YouTube Music
YouTube Music is a music streaming service developed by the American video platform YouTube, a subsidiary of Alphabet's Google. The service is designed with a user interface that allows users to explore songs and music videos on YouTube-based genres, playlists, and recommendations. In April 2023, the service expanded its offerings to include support for podcasts. Wikipedia
Website: music.youtube.com
Owned by: YouTube
Latest news
- Jan 14: Here’s a secret. YouTube Music plays podcasts. No, real podcasts, via open RSS and everything. And you can link your listeners directly to your show on YouTube Music without having to upload your show to YouTube itself. Best yet, it even counts for your download numbers. We’ve got all the details.
- Jan 13: Substack, which announced a partnership with Spotify in April last year, is now promoting its Spotify integration on the Substack dashboard. The service also has integrations with Apple, YouTube Music, “Youtube Podcasts”, Pocket Casts and Overcast; but this is the first time that our Podnews reader who spotted this has seen them actively promote it.
- Dec 10, 2024: You can now include a timestamp when sharing a podcast from YouTube Music. You’ve been able to do this from YouTube (main) for some time; Spotify and Apple Podcasts also have this functionality.
- Oct 24, 2024: Yes, YouTube Music plays RSS feeds. Here’s how.
- Oct 7, 2024: Below - but we don’t want you to miss it - YouTube Music plays podcasts via RSS. Here’s how
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