While Apple Music Replay isn’t as good as Spotify Wrapped, YouTube Music’s 2023 Recap provides a personalized and interactive experience. YouTube Music introduced three new features this year: custom album art, music mood, and the ability to customize Google Photos to shuffle with your favorite songs. And while Apple Music’s year-end review is only available on the web, you can now see your stats in the YouTube Music app for the first time.
To access your YouTube Music summary, select your profile avatar in the top-right corner, then tap Summary. YouTube Music shows you the top 5 artists, songs, moods, genres, albums, and playlists, as well as the longest continuous watch time and total minutes listened to in 2023.
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New to the Recap experience is custom album art. YouTube Music takes a collection of colors and visuals from popular songs to create album covers that capture the mood and aesthetic of the entire year. The music service also introduced mood matching, a new feature that connects popular songs with terms like laid-back, fun, upbeat, and excited.
Last year, YouTube Music released shareable cards that you can customize by adding your own images directly from Google Photos. Now you can shuffle and customize your photos, combine your favorite seasonal songs and fond memories, and create a visual that wraps up your entire year with a neat little ribbon.
With nine years of content and hilarious memes, it’s hard to match Spotify Wrapped, but YouTube Music has the right idea. Apple Music, on the other hand, lacks flavor with boring metrics and a bland color scheme.
Source: techcrunch.com
