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Over the last few months the YouTube app has been consistently updated with several new features, it has once again received a new update which places a permanent Cast button in the action bar. The latest update also contains hints to a feature that will certainly be appreciated by many YouTube users, particularly those who subscribe to the YouTube Music Key subscription service. Looks like the app may support offline audio playback in the near future.

As it stands the YouTube app doesn’t allow you to save audio from a music video. You either save the entire video or hook up to the internet in order to watch it if and when you want to.

The folks at AndroidPolice did a teardown on the latest YouTube for Android app and found a string which hints that in the very near future a feature will be added to the app which will allow users to save audio for offline playback.

This means that you will be able to keep the audio component from a music video to listen to when you’re offline, those who want to watch the video once again will have to connect to the internet.

Quite a lot of users have requested this feature to be added to the YouTube app, thus eliminating the need for them to keep the screen unlocked and the YouTube app opened just to listen to music.

It’s unclear at this point in time when this feature will go live.

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