-
The YouTube Music app, lastly on Put on OS, however solely model 3.
Google -
The play display screen with all the standard buttons.
Google -
It’s a must to obtain all the things to play it, which can be powerful in your tiny smartwatch storage.
Google
After nearly a yr of not offering a music service to its smartwatch customers, Google will as soon as once more give its smartwatch OS customers entry to the corporate’s music service, though that transfer comes with plenty of caveats. YouTube Music is launching an app for Put on OS.
Google killed Google Music final yr in favor of YouTube Music, despite the fact that the latter wasn’t almost prepared. Whereas Google launched an Apple Watch YouTube Music app earlier than Google Music was shut down, one of many many regressions from the service change was that Google Music supported Put on OS and YouTube Music didn’t. Now, after 10 months of Google smartwatch downtime, Google’s music service is coming again to Put on OS.
The actually dangerous information is that the app is unique to Put on OS 3, which is at the moment unique to Samsung’s new Galaxy Watch 4. (The app is “out now” solely as a result of it’s transport preinstalled on the Galaxy Watch 4.) Almost no Put on OS 2 watches can be upgraded to Put on OS 3, so except you’ve gotten a Mobvoi Snapdragon Put on 4100 watch, you will must buy groceries at Samsung.com for some new {hardware}.
9to5Google’s Ben Schoon went hands-on with the brand new YouTube Music, and whereas the UI appears just about as you’d count on, the app would not help streaming music. It’s a must to obtain the music for offline playback and retailer it on the watch’s 16GB of inner storage. Downloading music is locked behind the YouTube Premium month-to-month subscription, which is smart for streaming music customers who have not bought any music. YouTube Music additionally helps importing bought music to personal cloud storage, although, and there is no coverage carve-out for these folks. For music uploaders, it appears like that is yet another case of YouTube Music charging folks to play the music they already personal.
Being unique to Put on OS 3 is one other attention-grabbing caveat. Schoon discovered the app is written with Android 11 (SDK model 30) as the minimum API, which signifies that attempting to sideload YouTube Music onto an older Put on OS 2 watch (that are all primarily based on Android 9) will not be an possibility. The Google Music Put on OS app had extra options and wider compatibility than YouTube Music, so it isn’t clear why the minimal API has been set so excessive.
