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Very weird that they’d lock a pretty simple feature like this behind premium.
The most benevolent theory I could come up with is that they give paying users early access to new features, and plan to roll it out for free users too if the test is successful. But who knows.
I dunno. Background playing, picture-in-picture, and playing audio when the screen is off are also premium features, right?
Yes. Google is a business and they like money. It’s not weird, surprising, nor does it require a theory.
Background playing and pip are available to free users now except on music videos.
Fools. I can do this with mpv
I feel a bit odd about this. I can understand subscription fees for services where the company’s costs scale with usage, like video streaming. But this is a feature they build once and then only have to do occasional maintenance for.
Snoop dogg only had to record gin and juice one time. He still doesn’t give his music away for free.
Sure, but I can pay for the MP3 once and listen to Gin and Juice forever. YouTube only lets you pay monthly for access to the feature.
Everything is a subscription model now. You wanna hear a song on Spotify, same deal
Except you can choose to either buy an individual song or rent access to a ginormous music library.
They already do something similar with YouTube music. If you use the free version, only plays while the app is in focus and the screen is unlocked. If you have YouTube premium or the paid music subscription, songs will keep playing while the app is in the background or the screen locks.
Good point. Either there’s a legal clause in their music license that mandates a higher payout if people can use it as background music, or it’s silly software-as-a-subscription shenanigans.
This, people, is why you only use Android. ReVanced FTW 😎
Wtf thats idiotic.
