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On Wednesday, YouTube said it was adding new experimental features for Premium users, including high-quality audio, a faster playback speed option on mobile and the ability to “skip ahead” on the web to jump to a more interesting part of a video.
The company regularly tests new features that users can enable youtube.com/new. The company said users can now enable an experimental feature that allows them to listen to music videos with higher audio bitrates of up to 256 kbps. Please note that YouTube Music already offers this quality for audio listening when you set the settings to High in the playback settings.
On a mobile phone, picture-in-picture can be useful if you want to quickly respond to a text or email, or check something else while playing a video. One of the new tests allows users to play YouTube Shorts in picture-in-picture mode on iOS.
In addition, YouTube now adds the option to enable smart downloads for Shorts on iOS — when you turn on smart downloads, YouTube automatically downloads videos you might be interested in if you have a good connection. This way you can watch them offline without internet connection. Both of these features was already available for Android users.
If you like watching videos at higher playback speeds, YouTube now lets you watch them at 4x speed on mobile. Until now, users could set 2x as the highest playback speed.
Last year, YouTube introduced “Skip ahead” function on mobile devicewhich allows users to skip to the best part of the video. YouTube’s algorithm determines the best parts through machine learning and user feedback. The company is now bringing this feature to the web for Premium users.
Google is also expanding two artificial intelligence features associated with YouTube. The company for YouTube Music is expanding its “Music Request” feature to Great Britain and Ireland. Users can request “fun workout tracks” or “relaxing jazz” and the app will generate a personalized radio station based on the request. Other competitors, including Spotify and Amazon Musichave also tried such features.
He started doing YouTube conversational AI feature for users to ask questions or get recommendations about videos in 2023. The company said that this feature will soon be available for iOS users as well.
