YouTube Music has been silently up to date with a brand new characteristic that permits customers to view lyrics when offline. Customers who’ve downloaded tracks with lyrics on YouTube Music will now be capable to see them when their telephone would not have an web connection. The Alphabet owned music streaming platform added the performance forward of rivals Spotify and Apple Music, which at present don’t show lyrics when a tool is offline. The service beforehand added assist for voting on songs in collaborative playlists.
YouTube Music Now Reveals Lyrics Routinely for Downloaded Songs
A Reddit consumer recently discovered that lyrics for downloaded tracks have been accessible on YouTube Music for Android (via Android Authority). There is not any point out of the characteristic within the launch notes for current variations of the app through the Play Retailer, and the characteristic seems to have been silently enabled by the corporate.
Devices 360 was unable to substantiate that the characteristic was engaged on YouTube Music for Android, even after putting in the newest model of the app. When it’s accessible, customers will be capable to faucet the Lyrics tab to view lyrics for a tune whereas offline. In the meantime, consumer reviews recommend that the characteristic is at present unsupported on YouTube Music for iOS.
It is price noting that whereas rivals Spotify and Apple Music additionally let customers view lyrics whereas listening to songs, each of those platforms have but so as to add assist for offline lyrics. The characteristic can come in useful whereas listening to music when you do not have an web connection. These embrace lengthy haul flights, or passing via an space that has poor community protection whereas taking the metro.
Final month, YouTube introduced that it was adding support for “voting” in playlists. This characteristic is offered in collaborative playlists, which permit customers to create playlists collectively, and it provides new upvote and downvote buttons to every tune in a playlist.
As soon as this characteristic is enabled on a consumer’s account, they’ll vote on tracks in a collaborative playlist, and it’ll transfer the observe to the highest or the underside of the listing. The flexibility to vote on these playlists is at present accessible on YouTube Music and the principle YouTube app, based on the corporate.