3 Ways to Enjoy YouTube Music on Desktop Computer

By Allan Stocks

Updated on: November 24, 2024

Category: YouTube Music Tips

How do I listen to YouTube Music on computer desktop? Don't worry, on this page you'll get three different ways to stream YouTube Music on Windows or macOS without a web browser.

With over 100 million streaming songs, YouTube Music might be your second perfect music platform, filling up the missing songs from other streamers' catalogs. If you're a YouTube Music Premium member, you can even download your favorite songs and videos for offline playback, but only on Android and iOS devices. Yet to listen to YouTube Music songs on PC or Mac desktop, you should turn to other workarounds - through PWA, an unofficial YouTube Music desktop app, or NoteBurner YouTube Music Downloader.

It's a sad story that YouTube Music still hasn't developed a desktop app for Windows PC or Mac computer till now. You'll have to use a web browser to visit the YouTube Music at this point. If you prefer to listen to YouTube Music from your desktop, just check out the feasible ways in the following part.

For Google Chrome users, you can install YouTube Music as a progressive web app (PWA), also called YouTube Music desktop shortcut. Though it's still a website page, you can directly head to YouTube Music with no need to manually open Chrome and log in again. Here's how to download the YouTube Music desktop icon:

Step 1 Go to the YouTube Music website.

Step 2 Click the three-dot icon at the upper right of your browser.

Step 3 Click the "Install YouTube Music..." option to download the shortcut.

Now, you can open YouTube Music in a separate new window.

Tips: You can also use Edge or other browsers to install the YouTube Music desktop icon, as long as it supports PWA installation.

There's a YouTube Music Desktop app, created by Github, providing an alternative to access YouTube Music service from a desktop app. Although it's simply built with the YouTube Music web player, it exactly does the job.

Step 1 Directly go to https://ytmdesktop.app/ and download the YouTube Music Desktop app, which supports Windows, macOS, and Linux computer.

Step 2 Log into your YouTube Music account on it, then you can easily enjoy YouTube Music on computer.

This YouTube Music desktop app is totally free to use. You can control your music, play music in background, get lyrics, or so on with this smart tool. However, it still lacks the download option, which is important for most.

Given that many people need to download YouTube Music to computer for offline playback, NoteBurner has taken the initiative and built a YouTube Music desktop converter, which makes it possible to download and convert YouTube Music to MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV, AIFF, ALAC losslessly at up to 10X faster speed.

In this way, you can quickly access the offline YouTube Music songs on any desktop music player without any encrypted limitations. Here're the main features:

Features of NoteBurner YouTube Music 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;