Sandwiched between a confusing communication about the PiP and malfunctions on the standard version, YouTube still allowed itself a session of news, related to its YouTube Music iteration.
More or less in the same hours in which Spotify accused some problems, even YouTube had quite a few malfunctions§: on the other hand, the well-known multimedia platform of Google also kept several news for YouTube Music, also at the center of a certain confusion about the Picture-in-Picture.
Around the late evening of April 12, several users complained at the product-reviews.net portal – problems on YouTube used via smart TV or web browser, including frequent disconnections, the inability to connect to their account and, if already logged in, other kinds of malfunctions: in particular, when trying to open your profile an infinite loading started, the sidebar did not appear and, after a few minutes of watching a video, an error appeared.
While waiting for the official Twitter account of YouTube to provide insights into the incident, Mountain View has made official a load of news for YouTube Music, in recent days also at the center of a curious question-and-answer with users, at the end of which it appeared more or less clear that the Picture-in-Picture has been removed (as a test) from the standard app, and that it is being rolled out yes, but only for YouTube TV (the alternative of Big G to cable TV).
On the subject of news, YouTube Music has improved the algorithms that govern the compilation of “Mix” playlists and Radio compiled based on a song being played, so that they guarantee a greater diversity of artists, revealing that this has been appreciated by users, who have discovered more songs from the playlists, and have affixed more appreciation. From now on, by touching one of the songs that appear in the search, only the playback of that given song will start and no longer the creation of a Radio playlist, although it is still possible – operating from the queue relating to the next songs – to activate playback automatic.
Those who listen to “family-friendly music” will find, at the top of their feed in Home, a shelf containing first a personalized Family Mix (with new and favorite songs) and then other suitable playlists: always in favor of the family target they will be experimented in future other novelties, such as better integration with smart TVs or game consoles.
Right on consoles and smart TVs it will improve the user experience of YouTube Music, with the “Listen again” shelf that will show more results, having been purged of duplicates: in iteration for WearOS (therefore on smartwatches) it is no longer necessary to navigate between the random reproduction, but only of the playlists, and the ordered one, of the downloaded music which – now, however – can also be reproduced in a causal way.