YouTube Music is preparing to add a “Trim Silence” option in a new update to enhance its podcast offering as Google Podcasts is retired.
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YouTube Music wasn't originally designed as a podcasting app, but Google has rapidly built out features over the past year or so, adding much-needed features like adding podcasts via RSS and automatically downloading new episodes. I've been doing it. But still, as our guy Abner Li recently revealed, Google Podcasts is still missing a lot of podcast features despite its age.
With the latest version of YouTube Music v6.43.52, Google has established the basis for support for the “Trim Silence” feature.
This feature, available in Google Podcasts and many other podcast apps, finds silence in a podcast and automatically skips it, slightly reducing run time. I found the following string in the latest update:
trim the silence
Skip silent parts during episodes
Unfortunately, this feature is currently missing from YouTube Music. Perhaps it's a server-side component or waiting for a future app update. Either way, it's good that this is underway.
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