As one of the best alternatives to Spotify, YouTube Music also provides users with access to over 100 million songs in high quality. By costing $9.99 per month, YouTube Music subscribers can download as much content as to their mobile devices for offline enjoyment. In contrast, YouTube Music Free users can't download any music until subscribe to YouTube Music Premium.
If you’re new to YouTube Music and want to download and enjoy YouTube Music freely, you’ve come to the right place. In this article, we’re going to show you how to download YouTube Music on Android/ iOS for offline enjoyment, and how to permanently save YouTube Music tracks to your PC & Mac computers, even if you are a Free user.
You'll have to do this using the YouTube Music app, which is only available for on iOS and Android. And you need to be a Premium user of YouTube Music.
Step 1 Launch the YouTube Music app on an Android/ iOS device and sign in with your Premium account.
Step 2 Locate the specific playlist or album that you want to download.
Step 3 Tap on the "More" (three dots) button or click the download arrow on the playlist or album, then click on the “Download” button.
Once finished downloading, you can enjoy offline music with your YouTube Music App.
Here are the steps to listen to downloaded music files:
Step 1 Open your YouTube Music App on your Android/iOS device and tap on the Library icon.
Step 2 Click on the Downloads button.
Step 3 Scroll down to the All downloads section, and tap on Downloaded songs.
Note: To keep your downloaded music, you need to go online at least once every 30 days.
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The answer is yes and no.
Most people think that the only way to download music from YouTube Music is to subscribe to a Premium account; it’s impossible to download YouTube Music tracks using YouTube Music Free, as downloading music is a Premium-only feature.
But things have taken an unexpected turn - with the release of the NoteBurner YouTube Music Converter. NoteBurner YouTube Music Converter is a very professional and full-featured YouTube Music Converter. It helps any YouTube Music users download music from YouTube Music to a computer, for both Premium and Free users.
Downloading tracks and playlists from YouTube Music App to your mobile devices is easy - and you can do so from your smartphone or tablet at any time. But it's not a hassle-free job when you want to download YouTube Music on your PC/Mac computer because YouTube Music does not have a desktop App.
In this case, if you are a Premium user of YouTube Music, you can still opt NoteBurner YouTube Music Converter to help you download YouTube Music to 256kbps AAC files to your local computer. It has an intuitive interface that helps you download and keep YouTube Music tracks with just 5 steps. Not only that, it also supports converting any music at up to 10X speed, while keeping the original audio quality.
In the following guide, we'll show you the detailed steps to download YouTube Music tracks to your Windows/ Mac computer. Please make sure you've downloaded the YouTube Music Downloader on your desktop before getting started.
Install and launch NoteBurner YouTube Music Converter on your computer, then log into your YouTube Music account.
Note: NoteBurner needs to work with a YouTube Music account but it will never take any other information from your account other than the songs.
Tap on the Settings gear icon to choose the output format, bit rate (320kbps, 256kbps, 192kbps, 128kbps), sample rate (192kHz, 96kHz, 48kHz, 44.1kHz), output path, etc.
Simply open a YouTube Music playlist, album, or artist on the NoteBurner program, then tap the "+Add" icon at the bottom right to select the songs you want to download.
Just click the "Convert Now" button, and the software will start downloading and converting YouTube Music to MP3 or other plain audio formats on your PC or Mac computer.
Once the conversion is done, go to the "History" tab in the upper right corner to check the downloaded history of YouTube Music. Just click the "Folder" icon beside the song to locate the YouTube Music files.
With the tips we’ve mentioned in this article, we hope downloading songs from YouTube Music to your computer will no longer seem overwhelming to you. Compared with most online YouTube Music Converters that extract music from YouTube Videos, NoteBurner YouTube Music Converter is a more reliable YouTube Music Converter for directly downloading music and music videos from YouTube Music's embedded web player. It can download songs and playlists from YouTube Music to your computer smoothly. More importantly, you can enjoy downloaded tracks where you are, and save YouTube Music tracks on your devices forever.
Note: The free trial version of NoteBurner YouTube Music Converter allows you to convert the first 1 minute of each song and convert 3 songs at a time. You can buy the full version to unlock this limitation and enable all its features.
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