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Jan 5, 2023

📢 Vote for Feature Requests & Top Issues

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Happy New Year!
 
At YouTube Music, we’re always looking at ways to differentiate our products from other platforms and improve our listener's experience. Our teams prioritize feature requests based on feedback we see from our userbase, either through the official feedback tool or here, directly from the community!

In an attempt to be more transparent on what top feature requests are, I want to collect all community feature requests for YouTube Music oin this post.

Here’s how it’ll work:
  • Every now and then, I’ll update this thread with top feature requests I’m seeing from you (and mark them as a recommended answer for better visibility!)
  • If you see a feature request that you like (and want us to prioritize), you should upvote it
  •  I'll take these requests to Product teams on your behalf, based on ones that have the most upvotes - so please upvote vs post a duplicate!
  • As much as possible, I’ll try to update you when we’re working on one of your feature requests (or if I have other updates from Product teams!)
 
Psst. If you don’t see your feature request in the list, you can share your idea by directly replying to the post. If I see lots of similar replies, I’ll be sure to add them to the feature request list up top!  
 
Finally, if you’d like to be notified about future updates (or read through past ones), make sure you check out our bi-monthly YouTube Music feature updates. Here’s our most recent update from December!
 
– Hazel (TeamYouTube)
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Jan 5, 2023
Background play for ad-supported listeners
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Update
Jan 5, 2023
Improvements to Lyrics
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Update
Jan 5, 2023
Sleep Timer
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Update
Jan 5, 2023
More relevant music recommendations
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Jan 5, 2023
More relevant music recommendations
Dec 31, 2024
Hi Youtube,

I've just published a project study for a new music recommender system that I'd like to share with you.
This music recommendation design came from a simple observation: No platform offers real interaction with its users to personalize the suggested playlists. Either the selection relies on an "intelligent" random mix, an initial track, or at most, a button to indicate that we don’t like the suggested content. Each time, no dynamic suggestions are made.

The concept is based on a 3x3 grid. The most practical way to understand it is to watch this 11-second video: https://gitlab.com/Louis-max/musicalgrid/-/blob/main/preview.mp4

With every click, the grid shifts, revealing new sectors that are necessarily discovered and can adapt to our most recent interaction. To put it simply: You can now navigate a 2D musical space!

Do you see what that implied ?

- At any moment, you can choose the direction of your listening experience.
- Playlists are now paths, branches, with ramifications, and cycles.
- As we move, could we possibly cross paths with other people? Imagine encountering a friend during your listening session or a complete stranger from your city sharing your musical tastes. People can now form radio groups, vote via the grid for the next track and hope for your song to be shared amongst others, or just let yourself be carried by the flow.

If you want to create the future of social music networks or integrate this idea to your streaming service, please contact me.
You can find a full report on the gitlab https://gitlab.com/Louis-max/musicalgrid

Best regards,
Louis-Max Harter

Mar 6, 2025
Please just add crossfade feature w
Mar 24, 2025
1. i wish we could change playlist cover and use our local files rather than ai drawing because they suck

2.also please align library into 3 columns not 2 when it is in thumbnail mode because 2 seems way large
Apr 2, 2025
Yes! I want to upload my own album cover. And I want to rename my music. And I want to customize the color of the widget 
Mar 24, 2025
Sort albums by artist. This is really missing :(
4 days ago
Sort playlist by artist alphabetically! How is this not a feature?!!
Mar 26, 2025
Here is a Top issue, since the "requested features" side of the post has been covered enough, and Top Issues part has been ignored:

  • The app has a LOT of people complaining in reviews in many languages that the app is crashing frequently after 1-3 songs play, and it has been over a month for me
AND
  • The offline mode has become a lie, it barely works the times it does(see issue above and searching for downloads on the searchbar taking forever often when out of connection) but when it doesnt it just goes to infinite loading screens on the frontend. And when you connect to some wifi/mobile data it goes back to working, and MAY work for a while if you disconnect again. 
Last edited Mar 26, 2025
Mar 26, 2025
I have looked and found a lot of comments by android users have mentioned the same issue, before it didnt happen on iOS, but I've checked and I've seen someone comment on Reddit recently of it happening on iPhone. Which means they transferred whatever faulty code the team has made happen on android also on iPhone, apparently...

 I wish you'd bring attention to this to the developers, cause I pay yt premium mostly for the yt music feature, this is becoming unbearable, cause at first it was only the latter issue, and now not only it happens when connected, but I haven't been able to use offline properly for months, which I pay for. I've seen someone mention it has to do with a big amount of downloads, others that it has to do with bluetooth output, but I don't get why now its almost unusable even when online, and how it doesnt happen on other apps like YouTube. I'd hate to not have my favorite songs only available on yt, other apps lack that...

This has been going on for months to me, but mostly not being able to load anything in offline mode, and now the crashes in both modes...

Sorry for being repetitive, but this is how it feels, always the same problem and having to do a workaround or having no way to make the crashes stop at all...

This app's devs seem like they were fired or are ignoring all users with these basic functionality issues, cause this is nonsense.
Last edited Mar 26, 2025
Mar 26, 2025
Not to mention it constantly says it's downloading in the background. A few songs are labeled as "can't download". Crashes whether or not I'm connected to Internet through WiFi and will crash after two songs while playing "downloaded" songs. I'm so tired of this. I'm considering switching to Spotify if this keeps up. I will lose my ad free but it might be worth it to not have to deal with the issues on this app. Fix this stuff or you're gonna lose customers. 
Mar 26, 2025
YouTube Music App crashing.

Hi so I have a Samsung A9+ Galaxy tab. It is the Wi-Fi only version. I use it to watch TV shows and listen to music in my work truck. (I want to make it clear I am not doing this while driving, I'm doing this while parked and sitting in the truck for a while). My YouTube music app does not want to work on this device. With it being a Wi-Fi only model I can understand if it lost connection for even a second that it might not stream music. However I have downloaded most of the music that I enjoy listening to and even then after two or three songs the YouTube app will crash. I have StarLink and a constant connection to the internet, because the device doesn't leave the Wi-Fi area. Why is it that the YouTube app, or the YouTube music app; refuses to work on downloads or on Wi-F?. I can listen to maybe two or three songs in a row before it starts to crash out. My internet speeds are not an issue. It is the only app that this happens with. It's a freaking Android interface. Why is it acting like it is not optimized for an Android interface? I have tried deleting and reinstalling the app. I have tried deleting and redownloading all of my downloads (which the download on YouTube music almost never seems to work for either of my devices. It's always seeming to constantly trying to be downloading something in the background), I have tried clearing the cache. Is anybody else have this experience with YouTube music and a Samsung Galaxy tab?
Mar 30, 2025
Please bring "Genres" back. It was great with Google Play Music. Even though some music was placed in the wrong genre, it made it much easier to find what I wanted to listen to. Also, the shuffle play feature does not play all music in a playlist. It selects about 25 songs out of large playlists. Kind of defeats the purpose.
Apr 2, 2025
Add a customize color option for the widget.
I want to upload my own album to my music and I want to be able to change the title 
Apr 6, 2025
Indication if song is already in playlist or not, and option to unadd it from other playlist while adding it to the new one !!!!
Apr 13, 2025
Also add jam feature like Spotify 
Apr 15, 2025
Hi YouTube,
I'm presenting an idea to help some song lovers and private like me 
Seperating YouTube music and YouTube for playlist problems:

Suppose I have playlists of songs synced with both YouTube music and YouTube.Now I can't find an option to separate YouTube from YouTube music playlists and my playlists keep showing up on YouTube which is why it creates problems like making me confused such as if my playlists are public or private and sometimes my private playlists become public accidentally which is kinda problematic.

So if you add a feature which can separate these two apps like keeping my songs playlists synced with YouTube music but not on YouTube,I would be very thankful to you.

Best regards,
Raiyana Akram 
Last edited Apr 15, 2025
Apr 21, 2025
Fix the crashing of the app as reported by many users
Apr 22, 2025
Having my regular YouTube playlists show up in my library is pretty annoying, because have no intention of looking at them on this app. But some people probably like this feature, so suggest adding a new manual per-playlist option of where you want to see a playlist. These options would be music, video, or both (different names might work better, but you get the idea). The option for playlists to show in both would be the default, and would be the same as playlists are currently, so you could roll out this feature without disrupting anything.
Last edited Apr 22, 2025
Apr 22, 2025
Folders to organize my library
Apr 22, 2025
Light Mode on Android
6 days ago
Split the "download video (vs audio only)" option by Songs and Podcasts. I don't want to clutter my phone with thousands of music videos, but if I choose to download a podcast episode, I'd like the video with it.
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