Download music to listen to offline

If you lot're a YouTube Music Premium member, y'all 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 one time every 30 days to maintain your downloads.

Download music to listen offline with YouTube Music (Android)

At that place are 2 means to download music to listen to offline:

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

Acquire more nearly YouTube Music Premium and how to start your trial.

Turn on smart downloads

To make sure you always take music available–even on the go–turn on smart downloads on your mobile device:

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

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

If you don't like a specific playlist or album in your downloads, you can as well remove it past 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 run into it elsewhere in the YouTube Music app.

The music selection is refreshed every dark when yous're connected to Wi-Fi. It can also update on unrestricted mobile data, depending on your download settings. You must also accept more than 40 percent battery accuse. Music that is downloaded can exist played for up to 30 days after you lot've asunder from the internet. Note 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 you run into a playlist or anthology within the YouTube Music app, tap Menu and select Download. You tin can likewise click the download pointer on the album or playlist details folio.

Download songs

You can download individual songs from the watch folio, by tapping on the cover fine art of whatsoever song so tapping Download or past tapping Menu and so tapping Download .

Download storage space

The number of songs yous can download depends on how much free space is available on your device. Information technology's also impacted by the length and quality of the sound or video files that you wish to relieve.

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

Choose which connectedness types to use for downloads

Y'all can choose which types of connectedness should be used to download songs in the YouTube Music app. For case, y'all can specify that songs should but be downloaded on Wi-Fi.

Some mobile network carriers give access to unrestricted mobile data, which is data that does not count towards any quotas or limits. If you're using 1 of those carriers, you may see an option to download on "Wi-Fi and unrestricted mobile data." Selecting this option will permit songs to exist downloaded when your device has a Wi-Fi connection. You lot tin can besides download on an unrestricted mobile data connection with this option.

Unrestricted mobile data is only available on Android version R or newer. It'due south limited to participating mobile carriers, where access may exist express to 5G.

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

To change your settings:

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

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