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> This app is incompatible with all of your devices. I have 4 different android devices, which all fully meet youtube's version requirements. This is baffling.

> This app is incompatible with all of your devices. I have 4 different android devices, which all fully meet youtube's version requirements. This is baffling. I guess it doesn't like that i'm in germany? Edit: Yep, after installing the APK, the app complains my account is not american. So it's just a very lazy way of region-locking with misleading error messages.

nolok 11y ago
"Incompatible with device X" means "Cannot be installed on (your) device X" (be it for region restriction, lack of phone capabilities, or anything else ...), not that it cannot technically work. Might not be super clear but the entire store works like that and always has, so it's nothing to do with youtube music.
- StavrosK 11y ago
  It's not incompatible with the device, it's incompatible with the region. If it were incompatible with the device itself, you would expect it to continue being incompatible when that device was in a different country.
  - TillE 11y ago
    Technically, I believe that means it's "incompatible" with your SIM card, from which your region is derived. As an expat, I vastly prefer Apple's approach to all this: if you have a method of payment in one country, you have a completely valid account for that country.
Strom 11y ago
It's US only.
buro9 11y ago
I'm in the UK at the moment, but have a US region Play Account via a Gmail account (a trick I learned to be able to install OpenTable for US reservations when it kept offering me UK restaurants). The key is to use a VPN to surface from a US IP address, they are limiting install to GeoIP. After you have installed it, you can open the app and choose a different Google Account (a non-US one) to use with the app. But it will always do a GeoIP check on opening the app, so you have to keep using the VPN. This allows you to access your existing Google Music and YouTube accounts even though you just installed under a different account. As for the app, works really well. I like the audio vs video toggle at the top, and that it's picked up on the things I've listened to or watched within Google Music. The auto-advance onto the next video feels more intuitive than the Google Music "Start Radio..." button, and the recommendations are good. It's also really really nice to have the music play in the background, screen off... and then to make it foreground and at that point it resumes the video, sync'd perfectly. They do seem to be playing optimised audio tracks from videos, not audio tracks. This is just a better interface for music than Google Play Music which feels too cold and sanitised for something so emotive as music. This stands back a bit, let's the music and video step to the front. The only catch. I can't pay for it using my UK account. So it looks like I have a couple of weeks to choose whether I want to shift my Google Play Music subscription over to my US Play Account or not. Right now... I'm thinking not, and to wait. But who knows how long the wait will be. For the curious about bandwidth requirements for HD video over VPN: https://goo.gl/photos/BG7JeTxe8UNbWMGL9 https://goo.gl/photos/BG7JeTxe8UNbWMGL9
- ju-st 11y ago
  All I want is a Youtube app that does this: > It's also really really nice to have the music play in the background Apparently this works on the IPhone but not on Android...
  - binarycrusader 11y ago
    No, it works on Android too but only for songs that are marked as allowing it. I know because I have used it on my Moto X 2014.
  - buro9 11y ago
    All of the tracks that I have played have so far supported it, I am on Android.

nolok 11y ago

"Incompatible with device X" means "Cannot be installed on (your) device X" (be it for region restriction, lack of phone capabilities, or anything else ...), not that it cannot technically work. Might not be super clear but the entire store works like that and always has, so it's nothing to do with youtube music.

StavrosK 11y ago
It's not incompatible with the device, it's incompatible with the region. If it were incompatible with the device itself, you would expect it to continue being incompatible when that device was in a different country.
- TillE 11y ago
  Technically, I believe that means it's "incompatible" with your SIM card, from which your region is derived. As an expat, I vastly prefer Apple's approach to all this: if you have a method of payment in one country, you have a completely valid account for that country.

Strom 11y ago

It's US only.

buro9 11y ago

I'm in the UK at the moment, but have a US region Play Account via a Gmail account (a trick I learned to be able to install OpenTable for US reservations when it kept offering me UK restaurants). The key is to use a VPN to surface from a US IP address, they are limiting install to GeoIP. After you have installed it, you can open the app and choose a different Google Account (a non-US one) to use with the app. But it will always do a GeoIP check on opening the app, so you have to keep using the VPN. This allows you to access your existing Google Music and YouTube accounts even though you just installed under a different account. As for the app, works really well. I like the audio vs video toggle at the top, and that it's picked up on the things I've listened to or watched within Google Music. The auto-advance onto the next video feels more intuitive than the Google Music "Start Radio..." button, and the recommendations are good. It's also really really nice to have the music play in the background, screen off... and then to make it foreground and at that point it resumes the video, sync'd perfectly. They do seem to be playing optimised audio tracks from videos, not audio tracks. This is just a better interface for music than Google Play Music which feels too cold and sanitised for something so emotive as music. This stands back a bit, let's the music and video step to the front. The only catch. I can't pay for it using my UK account. So it looks like I have a couple of weeks to choose whether I want to shift my Google Play Music subscription over to my US Play Account or not. Right now... I'm thinking not, and to wait. But who knows how long the wait will be. For the curious about bandwidth requirements for HD video over VPN: https://goo.gl/photos/BG7JeTxe8UNbWMGL9 https://goo.gl/photos/BG7JeTxe8UNbWMGL9

ju-st 11y ago
All I want is a Youtube app that does this: > It's also really really nice to have the music play in the background Apparently this works on the IPhone but not on Android...
- binarycrusader 11y ago
  No, it works on Android too but only for songs that are marked as allowing it. I know because I have used it on my Moto X 2014.
- buro9 11y ago
  All of the tracks that I have played have so far supported it, I am on Android.