Download music to listen to offline

If you're a YouTube Music Premium member, you can bask 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 30 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:

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

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

Turn on smart downloads

To make sure you always take music available–even on the go–plow 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. Turn on "Smart downloads."

Once smart downloads are turned on, music will exist automatically downloaded for you based on your listening history. You tin can view, pause, or delete your watch history to improve your recommendations and which music gets downloaded for you lot.

If y'all don't similar a specific playlist or album in your downloads, you can also remove it past borer Bill of fare and and so "Remove download ". When you remove a playlist or album, it won't re-download to your smart downloads, but you lot may see it elsewhere in the YouTube Music app.

The music selection is refreshed every night when yous're connected to Wi-Fi. Information technology can also update on unrestricted mobile data, depending on your download settings. Y'all must likewise have more than than 40 percentage battery charge. Music that is downloaded tin can be played for up to 30 days after 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 Card and select Download. You can likewise click the download arrow on the album or playlist details folio.

Download songs

Y'all can download individual songs from the spotter page, past tapping on the cover art of any song and then tapping Download or past tapping Carte du jour and and then borer Download .

Download storage space

The number of songs you lot tin can download depends on how much gratis space is available on your device. Information technology'due south also impacted by the length and quality of the sound or video files that you wish to salvage.

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

Cull which connectedness types to use for downloads

You can cull which types of connection should be used to download songs in the YouTube Music app. For instance, you can specify that songs should just be downloaded on Wi-Fi.

Some mobile network carriers give access to unrestricted mobile data, which is data that does non count towards any quotas or limits. If you lot're using i of those carriers, you may run into an option to download on "Wi-Fi and unrestricted mobile data." Selecting this option will allow songs to be downloaded when your device has a Wi-Fi connectedness. You can also download on an unrestricted mobile information connection with this selection.

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

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

To change your settings:

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

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