2 new YouTube Music options that can stage up your listening

Lately,

YouTube Music
has emerged as a fierce competitor to

Spotify
and

Apple Music
. In the event you’re prepared to switch your playlists, it might simply grow to be your go-to

music streaming platform
, particularly when you already subscribe to

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

Google has 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 completely different songs, genres, and content material varieties. You have doubtless skilled wild quantity fluctuations when you’ve listened to 2 completely different music genres again to again or switched from a music 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 have 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 presently solely accessible to some customers

Moreover, a brand new lyric sharing characteristic has begun rolling out on YouTube Music, permitting customers to share music lyrics from the app. The characteristic is presently solely accessible to a choose group of customers and has not been broadly rolled out but. Based on Android Authority, it is potential that the characteristic is not a part of an replace however is as a substitute a server-side change that can regularly 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 underneath the Lyrics tab whereas listening to a music. From there, choose the lyrics you need to spotlight, faucet subsequent, select a background coloration, 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, corresponding to correct social integrations to observe pals and a better 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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