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Key Takeaways
- YouTube Music now presents cross-device queue syncing however with a one-way (cell to desktop) method.
- The characteristic seems to be a Premium unique. We will verify that it’s rolling out to customers within the US, UK, and Canada.
- The net app now remembers the music you had been on in a particular playlist or album on cell, however not the precise playback place of the monitor — leaving room for future upgrades
The YouTube Music app is Google’s staple music participant with key options like music obtain, background play, an choice to set a sleep timer, Private Radios, and much more.
Only recently, the app lastly gained the long-rumored Ask Music characteristic, permitting customers to simply create new playlists with AI doing the heavy lifting. The AI characteristic adopted the discharge of an Apple Music characteristic that allowed customers to natively export their playlists to YouTube Music. Now, in a bid to make the playlist/album-playing expertise a seamless one, the tech large is rolling out a characteristic that Spotify has had for some time now.
First highlighted by 9to5Google, YouTube Music is lastly gaining the flexibility to sync queues throughout units, basically permitting customers to select up the cell app’s spot in a playlist queue on desktop — proper the place it was left off.
It is value noting that the sync is at the moment one-way, which implies that YouTube Music in your desktop will know the place you left off in your cell, however not vice versa — so if you happen to skip ahead by just a few songs on desktop, the modifications won’t be mirrored while you subsequent relaunch the YouTube Music cell app.
Additionally value noting is that the net app will keep in mind the music you had been on in a particular playlist or album on cell, however not the precise playback place — basically resuming playback from the start of the music. It is a step in the precise path, no less than, and it’s seemingly that the characteristic might be upgraded sooner or later with playback place and desktop to cell queue syncing.
Test if the characteristic has rolled out to you
We’ve the characteristic stay on our Premium YouTube account, however not on the free one, suggesting that the cross-device sync characteristic is paywalled. We’ve been capable of verify that the characteristic is rolling out within the US, UK, and Canada. It’s seemingly that what we’re seeing now’s the worldwide rollout of the useful characteristic.
When you’re subscribed to YouTube Premium, you’ll be able to examine if the characteristic has rolled out to you.
- Clear the queues on each YouTube Music cell and net queues.
- Play an album or a playlist on the cell app and skip ahead by just a few songs.
- Navigate to music.youtube.com on the internet and examine if the mini-player populates on the proper spot within the queue.