Gadgetory

defend popper here with the verge and I'm about to go hands-on with the new version of YouTube music so this is what YouTube music is like when you're logged in as a red subscriber as you can see I've got some basic tabs here my homepage the trending tab which shows me things like what's hot on YouTube rising stars or spotlights on artists that it knows I like and then finally I've got this tab of things I've liked over here and those are videos that I was watching on YouTube music and decided to give a thumbs up to now what's interesting is that all of these videos that I like will actually be saved to an offline playlist called the offline mixtape so I'll jump over here and you can see all the videos that I like are automatically here and I've got some storage settings here so I can let it know you know how many songs do I want to have in that offline playlist how much of my memory don't want to take up do I want to do it only over Wi-Fi or also you know what kind of audio quality do I want I could get you know a number of different things there so you could actually save the videos to go offline audio only and just listen to them as if they were music so another thing that you'll notice here inside of this app which is kind of interesting is when you're inside of a music video so let's go back to our main screen here let's say we want to watch some mmm so I click on this and it loads without ads which is obviously really nice I can change the screen size here so I can get it kind of small with some information down below I can really stretch it out and obviously I can go into a horizontal orientation to get a much bigger video a nice thing that you can also do here is look at what's up next and so this is a mix made for me based on Eminem I've got some Dave Matthews Band and that's because right now it's set to a lot of variety on this station so YouTube music gives you this little slider here you can set it to recommend things that are way kind of out there sort of balanced or less variety in which case after mmm you're probably just going to get some more mmm if I go back into my playing now tab you can see that I can check out some related stuff and the way they do this is trying to think about what a music listener wants so I've got a bunch of Eminem videos right off the here I've got a meghan trainor video that i'm watching let's say I was in the car and I didn't want to watch the video anymore but I wanted to listen to the audio I can toggle this clip up here now it's playing audio only I toggle back we've got the video and obviously it just keeps playing the whole time there's no skipping or stopping there so here I've got other versions so I've got the official version I've got the audio only version and I've got cover versions so that's one of the things that they want to show you in YouTube music is not just the official stuff from the artists themselves but also you know related stuff from fans or the lyrics version here so there's all about that base the video there's all about the base that audio version there's a cover and there's all about the base you know a live performance of it so that's kind of what they're trying to give you in muted music there's one other cool feature here which is if I go into the search field here you'll notice search is done very much for music so I type in def leppard here I've got my def leppard I get the artists and the station I can also check out some of their top videos but obviously what makes YouTube interesting is they don't just have the artists recorded catalog they've got the live catalog so if you were to go to type in Def Leppard and Taylor Swift now you've got all these videos of them playing together which is kind of a unique experience that really only YouTube is going to be able to offer you and then down here I've got both Def Leppard the original song lyrics only I've got another version of them playing it live and I've got some more tracks with them and Taylor Swift together