
Difficulty in finding enough dating videos led to a change of plans, with the site's founders deciding to accept uploads of any type of video. They created posts on Craigslist asking attractive females to upload videos of themselves to YouTube in exchange of an $100 reward. Hurley and Chen said that the original idea for YouTube was a video version of an online dating service, and had been influenced by the website Hot or Not. We first spotted the sparkle icon for smart downloads on Monday with version 5.02.50 (from last week) of YouTube Music on Android.YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of PayPal. Collections you’ve downloaded manually are still marked by the checkmark in a circle icon. It’s a curious little change that’s also reflected on the Downloads page next to albums and playlists, including your Offline mixtape.


That said, it does fit YouTube’s icon style. To critique the design ever so briefly, the faint lines are somewhat hard to see as Google tries to convey a trio of iconography in a rather small space. YouTube Music recently switched from a lightning bolt to a sparkle icon for smart downloads.

On occasion, you’ll see a system notification when downloads are being updated in the background. A small YouTube Music tweak sees smart downloads get a new sparkle icon.Īfter enabling smart downloads (Settings > Library & downloads) and selecting how many songs you want, YouTube Music will refresh what’s stored on a nightly basis when you’re connected to Wi-Fi (or mobile data if permitted) and the device has over 40% battery life. YouTube Music has long been able to automatically download songs “based on your previous listening history” so that you always have a fresh collection of things to listen to when offline.
