YouTube Music 3.39 for Android adds a home screen widget

Google’s music situation has been frustrating for a lot of people. The company essentially has two separate platforms: Google Play Music and YouTube Music. The former has been around for a while and has a lot of loyal users. The latter is new and still lagging behind in features. One feature that has finally been added to YouTube Music is a home screen widget.

YouTube Music version 3.39 includes a handy widget that can be placed on the home screen of your favorite launcher. This is a pretty standard 4×1 widget that displays the album art and song details along with buttons for thumbs down, previous, play/pause, next, and thumbs up. The widget changes color to match the album artwork and it can’t be resized (though some 3rd-party apps can force it).