How to use YouTube Music

Aug 24, 2023

How to use YouTube Music

How to use YouTube Music, the main features of the service including playlists, casting to smart speakers, uploading songs to the library, platform availability and more!

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:49 First opening up the app
1:05 Mixes
1:45 Home section
2:20 Casting music
3:17 Now playing screen
7:33 Using Google Assistant and YouTube Music
7:57 Using Siri with YouTube Music
8:10 Explore sections
8:39 Search functionality
8:56 Uploading music to YouTube Music
9:22 Library section
10:50 Important settings
12:31 Free vs. paid version
13:35 YouTube Premium vs. YouTube Music Premium

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0.08 -> If you're like me and you've been using google play music for the past couple of

3.679 -> years and find yourself needing to transition over to

6.96 -> YouTube Music or you're just curious about what YouTube Music has to offer

11.44 -> you're in the right place, so let's dive into how to use

15.28 -> YouTube Music. YouTube Music is a dedicated music service from YouTube

19.52 -> which is owned by Google that leverages YouTube's insanely large music catalog

24.24 -> with a heavy emphasis on video and live performances since a

28.16 -> lot of the time YouTube is the only place some of these

31.439 -> live performances are housed. The service is available on both android and iOS

36.559 -> devices as well as smart speakers like Google's

39.28 -> own speakers, Bose speakers, Sonos speakers, JBL and

43.28 -> others. You can also use it from the web as well

45.92 -> as through desktop apps on Mac and Windows. When you first open the app

50.239 -> you'll be asked to select some artists that you like so YouTube Music can help

54.399 -> narrow down the types of music that it'll play for you. When you get to the

57.76 -> main screen you'll see that the layout is

59.84 -> pretty simple: new releases at the top followed by mixes especially for you.

64.479 -> There are a couple of mixes that i want to draw your attention to.

67.68 -> The new release mix is a playlist updated every Friday of 30 new songs

72.4 -> that youtube selects just for you based off your music

75.84 -> preferences. The discover mix is a 50 song playlist updated every Wednesday

80.96 -> with songs from artists that you already like as well as other songs that youtube

85.119 -> thinks you'll like based off of your preferences.

87.84 -> Your mix is an endless personalized music playlist think of it like a radio

92.32 -> station based off only the music and artists you like to

95.52 -> listen to. The Your Likes playlist is a playlist made up entirely of the music

100.4 -> you've given a thumbs up to on youtube music on mobile. Down at the

104.799 -> bottom of the app you'll see three tabs home explore and library

109.439 -> the navigation bar with those tabs remains there throughout the app so it's

113.36 -> easy to move back and forth between these sections.

116.24 -> On desktop these icons are actually located at the top of the app

120.32 -> if you continue to scroll down on the home screen you'll see more collections

124.079 -> of playlists based either on what you've listened to before

127.28 -> or what's currently popular or in the genres youtube thinks you'll like.

131.36 -> You can also of course create your own playlists

134.4 -> as well and we'll talk about how to do that a little later on

137.76 -> in the library section of the app. At the top of the app you'll see a chromecast

141.84 -> button and a search button casting in youtube music allows you to

145.92 -> cast music to google devices like smart speakers, smart displays, tvs

150.959 -> or groups of google cast devices. On a

153.92 -> mobile device just click the cast button to bring up the list of speakers that

157.68 -> you already have the ability to cast to over wi-fi select the speaker or speaker

162.4 -> group and your music will then start playing on that speaker or speaker group.

166.4 -> While casting music if you click the cast button again

169.36 -> you'll see the song currently playing in the volume control if you're casting to

173.36 -> a speaker group you can click the arrow below the pause

176.64 -> icon to display the volume levels for all the speakers in your google cast

181.2 -> speaker group. Now if you're trying to cast music from the

184 -> desktop app know that there's no dedicated cast button just yet but you

188.319 -> can still cast your audio. Click the three dots at the top right

191.92 -> hand corner and then select cast and then select the device or

195.84 -> speaker group that you want to cast to now when you want to play a song and you

199.84 -> click it on the app you'll see a new bar appear at the

203.12 -> bottom of the app. When you click it it'll bring up the now

206.48 -> playing screen that'll take up the entire view.

209.84 -> To go back to the previous view just swipe the now playing screen back down

214.159 -> on mobile or click the bar again on desktop on the mobile app when it first

218.4 -> comes up you'll see some controls by on the album artwork. When you click

222.64 -> on the album artwork again you'll see that you have the options to share

226.08 -> download add to a playlist make album artwork landscape and

230.48 -> cast you can cast the song you're currently playing to a speaker or

234.08 -> speaker group right from this view. If you're not

236.879 -> casting music to a speaker or speaker group you'll also see

240.159 -> a song and video slider up at the top which allows you to switch between the

244.799 -> song or the music video version if available one of the best ways to

249.12 -> improve your experience with youtube music

251.28 -> is when you're listening to a song to give a song that you really like a

254.799 -> thumbs up or give it a thumbs down if you don't

257.519 -> like the song this will help refine your music suggestions over time you can

262.479 -> give a song a thumbs up or down in the youtube app

265.44 -> on mobile and desktop in the now playing screen

268.56 -> and if you're playing music through a smart speaker or an android phone you

272 -> can actually tell the google assistant that you either like a song or don't

275.68 -> like a song and the google assistant will actually

278.08 -> give that song either a thumbs up or a thumbs down

281.44 -> let's look at a few other main parts of the now playing screen

285.04 -> the ability to scroll through to part of a song skip back

288.32 -> skip forward play slash pause you can also skip forward or skip back a track

293.28 -> by swiping on the album artwork to see the songs that youtube

296.96 -> music is planning to play next swipe up the bar at the bottom you

300.479 -> can then reshuffle the automated list of songs in the up next

304.4 -> section youtube tries to figure out what songs to play next

307.6 -> based on the song you pick to listen to as well as your various music tastes

312 -> you can click lyrics to see the lyrics of the song currently playing when

315.6 -> available and related which will show you songs

318.24 -> you might also like based off what you're currently listening to playlists

321.84 -> you might like similar artists and more from the

324.56 -> artists that you're currently listening to

326.56 -> now swiping back up to the now playing section with the album artwork

330.56 -> there's one last part of this view to go over and that's the three dots up at the

334.56 -> top when you click that you're going to see

336.56 -> a lot of options first up is start radio this will start a radio station based

341.44 -> off of the song you're currently playing radio stations will start with the song

345.28 -> you chose and will then play other songs by other artists as well as

349.28 -> songs by the same artist that you chose play next we'll add the

353.28 -> song to the play next section and to q will also add the song

357.28 -> to the current queue of songs and to library which adds that song to

361.199 -> your library download which downloads the song for

364.4 -> offline listening add to playlist allows you to add the song to an

368.16 -> existing playlist you've already created or it'll allow you to create a new one

373.36 -> go to album will take you to the album where the song is from

376.639 -> in the album view you'll see the album artwork with the album

380 -> title and three key buttons add to library

383.28 -> download and the three dots add to library will add this song to your

387.84 -> youtube music library download will download the song to your device

391.84 -> and the three dots will give you some similar options that we've seen

395.12 -> in the now plain three dots menu the album view will also

398.8 -> allow you to start playing the album or shuffle it and if you just want to add

402.88 -> specific songs to your library and not the whole

405.68 -> album you can click the three dots next to the song

408.4 -> in the album view and select add to library

411.599 -> back to the three dots menu on the now playing page go to artist will take you

415.68 -> to the artists page in youtube music this will show you the

418.96 -> artist's latest release top songs allow you to shuffle a

422.4 -> playlist of their songs or start a radio with that artist see

426.479 -> their albums in singles videos other artists related to this one

430.56 -> that fans might like and an about section giving you more

434.24 -> information about the artist and their total view count across

437.919 -> youtube the last options on the three dots menu are

440.88 -> share which allows you to share the song through your social platforms or send to

445.199 -> friends and family report which allows you to report

448.16 -> content that might violate youtube's terms of service and then

451.599 -> stats for nerds alright so that's the now plain view now there's one more way

455.44 -> you can actually play music from youtube music and that's by using a smart

459.28 -> assistant you can use the google assistant on

461.919 -> android devices or other devices like smart speakers and

465.199 -> smart displays that support the google assistant

468.16 -> to make youtube music your default service go into your google assistant

472.24 -> settings select services then music and then

475.759 -> select youtube music if you're an iphone user you can use

479.28 -> siri to play music from youtube music just tell siri to play a song or artist

484.24 -> on youtube music and as long as you have the youtube music app downloaded on your

488.16 -> phone it should work now let's move to the second section of the app which is

491.919 -> the explorer tab the explorer tab is divided into several

495.599 -> sections new albums and singles and moods and

498.56 -> genres plus new music videos one of the biggest advantages that

502.479 -> youtube music has over its competition is music videos and that's thanks to the

506.96 -> fact that youtube music leverages youtube the world's largest

511.52 -> video platform and arguably the world's largest music catalog

515.68 -> thanks to the sheer number of indie artists

518.719 -> who upload to the platform when you search for a song in the app you'll see

522.56 -> both songs and videos in your search results

525.44 -> you can always switch back and forth between songs

528.16 -> and the music videos in the app there's also a setting in the app that will

531.519 -> force youtube music to default to audio only or album versions of songs the last

536.88 -> section of the youtube music app to talk about is the library section and this

540.8 -> highlights another key difference between youtube music and the

544.08 -> competition youtube music lets you upload up to a

547.76 -> hundred thousand songs from your own personal music

550.72 -> library to the service you can do this by going to

554.44 -> music.youtube.com and dragging your music files anywhere on the screen

558.48 -> or click on your profile picture and then select upload music

562.32 -> back to the app the library section will show you your downloads which you can

566.16 -> set manually and the service will also automatically download

569.6 -> some of your most listened to songs and playlists like

572.64 -> songs that you've given a thumbs up to youtube also created a playlist called

576.72 -> your offline mixtape that'll include a lot of the songs it's noticed that

580.48 -> you've listened to quite a bit the next section in library

583.6 -> is playlists it's from here that you can see the playlist that you've created

587.279 -> from your youtube music library do note that it'll sometimes include playlists

591.44 -> from youtube that include music videos that you may have created a while back

595.839 -> which consists of mainly videos in this view you can also

599.279 -> create a new playlist you can give it a title and set its privacy so yes

604.24 -> you can make playlists public so they're easy to share with your friends

608.32 -> the artists songs and albums section are all pretty similar so let's just go

612.72 -> ahead and dive into one of them the song section will show you songs

616.399 -> you've uploaded or added to your library as well as songs that you've liked in

620.56 -> youtube music all in one view if you want to view the

623.6 -> songs you've uploaded to your library click on uploads at the top

627.2 -> subscriptions at the bottom will show you the artists you've subscribed to on

631.04 -> youtube you can subscribe to artists in youtube music through the artist

634.8 -> page but do note at the time that we've recorded this video when you subscribe

638.959 -> to an artist through youtube music you will also be

641.76 -> subscribed to that artist on youtube alright well that covers the

646 -> main different sections of the youtube music

648.88 -> app before we wrap up i want to quickly cover some

652.24 -> important things that you can find in the settings

655.279 -> of the youtube music app you can get to settings by clicking on your youtube

659.2 -> profile icon at the top right hand corner of both the

662.56 -> mobile and desktop app then select settings at the top you'll

666.56 -> see library and downloads this will show you how much storage

670 -> youtube music's downloads are taking up you can also set the download quality

674.079 -> for downloaded music and video quality for videos

677.36 -> enabling smart downloads will trigger youtube music to save your favorite

681.279 -> music offline automatically when you're on

683.839 -> wi-fi with sufficient battery going back you'll see options like

687.519 -> stream via wi-fi only so it doesn't hog your mobile data or don't play music

692.32 -> videos which will default youtube music to

694.72 -> playing audio only or album versions of songs here you can

698.56 -> also set what audio quality you want on wi-fi versus mobile data youtube music

703.519 -> also has an equalizer setting a restricted mode to filter out explicit

707.6 -> songs captions preferences and double tap to see advanced just

712.079 -> enables stats for nerds also you'll see the ability to transfer

715.68 -> from google play music to youtube music clicking this will guide you through the

719.44 -> process of transferring all of your music from google play music to youtube

723.6 -> music do note that it just copies over your

726.079 -> music and data it doesn't remove anything from google play music improve

730.56 -> your recommendations will bring you to the artist bubble screen where you can

734.16 -> select which artists you like to help improve your recommendations

737.76 -> like you saw when you first started using youtube music

740.72 -> the privacy and location settings contain settings to pause your watch

744.72 -> history pause search history use your play music

747.519 -> history and also you can pause location based recommendations as well

751.68 -> lastly let's talk about the paid version versus the free version of youtube music

756.48 -> now the version of youtube music that i use is the paid version

760.16 -> the free version does allow you to play specific songs by specific artists as

764.639 -> well as radio stations all that stuff just with ads now the

769.36 -> premium version of youtube music does come with some pretty significant

773.92 -> benefits including ad free listening plus

776.88 -> background play which will allow you to play music in the background of your

780.56 -> mobile device even when you close the app download music offline

784.32 -> use audio only mode this is the feature i demoed where you only want to listen

788.56 -> to the album version of a song without loading the music video version if

792.48 -> you're traveling to a different country where youtube music

795.2 -> isn't available the music content that's available to you

798.24 -> at home will travel with you for up to six months

801.519 -> so you can keep listening to all of your favorite music and

804.72 -> your downloads will remain available to you for 30 days without an

808.56 -> internet connection the last main benefit of youtube music premium is the

812.48 -> ability to shuffle all of your downloads youtube music premium costs 9.99 a month

817.92 -> here in the united states and that's not actually the version of the service i

821.6 -> use i use what's called youtube premium

824.16 -> which costs 12.99 per month here in the us

827.12 -> and what youtube premium gives you is you do get youtube music

830.959 -> premium plus you get an ad free experience

834.24 -> on youtube itself for just three dollars a month more so for me

838.48 -> that was totally worth it now if you like this video and found it helpful

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