YouTube Premium provides high-quality audio and 4x...

Google is expanding access to YouTube Premium options like sooner playback speeds and high-quality audio to extra forms of units. Most individuals subscribe to YouTube Premium to take away adverts from YouTube and entry to YouTube Music, however Google additionally contains quite a lot of “power-user” options that give subscribers extra granular management over their viewing or listening expertise. Now these options might be obtainable in additional locations.

YouTube Premium’s sooner playback speeds (in 0.5x increments from 1x to 4x pace) are actually obtainable on Android, iOS and the net, after initially solely being obtainable within the cellular YouTube app. The power to have YouTube robotically obtain Shorts to view offline or watch Shorts in a picture-in-picture window is now additionally obtainable on each iOS and Android, after initially launching on Android. Google says Premium’s Bounce Forward function for skipping to “key moments” of a video is now additionally obtainable on sensible TVs and sport consoles.

When it comes to the music aspect of the home, the massive change has to do with audio quality. Once you’re watching a music video, Google says you will now have the ability to choose “Excessive” from the audio settings and hear at a 256kbps bitrate. This modification applies to “Artwork Tracks” as properly, that are movies of songs obtainable on the broader YouTube platform that do not have an official music video. The “Excessive” high quality choice was initially solely obtainable within the YouTube Music app, however now Google says you may entry it throughout the Android and iOS model of each YouTube Music and YouTube.

None of those updates change what the principle advantage of a $13.99-per-month YouTube Premium subscription is, after all, however for the value, it is good Google is making an attempt to unify the expertise throughout units.