Two Ways to Download YouTube Music to SD Card

By Allan Stocks

Updated on: November 24, 2024

Category: YouTube Music Tips

Two ways to save YouTube Music to SD card will be explained detailedly on this page.

YouTube Music provides two possibilities to download songs for listening even if you have run out of the internet - Manually choose a specific YouTube playlist for downloading, or turn on the "smart downloads" option to automatically download songs you're likely to stream. Meanwhile, some may still need to download and save YouTube Music to phone's SD card to save space. The following we'll cover two solutions to finish this task.

To directly download YouTube Music to SD card, the first and most important thing is that you've to become a YouTube Music Premium or YouTube Premium subscriber. If you've already joined in, try out the steps below to put YouTube playlists to memory card on your phone.

Step 1 Download and open the YouTube Music app on mobile, and tap on your profile picture.

Step 2 Simply go to "Settings > Library & Downloads".

Step 3 Turn on the option of "Use SD card". If you haven't switched it on, YouTube Music will be saved to your internal storage.

Step 4 Pick up a YouTube Music song, and tap "Download" to start saving YouTube Music to a MicroSD card.

Note: You cannot directly move downloaded YouTube Music from memory card to internal storage, or vice versa. You'll have to redownload them again if you would like to change the download location.

YouTube Music is a streaming music service, an alternative to Spotify, Apple Music, or Amazon Music. So just like other streaming platforms, YouTube Music also has its own pre-set limitations: 1) YouTube Music Free version doesn't allow to download songs to your phone. 2) Though YouTube Music Premium benefits with the useful download feature, it's not possible to transfer the YouTube Music downloads to another phone by re-plugging the SD card. 3) It's hard to find out the actual YouTube Music downloads, as they are saved as cached data.

Due to encryption protection, songs you downloaded from YouTube Music are only playable within its app, cannot copy or transfer to other devices.

NoteBurner YouTube Music Converter ( For Windows | For Mac ) is the best application to download songs from YouTube Music to SD card. No matter you're YouTube Music Free or Premium users, NoteBurner brings the possibility to convert YouTube Music to common MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV, AIFF or ALAC format with great quality. After the 10X faster speed conversion, you can copy the downloaded YouTube Music to SD card from computer unlimitedly.

Features of NoteBurner YouTube Music to SD Card Converter:

• Convert YouTube Music to MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV, AIFF, ALAC;
• Convert YouTube Music at up to 10X faster speed;
• Download YouTube music videos in up to 4K quality;
• Keep ID3 tags and 100% original audio quality;
• Easy-to-use with an intuitive user interface;
• Keep YouTube Music after free trial/subscription;