Google said today that YouTube now has more than 100 million paid users across YouTube Music and YouTube Premium. This number is up from the 80 million paid users the company mentioned in November ...

While some major labels are touting YouTube as an important partner in the evolving world of music and AI, not everyone in the industry has been as enthusiastic about these new efforts. By Elias ...

If audio quality is your top priority, compression rates matter. Here is how spatial audio, lossless formats, and bitrates ...

You may have heard that Google Podcasts is going away and YouTube Music will become Google's new podcast delivery system in April 2024. YouTube Music users can now stay in a single app to enjoy their ...

Back in October, the main YouTube rolled out a slew of mobile updates like stable volume and a hum to search capability. Song search is now rolling out to YouTube Music. In YouTube, it’s currently ...

Nest Hub users on Reddit and official Google forums reported YouTube Music failed to play through their smart displays for weeks. Google says it figured out what caused the YouTube Music playback ...

A new court filing claims that when indie artists upload music to YouTube, they grant a "broad license" that covers the AI initiatives of parent company Google. By ...

The one dealbreaker keeping me tied to Spotify after testing YouTube Music again ...

One of the most common complaints I keep reading from YouTube Music users is that Google treats it and their regular YouTube experience as one and the same. If you like one artist’s songs, you’re now ...

Google Podcasts has officially gone the way of Google Play Music and has been integrated directly into YouTube. As of April 2, Google Podcasts ceased to function in the US. Fortunately, you still have ...