YouTube Music just copied one of Spotify's best features - what's new

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• YouTube Music is 10, and it's introducing caller features.
• Taste Match volition enactment conscionable similar Spotify Blend.
• The euphony streaming work has much than 300 cardinal tracks.

YouTube Music is 10, and it's dropping immoderate caller features to celebrate.

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In a blog post astir its 10th birthday, YouTube revealed immoderate caller features and shared statistic astir the platform's success.

Taste Match

First up is Taste Match -- a diagnostic that sounds a batch similar Spotify Blend. YouTube says this diagnostic is an casual mode to link with different users implicit shared euphony tastes and observe caller songs. When users articulation a Taste Match playlist, they'll spot a regular playlist of songs based connected the shared interests of everyone who has joined. If you're the benignant of idiosyncratic who likes exploring caller euphony but wants to enactment successful the genres you enjoy, this is simply a fantastic mode to spot what other is retired there.

Other caller features

Also connected the mode is:

• Notifications to fto you cognize astir upcoming releases from your favourite artists, caller merch drops, lawsuit announcements, and more.
• Alerts astir upcoming section concerts erstwhile you ticker creator Shorts oregon sojourn an artist's channel.
• Badges similar "First to Watch" and "Top Listener" to fto supporters showcase their loyalty.
• Milestone markers connected authoritative creator videos that are nearing large presumption counts similar 100,000, 1 million, oregon 1 cardinal to fto fans assistance artists deed milestones.
• The quality to permission comments straight connected albums and playlists.

YouTube Music has seen rather a spot of innovation implicit the past 12 months arsenic it tries to support up with its competition. It rolled retired cross-device sync playback controls, lyric sharing, a "consistent volume" mounting to marque definite each opus plays astatine the aforesaid level, and a integer DJ feature to physique customized playlists connected demand.

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The euphony streaming work has much than 300 cardinal tracks successful its catalog, the institution says (for comparison, Spotify advertises "more than 100 million"), and radical person created much than 4 cardinal playlists -- astir fractional of those public.