How to Listen to YouTube Music Offline

By Li ZhangUpdated on April 14, 2023

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“How to listen to YouTube Music offline on my MP3 player? I can’t save the songs from YouTube to my Mac as local files. Any ways can help?”

YouTube Music is one of the hot music streaming music platforms these days. There is a powerful feature to attract users that is Google's search function and its predictions and recommendations function. YouTube Music provides an upgrading plan with users, you have to pay for $12/month for Premium plan then enjoy YouTube Music without ads. With a Premium member you can access to more features and services in YouTube. For example, you are allowed download music and play it offline on your phone. However, though you can download music from YouTube to mobile with Premium account, the downloads are cache files, it will be inaccessible once your Premium account is expired. For its music contents protection rules, you are not allowed to access and download YouTube Music offline on unauthorized devices. If you want enjoy YouTube Music on more ways, you should download YouTube Music to the computer as local files. In the follow passages, we will share three ways with you to download YouTube Music to the computer. So that you can play YouTube Music on mobile offline without paying, even listen to YouTube Music on any devices offline without limits as you like.

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Part 1. Download YouTube Music as MP3 with 4kFinder YouTube Music Converter[Hot]

Since you can download music from YouTube to your authorized mobile phone for offline listening with a Premium member, the downloads are not saved on your device as normal local music files. All these files will be displayable when your Premium subscription ends. To make the YouTube Music can be played offline on mobile device without paying, you should download and convert YouTube Music to MP3.

Here you meet 4kFinder YouTube Music Converter. As its name, it is a powerful music converter for YouTube Music. It is perfectly available for both YouTube Music Free and Premium users. It help you download songs, albums, playlists, from YouTube Music to computer and save them as local files. Convert YouTube Music tracks to MP3, M4A, AAC, WAV, FLAC, AIFF, preserve with its lossless audio quality and ID3 tags. What's better, you don't need to run extra apps including YouTube Music in the download process. As a result, you will get YouTube Music forever without paying, listen to YouTube Music offline without limits, even play YouTube Music on any devices as you like.

Features of 4kFinder YouTube Music Converter

• Work for all YouTube Music users
• Download YouTube songs, albums, playlists locally
• Convert songs, albums, playlists to several audio formats
• Preserve with lossless audio quality and ID3 tags
• No need to run extra apps
• Get YouTube Music forever without paying
• Listen to YouTube Music offline without limits
• Play YouTube Music on any devices freely

Steps to Download YouTube Music as MP3

In this part, we should like to focus on how to download and convert songs from YouTube Music to MP3, then you can play the music offline freely. But before we get started, please make sure you have downloaded the latest version of 4kFinder YouTube Music Converter. It is compatible with Mac and Windows computers. Please choose the correct version and install it on your computer.

Step 1. Log in YouTube Account
After running 4kFinder YouTube Music Converter on the computer, please log in your YouTube account, with its built-in YouTube Music web player.

Step 2. Output Format Settings
Click the Gear button to set output format for downloaded YouTube Music, there are six formats options for your selection: M4A(default), MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV, AIFF. Also, you can change output folder, output quality, output file name and more settings if you need.

Step 3. Add YouTube Music to Download List
You can browse or search to add the songs, albums or playlist you want to download from YouTube Music in YouTube web player,. Click the album or playlist, then click the red icon to load items in it.

When you click an album or a playlist, all songs in it will be selected by default. You can untick some in the tickbox you don't want.

Step 4. Download YouTube Music with Fast Speed
Once all the 3 steps are done above, click "Convert" button to begin downloading YouTube Music to computer with super fast speed.

Step 5. Preview YouTube Music
When the music downloading finishes, click the blue folder icon to preview the YouTube Music songs with lossless audio quality kept.

Part 2. Download YouTube Music as MP3 with 4kFinder YouTube Downloader

4kFinder YouTube Downloader, it is a downloader that designed with superior technology to download YouTube Music to computer without Premium. It is enable to convert YouTube Music to popular formats while maintaining the original sound quality and ID3 tags. After using this software, you will get YouTube Music as MP3 for offline listening on any devices, even without accessing YouTube. What’s more, this software supports download YouTube video to MP4 with high quality in different resolutions. As a result, you will be able to Play YouTube Music on any devices offline without YouTube Premium, like smartphone, tablet, MP3 player, smart TV, smart watch, game player, SD card, USB hard drive, etc,. With its 6X faster conversion speed and batch conversion function, you can get all YouTube media files as quickly as possible.

Features of 4kFinder YouTube Downloader

• Download YouTube Music to computer as local files
• Convert YouTube Music to MP3/M4A files
• Convert YouTube Videos to MP4 files
• Keep the original sound quality and ID3 tags
• Play YouTube Music on any devices offline
• Play YouTube Music without accessing YouTube
• 6X faster conversion speed and batch conversion function

How to Download YouTube Music as MP3

Step 1. Download and Run 4kFinder YouTube Downloader
First of all, please download, install and run 4kFinder YouTube Downloader on the PC/Mac computer, then it will lead you into its main page.

Step 2. Search YouTube Music Videos
Now you should search music videos from YouTube, copy the URL from the address bar.

Also, you can open the YouTube Music app/web, copy the song/playlist via “Share” button.

Then paste the music link of each music video/song in the search box of the software, then click “Analyze”.

Note: When you paste a YouTube Music playlist link, YouTube Music Downloader will analyze the whole playlist and list all songs in the playlist, just select some items your want.

Step 3. Select Output Format
When it list the result for you after analyzing, select MP3 format and 320kbps bitrate for the output YouTube music.

Step 4. Download YouTube Music as MP3
Click “Download”. Now the software will begin to download YouTube Music songs as MP3.

Tips: You can download YouTube Music in batch at the same time in software. You can click "Pause" or "Pause All" to interrupt the downloading at any time.

Once the download process finishes, tap “Finished” then “Open Folder” to preview the output MP3 YouTube music files. Also, you can play YouTube Music on any devices offline without Premium.

Part 3. Record YouTube Music as MP3 with UkeySoft Audio Recorder (Mac)

Another practical way we want to share with you is to download YouTube Music as MP3 using UkeySoft Audio Recorder (Mac). Through recording YouTube Music as MP3, you will get YouTube Music as local files with high audio quality. So that you will keep YouTube Music forever without paying, play YouTube Music on any devices offline without Premium. Actually, it is an all-in-one screen recording tool, help to record anything on your computer screen with ease. Besides MP3, this software support for output recording audio/video files as MP3, M4A, WAV, MP4, MOV and more audio/video formats. Additionally, it works for recording media files on all music streaming platforms & social media platforms, like YouTube, Amazon Music, Tidal; TikTok, Facebook, etc,. What's more, it features with recording media files without watermark, editing your media files after recording.

Features of UkeySoft Audio Recorder

• Record YouTube Music as MP3 files
• Get YouTube Music as local files
• Get YouTube Music with high audio quality
• Keep YouTube Music forever without paying
• Play YouTube on any devices offline without Premium
• Record anything on your computer screen
• Output media files with several audio/video formats
• Works for recording media files on all media platforms
• Record media files without watermark
• Edit media files after recording

How to Record YouTube Music as MP3 on Mac

Step 1. Launch UkeySoft Audio Recorder on Mac
Firstly, download and install UkeySoft Audio Recorder on your Mac computer. After that, you will find 5 functions on its home page.

Step 2. Open YouTube Music Web Player
Then open the YouTube Music web browser or YouTube.com. To record songs from YouTube Music as MP3, please select "Audio Only" function.

Step 3. Customize Audio Recording Setting
Choose "System Audio" from the audio icon. If you want to record audio on computer with your sound, you can choose "System&Mic" option.

Step 4. Select MP3 for Recording Audio
MP3/M4A/WAV are allowed to select under the "Format" icon. In this case, you should click "MP3".

Or click on the "Settings" icon to open the settings window for more settings.

Step 5. Record YouTube Music as MP3
At last, play any song on YouTube or YouTube Music web, and press on the "Record" button to start recording.

Finally, click the "History" icon to find the recorded YouTube songs in MP3. Now you can play YouTube Music as local files on any devices without Premium. Also, you can play it via the built-in media player!

Conclusion

Though you can play YouTube Music offline on mobile with paying at least $12/month, all the songs are cache files, and it will be unplayable after the subscription ends. Download YouTube Music as MP3 with 4kFinder software and record YouTube Music as MP3 with UkeySoft Audio Recorder are the most recommended methods. After that, you can play YouTube Music offline on any devices without Premium. Why not try these ways and begin your music listening trip right now?

Li Zhang

Justin Sabrina has over 10 years of content writing experience. She specializes in product reviews, how-to guides, tips and tricks, top lists, etc. on data encryption, multi-media conversion, screen recording and iOS unlocking. At UkeySoft, she performs in-depth research SEO copywriting and collaborates with our R & D team to offer effective software solution, most of her articles on software are helpful and easy to read, helping our reader easily solve problems through using software or apps.

Li Zhang

Li Zhang is a sophisticated editor for UkeySoft in tech blog writing, as well as a SEO and content marketing expert. She has been writing related article about multimedia conversion, streaming music and streaming video since 2018. Also, she's starting to write article about data security, including articles about file lock, USB encryption, DVD encryption, etc. Each helpful tutorial and solution is based on her practical tests, she is aways energetic and trustworthy in this field.

Li Zhang

Chester is an experienced editor for UkeySoft focused on tech article writing, software & hardware produce review and tutorial. He specializes in composing posts about music conversion, video downloading, video conversion, screen recording and other tech knowledge tips. He always understands user needs and pain points and familiar with all kinds of multimedia conversion software and streaming music downloader on the market. So far, he has published 400+ helpful tech articles of software reviews, how-to guides to help reader in need.

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