Since Google doesn't often update all its support pages appropriately, our current thinking is that the first document hasn't been updated to reflect the changes introduced with the second. These benefits are not currently supported for traveling members in other apps and services. Your paid membership benefits (such as offline listening, background play, ad-free listening, etc.) will only apply in the YouTube Music app while you are traveling. Your downloads will also remain available to you for 30 days without an internet connection. The music content that is available to you at home will travel with you for 6 months so you can keep enjoying your listening experience. ![]() YouTube Music Premium members get access to their paid membership benefits and their music library in the YouTube Music app, even if you are in a country/region where YouTube Music is not available. This support page, on the other hand, is way more lenient and nuanced: If you leave these countries/regions, you won't be able to access YouTube Music Premium benefits. YouTube Music Premium is available in the countries/regions listed below. Going through Google's support documents, we can see mixed messages about the service's travel-friendliness. None had a full YouTube Premium subscription, so we weren't able to see if this also applies to Google's video-watching platform too. they have all of YouTube Music Premium's benefits. Both are now able to stream any music, ad-free, in the background, with offline downloads, i.e. When in Taiwan or Belarus, both used to see the unsupported country warning in the app and website, and still see it if they open the YouTube Music website in incognito, proving they're getting access only on their subscribed account. Two other users in Puerto Rico and Algeria appear to be in the same boat - we reached out to them but haven't heard back.īoth tipsters with whom we verified this already have a paid YouTube Music or Google Play Music membership from a supported country. Two tipsters have told us that they can access YouTube Music in Taiwan and Belarus, even though the service isn't officially available there. Things have changed over the past few days. I used Spotify for over a year in Lebanon with my French account before it officially launched here YouTube Music wouldn't have let me use it for a second and would've deleted my offline downloads. That's quite draconian, and unlike most other music streaming services. The app simply told them they're in an unsupported area, and even their previously downloaded tracks and playlists for offline use disappeared. Multiple users on Google's support forum complained in the past months about their YouTube Music subscription becoming useless as soon as they landed in a country where the service isn't officially available.
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