Obviously, the Android app never suffered from this hiccup and I’m happy to report the PWA doesn’t either. This happens a lot for me through the day since I have to be in the Chrome Unboxed account frequently and like to go back to my personal, ad-free account when finished.īefore this new app landed, one quick account switch in YouTube would stop music playback in the seemingly-unrelated YouTube Music tab since I was technically switching accounts in YouTube. More times than I care to count, I’ve had music playback just stop altogether when I moved between Google accounts in an open tab with YouTube open. First up – and this is a big one – when using the official PWA, you no longer get kicked out of your streaming session if you change accounts in another tab. In testing the app this morning, I’ve noticed a few improvements over the standard usability found at. If you fail to include the “…for Chromebook” part, the Play Store will simply route you to the standard version with no other options. Searching only for YouTube Music will deliver the standard app version and that’s definitely not the one we’re discussing here in this post.
GOOGLE PLAY STORE CHROMEBOOK INSTALL
In order to actually find and install this app, you need to search “YouTube Music for Chromebook” in the Play Store from your Chrome OS device. Unlike Google News or YouTube TV that also install a PWA via the Play Store listing, YouTube Music is in a bit of a unique situation for now. Where to find itįirst up – and this is something Google needs to fix – you need to know what to search in order to find this particular app.
GOOGLE PLAY STORE CHROMEBOOK FULL
This one comes with a few interesting and unique caveats, so there are a couple things to go over, but it is very cool to see Google continue moving in this direction for Chromebook-specific apps in their library that take full advantage of the growing power of the web.
In yet another installment of the PWA-in-Google-Play-Store saga, Google is now moving the web version of YouTube Music into a more fully-realized PWA (progressive web app) and is delivering it via the Play Store for Chromebooks.