How to Download Songs from YouTube Music

Now you don’t have to worry about having an internet connection to access your playlists during lengthy car trips, workouts, and weekend getaways. If you have YouTube Music, you can easily download songs and tune in to your favorite music anytime you want. How? The answer is below!

How to Download Songs from YouTube Music

YouTube Music is a great platform for ad-free playback, offline listening, background play, and many more features. Keep reading to see how you can download any music and stream with no internet.

Method 1: Manual Download

You can select any playlist, song, podcast, or radio and manually download them from YouTube Music. Here’s how:

1. Open YouTube Music and select any song of your choice.
2. Tap on the three dots next to the song.
3. Select Download.

Your song will be downloaded successfully.

Method 2: Use Smart Download

The Smart Downloads feature can download up to 500 songs every day without your permission by making use of your old streaming patterns as a guide, Here’s how you can use this feature to download music:

1. Open YouTube Music and tap on your profile from the top right corner.
2. Tap on Downloads.
3. Tap on the settings icon from the top right corner.
4. Turn the toggle on for Smart downloads.
5. Hold and drag the slider to set a song limit YouTube Music can be downloaded without permission.

Now Smart downloads will automatically download songs on YouTube Music.

Method 3: Use Google Takeout

Lastly, if you want to download all the music you’ve uploaded to the service or your own content, you can do so using Google Takeout. Simply follow the steps shown below:

1. Visit the official website of Google Takeout and log in to your account with YouTube Music.
2. Click on Deselect all next to Products.
3. Then, scroll down and tick on YouTube and YouTube Music.
4. Click on All YouTube data included.
5. Click on Deselect all and only tick on music library songs, music uploads, and playlists.
6. Select OK.
7. Click on Next step.
8. Under Frequency, select either Export once or Export every 2 months for 1 year.
9. Under File and Type, select your download format and size.
10. Click on Create Export.
11. Click on Download from the files created of all your downloaded music.

Now you can get all downloaded songs from YouTube Music on your desktop.

How to Find YouTube Music Downloads?

Here’s how you can access all downloaded songs from YouTube Music:

1. Open YouTube Music and tap on your profile.
2. Tap on Downloads.

All your current downloaded music and playlists will be available here.

Can I Still Use Offline Music after Unsubscribing from YouTube Music?

No, you will not be able to listen to any downloaded or offline music once you have unsubscribed to YouTube Music or your plan has expired.

Also Read: How to Install YouTube Music Desktop App on Windows PC

Now that you have figured out how to download songs from YouTube Music, enjoy your favorite tunes from anywhere. Keep visiting TechCult to know the latest tech walkarounds. If you have any queries or suggestions, do reach out to us in the comment section.