YouTube testing Shazam-like music recognition feature

YouTube is working on making your viewing experience a bliss. Unlike traditional text or voice search methods, you might get an upgrade to search for songs and videos simply by humming or recording a song much like Shazam.

YouTube is experimenting with the Shazam-like feature to search for songs and videos by humming, singing, or recording. Available for a small subset of users on YouTube for Android, the experimental feature is touted to scour the depths of YouTube to find your song in a few seconds.

There’s no rocket science an add-on or an app to install. Simply launch your YouTube app, hit the search button, and hum, sing, or record a song in the background. The feature requires playback for three or more seconds to catch the tune and identify and showcase the results consisting of videos, lyrical videos, reels, and all sorts of user-generated content made using the sampled song.

Of course, this isn’t a new feature at all. Shazam had been showing its chops for years followed by Apple Music and Google Search among others. YouTube app will get the functionality too making it a standalone app to identify music and showcase results without needing a separate app to search with at the beginning.

YouTube already has more than 2.7 billion users worldwide and almost everyone is looking for something or another. That tune you kind of know but can’t recall or that song playing at a party, YouTube can identify it all. However, you should know that this is an experimental feature available to a subset of Android users. There’s no confirmation if YouTube has plans to roll out the feature among the public and even if it wants to, the dates remain under wrap. Additionally, it remains to be seen if this music recognition feature transcends to YouTube Music or not.

YouTube keeps on updating its features with every iteration. It is testing a ‘Skip Ads’ button redesign making it smaller, with rounded edges and transparent. This could make the button less visible meaning you will have to spend more time watching the ad or simply searching for the ‘Skip Ads’ button. Amazing, isn’t it?