YT Music on BlueOS

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Matthew Mulrine

• December 08, 2023 10:57

Hi BlueOS, I have a NAD T778 with BlueOS. I'm keen to play YT Music to my amp directly from my phone. I tried Spotify as BlueOS has that integration but I feel it doesn't work as well as YT Music. Just wondering when YT Music (as a music-specific service) will be added? There's a lot of more obscure services on there already, so I was surprised to see YT Music wasn't included already. Also, if the integration is going to take a while, what's the short-term solution for the highest quality stream from YT Music to my NAD T778 Amp using BlueOS? I've tried to figure this out with no luck so far. Thanks in advance, Matt

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  Tony W.

  Product Support Manager

  • December 08, 2023 14:50

  Hi Marc

  Thanks for the feedback - we have had great conversations with Alphabet (YouTube's parent). Expanding direct YouTube Music Integration is currently not in their plans with third party products...

  Until they change their mind on this, Apple AirPlay or Bluetooth both work fine. Please see www.Bluesound.com/Bluetooth for step by step instructions to stream direct from your phone or tablet.
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  Rays Jazz

  • December 08, 2023 14:12
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  You should be able to stream YT to your NAD using bluetooth or if you have Airplay that would be even better.

  You will need to switch Bluetooth on your phone. Not used it for some time but it does work.

  YT is not integrated on BluOs services, yet.

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  Matthew Mulrine

  • December 08, 2023 19:26

  Thanks, I've just googled this as limiting integration seems like a massive failure of YT Music.

  It looks like many speakers and amps do support YT Music through chrome cast integration (note hardware doesn't seem required as this seems like it can be implemented through software alone). This type of integration for Bluos would add a number of other benefits including Google Home smart integration so seems worthwhile for BluOS to pursue, also as YT Music has one of the largest user bases.

  For the meantime, I have my amp connected via WiFi, I'm not using Bluetooth, how is it possible to stream to the amp/BluOS using this setup?

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  Matthew Mulrine

  • December 08, 2023 19:28

  Also, just to be clear, I want to use YouTube Music, not YouTube. They are different apps, with YouTube Music optimised for music playback.

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  Rays Jazz

  • December 08, 2023 20:45
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  I did find this: https://support.bluos.net/hc/en-us/articles/360000252127

  Which apparently is how to stream YTM. Not used YTM yet.

  Here is an earlier post about it: https://support1.bluesound.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/5349221771031-YouTube-Music-service-native-integration

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