Youtube Premium Adds High-quality Audio And 4x Playback For Ios, Android And Desktop

Google is expanding access to YouTube Premium features for illustration faster playback speeds and high-quality audio to much types of devices. Most group subscribe to YouTube Premium to region ads from YouTube and entree to YouTube Music, but Google besides includes a assortment of "power-user" features that springiness subscribers much granular power complete their viewing aliases listening experience. Now those features will beryllium disposable successful much places.

YouTube Premium's faster playback speeds (in 0.5x increments from 1x to 4x speed) are now disposable connected Android, iOS and nan web, aft initially only being disposable successful nan mobile YouTube app. The expertise to person YouTube automatically download Shorts to position offline aliases watch Shorts successful a picture-in-picture model is now besides disposable connected some iOS and Android, aft primitively launching connected Android. Google says Premium's Jump Ahead characteristic for skipping to "key moments" of a video is now besides disposable connected smart TVs and crippled consoles.

In position of nan euphony broadside of nan house, nan large alteration has to do pinch audio quality. When you're watching a euphony video, Google says you'll now beryllium capable to prime "High" from nan audio settings and perceive astatine a 256kbps bitrate. This alteration applies to "Art Tracks" arsenic well, which are videos of songs disposable connected nan wider YouTube level that don't person an charismatic euphony video. The "High" value action was primitively only disposable successful nan YouTube Music app, but now Google says you tin entree it crossed nan Android and iOS type of some YouTube Music and YouTube.

None of these updates alteration what nan main use of a $13.99-per-month YouTube Premium subscription is, of course, but for nan price, it's bully Google is trying to unify nan acquisition crossed devices.