What you want to know
- YouTube Music is rolling out with a new UI for the Now Playing screen.
- The UI adds a row of choices to simply work together with a tune, together with a section for feedback.
- Album artwork can be bigger and tune titles are actually aligned to the left.
YouTube Music has been going by way of fairly a variety of modifications currently, and the newest one makes the streaming service a little extra like YouTube, for higher or for worse.
9to5Google noticed the new Now Playing UI rolling out to YouTube Music, which now consists of bigger album artwork that takes up a bit extra of the screen. Underneath it’s a horizontal row of menu gadgets, which now homes the like and dislike buttons. You’ll additionally discover the possibility to save a tune to a playlist, share a tune, obtain a monitor, or activate the radio primarily based on the present tune taking part in, choices that had been beforehand (and nonetheless are) obtainable when tapping the album artwork.
However, the most fascinating change is that the new menu consists of feedback, which permit listeners to add a comment straight from YouTube Music or view different feedback left from the major YouTube service.
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Comments aren’t at all times obtainable to view, which seemingly has to do with whether or not or not they’re enabled on the YouTube video.
Still, the new YouTube Music UI mirrors that of the major YouTube app with a row of pill-shaped buttons, which adds a degree of uniformity between them. The three-dot menu in the high nook stays, the place you will discover extra choices like viewing tune credit, however this makes it simpler to entry some frequently-used capabilities. Song titles are additionally aligned to the left, whereas they had been beforehand centered, and the tune controls have been shifted down towards the backside of the UI.
This is not the first time the comment section has been noticed on YouTube Music, as the streaming service was noticed testing feedback again in June. According to 9to5, the new Now Playing UI is rolling out to YouTube Music on Android and iOS.
Other modifications just lately made to YouTube Music embrace the new Samples tab for locating new songs with a TikTok-like UI and the addition of reside lyrics.