YouTube Trials Song Search Format Feature Similar To Shazam Apple

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JAKARTA - YouTube brought Apple's Shazam format feature into a trial, where users can find songs only with their mouth on the phone's microphone.

Users can also record the song that is being played to find out who the owner of the music is. Not only recognizing human voices directly, this feature can also identify other sounds via speakers.

To make that feature successful, YouTube takes three seconds of audio or more to find the sought music.

"After the song is identified, you will be directed to relevant official music content," YouTube said on its support page, quoted Thursday, August 24.

Results will also display user-made videos, and Shorts videos searched for in the YouTube app. This experimental feature has been rolled out to a small number of users around the world, who watch YouTube on Android devices.

Apple has also come into this business for a long time with its own Shazam app, which was acquired in 2018. Now, the app has been downloaded by more than 500 million users.

Shazam is also easy to use, just open the app and close the phone to the voice source and then tap the blue button to start song analysis.

The same feature is also owned by Google Assistant, works in more than 20 languages and can be launched directly from within the Google app.

In addition, YouTube is experimenting with combining multiple uploads from one creator in a short time into a gallery in the Subscription feed.

That ability, YouTube says, is a way to make it easier for viewers to find the content they are looking for, reduce pressure on creators to upload several times a day, and viewers can easily engage with content on shelves or navigate to other content while scrolling through their passes.