YouTube Music has a couple of new ways to discover songs on the platform that started rolling out this week. The new features include AI-generated radio and a Shazam-esque tool, as detailed by YouTube in a blog post.
The radio feature utilizes AI to create custom radio stations from text prompts. As an example, you could ask for "summertime jams" or "catchy pop choruses." Currently, the feature is rolling out to select Premium users in the US.
YouTube usually tests new features on Premium users, but it's not clear when the AI radio feature will release to the rest of us.
YouTube Music's version of Shazam enables you to search for music by sound. Unlike the radio feature, the Shazam-esque tool is officially rolling out to iOS and Android users. We tried testing it but it hasn't reached our account yet.
The tool lets you find the name of a song by singing or letting the app listen to a song that is playing. Interestingly, you can also hum a song into the app. This would have been helpful when I tried to remember the name of Joel Corry's "Head & Heart" song for my son. All I had was this: Bum bum bum da bum bum, bum bum bum da bum.
Don't ask how long it took before I actually found the song.
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