YouTube Music is lastly gaining a significant 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 track inside my playlist. When you might have a playlist with a number of hundred songs and simply need to shortly 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.

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 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 may see what it appears like beneath.

This is the way it works: if you open your playlist on YouTube Music, you may faucet the three dots to the fitting of the play button to open the playlist settings menu. From there, you may choose the “Discover in Playlist” choice to seek for a particular track. So, in case your playlist on YouTube Music comprises a whole bunch of songs, you may shortly discover any track in it by trying to find its identify and play it, with out leaving your playlist. Nonetheless, there’s a enormous caveat for the time being.

Playlist search is not broadly accessible 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 accessible 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 this can be a regional A/B check Google is simply operating on iOS for now.

Nonetheless, regardless that it is not accessible to everybody but, it appears YouTube Music listeners are simply lastly blissful to see it being labored on in spite of everything these years, with one Redditor saying, “We received playlist search on YTM earlier than GTA VI,” and one other saying, “I switched simply in time to see these enhancements. Bravo YouTube!”

Nonetheless, there’s already some criticism of the function, as a few Redditors rightfully point out that it’s hidden in a three-dot menu fairly than being simply accessible instantly 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 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 would 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 fairly than later.

I just 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 effectively, I am unable to assist however miss Spotify typically, and at the least this function will assist make YouTube Music extra comparable to make use of, every time it launches.