YouTube Music is lastly gaining a serious function Spotify has had for years

Once I switched from Spotify to YouTube Music, one function I instantly missed was the power to seek for a music inside my playlist. When you have got a playlist with a number of hundred songs and simply need to rapidly discover one, it makes life a lot simpler. This function has been requested for a very long time on YouTube Music, and it looks like 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 reside in India, states that the function is out there for them in model 8.45.3 of the app (by way of Android Authority). You’ll be able to see what it seems to be like beneath.

Here is the way it works: while you open your playlist on YouTube Music, you possibly can faucet the three dots to the suitable 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 music. So, in case your playlist on YouTube Music comprises a whole bunch of songs, you possibly can rapidly discover any music in it by trying to find its title and play it, with out leaving your playlist. Nevertheless, there’s a large caveat for the time being.

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 applied into YouTube Music, sadly, this seems to be a restricted check that the Redditor encountered, and the function is not out there broadly but.

On Reddit, tons of customers reported not seeing the function but, and particularly, no Android customers had seen it seem, solely iOS customers. So it appears it is a regional A/B check Google is barely operating on iOS for now.

Nonetheless, despite the fact that it is not out there to everybody but, it appears YouTube Music listeners are simply lastly completely satisfied to see it being labored on in any case these years, with one Redditor saying, “We obtained 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 function, as a few Redditors rightfully point out that it’s hidden in a three-dot menu relatively 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 function.

YouTube Music’s Playlist search function continues to be being examined, so it is solely 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 could possibly be a number of weeks or a few months. However given how lengthy this function 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 am unable to assist however miss Spotify typically, and not less than this function will assist make YouTube Music extra comparable to make use of, every time it launches.