If you are one of those who cannot study or work without background music, but the music you need should be quiet, you will like this. There are many applications to listen to music for free, but one of the best music channels is Lofi Girl. It’s a radio that offers us ‘lofi hip hop’ music 24 hours a day and it’s great to create an atmosphere, to have it in the background while you study, work or even read a good book.
Now Synth Boy has arrived, a new non-stop radio that offers synthwave music, but keeping that ideal “calm” roll to have in the background while we’re doing anything. And, precisely, we are going to tell you how to play lofi girl and synth boy music on your android mobile with screen off
How to have YouTube in the background, even with the screen off, without paying Premium
obviously, This tip helps you listen to the video you want. To me, it makes a lot of sense to do this with channels where the music plays non-stop or long podcasts, but you can put any video you want.
If you are subscribed to YouTube Premium (which has just been updated with important news), you will be able to have background videos with the mobile lockedbut in a world where there are more and more subscriptions (and more and more expensive, look at the case of Max, the new HBO Max), if there is one you can save, great.
Now well, How to have YouTube with the mobile screen off? The trick is to install the platform’s webapp. It’s something that my colleague Pepu detailed a few days ago in Xataka Móvil and it’s very simple:
You open your browser and go to the YouTube URL. Select the ⋮ icon and search for “Computer view”. Normally it will not be checked, so you should check it. Once done, the page will reload, so you go back to ⋮ and search for “Install app”. It will ask you for confirmation and voila, the YouTube web app will appear in your app drawer or dashboard.
Keep in mind that this is not a normal application, but a kind of rich direct access to the web page in question and therefore the format is not suitable for the moving screen. You will see everything very small and you will have to zoom in with your mobile.
Anyway, what interests us: in this case I went to the Lofi Girl channel, I put on the new Synthwave Boy radio and I blocked the mobile. In my terminal, the reading was interrupted, but Turn on the screen and click ‘Play’, that’s it, I can continue to listen to YouTube without having to unlock the phone.
Also, it is a very good way to install some applications if you have little storage space, since they do not occupy as much as a native application. Although good, if you do the test with YouTube, you will see that they are less comfortable, obviously.
By the way, if you like the visual style of the Lofi Girl channel, you have a generator to create a similar study area where you can customize your character, your accessories, your clothes, the window and even the animal of company. Thanks to this link, you have the Lofi generator. To have fun.
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