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That quintessential streaming service, Youtube, has just launched a music delivery system called Youtube Disco. Something of an addendum to their already impressive catalog of music videos, this service is still in its infancy, which becomes obvious when you notice its lack of more advanced options available elsewhere.

Still, it serves its fundamental purpose — which is to stream music.

Easy to use, you’re given two options for your music search: You can search for an artist and all of the songs they’ve crafted, or you can find music that’s in the same vein of the music you originally ran a search for.

Barebones but simple in its execution, this is a great means of discovering new music and finding songs from some of your favorite artists.

Visit Youtube Disco here.

Despite its standing as the most popular video streaming site on the internet, hosting  an untold number of user-generated  content, Youtube has come under recent fire for performance issues that would seem to affect slower machines and netbooks (those quasi-laptops that offer some of the same functionality in a leaner version).

While the issues are understandable, considering the amount of bandwidth streaming these videos necessitates, one would think that the company would offer a version of their site that’s more accommodating to those with systems that find all that bandwidth a chore to process.

Well, they appear to be doing just that.

Stripped down to just the basics, Youtube Feather is a recently unveiled beta that takes the fundamental model of this service – streaming videos – and delivers it in a considerably leaner and less onerous form. All that this “lite” version consists of are the videos, with the superfluous clutter we normally find on your standard Youtube page all but peeled away.

Initial reports are very promising, with impressions all leaning towards it being noticeably faster on those slower systems.  Even High Definition videos are included. The beta is open to the public, but you must opt-in to use it. Doing so is easy, requiring that you only press a link to begin using it. If you find that you’d rather opt-out, pressing the same link will return you to the normal Youtube model.  

If you’re someone who loves using this service but often finds the videos are frustratingly choppy, this might be an option through which your Youtube needs are met.

You can join the beta here.