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Shut up. Seriously. If any frontend designer hears you, the next thing you know is that you need to click through 4 submenus just to skip a song ‘bEcAuSe UsErS gEt CoNfUsEd WhEn ThEy SeE tOo MaNy OpTiOnS’
I disagree. Who needs a special item called "Stats for Nerds" hanging in there? Nerds know how to enable them in the app settings.
What really bugs me about this menu is that they keep rearranging the items and I need to search where the hell "Save to Playlist" went again. And I often confuse "Save to Library" and "Save to Playlist", because isn't that like the same thing, but called different?
YouTube Music's UI is getting increasingly messy and frustrating.
What really bugs me about this menu is that they keep rearranging the items and I need to search where the hell “Save to Playlist” went again. And I often confuse “Save to Library” and “Save to Playlist”, because isn’t that like the same thing, but called different?
Rearranging is an issue.
Hard disagree.
There's at least a handful of items there that can be tucked away and wouldn't be missed 99% of the time. The rest can be split in two groups without requiring additional clicks and cutting down time.
I loathe when I need to go through a dozen things in a menu because no one bothered to establish a relevance criteria, and I'm not even dsylxeic
Well, I've studied human-machine interaction and indeed too many options can affect a user's interaction with the program. Don't seem to recall the exact numbers, but there is a range to the optimal number of options in a menu. 5 to 7 options, maybe? Too many options, iirc, increase the time they take to process the options, even in menus they might be familiar with.
Not ideal: one huge menu with all options inside.
Also not ideal: too many small submenus.
Find a balance. Not all vertical, but also not all horizontal, nested menus
If I find the material, I'll update the comment.
Edit: Hick's Law
Edit 2: 8 is the limit for pie menus. Otherwise, options get too small.
Width is preferred over depth in cascading menus. I think it's about 15 to 20 options per menu
And still doesn’t have a ‘for god’s sake never play this artist ever again’ button
really want that too
"Oh no, a platform with options, why would anyone want options?"
Go buy a MacBook if you like basic functions. Yt music is getting closer to old fashioned but amazing Winamp. I praise them for it. With one menu button you have all the options 1 click away. No submenu's, no 5 different menu's, just one with everything. How can you complain about this? I'd say that's mild infuriating. "oh look, a platform is doing something right, let's make fun of them because I just wat a play and pause function and nothing more."
Don't think OP is complaining about the number of options so much as how they are presented.
That menu looks much taller than it needs to be, the spacing between lines is huge, and the icons are unnecessarily big too.
Might not be what OP meant, but that's how I read it.
EDIT - upon reading down the thread, it looks like it IS the number of options, my bad, sorry.
The size of the menu makes it easy to recognize (with the icons) to find the option you want. The small windows menus can be really long and always makes you read half of it to find the one you need. The only option I would like to see added (as stated by someone else here in the comments) is the "stop after current song".
I guess it's a matter of taste - I find a menu that tall, with gaps that large between the items, harder to read than a more compact presentation of the same info.
Either way though, it doesn't seem like that was the issue, so not to worry!
I'm also appreciating how easy it is to navigate given the context. It has everything you need to find what you want at a glance: good spacing, clear icons, and sorted in the order I'd most likely expect. It could use a couple separators, though, or maybe extend the layout to two columns like a start menu.
I don't see the problem besides the jump scare of expecting a smaller menu.
Ofc its youtube,they cannot make a good UX sometimes even UI
And they are still missing the most important menu item "Stop after this track"
wrong
that's what the menu is for, showing us the other options
I don't want to have to dig for something that should just be in the menu
this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2025
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