If you have a song stuck in your head and just can’t remember the words, or the artist, YouTube is testing a new feature for you.
In a blog post, the platform announced this week it will be testing a new app feature on Android phones that allows users to search for a song by humming or recording it for more than three seconds.
With YouTube’s built-in voice search feature, you can hum the song stuck in your head — or record it, if you have it playing around you. It needs an input of at least three seconds to correctly identify the song and show you relevant official videos, and other content featuring that song. You must be on the YouTube app for Android to use the feature as it isn’t supported on the web.
More YouTube features
Besides audio searches, YouTube is also testing a way to clean up your subscription feed a little, which often gets cluttered with creators uploading several videos a day. The experimental channel shelf will bundle such videos released by a single creator in a day to make them easier for you to locate altogether.
As noted previously, both these features are currently under limited testing and are available only to a small percentage of users. There is a good chance that you aren’t a part of that tiny test group and won’t see the features until they are released more widely.
By BNN