YouTube Music users can seamlessly switch between audio and video with handy new feature : YouTube might be the world’s most popular video hosting service (by far), but its eponymous music streaming app doesn’t exactly look like a fierce rival for market leaders Spotify and Apple Music… yet.
An expansion of that number is probably to be expected further down the line, as YouTube essentially hosts all of the world’s music, but five million sounds like an impressive start considering many of those videos feature introductions and various pauses from the actual music, which had to be eliminated for them to align with the pure audio tracks.
Needless to say this sounds like a very handy way for many users to go back and forth between video and audio in different listening scenarios, but if you find the feature annoying rather than convenient, you can easily turn off the video option in your settings menu on both Android and iOS.
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