Not YouTube Music Most feature rich Of all the music streaming services, it’s a great option for those who love music videos, user-generated content, and the YouTube ecosystem as a whole. If you have YouTube Music, or are thinking of switching from another platform, here are the best tips and tricks to get the most out of your listening experience.
If you’re switching to YouTube Music from another app, you don’t have to start from scratch. YouTube has direct integration with Apple Music for playlist transfer. For other streaming services like Spotify, you can import using third-party apps TuneMyMusic Or Sounds For a fee (for a one-time transfer, you only need to subscribe for one month). To move data from Apple Music to YouTube Music, sign in to Apple Music and select Request to transfer a copy of your data > Apple Music playlists > Continue. You will need to select and tap your Google account Confirm export.
Upload your own music to your library
If YouTube Music doesn’t have anything you want to listen to or if you want to add your personal library to the platform, you can upload up to 100,000 songs from your computer. That said, there are some limitations when uploading music. Other users won’t be able to play those songs in the shared playlist and they won’t be considered for your YouTube music recommendations. To upload your own content, either drag and drop the files music.youtube.com Click and select on desktop or your profile photo Upload music. Files must be FLAC, m4a, mp3, OGG or WMA.
Pause your viewing history to prevent content from influencing your recommendations
Spotify has “Exclude from flavor profile” option That allows you to influence your personalized recommendations or have specific tracks or playlists appear in your year-end wrap. The analogue of YouTube Music is not so subtle; Instead, you can pause your overall viewing history, which means videos won’t appear in your history or be used for recommendations. Note that this setting applies to both YouTube and YouTube Music if you’re signed in with the same account. To pause your viewing history, go to Settings > Privacy & Location Or Privacy and Data And flip the toggle next to it Pause viewing history.
Another option is to exclude videos you choose on YouTube from your YouTube Music recommendations. go to Settings > Recommendations Or Playback and Restrictions and toggle off Show your favorite music from YouTube.
Improve streaming quality with EQ, playback and normalization
For the best listening experience, you can adjust a handful of YouTube Music audio quality settings. First, go to Settings > Data Saving (on Android) or Playback and Restrictions (on iOS) > Audio quality over Wi-Fi and choose high Or Always high. You can do the same for mobile data streaming and downloading from this menu Settings > Background & Downloads Or Downloads and Storage. YouTube Music Player on Android has an equalizer, which lets you customize bass and treble levels in nine bands or choose from music genre presets. You will find below Settings > Playback > Equalizer. Even YouTube music Recently introduced Audio normalization feature for consistent volume across tracks, although it doesn’t seem to be available to all users.
Save data with audio-only streaming
When listening to YouTube music on mobile, you don’t always want to download video data, especially if you have a weak connection. You can disable video playback with audio-only mode, which will switch music and podcasts that have video to audio-only versions. On the app, tap your profile photo and go to Settings > Data Saving Or Playback and Restrictions. Flip the toggle for Do not play music videos And Do not play podcast videos. Note that this feature is available for Premium subscribers only.
Use Smart Downloads to manage device storage space
YouTube Premium subscribers also have a mobile feature called Smart Downloads. When enabled, YouTube will automatically download recommended videos to your device for offline viewing. The setting is off by default, but if you enable it, you can choose how much storage space you want to allocate to downloaded content. go to Settings > Background & Downloads Or Downloads and Storage And flip the toggle next to it Smart Downloads. You can then set the slider to your chosen storage capacity. There’s also an option to automatically download up to 20 YouTube music tracks from your recently played songs. Note that downloads will only happen when you are connected to wifi and will pause when your device is low on storage.
What do you think so far?
One way to find related content on YouTube Music is to search with hashtags, which creators can add to the titles and descriptions of videos and playlists. Just type # A symbol followed by a keyword, which can be anything from an artist or genre to #newmusic or #live. YouTube Music also allows search operators (like the standard Google search), and has a sound search function that uses your microphone to identify a song being played, sung or hummed, which you can save to your library.
Invite collaborators to shared playlists
Most popular music streaming services have some sort of collaborative feature Spotify’s Real-Time Jams from Apple Music’s shared playlists. On YouTube Music, collaboration allows multiple users to contribute to playlists and add songs and videos. To invite collaborators, tap the pencil icon on the playlist, tap CollaborateToggle Collaborate Turn on the feature and tap Invite collaborators To share the link. Playlists must be public or unlisted for collaboration. A more recent addition called Taste Match will automatically generate a new playlist each day based on participants’ listening history. A test match can include up to 10 users. In the YouTube Music app, go to library Tab and tap New > Test Match > Invite To share the link.
Use this feature to generate playlists with AI
Like most other music streaming platforms, YouTube Music Now there’s an AI-powered playlist generatorwhich uses Google’s Gemini to translate natural language requests into custom playlists. In the Library tab, tap New > AI Playlist and enter a prompt, such as “smooth rock with emotional depth” or “like the artists (favorite artist).” I got decent results with these simple hints, but Some Reddit users notice That more specific and detailed inputs yield better results.
Use these solutions to block ads on the free tier
If you’re not paying for a premium YouTube Music subscription, you’ll hear ads. An obvious fix is to upgrade to a paid plan (although some premium subscribers Advertisements are still served) or you can try the remedy. One option is to listen By Brave Browserwhich blocks ads on desktop and mobile without the need for third-party extensions. I have also seen users Recommend often Installing an ad blocker such as the open-source UBlock Origin in Firefox or DuckDuckGo.
