YouTube Music has certainly upped its game for audio quality since we last tuned in.
Even if you can’t remember the band or the song title, just plug in a few of the lyrics and the app will figure it out. YouTube Music’s search function is, as you might expect, also better than the rest. This is maybe not what music purists are looking for but it’s certainly a unique selling point. While our search for The Bends draws a blank for music, under the video tab there are early Radiohead demos of the album, individual tracks, some live versions, an 8-bit version and a ukulele version. This is perhaps one reason why YouTube Music doesn’t quote figures for its music catalogue. Subscribers can listen to pretty much anything they can think of. Ease of useĪ few random searches turn up Ginger Thompson’s 60s gem Boy Watcher, James Ray & The Performance’s 80s grinder Mexico Sundown Blues and the turn-of-the-century’s non-deeper deep house classic Deep Burnt by Pepe Bradock – all available on YouTube Music but on no other streaming service.Īnd there are plenty more where those came from, all waiting to be streamed at your convenience. This is where YouTube Music puts meaningful distance between it and other rival music streaming services. Slide the switch to ‘audio-only’ in the settings and you can enjoy the vids purely for their music without having to burn through the extra mobile data required to stream video. Thanks to the effort and enthusiasm of millions of YouTubers, there are a huge number of uploaded music files on YouTube Music that simply aren’t available on any other platform - and you don’t have to watch these streams either. We duplicate a number of our most successful Spotify, Tidal and Apple Music playlists with few problems – in fact, the only real anomaly is that Radiohead’s In Rainbows proves elusive, as does The Bends, which is odd given that both are available on Google Play Music.īut this is YouTube, of course, so just because we can’t get these albums as straight audio doesn’t mean we can’t access them. Our observations are that it’s fairly big, although not quite what you’ll get on rival services. In terms of catalogue, YouTube Music doesn’t give even a rough number of tracks, but instead refers to ‘millions of songs’.
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One feature we particularly like is that YouTube Music automatically downloads a mixtape of songs it thinks you will like for offline playback handy if you’ve not had the foresight to pull down anything yourself ahead of time.
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That could be internal or SD storage on an Android phone.
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The number of tracks you download for offline listening is only limited by the storage space on the device you’re using. ‘Library’ is where you’ll find lists of your own, self-curated music - albums, artists and tracks you’ve liked, playlists you’ve created or follow, and your downloads. There were plans to also add audio when we last looked at the service, but it hasn’t appeared in the intervening year so perhaps never will. ‘Hotlist’ is effectively a trending page but, disappointingly, it’s only populated with music videos. Our location-based suggestions never really seem to kick in. Again, though, we expected to get more out of this in our time with the product than we did. Whether you’re happy to share this information with Google is a different matter. If you’re at the gym or walking in the park, YouTube Music is happy to tailor its recommendations to suit your activity or the time of day.
It’s possible to improve and/or expand the scope of your ‘discoveries’ by enabling location- and activity-based recommendations in the settings. Spotify and Apple certainly have an edge here. You’d expect YouTube Music’s discovery feature to start making a few judicious recommendations in quite short order, but apparently not. That’s strange, given that the service is owned by such an authority on algorithms. It’s more a collection of tracks you already know and like, rather than anything fresh and exciting.
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YouTube Music’s sole discovery feature is based partly on the artists you liked or disliked during initial account setup and partly on what you’ve generally listened to.īut despite having put plenty of time into initially picking our favourite bands, plus a solid week of searching for music, listening to music and mashing the ‘like’ button, our ‘Your mixtape’ selection remains predictable and uninspired. You’ll find your recent listening history here, too, but right at the top is ‘Your Mixtape’, which promises ‘endless personalised music’. ‘Home’ is divided into tiers or ‘shelves’ of YouTube-curated genre playlists with names such as Instant Energy, Morning Sunshine and Beast Mode, along with charts and new releases.
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