7/4/2023 0 Comments Yt music year in reviewOne 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. That could be internal or SD storage on an Android phone. 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. 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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