Published on: 2025-04-19 06:52:07
Google's history with music services is almost as convoluted and frustrating as its history with messaging. However, things have gotten calmer (and slower) ever since Google ceded music to the YouTube division. The YouTube Music app has its share of annoyances, to be sure, but it's getting a long-overdue feature that users have been requesting for ages: consistent volume. Listening to a single album from beginning to end is increasingly unusual in this age of unlimited access to music. As your
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-19 11:52:07
Google's history with music services is almost as convoluted and frustrating as its history with messaging. However, things have gotten calmer (and slower) ever since Google ceded music to the YouTube division. The YouTube Music app has its share of annoyances, to be sure, but it's getting a long-overdue feature that users have been requesting for ages: consistent volume. Listening to a single album from beginning to end is increasingly unusual in this age of unlimited access to music. As your
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-19 19:20:11
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube Music is getting a new “Consistent volume” normalization option. The main YouTube app has had its own “stable volume” tool for a couple years now. The setting has started showing up on both Android and iOS, but only a few people have it so far. Considering the sheer amount of content they offer, streaming from either YouTube or YouTube Music can be a bit like taking a drink from a fire hose. But even when you’re ready to dive into all that me
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-21 04:54:23
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube Music has rolled out a double-tap gesture that lets users “like” songs by tapping the album cover center. This quality-of-life improvement adds liked songs directly to the user’s playlist, mimicking the gesture from other social platforms. The feature is available starting with YouTube Music version 8.14.53A, after initial references were found in an earlier update. YouTube Music is bundled with a YouTube Premium subscription, which works wel
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-24 03:53:32
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube is testing a new desktop layout with much larger video thumbnails. Users report seeing as few as two videos per row, though it depends on screen and zoom settings. Frustrated users are turning to browser extensions to restore the old layout. If your YouTube homepage suddenly looks like it was built for toddlers or TVs, you’re not imagining things. Many users are seeing dramatically enlarged video thumbnails on desktop, with fewer videos per r
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 19:16:16
is a news writer fond of the electric vehicle lifestyle and things that plug in via USB-C. He spent over 15 years in IT support before joining The Verge. YouTube is giving creators a new AI tool that can generate instrumental tracks to use in videos for free without worrying about copyright claims, TechCrunch reports. The new feature was demonstrated in a video posted on the company’s Creator Insider channel this week. In the video, the host, Lauren, shows a new tab in the Creator Music beta s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-01 07:24:08
YouTube is looking into potentially offering a feature that would allow users to set a daily timer to limit how long they spend on Shorts. Recent findings from the beta version of the YouTube app, first reported by Android Authority, suggest that the platform is developing a feature to help users stop the endless scrolling through Shorts. YouTube confirmed to TechCrunch that, while this feature is not currently being publicly tested, it is “exploring this for the future,” a company spokesperso
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 11:39:05
Joe Hindy / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube could soon let users set a daily timer for watching Shorts. We’ve found code in the latest YouTube app beta suggesting users will be able to set a timer for minutes or hours depending on their consumption preference. YouTube won’t block Shorts watching entirely. Individual Shorts that appear elsewhere on the platform will still be viewable. Short-form videos and doomscrolling go hand-in-hand. If you regularly spend time on social media or video pla
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 23:13:02
In a recent appearance on Possible, a podcast co-hosted by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said Google plans to eventually combine its Gemini AI models with its Veo video-generating models to improve the former’s understanding of the physical world. “We’ve always built Gemini, our foundation model, to be multimodal from the beginning,” Hassabis said, “and the reason we did that [is because] we have a vision for this idea of a universal digital assistant, an
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-03 19:29:41
YouTube is launching a new feature that will allow creators to use AI technology to generate custom instrumental backing music that can be added to their videos. In an update published to its Creator Insider channel this week, the company shared that it’s beginning to roll out an update to its Creator Music marketplace that will allow creators to generate new tunes using AI prompts. YouTube says the feature is being “gradually” rolled out to creators who have access to Creator Music, the platfo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-04 18:07:17
Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR The latest builds of One UI 7 have added Live Notifications for media apps that display an ongoing notification for playback control. This extends to apps like Spotify, YouTube, and YouTube Music when playing content locally or casting and to apps like Netflix when casting. The One UI 7 hype is real, as Samsung finally gets around to updating its devices to Android 15, months after the platform update was released and others got on board. As people get the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-05 23:09:57
is a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. He joined The Verge in 2021 after several years covering news at Engadget. Senators Chris Coons (D-DE) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) are again introducing their Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe, or NO FAKES, Act, which standardizes rules around using making AI copies of a person’s faces, names, and voices. This time, the bill — previously introduced in 2023 and 2024 — has the backing of a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-06 03:45:00
YouTube on Wednesday announced an expansion of its pilot program designed to identify and manage AI-generated content that features the “likeness,” including the face, of creators, artists, and other famous or influential figures. The company is also publicly declaring its support for the legislation known as the NO FAKES ACT, which aims to tackle the problem of AI-generated replicas that simulate someone’s image or voice to mislead others and create harmful content. The company says it collabo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-11 11:10:10
The internet isn’t rotting your brain. Algorithm-driven doomscrolling is rotting your brain. To be online in 2025 is to be miserable. A lot of that is the current state of the world, to be fair, but some of it is also the way we all engage with stuff online. We’ve all sat down to browse Instagram and looked up to realize two hours have passed that we barely remember. And it seems as if the feed on every social media site is filled with AI slop, advertisements, and weird garbage we don’t want to
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-11 14:00:49
Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Many moons ago, Google rolled out YouTube Premium family plans and hooked me. My husband and I looked at that subscription’s pricing, briefly weighed the pros and cons of paying for a “free” service, and quickly decided that it was a million times worth it just for the ad-free experience. Over the years, with Google worsening its ad-riddled experience on the free YouTube tier, I’ve thanked my lucky stars for my Premium subscription. But while Google keeps add
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-11 10:00:45
Joe Maring / Android Authority I love YouTube TV. Out of all the streaming subscriptions I pay for, it’s the one I use the most. Between watching live sports, throwing on HGTV for background noise while I do chores around the house, or putting Nat Geo Wild on for my dog while I’m out getting groceries, I use it multiple times per day every single day. That said, I absolutely hate how expensive it is. When YouTube TV launched in 2017, the $35/month price seemed too good to be true. And as it tu
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-13 03:00:27
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Original YouTube Music Key beta testers paying $7.99/month are finally being bumped to $12.99/month for YouTube Premium. This ends nearly a decade-long period of grandfathered pricing left unchanged since 2014. Emails received by long-time customers from Google confirm the change will take effect on their next billing cycle. YouTube Premium has seen several price hikes since its announcement, but the service kept honoring older rates that it initiall
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 07:09:35
Joe Hindy / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube Shorts is getting a revamped video editor with precise clip timing, music, and text tools. New features like beat-synced editing, gallery stickers, and AI-generated stickers aim to make Shorts more fun and personalized. YouTube did not share a specific release date, only saying the tools will roll out this spring. As the future of TikTok in the US remains uncertain, other platforms continue to seize the opportunity to win over creators. YouTube is
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 19:29:32
YouTube is updating the video editor for Shorts to better compete with the likes of TikTok and Instagram Reels, and teasing some AI-powered features that are coming later this year that might make it stand out. The new and improve editor will let users "make precise adjustments and edits to the timing of each clip with zooming and snapping," along with the usual option to rearrange and delete your footage. YouTube says you'll also be able to add music and timed text, and preview your video at a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-15 03:00:01
YouTube on Thursday announced new video creation tools for Shorts, its short-form video feed that competes against TikTok. The features come at a time when TikTok, which is owned by Chinese company ByteDance, is at risk of an effective ban in the U.S. if it's not sold to an American owner by April 5. Among the new tools is an updated video editor that allows creators to make precise adjustments and edits, a feature that automatically syncs video cuts to the beat of a song and AI stickers. The
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-15 03:00:00
YouTube is adding new features to Shorts that aim to make it easier for creators to edit short-form videos. There are five new tools “coming this spring” according to YouTube’s announcement, including a revamped video editor that provides similar editing features to those already found on competing platforms like TikTok and Reels. The new video editor allows adjustments like cutting and rearranging clips, zooming into footage, and overlaying text and music to be made from an editing timeline vi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-15 03:00:00
As YouTube Shorts continues to compete with TikTok, the platform is announcing new upcoming features to help creators publish engaging short-form videos. Creators will get access to an improved video editor, the ability to generate AI stickers, a feature that syncs content to the beat of a song, enhanced templates, and more. The launch of the new tools comes just days before the April 5 TikTok ban deadline. Given the timing of the announcement, YouTube is likely looking to court creators to it
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-20 06:19:26
Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR Users are reporting that videos start automatically playing as soon as they open the YouTube app. The videos autoplay even if you have autoplay disabled in the settings. A YouTube support representative reportedly says this is an experimental feature. Update: April 1, 2025 (9:19 AM ET): A Google spokesperson has confirmed to Android Authority that the issue mentioned below is indeed an ongoing experiment meant to help with content discovery. Original a
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Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR Users are reporting that videos start automatically playing as soon as they open the YouTube app. The videos autoplay even if you have autoplay disabled in the settings. A YouTube support representative reportedly says this is an experimental feature. When you open the YouTube app, you don’t normally expect to be greeted by a running video. However, a growing number of YouTube users claim this has started happening to them. While many thought this may
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-22 03:04:34
Regular YouTube users have likely noticed an abundance of AI-generated fake movie trailers this past year or so. This annoying AI slop is all over the platform. As it turns out, major movie studios have actually been making money from the videos, according to reporting by Deadline . The scheme worked sort of like a mob shakedown. Hollywood studios would not enforce copyright on these videos. Instead, they struck a deal with YouTube to ensure they got the ad revenue instead of the people that ty
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-23 04:19:00
In brief: Following an investigation into the huge number of fake movie trailers seen on YouTube – most of which use AI to some degree – and how the money they generate is funneled back to the movie studios, YouTube has paused monetization for two of the biggest channels that create them. You've likely seen at least one fake trailer, aka fan trailer, on YouTube. There are ones for sequels or new franchise entries that aren't being made (Henry Cavil and Margot Robbie in James Bond), some that pl
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-23 04:21:30
Some Hollywood studios are reportedly earning money from fake AI-generated movie trailers on YouTube, against the wishes of the union representing actors. According to a report from Deadline, Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount, and Sony Pictures redirected ad revenue to themselves instead of enforcing copyright protections and shutting down the popular Screen Culture and KH Studio trailer accounts. In response, the SAG-AFTRA union has criticized the studios for profiting off videos that use AI to
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-22 23:50:28
A few days ago, it was reported major Hollywood studios were monetizing fake movie trailers that use generative AI. Seeing this, YouTube’s now decided to cut that off and paused a pair of channels best known for those trailers. Per Deadline, which initially reported on this, YouTube’s turned off the ad revenue for Screen Culture and KH Films. The former is the most famous of the two, and founder Nikhil Chaudhari was quoted throughout Deadline’s report. Some of its most famous videos have been “
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-22 18:00:05
Don't have time to sit through an entire Instagram Reel but still want to see the whole thing unfold? Good news -- you can now watch Reels at twice the speed. Instagram, which is owned by Meta, called it "a highly requested feature from our community." "We hope being able to fast forward helps give you more control over your Reels experience," a representative for Instagram said in a statement Thursday. The feature has been available on other social media and video services, including Netflix
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-23 11:28:02
YouTube is testing turning off notifications from channels viewers don't engage with in attempt to tame the number of notifications they receive. The video platform says the test will specifically impact viewers who've chosen to receive "All" notifications from a channel. During the experiment, notifications will still appear in the notification inbox, but "viewers who haven’t recently engaged with a channel despite having been sent recent push notifications will not receive push notifications,
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