With YouTube Music, you can now share your personal radio station with anyone
The top music streaming services – Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube Music to name a few – offer personalized radio stations with songs they think you’ll enjoy listening to based on your music listening habits. Now, YouTube Music is making it a whole lot easier to share your personalized mix with friends and followers by giving you the ability to share your playlist directly to your channel.
The feature is now being rolled out widely to users under the name ‘Radio You’ (via 9to5Google) and while it’s similar to previous features that let you share your favorite songs, artists, and playlists on your channel, the advantage of Radio You is that it’s “always updating,” according to Google – specifically Google says it is “updated daily”.
This means that you don’t have to feel embarrassed if you forgot to update your playlist for months, because Radio You is always ready to share something new with its listeners.
To share your radio or other personal music stats, go to the YouTube Music app or web page, navigate to your channel page, and tap the Edit button with the pencil icon next to it. Then, under Channel Settings, enable “Enable Public Stats” and/or “Enable Public Personal Radio” and click Enable in the pop-up menu if you want to share that information.
You can turn these settings off later if you’d rather not share your listening habits on YouTube Music. And if you feel awkward about sending people to your channel to listen to your radio, you can also access them via a direct link to the endless custom playlist.
Currently, these recommendations only apply to your YouTube music channel, but it would be interesting if YouTube added the ability to listen to your favorite content creator’s radio on their main channel if this feature is enabled.
The Radio You feature is currently rolling out, so if you don’t see it, it may be that the update hasn’t hit your account yet. But hold on, you should see the feature soon. Google has reportedly added a Radio You card to the Home feed, which will promote the tool to you when you have access to it.
If you’re still waiting for it to appear, there are other recently added tools you can try out on YouTube Music, such as the “hum to search” feature that helps you find songs if you can only remember the melody and not the title.