Google lately introduced YouTube Music that enables music lovers across the globe to stream music services, view music recommendations, and also build a customized playlist. It is told that YouTube music uses some inspirations from YouTube to handle and organize music. In this article, I will show you the tricks to get the best out of YouTube music. This is what you need to know.
Getting started with YouTube music today
On getting started with YouTube Music you will need to select your favorite artists first. YouTube will use these to do the right music recommendations for you. This is the first step below your proceed to view a chronological organization of YouTube music application as listed below;
- Home
It has the Home section which is the main page of the app. This is where all music recommendations, recent listening history, and favorite artists are found. All these are organized in form of a list.
- Hotlist
The hotlist saves you from the boredom of listening to the same songs over and over again.
- Library
The Library section has a list of the artists you’ve subscribed to, albums you’ve added to your account, songs you’ve liked, and your playlists.
5 tips and tricks to get started with YouTube’s Music
- Subscribing in YouTube Music
In order to add an album or playlist to your account, you will need to subscribe to them. To do this, you will just have to tap on “+” next to whatever you want to subscribe to.
You may also subscribe to artists by simply clicking on the subscribe button for that specific artist. This artist shall be added to your library artist list.
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- Save data by ignoring Videos
You may choose to turn off the video player while listening to audio music. To do this, find the small slider on the top of the playback screen. Tap on the button to switch it to stream audio-only.
- Set your Alarm
YouTube Music also allows you to set alarms using your saved playlist. You may choose your favorite song to be your midnight of morning alarm as you may wish.
To do this, go to your Google play store and download the Google clock application
- Use the offline mixtape
You are able to listen to your saved music even when you are offline. To do this, go to the library section and click Downloads
From the top screen slider, increase the number of songs you want to download. The slider will also let you know about the length and amount of storage space you need on your phone to accomplish this.
Now you should press Turn On. When you get connected to any WI-FI, your downloads will start and you will be able to access these even when you are offline.
- Lyrics searches
With YouTube Music, you can search a song by lyrics. You don’t need to know the song’s title. Once you can remember a few words in the song, just head to the search icon and type the lyrics there and you will find the sing you are looking for.