YouTube Subscription Music Service Details Leak

19 August 2014 | 5:49 pm | Staff Writer

Say hello to the chunkily named 'YouTube Music Key' platform

Several details regarding YouTube's hotly debated music streaming service have made their way online, courtesy of Android news site Android Police.

The leak, which appears to feature several screenshots of the forthcoming platform, claims that the service will be launched under the title YouTube Music Key, which falls in line with additional suggestions that Google Play Music All Access is on-track to be rebranded as Google Play Music Key.

Android Police reports that YTMK will give users access to ad-free tunes, background/screen-off listening capabilities, and offline playback, bonuses gained when users sign up for the projected $US10/month service (which will apparently be free for the first thirty days).

Being a YouTube concern, it's unsurprising that the focus isn't just on strict audio alone — subscribers will be able to access live footage, clips, covers and remixes, all tailored to your tastes as you increasingly use the platform and it learns what sorts of tunes make your joy centre kick into overdrive.

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Google has allegedly amassed more than 20 million tracks to its Music Key library — complete, organised albums — and is starting to acquire domain names, including YouTubeMusicKey.com, though, at the time of writing, not fairly obvious offshoots such as PlayMusicKey.com or GooglePlayMusicKey.com.

These details come off the heels of a long and convoluted dispute between YouTube and independent artists, some of whom — including Australia's own Scalphunter — have had their videos removed for a litany of reasons. That conflict emerged out of Google's plans to make YouTube as commercially viable a prospect and platform as it can, when it made its original announcements pertaining to the imminence of a subscription streaming platform earlier in the year.