YouTube Music Launches Feature to Discover Music Through Short Clips

YouTube Music has unveiled a fresh section named “Samples,” enabling users to discover unfamiliar music or stumble upon something they may enjoy. This tab will showcase personalized music videos, allowing users to delve into their newfound musical preferences. This feature bears resemblance to TikTok’s offerings, but YouTube has incorporated short videos alongside the music. Let’s explore the offerings of this new tab.

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The Samples tab is located between the Home and Explore tabs. The tab offers a short music video for users to explore in the same way we scroll through Instagram reels. However, don’t think of the video as YouTube shorts. 9to5Google reports that YouTube Music’s short videos are vertically cropped music videos and additional content uploaded directly by artists.

The Verge says that the new tab will have all the personalized content about music that users may be interested in or their most listened to genre. If users like something, they can play the full version of the song or watch the music video. In addition, they can also add the song to their playlist.

The Samples tab gives YouTube a huge advantage because the app makes everything available in one place. It doesn’t limit you to switch to different apps to explore songs, watch music videos, listen to podcasts, etc. You can find everything in one place. However, it still faces tough competition from TikTok and Spotify. While the new feature shares similarities with TikTok, it’s still unique in that it offers the best parts of each song so you can listen to the entire song.

We’ve seen something similar with Spotify as well, but soon after launch they discontinued the “Recents” feature due to certain criticisms.

For the YouTube Music team, Samples is a tool that lets you explore and identify something intriguing before you use it to create a new playlist. The Samples tab is available on YouTube Music for both Android and iOS users worldwide.