YouTube Music has both advantages and disadvantages compared to the competition, and the latter includes an interface that, although it has been greatly improved over time, still lacks important practical elements, and worse, common to all music applications that respect Fortunately, a design hit comes that discrepancies will end.

To be sure, I repeat: we’re talking about the YouTube Music web app, the default on PC, because there is no -official, understood- more, go ahead. The mobile application of the service received much more attention – something extra is normal for this type of service – and today it is already quite fixed, nothing else can be said, because it would not be true, although for tastes, colors, they usually say yes.

What’s wrong with YouTube Music on the web? His most glaring flaw is the obligation to navigate between pages, one at a time to get to certain pages. For example: you enter YouTube Music and to access your playlists, if you haven’t listened to the one you want in the last few days, you will have to navigate a bit and it will more or less depend on what you are looking for.

In general, open YouTube Music and enter your library, organized on the first level in two tabs: library and recording; on the second level there are already playlists, songs, albums and artists that you have added that are not the same if you choose one or the other of the top tabs (library and recording), even if you are one of those who do not upload their own music to the service , you will have an easier time.

The point is that if you were looking for an album of yours the last time you entered the library (that is, you entered “upload>albums”), the next time you return there, you will continue directly, then you will have to return to the section to access the next filter . This behavior, which can sometimes be helpful, sometimes leads to annoyance and you will most likely end up using a search engine for everything.

Check out the following image published by 9to5Google as a preview of the YouTube Music redesign that will alleviate the described situation (and compare it to the one above, where the new interface is collapsed, more like what it looks like now):

As you can see, it will integrate sidebar on YouTube Music which, in addition to the three main sections (home, explore and library), will house all playlists, including the ability to set additional content such as upcoming podcasts and a button above them to help you create more more quickly.

As explained in 9to5Google, the panel will be collapsed by default so you click to open it, but once opened it will allow «browse 50 recent playlists with music and new podcast episodes at the top«. It wasn’t that hard to get right, or rather it was because it’s something that’s been missing since YouTube Music launched almost seven years ago.

It is not known when this news will arrive, but it will happen after YouTube receives its own retouching. Anyway, the change is here and while they continue to test and improve it, we just have to wait.