Yandex Music
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| Developer | Yandex |
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| Launch date | September 22, 2010 |
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| Status | Active |
| Website | music |
Yandex Music (Russian: Яндекс Музыка, romanized: Yandeks Muzyka) is a Russian music streaming service developed by Yandex. Users select musical compositions, albums, collections of musical tracks to stream to their device on demand and receive personalized recommendations. The service is also available as web browser. It is available in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.[1] Subscription can only be paid from supported countries above, but the service is then available in all other countries.[2][3][4]
As of October 2017, over 40 million music tracks were available on Yandex Music. About 20 million people use the service at least once a month.[5]
The most popular feature of Yandex Music is the smart playlists, which is updated daily for each user and features recently played tracks, similar music to their favorites, and diverse tracks that are based on user's tastes.[6]
- Personal recommendations
- Directory search and category structuring
- Making playlists and transferring them between accounts and devices
- Offline playback of downloaded tracks (paid subscription only)
- Saving music in personal library
- Streaming video
- Adding tracks to blogs and web-sites
- Scrobbling - transfer of information about the streamed tracks to the Last.fm site for later use
- Import of music from Spotify, VK Music and Apple Music
- Search for music by text and text "tunes"[7]
- Buying concert tickets
- Lyrics and literary translations of foreign song lyrics[8]
- Music selections by the editorial staff, by brands, media, musicians, bloggers, labels, etc.
- Notifications of new compositions by favorite artists
- Gift subscriptions for 3, 6 or 12 months[9]
- Maximum bitrate playback up to 320 kbit/s and the sampling frequency of 44.1 kHz, 16-bit, stereo
High quality HQ sound mode is available for users with paid subscriptions.
