YouTube Music is expanding upon its Offline Mixtape feature with a more thorough version it is now calling “smart downloads.” When you enable smart downloads, the app will automatically download up to 500 songs that you will be able to listen to anywhere — whether or not you have got a data connection.
That selection includes the Offline Mixtape (a 100-song playlist based on your listening history) and “songs from your Liked Songs playlist and your other favorite playlists and albums.” You can set a limit for how much music smart downloads will pull down, and the process only happens at night and when your phone is connected to Wi-Fi.
YouTube gave an example of what this might look like for the average user: “Offline Mixtape, Pop Hotlist, Summer 2019 playlist, Kacey Musgraves album.”So it’s enough to get you through a few hours of getting stuck without the ability to stream tunes.
But smart downloads might be useful if you tend to forget about saving music for offline listening until it is too late.
Other apps including Netflix are also moving into this lane; Netflix’s smart downloads can now save the next episode of whatever you are watching so it is ready to go right away, and it will automatically delete episodes you have already finished.
Unfortunately, YouTube is still unable to say exactly when it will migrate user libraries from Google Play Music over to YouTube Music.
Source: Theverge
