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Progress is supposed to mean improvement, right? While we\u2019re no strangers to seeing Google transform one app into another, merging features in the process, it\u2019s extremely frustrating when we lose some functionality along the way. Something along those lines happened when we lost Google Podcasts<\/a> and users were pushed over to YouTube Music, but we\u2019re happy to say the situation has finally righted itself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n We\u2019re talking specifically about the ability to for podcast apps to automatically remove any lengthy periods of silence. Ideally, producers would edit those out prior to publishing their podcasts, but we have to live with the reality we have, and it ended up being a useful option to have. Google Podcasts picked up that tool all the way back in 2018, but we haven\u2019t had a similar ability for YouTube Music.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Don\u2019t want to miss the best from Android Authority<\/em>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Last year, though, it started to look like that was changing. Back in March of 2024, evidence was spotted in an APK teardown that revealed work towards a new \u201ctrim silence\u201d option<\/a> for YouTube Music. We were hopeful that would be going live shortly, but months passed and we never saw it arrive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n