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It seems that YouTube Music is always coming out with some new features. Well, that’s true, as the company pushed out new features on a bi-monthly basis. However, that has just changed. According to the company, YouTube Music has moved to quarterly feature recaps.
Over the years, YouTube Music adopted a bi-monthly feature recap schedule. Every two months, we would get a recap of the new features added to YouTube Music. However, the company announced that this will be put on a quarterly basis. So, we will see these recaps every three months. This means fewer recaps for the year. However, it does not mean that YouTube music is slowing down with its new features.
YouTube Music is on a quarterly feature recap schedule
Along with this announcement, YouTube gave us the recap for the past couple of months. For starters, while you are playing music, you will see a little moving equalizer animation playing. These will be the little lines expanding and contracting when a song is playing. Well, the little equalizer animation will move to the beat of your music. So, it will look like an actual equalizer.
Another notable feature that hit YouTube Music not too long ago was the new Samples shelf. If you are unfamiliar with what Samples are, these are the TikTok-style portrait slices of music videos. Much like TikToks, Shorts, and Reels, you can flip through a vertically scrolling feed of these videos. They are a way of exposing you to more content based on your listening habits. You’ll be able to discover music videos of songs from artists you listen to often.
Well, the company put a horizontally scrolling shelf of Samples on the home screen. This gives them a spot where they are easily discoverable in the app.
Aside from these features, YouTube Music has also been revamping the Now Playing screen. It has been moving the buttons around and revamping the overall look and feel. So, the screen now should look much different than it did months ago.
While YouTube Music has moved to a quarterly update recap schedule, there will still be no shortage of new features coming to the platform.