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YouTube Music has added an incredibly useful feature today, one that amazingly hasn't been in all this time. We're talking about proper support for saving stuff offline. Up until this point, YouTube Music's only option in this realm was an auto-generated "offline mixtape", which was created "based on your previous listening history". In other words, you had no control over what went into it. From now on, though, if you're a YouTube Red subscriber, YouTube music finally lets you choose what to save for offline listening or viewing - you can pick any song, album, or playlist to download. You also get to select whether you want to save just the audio, SD video, or HD video (when possible). Once you've added things to your offline library, to access it you tap your profile photo and select Offline.

Lyor Cohen, head of YouTube Music  Getty Images The music industry hasn't been too  enamored  with YouTube, what with all the  unsanctioned content  on the video site. Now that Google is planning to  merge  Google Play and YouTube into one music service, however, it's time to start fixing that awkward relationship. YouTube's head of music, Lyor Cohen, took the first steps toward reconciliation at the  New Music Seminar in New York City this week, with a  panel  geared toward the lack of ad revenues and how the music industry can be more supportive of streaming services. According to  The Verge , executives from   YouTube ,  Pandora  and  iHearMedia sat down with those from Warner Music and SoundExchange to talk about ways to help the two industries work together. "We're scared to death and we typically stomp them out,"  The Verge  reports YouTube's Cohen said, referring to a la...