What is YouTube Music, and is it free? Here’s everything you need to know about Google’s Spotify alternative… YouTube Music is a streaming app that allows you to easily find your favourite songs, ...

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While research tends to go back and forth on the advantages of noise versus silence for creativity and productivity, I always find myself more relaxed and focused at work after turning on a light ...

The term "ambient" music was first coined in the late '70s by influential British artist Brian Eno, who described it as music created to "induce calm and space to think." Since then, the genre has ...

YouTube today announced that the YouTube Music app will enable background playback for free. The feature will be available first in Canada starting November 3 ...

Starting next month, YouTube Music is getting free background listening in a major revamp of the streaming service’s ad-supported tier. As part of that, the YouTube Music app is going audio-only and ...

Once you start playing music using these apps, they stick themselves to the Xbox One Guide and offer mini controls to skip, play the last song, and control on the background music sound. Xbox One ...