For those who’re a YouTube Music person who additionally occurs to personal an Apple TV, you is likely to be in for some excellent news as a result of there might be a brand-new app in your future.
Listening to YouTube Music on one thing just like the Apple TV 4K proper now means utilizing the YouTube app, however that might be about to alter in accordance with a brand new report.
That report claims that Google is contemplating a particular YouTube Music app for the Apple TV, making the music streaming service a first-class citizen on Apple’s set-top field.
Music to Apple TV house owners’ ears
That is all in accordance with a 9to5Google report that cites an unnamed “individual aware of the matter,” however the pondering does add up.
“There’s already YouTube Music on iPhone and iPad, whereas a ‘Music’ expertise lives inside the primary YouTube for TV app,” the report begins. “Google is now planning a separate YouTube Music app for Apple TV that ought to enable for extra direct entry, beginning with a devoted app icon.”
It is also thought that Google is engaged on making the YouTube Music app work correctly with the HomePod and HomePod mini, too. “One other goal for Google is supporting how the HomePod can play music from non-Apple Music providers, like Pandora, which have taken the time to construct out the media integration. These third-party providers will be set because the default for voice instructions,” the report notes.
There is no timescale on any of this for the time being, it appears. However whereas YouTube Music should be effectively behind Apple Music and Spotify on the record of music streaming providers Apple customers pay for, it is excellent news that each options are issues that Google is working in direction of.
