Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “YouTube Music exclusive first hands-on”.
Defend popper here with the verge and I’m about to go hands-on with the new version of YouTube music. So this is what YouTube music is like when you’re logged in as a red subscriber. As you can see, I’ve got some basic tabs here. My homepage, the trending tab, which shows me things like what’s hot, on YouTube, rising stars or spotlights on artists that it knows I like and then.
Finally, I’ve got this tab of things I’ve liked over here, and those are videos that I was watching on YouTube, music and decided to give a thumbs up to now. What’S interesting is that all of these videos that I like will actually be saved to an offline playlist called the offline mixtape, so I’ll jump over here and you can see all the videos that I like are automatically here and I’ve got some storage settings here. So I can let it know you know how many songs do I want to have in that offline playlist? How much of my memory don’t want to take up? Do I want to do it only over Wi-Fi or also, you know what kind of audio quality do? I want I could get you know a number of different things there, so you could actually save the videos to go offline audio only and just listen to them as if they were music.
So another thing that you’ll notice here inside of this app, which is kind of interesting, is when you’re inside of a music video. So let’s go back to our main screen here. Let’S say we want to watch some mmm, so I click on this and it loads. Without ads, which is obviously really nice, I can change the screen size here, so I can get it kind of small with some information down below.
I can really stretch it out and obviously I can go into a horizontal orientation to get a much bigger video. A nice thing that you can also do here is look at what’s up next, and so this is a mix made for me based on Eminem. I’Ve got some Dave, Matthews Band, and that’s because right now it’s set to a lot of variety on this station. So YouTube music gives you this little slider here you can set it to recommend things that are way kind of out there sort of balanced or less variety, in which case after mmm you’re, probably just going to get some more mmm.
If I go back into my playing now tab, you can see that I can check out some related stuff and the way they do. This is trying to think about what a music listener wants. So I’ve got a bunch of Eminem videos right off the here. I’Ve got a meghan trainor video that i’m watching. Let’S say I was in the car and I didn’t want to watch the video anymore, but I wanted to listen to the audio. I can toggle this clip up here.
Now, it’s playing audio only I toggle back. We’Ve got the video and obviously it just keeps playing the whole time, there’s no skipping or stopping there. So here I’ve got other versions, so I’ve got the official version. I’Ve got the audio only version and I’ve got cover versions.
So that’s one of the things that they want to show you in YouTube. Music is not just the official stuff from the artists themselves, but also you know related stuff from fans or the lyrics version here. So there’s all about that base. The video there’s all about the base that audio version there’s a cover and there’s all about the base.
You know a live performance of it, so that’s kind of what they’re trying to give you in muted music there’s one other cool feature here, which is, if I go into the search field here, you’ll notice search is done very much for music, so I type in Def leppard here I’ve got my def leppard. I get the artists and the station. I can also check out some of their top videos, but obviously what makes YouTube interesting? Is they don’t just have the artists recorded catalog they’ve got the live catalog. So if you were to go to type in Def, Leppard and Taylor, Swift now you’ve got all these videos of them playing together, which is kind of a unique experience that really only YouTube is going to be able to offer you and then down here. I’Ve got both Def Leppard, the original song lyrics.
Only I’ve got another version of them playing it live and I’ve got some more tracks with them and Taylor Swift together. .