YouTube music is gradually rolling personal radio, a new feature to stream and share your preferences. The service adds it to your profile and builds its with tracks from your listening history. Once it appears for you, you can share it with your friends or add to the library.
This is not the only new feature the service now offers. YouTube Music allows searching for a song by singing part of a song. It is pretty similar to the appropriate functionality in Google Assistant. With this addition, Android users have two options to identify the song that currently plays, YouTube Music and Google Assistant.
As for the personal radio, it may take some time before you will be access the new feature. You can check if you have it right now as follows.
Enable Personal Radio in YouTube Music
- Open YouTube Music.
- Click the profile icon and select Settings.
- Navigate to Privacy and location > Channel settings.
- Find and enable the ‘Enable public stats’ or ‘Enable public personal radio’ option.
- Click Enable to confirm changes.
Personal radio appears to be part of the profiles feature that Google has implemented for YouTube services. For users who made their profiles public, their listening history will be accessible by anyone. If you are not impressed by this idea, you will be happy to learn that by default your personal radio is private. This keeps your music taste hidden from other users, unless you share your personal radio with them. The share link looks as follows:
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=<radio playlist unique id>&playnext=1&si=<radio owner id>
💡To make the song list public, you have to enable it as described above.
The addition of YouTube Music is a welcome change. It will save you a lot of time when you need to share your music findings with your friends and family. Instead of digging in the playing history, you click in the personal radio and send the link.
What's your take on the personal radio addition? Will you use it?
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