The 2023 Recap feature on YouTube Music provides a more customized and engaging experience than the Apple Music Replay feature, which falls short of the standards set by Spotify Wrapped. This year, YouTube Music added three new features: the option to customize and shuffle Google Photos with favorite tracks and the opportunity to create unique album art and music moods. This is the first time you can check your statistics within the YouTube Music app, in contrast to the fact that the year-end evaluation for Apple Music is only accessible via the website.
You may access the Recap feature of YouTube Music by selecting your profile avatar in the top-right corner of the screen and then tapping on “Your Recap.” Not only does YouTube Music display your top five artists, songs, moods, genres, albums, and playlists, but it also displays your longest listening streak and the total number of minutes you listened to in the year 2023.
Custom album art is a new feature added to the Recap experience. This feature allows YouTube Music to build an album cover that reflects your feel and style for the year using colors and graphics from your favorite songs. Another recent addition to the music service is mood matching. This tool allows you to correlate your favorite songs with descriptions such as laid-back, happy-go-lucky, and excited.
Over the previous year, YouTube Music introduced shareable cards that allowed users to personalize their experience by putting their photographs directly into Google Photos. Now, it allows you to mix and edit the photographs, allowing you to combine your favorite music from each season with sentimental recollections to create a visual that brings the entire year together in a tidy little knot.
YouTube Music has the right concept, even though it is difficult to compete with Spotify Wrapped, which has nine years of material and great memes. On the other hand, Apple Music is flavorless due to its monotonous metrics and subdued color palettes.
