Music constantly accompanies us through life. We listen to it at home, on the road, at parties and elsewhere. For many, it has become habitual to listen to music on social networks or download tracks from the Internet and upload them to a phone or player for offline listening. Yandex Music is a huge music collection that is constantly updated, the application adapts to the user's tastes and makes it possible to download music to a smartphone for offline listening.
Yandex. Music
Yandex. Music is a streaming audio service from Yandex that allows you to search for and legally listen to music compositions, albums and collections of music tracks for free. Available to visitors from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. There is also a dedicated app for iOS, Android and Windows Phone. In 2012 he was awarded the ROTOR prize for the best music site.
The service cooperates with more than 50 copyright holders. At the end of September 2011, according to Yandex reports, musical compositions were listened to 1, 3 billion times. As of October 2014, more than 17 million music tracks are available on Yandex. Music. The audience of the service as of July 2013, according to ComScore, reached 13 million users.
The launch of a separate Yandex. Music service was announced in September 2010. At the time of launch, the catalog included more than 58 thousand performers and about 800 thousand compositions from various copyright holders, including EMI, Sony Music, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group. With the advent of Yandex. Music as a separate service, the user was able to search and listen to entire music albums.
Yandex. Music enables users to:
- listen to licensed music using Adobe Flash-player or HTML 5 (for mobile devices);
- search for music using a simple search or a well-structured catalog;
- embed tracks into blogs and social media pages;
- compose your playlists;
- receive musical recommendations;
- send statistics to Last.fm;
- import audio recordings from your collections to the VKontakte social network
How to subscribe and use Yandex Music
Subscribing is very simple:
- On the official website Yandex. Music
- For android owners, download the Yandex. Music app from Google Play
- for iPhone owners download the Yandex. Music app on the App Store
After installing and launching Yandex Music for the first time, you need to configure:
- The application will prompt you to log in or register a new account. You can use your Yandex account (Yandex mail, Yandex money, etc.) or social media accounts (Vkontakte, Facebook, Twitter).
- The application will prompt you to take a quick test to determine musical tastes in order to make good recommendations especially for you in the future. You can skip this step by clicking the "Later" button. Choose a few of your favorite genres and click the "Next" button.
- Select a few of your favorite artists and click the "Finish" button.
- The app will offer you a 30-day gift subscription so you can fully test the music service. We press the button "Try for free".
Paid subscription to Yandex. Music
After 30 days of using the trial period, the application will start charging the subscription fee. If you cancel your subscription, Yandex will transfer you to a free plan and you will have the following restrictions:
- Poor sound quality
- You can not download music for listening offline (without the Internet)
- Ads will appear between tracks
How much does a subscription to Yandex. Music cost?
According to statistical estimates, the service is used by about 20 million people, of which about 250 thousand are paid users. The subscription price is 170 - 250 rubles per month, depending on the platform where you purchase the product (on the Yandex website, on Google Play, or the App Store). At the same time, the first month of subscription is free (to get acquainted with all the possibilities of the service), and for the following months you have to pay. The cost of an annual subscription to Yandex. Music is 1,790 rubles (with variations).
How to unsubscribe from Yandex Music: practical advice
Official website
If you prefer to use Yandex. Music in your browser while visiting the website of this service, you can unsubscribe from your premium subscription as follows:
- While on any of the Yandex Music pages, go to the "My Music" tab located to the left of your profile picture.
- Then open the "Settings" section.
- Go to the "Subscription" tab.
- Once in it, click on the "Subscription Management" button.
- You will be redirected to the Yandex Passport page, where all the advantages that a subscription gives you are described in detail.
- Scroll down a bit and click on "Manage Subscription" again.
- In the pop-up window, you can see information about when the next withdrawal will take place. You need to find the link "Unsubscribe", which you need to use.
- Having made the final decision to refuse, click "Unsubscribe".
- After confirming the unsubscription, you will still be able to use the premium version of Yandex. Music up to the date specified in the previous step, but upon its occurrence you will be transferred to a free account with restrictions in the form of ads, low audio quality, etc. etc.
Canceling a subscription on iOS:
If you use Apple products, you can view your subscriptions by following the corresponding link. You can unsubscribe from Yandex. Music as follows:
- Go to "Settings" - "Your Name" - "iTunes Store and App Store";
- Tap on your Apple ID at the top of the screen;
- Select "View Apple ID" (sign in if necessary);
- Here select "Subscriptions";
- Select the subscription you need (in our case, this is a subscription to Yandex. Music);
- Click on "Unsubscribe".
Canceling your Android subscription via Google Play
The easiest way to disconnect a subscription from Yandex. Music on Android is to follow the link to the Play Market (Personal Account), select “Manage subscriptions” there, and click on “Do not renew”.
- You can also open the Play Market application itself, and go to your account settings (button with three horizontal lines).
- There select "Account" - "Subscriptions".
- Select "Yandex. Music" from the available subscriptions, and then click "Cancel".
Hidden Yandex. Music functions you might not know about
- Turn on the dark theme. The best thing about the Yandex. Music dark theme is that it is both in the app and on the website. Evaluate how comfortable it is - the light from the screen does not hit your eyes.
- Search for the song line by line. For those who do not remember either the name of the musician or the name of the song, but know some random line, Yandex. Music will find the song by line if the catalog contains its text.
- Customize recommendations without going into the app. Of course, Yandex. Music has radio. It includes tracks either by genre, occupation, mood, novelty, or based on some albums, tracks and playlists. If you like an album or playlist, and the tracks in it are over, turn on the radio - it will build an endless stream of songs according to the tracklist of the album or playlist.
- Turn on Gentle Volume Up
- In the streaming settings there is a "Logarithmic volume scale" function. When turned on, the volume on the site rises softer. In "Yandex" said that the logarithmic increase in volume will be more comfortable for the ears.
- Don't lose your listened songs offline. If there is no music on the phone at all, and there is no time to search and download a new one, then turn on the function that saves all the songs that are listened to in the application for offline.
