YouTube Music is increasing upon its Offline Mixtape function with an extra thorough version it’s now calling “smart downloads.” When you enable smart downloads, the app will routinely download up to 500 songs that you’ll be capable of pay attention to anywhere — whether or now not you’ve got a facts connection.
That choice includes the Offline Mixtape (100-tune playlist based on your listening records) and “songs from your Liked Songs playlist and your other preferred playlists and albums.” You can set a limit for a way an awful lot of music clever downloads will pull down, and the system handiest happens at night time and when your telephone is hooked up to Wi-Fi. YouTube gave me an instance of what this might appear to be for the common user: “Offline Mixtape, Pop Hotlist, Summer 2019 playlist, Kacey Musgraves album.” So it’s sufficient to get you via some hours of getting caught without the potential to circulation tunes.
I’m no longer sure who desires an app to download a lot of songs on its personal. And I’m too much of a control freak to accept as true with a set of rules to populate that list. Just because I became attentive to something the alternative day would not suggest that’s what I’ll want to hear on a flight or for the duration of my everyday trip, so I’ll stay with the manual.
But smart downloads might be beneficial in case you tend to overlook saving the track for offline listening until it’s too overdue. Other apps inclusive of Netflix are also entering into this lane; Netflix’s smart downloads can now store the next episode of something you’re watching so it’s ready to go right away, and it’ll routinely delete episodes you’ve already finished. Unfortunately, YouTube remains unable to say exactly when it’ll migrate person libraries from Google Play Music to YouTube Music. I asked a spokesperson for a status replacement that afternoon and have not begun to pay attention again.
Yesterday, I noticed that Google Play Music was up to date to address a trojan horse on iOS 13, so there should be sufficient people nevertheless using it to have made that fix a priority. We realize that between the 2 offerings, Google has over 15 million paying subscribers. I can’t make the switch to YouTube Music until all my stuff indicates up there, and I know there are different people within the equal boat, so I’ll maintain asking.
Recently a Christie’s artwork sale has become the best auction in history. The sale included works through Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, amongst others, and in general, generated $495 million. The sale hooked up 16 new world public sale statistics, with nine works selling for more than $10m (£6.6m) and 23 for extra than $5m (£3.2m). Christie’s said the document-breaking income contemplated “a new technology inside the artwork market.””
The pinnacle lot of Wednesday’s sale turned into Pollock’s drip portray Number 19, 1948, which fetched $58.4m (£38.3m) – almost two times its pre-sale estimate. Lichtenstein’s Woman with Flowered Hat offered $56.1 million, even as every other Basquiat paintings, Dustheads (the pinnacle of the article), went for $48.8 million. All 3 works set the very best prices ever fetched for the artists at auction. Christie’s defined the $495,021,500 total – which blanketed commissions – as “awesome”. Only four of the 70 masses on providing went unsold.
Also, a 1968 oil painting using Gerhard Richter has set a brand new file for the highest auction fee accomplished using a living artist. Richter’s photo-painting Domplatz, Mailand (Cathedral Square, Milan) offered $37.1 million (£24.4 million). Sotheby described Domplatz, Mailand, which depicts a cityscape painted in a style that suggests a blurred photo as a “masterpiece of 20th Century artwork” and the “epitome” of the artist’s 1960s photograph-painting canon. Don Bryant, the founder of Napa Valley’s Bryant Family Vineyard and the portray’s new owner, stated the paintings “simply knocks me over.”
