YouTube Music has started rolling out a new feature to help users discover music other than curated playlists based on their listening history.
YouTube Music Gets a ‘Discover Mix’ Playlist
As 9to5 Google, the new feature, called ‘Discover Mix’, seeks to compete against Spotify’s ‘Discover Weekly’ and Apple Music’s ‘New Music Daily’ feature.
Inspired by Spotify and Apple Music’s features, Google’s YouTube Music has started a new feature. The new feature was spotted by 9to5Google called “Discover Mix”. The Spotify user would probably think it sounds familiar to “New Music Friday”, the Scandinavian streaming company’s playlist that suggests new music every seven days.
YouTube Music’s Discover Mix does something similar. The playlist is 49-tracks long which is updated every Wednesday. It seems that only a handful of users has the new playlist, and for those who do have it, it’s located in a new section entirely.
Reddit user u/skipp_bayless said, “It showed up on a new shelf labelled ‘Mixed for You’ which also included the ‘New Release Mix’ and the ‘Liked Songs’ playlists. The description says it updates every Wednesday. The song selection also was a range of genres I have been recently listening to as well as some styles I haven’t listened to in a while. It was nice rediscovering certain things I haven’t thought about in a while.”
Although it’s not yet clear when the playlist will roll out to all YouTube Music users.
