YouTube Music for Wear OS now lets you browse inside albums, playlists

A notable replace to YouTube Music for Wear OS lets you really browse the songs in a playlist or album.

Since launch, deciding on an album or playlist within the YouTube Music Wear OS app would take customers to a barebones web page with simply the title and two buttons: obtain and play. The latter began playback so as, and discovering a specific monitor required loads of skipping.

Now, that very same web page lists all songs, permitting you to pick out and play a specific one. To liven issues up, blurred album art work seems within the background.

When deciding on a tune from a playlist, your queue turns into that playlist, which is what occurs on telephones.

Old vs. new

However, if you choose a monitor from an album, it mainly begins a radio station, and the subsequent anticipated tune in mentioned album doesn’t play. This habits is considerably bizarre and sudden. If you need to play a complete album, choose the shuffle button, which changed play as a part of this replace.

Radio shouldn’t be the default habits. If YouTube Music is sticking with that, the shuffle possibility ought to be changed by ordered playback.

We’re seeing this browse functionality rolled out with model 6.15 of YouTube Music for Wear OS. Overall, this can be a welcome addition to the watch consumer that makes it considerably extra highly effective.

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• YouTube Music now lets you shortly ‘Play all’ songs in a carousel
• ‘Samples’ is a brand new strategy to uncover YouTube Music’s deep library, not Shorts
• Comments is perhaps coming to YouTube Music