YouTube Music on the web adapts Play Music's inline search results

YouTube Music is taking inspiration from Google Play Music once again. This time, it's making it easier to look for the songs you want to listen to. It now shows you three autocomplete matches below the search bar along with standard suggestions. It also nows the type of media as well as the album, artist, and subscriber count in some cases. Unlike with Play Music, though, there's no way to play right from the search result. And this new look doesn't seem to be widely rolled out yet, so you might have to settle with seeing full search results for now.

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YouTube Music's mobile app now has a song lyrics section

YouTube Music logoIt's a feature most music streaming services have, so it's good to know that YouTube Music is following suit. The mobile app of the service now adds song lyrics to individual song pages, letting you have that impromptu karaoke session of your dreams. But you're going to have to do your scrolling. The feature doesn't automatically scroll in time with the song. If you want to pull up the lyrics, you need to play a song first, then tap on the small "i" icon on the bottom left side of the screen. The words will show up similar to how they are presented in Google Search.

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Google Search can now direct you to YouTube Music when you look for albums

YouTube Music is slowly getting more and more features to entice more people to use the service. And now, when you look for albums on Google, one of the suggested options to listen to said music will include this streaming service. It won't play the tracks immediately, but you will be taken to its listing or the mobile app if you're on your phone. It joins the likes of Spotify, Deezer, and Play Music. However, this option doesn't seem to be available for specific tracks or artists yet. We're hoping YouTube Music fixes this oversight soon.

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YouTube Music introduces new dynamic homescreen backdrops

Google has been busy developing YouTube Music ahead of the phasing out of Play Music. One of the newest features is a cosmetic change. YouTube Music's web app gets a new set of backdrops that accompany the homescreen carousels. When you first load the web app, it'll show you groups of albums, charts, and playlists that you can choose from. In the background, there was the orange hexagonal backdrop. Now, the image changes to a different photo depending on what carousel is on top. For example, "Throwback jams" shows a record player as the backdrop. It's a design feature that helps give YouTube Music its distinctive look.

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