YouTube Music, with its unique fusion of audio and video, holds a distinct position in the streaming landscape. But to fully blend with user desires and outperform its peers, it could adopt a couple of already proven features. 

Here are 5 of the features that have been taken from the other platforms. They are instead enhancing the YouTube Music experience for users, both in and outside of the United States.

1. AI DJ’s Choice

The playlists on YouTube Music are excellently curated radio stations. An AI-powered playlist generator such as that on Spotify would take the service’s music discovery to an all new level. 

Then YouTube Music creates a related Playlist for you right away. This is through ingesting all the existing Audio and Video content of the platform. 

Much of this would open up another form of discovery of sorts, away from radio format box constraints, for these new favorites.

2. The Collaborative Sound Stage

However, the ability to create a collaborative playlist on YouTube Music is something that feels rudimentary. 

Less than an optimized collaborative playlist system like the platform could take inspiration from. Imagine friends all around the world simultaneously contributing songs.

This could be the capacity to embed music videos that are relevant right into these collaboration sound stages.

3. The Seamless Sonic Transition

Transition between songs can make a huge difference to the listening experience for audiophiles as for casual listeners. As of now, YouTube Music does not have granular crossfade control. 

Spotify’s feature lets users adjust the crossfade allowing them to determine how much overlapping between songs makes sense as a feature for Android Auto as well. It provides an even more continuous (or less continuous.

4. The Universal Sonic Bridge

In today’s globally bound world, being able to share and share music seamlessly anywhere is becoming very important. 

Universal sharing links from Deezer could be something YouTube Music could take note of. They allow users to generate links that can simply be opened.

With this, the forum silos would break and let you share music easily from the channel with everyone if they want.

5. The Podcast Powerhouse

YouTube Music’s dedicated podcast integration is more like an afterthought than an addition. YouTube Music can leverage what it knows in turn about how to do podcasts.

This could be adding a little more robust playback controls podcast recommendations tailored to you, and unorthodox podcast content only available on the app, plus separating music with podcast that lives in the app. 

Rather, leveraging YouTube’s audio podcast first move could make it into a true all in one audio destination.

The Wrap Up

Finally, by carefully combining and adjusting the successful features of its competitors, YouTube Music has put itself in a good position. It aims to enhance its position as a leader in the music streaming platform. 

This enables it to bring a completely unique, extremely rich and user friendly experience in streaming audio. Also, videos that play well locally and around the world both at the same time.

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