YouTube Music is lifting one in all its most annoying limitations — however solely in Canada. At the moment, YouTube introduced that starting November third, prospects in Canada will be capable of proceed listening to their music within the background whereas doing different duties on their cellphone or when the display screen is off.
Background listening will assist each the usual ad-supported, personalised radio mixes and any uploaded content material you’ve added to your account.
That is the primary time that YouTube Music has supplied the characteristic with out requiring that prospects step as much as a Premium subscription to get it. As for when listeners in different nations can count on to get the identical comfort, for now, YouTube is simply saying to “keep tuned for extra info and growth plans.”
Music lovers rejoice! Background listening is coming to the @YouTubeMusic app, and would be the first to take pleasure in this new characteristic beginning Nov 3! Get radio-like listening together with your display screen off and don’t cease the music! https://t.co/GPwRMcVhp1
— Google Canada (@googlecanada) October 4, 2021
Free background listening is desk stakes amongst YouTube Music’s rivals, together with Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, Tidal, and others, so that is an space the place YouTube lags its rivals. Hopefully, that growth will get underway earlier than later.
Even when background playback involves the free tier, YouTube Music Premium nonetheless has different advantages: offline downloads is the large one, however you additionally get to pay attention with none adverts and seamlessly change between common audio and music movies.