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 flexibility to seek for a track inside my playlist. When you’ve gotten a playlist with just a few hundred songs and simply wish 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.

Lately, 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 (through Android Authority). You possibly can see what it appears like under.

Here is the way it works: if you open your playlist on YouTube Music, you possibly can faucet the three dots to the proper of the play button to open the playlist settings menu. From there, you possibly can choose the “Discover in Playlist” choice to seek for a selected track. So, in case your playlist on YouTube Music comprises tons of of songs, you possibly can shortly discover any track in it by trying to find its identify and play it, with out leaving your playlist. Nevertheless, there’s a large caveat for the time being.

Playlist search is not extensively 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 applied into YouTube Music, sadly, this seems to be a restricted check that the Redditor encountered, and the characteristic is not out there extensively 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 this can be a regional A/B check Google is just working on iOS for now.

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

Nevertheless, there’s already some criticism of the characteristic, as a few Redditors rightfully point out that it’s hidden in a three-dot menu relatively than being simply accessible straight in your playlist through 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 remains to be being examined, so it is totally potential 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 could possibly 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 relatively 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 can not assist however miss Spotify typically, and at the very least this characteristic will assist make YouTube Music extra comparable to make use of, each time it launches.