YouTube Music's hum & sing search feature revolutionizing song discovery

An innovative tool that lets users search for music by humming or singing is being released by YouTube Music. The Android and iOS platforms now offer live lyrics feature, which improves the quality of music listening. Zee Music has also extended its collaboration with Meta and YouTube, guaranteeing that a variety of musical genres will always be available.

According to a report, the Song search feature from YouTube's Android app is now making its way to YouTube Music. The feature has also been spotted by several Reddit users, including one who confirmed seeing it on iOS. This means the feature is being rolled out to both Android and iOS apps in parallel. However, since many users have not received the feature so far, it is believed that a wider roll out has either not started, or it is being rolled out in batches and will take a few days before everyone has access to it.

The way the feature works is simple. Android users on the YouTube app can simply go to the search bar of the app and click the microphone icon to open a new screen that shows Voice and Song tabs. The voice tab allows users to run verbal searches, whereas the song tab allows them to hum a song, play it on another device, or sing it to let an AI match it with the original song.

On YouTube Music, it reportedly works the same way. But as a plus, instead of going through the voice search and then finding the Song icon that looks like a waveform, users will find a dedicated icon next to the voice button. For reference, the functionality is also offered by Google Assistant and Google Search. Pixel phone users also have an option to identify a song using the Now playing feature. Long time Android users would remember that Google Play Music used to offer a similar feature in its hayday.