Two new playlist-playing features arrive on YouTube Music for Android Auto, both inherited from the nearly defunct Google Play Music.
After several months during which the Android Auto ecosystem seemed almost frozen, several new features are coming to Google’s in-car infotainment platform in recent weeks. The latest two concern the YouTube Music app, in which new features have been alerted.
Both features involve playlist playback, but it’s still unclear whether these are final features or test features. Google hasn’t communicated anything about it and sightings are still few to make a reliable prediction. As always happens in these cases, therefore, it is good to take the news with some caution and not get too many illusions. But, at the same time, it’s a sign that something is moving in YouTube Music for Android Auto. Here’s what.
YouTube Music on Android Auto now plays Playlists
It may sound unbelievable, but it’s true: until now it was impossible to play play playlists with the free version of the app. It’s well known that YouTube Music, without a subscription, has very few features compared to other competitors like Spotify.
But the absence of playlists was definitely too much in the use of the app in the car, where it’s best not to take your hands off the wheel and eyes off the road too often to search for a song. So here’s a button dedicated to choosing a playlist and playing it all in a row.
But that’s not all: now YouTube Music on Android Auto also allows you to add user-uploaded songs to the playlist. A function inherited from Google Play Music.
Google Play Music goodbye, even on Android Auto
If YouTube Music inherits functions from Google Play Music, it’s because the latter service is about to disappear, along with its app, to merge into YouTube Music. The process has been announced and initiated for some time now, and in recent days, Google has taken down the Play Store Music.
Users are now being prompted to buy music on YouTube Music, and there’s a wizard to bring Google Play Music playlists to YouTube Music. A procedure that, in light of these new features on Android Auto, is even more useful.