Besides its own music catalog, YouTube Music also allows you to upload up to 100,000 songs to your YouTube Music library. Once your music is uploaded, you can use YouTube Music to play your uploaded music as part of your listening experience.
To upload your personal music collection to your YouTube Music library, you will need to open music.youtube.com on a computer. Music uploads cannot be completed in the YouTube Music mobile app.
1. Go to music.youtube.com in your browser, log in your YouTube Music account. Drag your songs to any surface or click your profile icon and choose Upload music.
YouTube Music allows you to upload songs in FLAC, M4A, MP3, OGG, and WMA format.
2. You will see a progress bar indicating your music is uploading.
3. After uploading is finished, you get a confirmation message. Click GO TO LIBRARY.
4. Uploaded songs will be shown under Library – SONGS – Uploads. Your uploaded music may take some time to show up in your library, even after it has been successfully uploaded.
In order to see your uploads in the YouTube Music app, you must be using the YouTube mobile version 3.51+ or newer. Tap Library again on the Library page and choose Uploads.
To search for music you’ve uploaded, click or tap “Uploads” after searching to view uploaded search results.
Related: How to transfer Spotify music to YouTube Music?
The ability to upload personal music collection to your YouTube Music library is not a feature that is exclusive to YouTube Music Premium subscribers.
YouTube Music allows all users to upload their personal music collections and enjoy certain benefits like background playback, ad-free listening, and offline playback without a YouTube Music Premium subscription.
However, YouTube Music Premium members have additional benefits, such as the ability to cast uploaded content and play it on smart speakers and Sonos devices.
YouTube Music Premium is a paid subscription service that offers several benefits, including ad-free listening, background playback and offline playback.
Several other music services also support uploading a personal music collection alongside their streaming catalogs. Here are a few notable examples:
If you want to download YouTube Music songs, albums and playlists to your computer for offline playback, then all you need is Pazu YouTube Music Converter.
To get started, download, install and run Pazu YouTube Music Converter on your Windows PC, which features a built-in YouTube Music web player.
If you have already purchased a license, click the key icon to register the converter. If not, continue using the trial version.
You don’t need to sign in to your YouTube Music account.
The default output format is M4A. Pazu YouTube Music Converter also supports MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV and AIFF. Click Option button to change output format or output folder if you need. You can also change bitrate, samplerate according to your needs.
Browse or search to fidn the songs, albums or playlist you want to download. Click the album or playlist you want to download. Then click the red icon to load songs.
All songs in the playlist/album will be selected by default. You can uncheck the songs you don’t want to get.
After selecting the songs, click Convert button to start downloading YouTube Music songs to the format you choose. You will see a progress circle indicating your music is downloading.
Once the songs have been downloaded, click the folder icon to quickly locate the DRM-free YouTube Music songs in the format you choose. You can then transfer and play it anywhere.
To view or manage all music you’ve downloaded, click the clock icon on the top right corner of the YouTube Music Converter interface.
