Following the February announcement and March testing, podcasts are actually formally rolling out to YouTube Music customers within the US.
Podcasts in YouTube Music might be obtainable on-demand, offline, and within the background for all listeners, no matter whether or not you could have a YouTube Premium subscription. It contains “casting and seamlessly swap[ing] between audio-video variations on YouTube Music.” In reality, Google explicitly notes how paying clients “could expertise host-read endorsements or sponsorship messages when listening to podcasts.”
It’s at the moment rolling out to “all our listeners in america regularly.” Google says this “new podcast listening expertise enhances the podcast video expertise on YouTube.” In the meantime:
For these of you exterior america, relaxation assured that we plan to convey podcasts in YouTube Music to different areas sooner or later.
Within the YouTube Music House tab, you’ll see a brand new Podcasts chip subsequent to the opposite temper filters that masses a devoted feed. Personalised carousels embrace Maintain listening, Advocate episodes, and Your exhibits. The remainder of this web page is for podcast discovery with sections like Political Commentary, Historical past, True Crime, Gaming, and many others.
In the meantime, Discover is residence to a Standard episodes carousel, whereas “Podcasts” joins New releases, Charts, and Moods & genres.
In Library, Podcasts joins the high-level filter for Playlists, Songs, Albums, and Artists. Right here you’ll discover two Auto playlists for “New Episodes” from exhibits you’ve subscribed to and “Episodes for Later,” in addition to any podcasts you’ve added to your library. There are additionally sub-filters for “Channels” you’ve subscribed to and “Downloads,” which has a “Downloaded Episodes” auto-playlist.
Present pages are related in nature to albums and playlists with present artwork and an episode listing that features two traces of description, in addition to publish date and playback standing (period, remaining time with a crimson bar, or “Performed”). You’ll be able to faucet to see the total description with the power to “Save episode for later” utilizing the bookmark button and obtain for offline playback.
The Now Taking part in display replaces subsequent/earlier with 10-second rewind/30-second ahead, whilst you have playback velocity on the left and a sleep timer on the proper. Present “Particulars”/notes are discovered as an alternative of Lyrics on the backside, whereas the Up Subsequent queue is unchanged. In the meantime, the mini-player swaps out the following button for 30-sec, whereas the Android 13 media participant provides playback velocity controls that you could toggle by means of.
In search, you get filters for “Episodes” and “Podcasts” with equal sections within the outcomes listing. That is rolling out to Android, iOS, and the online now.
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