What you want to know
- Users on Reddit spotted a redesign as YouTube Music is testing for its “Cast to gadget” menu.
- The take a look at sees the menu altering to a small window that springs up from the underside of the UI with “Suggested” and “Other units” listed.
- The adjustments additionally alter how customers work together with a casted gadget, solely delivering a quantity slider and no different media controls.
YouTube is starting to take a look at a redesign for the casting expertise customers discover on its music platform.
As spotted by a consumer on Reddit, YouTube Music is engaged on ditching the previous pop-up window for “Cast to gadget” in favor of a brand new sub-menu (by way of 9to5Google). The new “sheet” affords customers a number of “Suggested” units to start casting music. Following which are a number of extra choices beneath “Other units,” which seem to embody any linked good dwelling units with a speaker.
The unique poster had one other screenshot showcasing YouTube Music’s new “Playing on” display screen, which is sort of minimalistic. In testing, the one factor proven is the identify of the gadget you are casting to and a easy quantity slider.
The previous view’s play and pause buttons have seemingly disappeared from this redesigned “Playing on” pop-up.
Meanwhile, different customers chimed in, questioning the place the “disconnect” button has gone. YouTube Music does not supply it on the brand new at the moment taking part in display screen. Further digging reveals customers supposedly have to re-cast their music to their present gadget (their cellphone) to finish the solid.
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While a lot of the work seems prepared, it is unclear when Google will roll out these adjustments, as testing is probably going to proceed.
Casting on YouTube Music moved extra into the highlight final yr when the platform examined a change to its mini-player. The addition noticed the casting possibility positioned beside the play button and knocking out the “Skip” button.
The purpose for knocking out the latter was to encourage its use of contact gestures in your gadget as an alternative of cluttering issues with digital buttons.
YouTube Music’s different experimental ventures embody bringing generative AI to your tunes. Through its “Music AI Incubator,” the platform hopes to leverage Gen AI’s capabilities to assist customers overcome challenges posed by trademark, copyright, spam, and different issues. YouTube Music additionally began a take a look at the place U.S. customers might experiment with generative AI-created playlist covers.