YouTube experiments with a new format for the music artist box. Now it looks more like the Google Knowledge Graph card, it has more pictures, more songs, a list of related artists and a list of albums. Click an album and you’ll start a playlist with all the songs from the album. Click a song and you can listen to all the other songs from the artist’s playlist. Who needs Google Play Music All Access when you have YouTube?
Here’s the existing layout:
There’s also a new YouTube Mix interface that looks more like Google Music’s radio feature. It’s still a playlist, but it no longer shows numbers, there’s an “up next” section, a “next video” button and the end of the list has a fading effect which suggests that there are other songs, but they’re not yet displayed.
Here’s the existing YouTube Mix:
How to enable the experiment? If you use Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari or Internet Explorer 8+:
1. open youtube.com in a new tab
2. load your browser’s developer console:
* Chrome or Opera 15+ – press Ctrl+Shift+J for Windows/Linux/ChromeOS or Command-Option-J for Mac
* Firefox – press Ctrl+Shift+K for Windows/Linux or Command-Option-K for Mac
* Opera 12 – press Ctrl+Shift+I for Windows/Linux or Command-Option-I for Mac, then click “Console”
* Safari – check this article
* Internet Explorer – press F12 and select the “Console” tab.
3. paste the following code which changes a YouTube cookie:
document.cookie="VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=CvMBBZAh_fw; path=/; domain=.youtube.com";window.location.reload();
4. press Enter and close the console.
To go back to the regular interface, use the same instructions, but replace the code from step 3 with this one:
document.cookie="VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=; path=/; domain=.youtube.com";window.location.reload();
{ Thanks, Yu-Hsuan Lin. }
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