This is what the Android app adds on top of the web. To install it, see The Android app.
Playing in the background
Songs keep playing with the screen off and when you leave the app. You get controls in the notification, on the lock screen, on wired and Bluetooth headphones and on a Bluetooth car system. In a browser, songs stop in the background; live radio does not.
On Android Auto the app shows up as a music app, with your library, radio and search. We haven’t tested it on every car, so we can’t promise it works with a given model.
If playback cuts out or the notification disappears
Android’s battery optimization can stop the player. See Battery below.
Widgets
The app has two home-screen widgets, a vertical and a horizontal one. Add them from your phone’s widget picker, like any other Android widget.
Playback tools
| Tool | Where it is |
|---|---|
| Sleep timer | In the song’s menu in the player: “Set sleep timer” |
| Equalizer | Settings → General → “Equalizer”: choose between the app’s own (“Internal”) or your phone’s (“System”) |
| Playback speed | In the player controls: the “Playback speed” dialog |
| Volume normalization | Settings → General → “Loudness normalization” |
| Watch the video | The “Watch the video” button in the player (and “Back to the song” to go back) |
| Picture in picture | Settings → General → “Enable Picture-in-picture” |
There is no audio-quality selector, in the app or on the web.
Lyrics
Lyrics, synced when the song has them, are part of a paid plan. You can also share them. On a free plan the app says «Suscríbete para ver las letras».
On the device
Mi Música → “On my device” shows the music stored on your phone. The app asks permission to read your device’s audio for this. Songs stored on the phone can’t be cast to a TV.
Statistics
Mi Cuenta → Statistics shows what you listen to most and your listening time. The app also builds a yearly “Rewind” of your listening. Both are kept on your phone.
Backup and restore
Your favorites, playlists and history live on the phone only, so a backup is the way to move them to another phone or to keep them safe before uninstalling.
- Settings → Data → “BACKUP AND RESTORE”: “Save to backup” exports the database; “Restore from backup” brings it back. Restoring overwrites the data currently in the app, and the app closes by itself afterwards.
- Playlists to a file: a playlist’s menu has “Export playlist”, and the Playlists screen has “Import playlist”, to move them as CSV files.
Signing out erases local data
Signing out of the app deletes the data stored on the phone. Make a backup first if you want to keep your library.
Battery
If Android optimizes the app’s battery use, the notification can disappear when you pause and playback can be cut. Two ways to avoid it:
- Settings → General → “Ignore battery optimizations” (this tab needs a paid plan).
- For everyone: Android Settings → Apps → Yammbo Music → Battery → Unrestricted.
Settings that need a paid plan
In Settings, four tabs are locked on a free plan: General, UI, Player Appearance and Home. They show «Contenido Premium» and a “Ver Planes” button. The tabs Data, Accounts, Misc and About are open to everyone.
That affects every item above whose route starts with Settings → General (equalizer, normalization, picture in picture, the battery button and pausing the listening history). The backup lives in Data, which stays open. See Free vs paid.
Privacy: pause listening history
The app sends Yammbo which songs you listen to, to build your statistics and recommendations. To stop it, turn on “Pause listen history” (Settings → General, a paid-plan tab). It stops saving the playback events used for statistics, history and suggestions. Our privacy policy is at music.yammbo.com/pages/privacy-policy.
Your Yammbo account in the app
Settings → Accounts shows your Yammbo email and lets you sign out. It also has an optional sign-in to YouTube Music, off by default and separate from your Yammbo account. You can’t delete your account from the app: do it on the web, in Account settings.