After well over a year in development, YouTube music adds a "trim silence" option just like Google Podcasts used to have.

To use the new feature, simply start any podcast in YouTube Music and tap on the button labelled 1x, which appears on the ...

YouTube Music is adding a trim silence feature for the first time, which was originally present in Google Podcasts.

Google Podcasts added a handy silence trimming feature back in 2018. As its name suggests, it essentially detected and ...

Google has brought podcast support to YouTube Music. The feature is only available to US consumers right now. Questions linger over the future of the Google Podcasts app as a result.

YouTube also clarified that music rights in podcasts will be the same as in videos. Breaking: @YouTube will be distributing podcasts through @youtubemusic in the near future.

Though YouTube is a hotbed for video podcasts, the Google-owned platform hasn’t cracked straight-up audio shows just yet. YouTube podcasting head Kai Chuk announced Thursday that podcasts will ...

This basically just means that folks who watch podcasts on the main app can continue listening to them on YouTube Music — revolutionizing the gym-going experience for probably dozens of people.

YouTube Music will allow free ad-supported background listening to podcasts and offer “enhanced library tools,” Chuk said. There’ll also be a podcast badge to designate audio-first shows.

The thing YouTube Music always had working against its podcast ambitions is that it’s trying to jam an entirely different audio medium into an existing (shorter-form) service.

YouTube Music sucks for podcasts. I get that Google is trying to make YouTube its one-stop-shop for all our audiovisual needs, but the way it handles podcasts is not ideal for me right now.