{"id":71258,"date":"2014-08-19T00:22:57","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T22:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=71258"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:32:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:32:00","slug":"youtube-music-key-subscription-music-service-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/youtube-music-key-subscription-music-service-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s new music subscription service YouTube Music Key revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We already knew Google planned to offer a <a title=\"YouTube for Android update hints at 'Music Pass' and offline playback\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/youtube-android-apk-music-pass\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube streaming music service<\/a> but there haven&#8217;t been many details about it. The detectives over at <em>Android Police<\/em> have uncovered details about the music subscription service, including pricing and how it&#8217;ll work.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-71263\" title=\"YouTube Music Key pricing\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/08\/YouTube-Music-Key-pricing-258x430.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube Music Key pricing via Android Police\" width=\"258\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/08\/YouTube-Music-Key-pricing.jpg 258w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/08\/YouTube-Music-Key-pricing-153x256.jpg 153w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/>YouTube Music Key will offer <strong>ad-free streaming<\/strong> and <strong>audio-only playback<\/strong>. We&#8217;ve also seen YouTube&#8217;s offline mode, which will be part of the YouTube Music Key subscription service. The advantage of using YouTube as a platform is the myriad of remixes and covers available on the site. This provides users with some fresh content that Google Play Music doesn&#8217;t offer. This also gives YouTube a more powerful suggestion engine, since it can analyze the types of video you watch and the music you listen to.<\/p>\n<p>It seems redundant for Google to release a second music subscription service since they already have <a title=\"Google Play Music for iOS can replace the Music app\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/google-play-music-for-ios-can-replace-the-music-app\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Play Music All Access<\/a>. <em>Android Police<\/em> reports <strong>Play Music will be rebranded as &#8220;Google Play Music Key,&#8221;<\/strong> and will be released in conjunction with YouTube Music Key.<\/p>\n<p>The service will cost <strong>$9.99 per month<\/strong> and includes both YouTube and Google Play Music Key. There&#8217;s no information if Google Play Music Key subscribers will get the service for a discounted rate.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source and image credit: <a title=\"Android Police\" href=\"http:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/2014\/08\/18\/exclusive-this-is-youtube-music-key-googles-upcoming-subscription-service-with-offline-support-background-audio-no-ads-free-play-music-key\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android Police<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Nudge combines all your fitness apps into one\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/nudge-combines-all-your-fitness-apps-into-one\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nudge combines all your fitness apps into one<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Xbox One SmartGlass update lets you buy games in the app\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/xbox-one-smartglass-update-lets-you-buy-games-in-the-app\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Xbox One SmartGlass update lets you buy games in the app<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"How to sync music via Wi-Fi without using iTunes\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/how-to-sync-music-via-wi-fi-without-using-itunes\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How to sync music via Wi-Fi without using iTunes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Flappy Bird dev's new game Swing Copters on iOS this week\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/flappy-bird-devs-new-game-swing-copters\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Flappy Bird dev&#8217;s new game Swing Copters on iOS this week<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Windows Store is full of scam apps and Microsoft doesn't care\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/the-windows-store-is-full-of-scam-apps-and-microsoft-doesnt-care\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Windows Store is full of scam apps and Microsoft doesn&#8217;t care<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>Follow Lewis on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lewisleong\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@lewisleong<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We already knew Google planned to offer a YouTube streaming music service but there haven&#8217;t been many details about it. The detectives over at Android Police have uncovered details about the music subscription service, including pricing and how it&#8217;ll work. YouTube Music Key will offer ad-free streaming and audio-only playback. We&#8217;ve also seen YouTube&#8217;s offline &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/youtube-music-key-subscription-music-service-revealed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google&#8217;s new music subscription service YouTube Music Key revealed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":71260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2355],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-71258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionyoutube"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330319,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71258\/revisions\/330319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71258"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=71258"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=71258"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=71258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}