2 new YouTube Music options that can degree up your listening

Lately,

YouTube Music
has emerged as a fierce competitor to

Spotify
and

Apple Music
. Should you’re prepared to switch your playlists, it may simply turn into your go-to

music streaming platform
, particularly for those who already subscribe to

YouTube Premium
and have entry to it. Now, YouTube Music’s newest replace goals to reinforce its music listening expertise even additional.

Google has just lately added two new quality-of-life enhancements to YouTube Music: Consistent Volume and Lyric Sharing. Because the identify implies, Constant Quantity focuses on managing audio ranges that may randomly spike between totally different songs, genres, and content material sorts. You have seemingly skilled wild quantity fluctuations for those who’ve listened to 2 totally different track genres again to again or switched from a track to a podcast. This new characteristic will assist stop these points and shield your ears.

Constant Quantity is rolling out on iOS and Android now, and the changelog for the replace states the characteristic will “normalize quantity throughout tracks.” After getting the most recent YouTube Music replace, you will want to allow constant quantity within the settings. To do that, go to Settings > Playback & Restrictions and activate Constant Quantity.

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Lyric sharing is coming to YouTube Music

The characteristic is at the moment solely accessible to some customers

Moreover, a brand new lyric sharing characteristic has begun rolling out on YouTube Music, permitting customers to share track lyrics from the app. The characteristic is at the moment solely accessible to a choose group of customers and has not been broadly rolled out but. Based on Android Authority, it is attainable that the characteristic is not a part of an replace however is as a substitute a server-side change that can step by step be accessible to extra customers.

The introduction of the lyric sharing characteristic was first noticed by customers on Reddit. If it is accessible to you, you may discover it beneath the Lyrics tab whereas listening to a track. From there, choose the lyrics you wish to spotlight, faucet subsequent, select a background shade, after which faucet Share.

It is nice to see extra options coming to YouTube Music. Nevertheless, it is still missing several other features that Spotify and Apple Music provide, resembling correct social integrations to observe buddies and the next audio bitrate. In March, YouTube announced that YouTube Music and Premium have collectively reached over 125 million subscribers (together with trials) worldwide. However that is nonetheless behind Spotify, which has 263 million subscribers.

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