YouTube Music is within the means of including a “Trim Silence” characteristic for podcasts, lastly catching up with the soon-to-be-dead Google Podcasts.
Trim silence cuts out lengthy pauses to make podcast episodes shorter and extra environment friendly for listeners.
YouTube Music can be engaged on different adjustments within the meantime, corresponding to enabling offline listening on the internet.
YouTube Music formally began supporting podcasts in its apps virtually a 12 months in the past. Though Google mentioned on the time that its standalone Podcasts app wasn’t going wherever, we now know that it did not pan out. Forward of the service’s anticipated closure in April, the YouTube Music workforce is busy giving the ultimate touches to the podcast expertise within the app. With this in thoughts, builders are engaged on including a characteristic that is fairly frequent among the many greatest podcast apps, together with the soon-to-be-dead Google Podcasts.
Whereas YouTube Music provides some distinctive benefits, there are nonetheless a number of key options that it is lacking
Due to code noticed inside YouTube Music (v6.43.52) by AssembleDebug, we all know that Google is engaged on including the Trim Silence performance to the app. Designed particularly for podcasts, the string reads – “Skip stretches of silence throughout episodes.” AssembleDebug notes that the characteristic is not seen even with the aforementioned model of YouTube Music put in, suggesting that it might arrive sooner or later as a part of a server-side push.
Trim silence works precisely because it sounds, reducing out lengthy pauses or silences from the podcasts. This has the advantage of trimming down the playtime of every episode and letting you run by way of podcasts rapidly. Third-party apps like PocketCasts have a number of trim silence choices for extra customization. Will probably be fascinating to see what YouTube Music’s model of trim silence will appear like and if there can be a toggle within the media participant to allow/disable this performance, much like Google Podcasts.
Apparently, Google Podcasts has supported the power to chop intervals of silence throughout podcast episodes since 2018. So it is arduous to grasp why it has taken this lengthy for YouTube Music to undertake this performance. However it’s higher late than by no means, because the saying goes.
Another adjustments are within the offing for YouTube Music
In a bid to make sure a seamless expertise for YouTube Music customers on the internet and cell apps, the platform just lately began supporting offline viewing on the internet. The one caveat is that the consumer must be related to the web a minimum of as soon as each 30 days for the downloaded content material to stay.
Whereas Google hasn’t formally introduced this offline viewing performance for the online, offline downloads can be restricted to YouTube Music Premium subscribers. Nonetheless, podcast downloads do not require a subscription, as talked about on the Google help web page.
