YouTube Music may lastly be catching as much as Spotify with this new function

I’ve tried switching over to YouTube Music a number of occasions up to now, and whereas it is a good music streaming platform, there’s at all times been one factor that sends me crawling again to Spotify: the dearth of cross-device music synchronization.

That is the flexibility to begin listening to a music or playlist in your desktop, then seamlessly swap over to your cellphone — whether or not it is an iPhone or Android — and choose up precisely the place you left off. It is a function YouTube Music has sorely lacked for years, whilst its largest rivals, Spotify and Apple Music, have provided it for ages.

Nonetheless, because of a brand new replace, that lastly appears set to vary.

YouTube Music has just lately begun rolling out an replace that provides cross-device synchronization (through 9to5Google), permitting you to begin listening to YouTube Music in your desktop after which proceed proper the place you left off in your cellphone (or vice versa), with out dropping your home in your playlist or the music you are listening to.

Higher late than by no means

It is nice to see, however YouTube Music ought to have added this ages in the past

YouTube Music has reportedly began rolling out this variation by way of a server-side replace, so if you happen to do not see it but, you must hopefully have entry quickly.

As for the way YouTube Music’s implementation works, it is fairly easy. Once you begin listening to music on one gadget — whether or not that is your cellphone, pill, or PC — after which swap to a different, the final music you performed will mechanically seem, and in your music queue, as an alternative of exhibiting the artist’s data, you will see a message that claims “Out of your browser” or “Out of your iPhone,” relying on which gadget you are coming from.

So if you happen to use YouTube Music as your foremost music streaming platform, this could make listening throughout all of your units a lot simpler.

As I discussed earlier, Spotify has had this function for years, and it is one of many options I depend on most. I recurrently swap from listening to music at my desktop to my cellphone once I’m heading out for a run or hopping within the automotive with Apple CarPlay — and having my music keep completely in sync from my PC to my cellphone has at all times been extremely useful.

Now that YouTube Music lastly has this functionality, it may make individuals on the fence about making an attempt the platform way more inclined to offer it a shot, and, after all, make present customers fairly blissful.

One benefit YouTube Music already has is that it is bundled with YouTube Premium. So if you happen to’re already paying for Premium to flee the ad-infestation that YouTube has turn out to be, then you have already got full entry to ad-free YouTube Music and its in depth library of songs and playlists.

General, whereas I am blissful this function is lastly right here, I am nonetheless a bit of shocked it took YouTube Music this lengthy to implement such a primary function that each Spotify and Apple Music have had virtually since their inception. However I suppose it is higher late than by no means.