Download music to listen to offline

If you're a YouTube Music Premium member, you can enjoy music offline by downloading your favorite songs and videos to your mobile device. You'll need to reconnect to the internet at least in one case every thirty days to maintain your downloads.

Download music to listen offline with YouTube Music (Android)

There are two ways to download music to listen to offline:

  • Turn on smart downloads. The app volition automatically download for you lot based on your previous listening history - no action required for you lot!
  • Choose specific playlists, songs, or albums to download.

Learn more about YouTube Music Premium and how to start your gratuitous trial.

Turn on smart downloads

To make sure you always have music available–even on the become–plough on smart downloads on your mobile device:

  1. Open the YouTube Music app.
  2. Tap your profile photo.
  3. Tap Downloads .
  4. Tap Settings .
  5. Plough on "Smart downloads."

Once smart downloads are turned on, music will be automatically downloaded for y'all based on your listening history. You lot can view, suspension, or delete your watch history to improve your recommendations and which music gets downloaded for you.

If you lot don't like a specific playlist or album in your downloads, you can likewise remove information technology by tapping Menu and then "Remove download ". When you remove a playlist or anthology, it won't re-download to your smart downloads, but you may see it elsewhere in the YouTube Music app.

The music pick is refreshed every nighttime when you're connected to Wi-Fi. It tin can also update on unrestricted mobile data, depending on your download settings. You lot must also have more than than 40 percent bombardment charge. Music that is downloaded tin be played for up to 30 days afterwards you've disconnected from the internet. Annotation that when you reconnect to the internet, some content may no longer be available due to content changes or restrictions made by the video creator.

Download playlists and albums

Anywhere yous see a playlist or album inside the YouTube Music app, tap Menu and select Download. You lot can also click the download arrow on the album or playlist details page.

Download songs

You tin download individual songs from the lookout man page, past borer on the encompass fine art of any vocal and then tapping Download or by tapping Menu and then tapping Download .

Download storage space

The number of songs you tin download depends on how much free space is available on your device. It'southward also impacted by the length and quality of the audio or video files that you wish to save.

You can limit the number of songs for your smart downloads and choose betwixt sound or video downloading by tapping your profile photoand thenSettings and then  Offline settings.

Cull which connectedness types to utilise for downloads

You can choose which types of connection should be used to download songs in the YouTube Music app. For example, y'all tin specify that songs should only be downloaded on Wi-Fi.

Some mobile network carriers give access to unrestricted mobile information, which is data that does not count towards any quotas or limits. If you're using 1 of those carriers, yous may run into an option to download on "Wi-Fi and unrestricted mobile data." Selecting this selection will allow songs to be downloaded when your device has a Wi-Fi connection. You tin also download on an unrestricted mobile data connectedness with this pick.

Unrestricted mobile data is simply bachelor on Android version R or newer. It's limited to participating mobile carriers, where access may be limited to 5G.

Annotation: This is currently available on Verizon and AT&T in the United States, and KDDI in Nihon.

To alter your settings:

  1. Open up the YouTube Music app.
  2. Tap your profile photo.
  3. Tap Settings .
  4. Select which connectedness type to allow downloads on.

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