5 YouTube Music tricks to get more out of this service
Table of contents:
- Start an artist's radio
- How to change the order of tracks in a playlist
- Pause search and playback history
- Filter search results
- How to find my automix and how to set it up
Very recently, the new music streaming service designed to deal with Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Deezer and Amazon Music arrived in our country. YouTube Music comes with the guarantee of having an exceptional catalogue, which includes not only music files of songs but also the audio of concert videos, unpublished remixes, curiosities and rarities... And it is something that Spotify lacks, for example. If there is a service that can really hurt Spotify, it is YouTube Music.
In addition, you have no excuse to try it because YouTube Music gives you a free month of service with which you can enjoy millions of songs. Whether you are already trying it or not, this special is going to help you. We are going to tell you about the 5 YouTube Music tricks you should know to get more out of the service. Let's start!
Start an artist's radio
We begin our tour of YouTube Music tricks by teaching you how to start an artist's radio. Imagine that you are listening to one of the lists that the streaming service makes for you. Suddenly, a song you love comes on, and you'd like to keep listening to songs by the same artist. And not just by the same artist but similar in style. For this we have to start the artist radio. We do it as follows.
While the song from which we want to start the radio is playing, we are going to click on the three-point menu that we have next to the name of the artist and song. A pop-up menu will open with different options, including 'Start radio' As soon as we press, it will start playing the same song again and then the radio will start, offering you similar artists. Be careful with this option, as it will spend data from our rate. Stations cannot be downloaded.
How to change the order of tracks in a playlist
If we want to listen to a playlist on YouTube but we don't like too much the order in which it was put together, we will be able to alter it to our liking , in a very fast and simple way. Although to get to the editing mode you have to do some research.We teach you how to do it.
First, find a playlist you like and start playing it. At that time, the song that is currently playing will be put on full screen. Pull the screen up and you will have accessed the editing screen. Now all you have to do is drag the tracks around each other, by touching the two horizontal lines and thus reposition them to your liking.
Pause search and playback history
Everything we play and search on YouTube Music will be synced with our YouTube account. And if one day you feel like experimenting and diving into a genre that doesn't interest you too much, soon your account will be invaded by recommendations of, perhaps, songs that you don't like too much either. Either You also don't want people to know what you're listening to on YouTube Music because you have to keep a public face, even if you listen to the Spice Girls in private later.Even if you let your young child use the app to search for songs they like. Do you want to see Cantajuegos as recommended?
To pause the playback and search history we are going to do the following. On the main screen we look at our profile photo, in a small circle located in the upper right corner. Click on it and then go to 'Settings'. Within 'Settings' we then go to the 'Privacy and location' section. Here we look at two sections, 'Pause search history' and 'Pause playback history' Make sure you have both activated so nothing is left behind registered.
Filter search results
Suppose you know the title of a song but you don't remember exactly which disc it was on YouTube Music makes it easy. You only have to place the name of the song in the search bar and, later, some search balloons will appear with which you can tune it to the maximum. Let's put the trick into practice with an example. We have the song 'Across the Universe' by The Beatles, and we want to find out what albums it's on. We assume that it will appear on a few of the band's compilations as well as on the album on which it appeared as a single. And this is the one we want to hear but we don't know its name. We will proceed as follows.
Write 'Across the Universe' in the search engine and hit the magnifying glass. Right at the bottom of the search term, different balloons will appear with categories with which to filter the search.We are going to click on 'Albums' so that it offers us the result of all the discs in which this song appears. In the first place appears, of course, the album by The Beatles in which the song is included, which is none other than 'Let it Be'.
How to find my automix and how to set it up
Did you know that YouTube is able to create you a personalized list based on your likes and your playback history? And then we can download it to listen offline. And we can also tell you how many songs we want it to be composed of. To do this we just have to go back to the 'Settings' and then to 'Downloads'. Then, we go to the gear icon that we see at the top of the screen.
Here we can say that we download the mix and the number of songs that we want it to contain, we just have to activate the switch and slide the point, respectively.
With these 5 YouTube Music tricks you will begin to take full advantage of the new streaming service that will face Spotify. Do you dare to try it?
