YouTube Music rolls out Now Playing redesign with YT comments [U: Official]

After pulling a variant firstly of this 12 months, YouTube Music is rolling out the newest redesign of Now Playing on Android and iOS, including a comments part. This follows the launch of real-time lyrics final week.

Update 9/1: As of Friday, we’re seeing a reasonably extensive rollout of the Now Playing redesign. TeamYouTube made it official yesterday afternoon, and described it as “comments hav[ing] a new home on the @YouTubeMusic mobile app.”

now you can learn, create and interact with comments on songs, movies & podcast episodes

The in-app immediate asserting the addition says it should allow you to “Connect with other fans and share your thoughts.”

Original 8/30: Cover artwork is now barely bigger with extra steeply rounded corners and the next place on the web page, whereas tune and artist names are left-aligned. The final redesign dates again to 2020. Meanwhile, the play/pause button and Song/Video switcher at the moment are white as a substitute of being themed.

The huge change is a carousel with pill-shaped buttons for thumbs up/down, comments, Save (add to playlist), Share, Download, and Radio. Previously, 4 of these actions have been hidden by default and required that you just faucet the art work. A faucet nonetheless darkens the quilt artwork and allows you to go fullscreen (from the bottom-right nook).

This new design locations extra controls on the backside of Now Playing for improved attain, whereas all different choices stay within the overflow menu.

Comment entry is new, bringing the flexibility to learn and write them. The panel that slides up is borrowed from the primary YouTube consumer and provides an fascinating social aspect to YTM that was beforehand restricted to playlists.

As of this afternoon, this Now Playing redesign with comments is beginning to roll out extra extensively on YouTube Music for Android after first coming into testing in June. However, we’re not but seeing it on all gadgets. (Try force-stopping YouTube Music from the App data web page.)

It’s additionally showing on iOS at present, which nonetheless makes use of the outdated miniplayer and never the everlasting model. The final redesign took over a 12 months to reach on the iPhone.

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