Back in November, YouTube Music introduced an improved version of Now Playing that mostly hides the “dislike” button. This rolled back earlier this year, and YouTube Music is currently testing his carousel-focused redesign of Now Playing.

There are no changes to the song/video switcher, cast button or overflow menu. The album artwork appears taller and slightly larger, with more rounded corners. “Playing from” is not returned, but that information is already available in the Up next queue.

Song titles and artist names are now left-aligned, similar to the abandoned renewal.

A bigger change is the carousel of actions like thumb up/down, save, share, download, radio. This addresses how you can only like songs in your last look. The action you get is the same as what you saw before when you tapped the album art, presumably replacing the old hidden overlay.

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What’s interesting is how many other controls do you see here? This is because it can more or less replace YouTube Music’s overflow his menu, which has become very unwieldy, especially after the addition of song credits and sleep timers.

The timeline scrubber is at the bottom of the screen, the other controls are unchanged, but the play/pause button is now unthemed and white. ‘Next’, ‘Lyrics’ and ‘Related’ are displayed in the same way.

Few YouTube Music users are currently taking advantage of this redesign of the now playing carousel. It wasn’t clear why Google pulled back its previous look, which was officially announced in mid-December.

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