be able to access them offline.
The downloaded music can be viewed in the section «my library» from YouTube Music. In addition, it will have various filters to locate content faster, among them will be: podcast, songs and albums.
This feature will be activated for users who have YouTube Music downloaded to your computer and using Digital Rights Management (DRM), a system that protects copyrighted content. At the moment, there is no exact launch date, but it is estimated that it may be active in the coming weeks or months.
YouTube Music plans to launch other new features for this year, as part of a positioning strategy, with this app being the fifth most used in the world, behind Spotify, Apple Music, Primer Music and Tencent (Chinese app). Let's see how it goes with this addition and If you are users of this tool, property of Google, you can leave us your opinion about it.
