YouTube Music is lastly gaining a significant characteristic Spotify has had for years

After I switched from Spotify to YouTube Music, one characteristic I instantly missed was the power to seek for a music inside my playlist. When you have got a playlist with just a few hundred songs and simply need to shortly discover one, it makes life a lot simpler. This characteristic has been requested for a very long time on YouTube Music, and it looks as if Google is lastly addressing it.

Not too long ago, a Reddit user reported seeing a brand new “Discover in Playlist” possibility seem within the YouTube Music app on iOS. The Redditor, who says they stay in India, states that the characteristic is offered for them in model 8.45.3 of the app (by way of Android Authority). You possibly can see what it seems to be like under.

This is the way it works: if you open your playlist on YouTube Music, you’ll be able to faucet the three dots to the appropriate of the play button to open the playlist settings menu. From there, you’ll be able to choose the “Discover in Playlist” choice to seek for a particular music. So, in case your playlist on YouTube Music incorporates lots of of songs, you’ll be able to shortly discover any music in it by trying to find its title and play it, with out leaving your playlist. Nonetheless, there’s a enormous caveat in the intervening time.

Playlist search is not broadly out there on YouTube Music but

Spotify and Apple Music have already got their very own variations of playlist search

Whereas it is nice to see a search possibility lastly carried out into YouTube Music, sadly, this seems to be a restricted take a look at that the Redditor encountered, and the characteristic is not out there broadly but.

On Reddit, tons of customers reported not seeing the characteristic but, and specifically, no Android customers had seen it seem, solely iOS customers. So it appears it is a regional A/B take a look at Google is simply working on iOS for now.

Nonetheless, though it isn’t out there to everybody but, it appears YouTube Music listeners are simply lastly completely happy to see it being labored on in any case these years, with one Redditor saying, “We received playlist search on YTM earlier than GTA VI,” and one other saying, “I switched simply in time to see these enhancements. Bravo YouTube!”

Nonetheless, there may be already some criticism of the characteristic, as a few Redditors rightfully point out that it’s hidden in a three-dot menu fairly than being simply accessible immediately in your playlist by way of a search bar, with out having to open any menus, as Spotify does with its “Discover on this web page” playlist search characteristic.

YouTube Music’s Playlist search characteristic continues to be being examined, so it is fully doable Google will change it earlier than rolling it out to a wider viewers and extra areas on iOS and Android. As for when that might occur, that is up within the air. It might be just a few weeks or a few months. However given how lengthy this characteristic has been requested on YouTube Music, hopefully it is sooner fairly than later.

I lately switched from Spotify to YouTube Music, primarily as a result of I already pay for YouTube Premium, which incorporates YouTube Music. Whereas YouTube Music works comparatively nicely, I am unable to assist however miss Spotify typically, and not less than this characteristic will assist make YouTube Music extra comparable to make use of, every time it launches.