[Overview] Something You Need to Know About YouTube Music

A new version of YouTube Music is announced by YouTube on May 17, 2018, which released a web-based desktop player as well as an independent mobile App. YouTube Music provides all music videos that have released by those mainstream artists on YouTube, allowing users to browser the music according to the genres, YouTube playlists, and recommendations as well.

YouTube Music also provides a premium plan for people. For YouTube Music Premium subscribers, they can enjoy ads-free music online streaming, audio-only music playback in the background, and music downloading service for offline playback.

So YouTube Music or YouTube Music Premium? Before discovering music with YouTube Music, you should know something about it first.

Dive right into the post now.

Part 1. YouTube Music Free and YouTube Music Premium

YouTube Music

YouTube Music can be regarded as an online music streaming platform, sharing similarities to Google Play Music, Spotify, and Apple Music. You are able to discover the recommended playlists, singles, and albums inside YouTube Music. Users can also browser the trending hit music in YouTube Music’s Hotlist section, getting to know what music is popular on YouTube.

YouTube Music also allows users to customize their own music playlists in Library. People can add any song they like to the playlist and stream online.

YouTube Music provides both web-based player and mobile App. With the web-based player, people can also stream YouTube music videos with high resolution.

YouTube Music Premium

YouTube Music Premium is the subscribed version of YouTube Music. It is more convenient and suitable for music lovers. YouTube Music Premium has the following extra features:
 
* Ads-free playback - subscribers can enjoy YouTube music and videos with no ads disturbing;
* Playback in the background - when subscribers use YouTube Music on mobile, the music can be played in the background while users are doing other things;
* Free download YouTube music - subscribers are allowed to download all music for offline streaming;
* Audio-only mode - enable subscribers to play music only without loading a music video.
 
YouTube Music Premium price: $9.99/month (3-month free trial provided)

Part 2. How to Use YouTube Music

If you are a green hand to YouTube Music, grasp these 4 tutorial to get started with it now.

Overview of YouTube Music App

Home
Basing on your streaming history, in the homepage of YouTube Music, you will get some recommendations selected by YouTube Music.
Note: To get recommendations, you have to sign in with your Google account first.

Hotlist
In Hotlist module, you can have a glance at the trending music on YouTube, getting to know what songs are popular recently.

Library
Switch to Library, you can check what singles, playlists, albums you've listened to or liked. You can also customize YouTube music playlist in your preference.

How-to Guide on Using YouTube Music

Here is the guide on how to use the basic functions in YouTube Music and YouTube Music Premium. Check through it now.

How to Add Music to Playlist
STEP 1. Search the artist or single you want to add in YouTube Music.
STEP 2. Click the three-dot icon next to the title of the song.
STEP 3. From the pop-up menu list, hit "Add to playlist" and select the playlist you want to save the song.
Note: You can also add the whole album or playlist at once.

How to Download Music for Offline Playback (For Premium)
STEP 1. Search for the album or playlist you want to download for offline playback.
STEP 2. Open the album, and you can find a download icon under the title. Just click it to download all the songs.
Note: You can also search for the singles and download them one by one.

How to Enable Audio-only Mode (For Premium)
STEP 1. When you are streaming a song, you can find a toggle on the upper right corner of the music video.
STEP 2. Enable it and you can turn on the audio-only mode and play it in the background.

How to Stream Music Only on Wi-Fi
STEP 1. Click on the profile photo in the top right corner.
STEP 2. Go to Settings.
STEP 3. Enable "Stream via Wi-Fi only".

Part 3. How to Download YouTube Music for Offline Streaming

Actually, comparing to YouTube Music Premium, YouTube Music just refers to a platform which collects all YouTube music videos released on YouTube. It works more like an online platform, which is less flexible and inconvenient when people need to play the music video in background or download for offline streaming. Therefore, YouTube Music Premium can be more helpful, or you can combine YouTube Music and VidPaw YouTube to MP3 Converter together and use them at the same time.