How to Download Music from YouTube Music on Mac

By Justin SabrinaUpdated on March 07, 2024

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"Can I download music from YouTube Music on Mac?"

YouTube Music is a separate streaming music platform/app, derived from YouTube. It offers more than 80 million songs, and a large number of albums, music videos, remixes, live performances for all users. What makes it special is it allows Free users to skip ads, whereas other competitors like Spotify, TIDAL, Pandora, Deezer do not.

By subscribing to YouTube Music Premium ($9.99/month) or YouTube Premium ($11.99/month), users are able to stream music at a high bitrate of 256kbps, and enjoy the download feature, offline mode, etc. However, the download feature is only available on mobile devices. There is no an official way to download music from YouTube Music to Mac or Windows computer. Moreover, all downloaded tracks on mobile are just cache files, cannot be copied elsewhere for playback. You are limited to enjoy YouTube Music within its app.

Thankfully, downloading YouTube music to computer is not that difficult if you use a third-party YouTube music downloader or converter tool. Here 4kFinder YouTube Music Converter comes into rescue. In this post, we will introduce this best YouTube music downloader for Mac, and guide you how to download music from YouTube music on Mac computer free.

What Can 4kFinder YouTube Music Converter Do?

4kFinder YouTube Music Converter is a reliable and professional YouTube music downloader, as well as YouTube music converter. It is developed to download songs, albums or playlists from YouTube Music to Mac or PC, and convert YouTube music to MP3, M4A, AAC, FLAC, WAV, AIFF audio formats. With an embedded YouTube Music web players, users can browse or search any song from YouTube Music web player, and download them to unprotected audio formats.

Amazingly, it is able to preserve the 100% lossless music quality for YouTube songs (same as the original 256kbps). To improve your listening experience, it even lets you download and convert YouTube Music to MP3 at 320kbps high bitrate! Apart from this, it can run at up to 10X faster speed when downloading music from YouTube Music on Mac. Only in a few clicks, you can download and save any song from YouTube Music to your Mac, and enjoy them everywhere!

Features of 4kFinder YouTube Music Converter:

• Download YouTube Music on Mac and PC without Premium.
• Download songs, albums, playlists from YouTube Music for free.
• Download and convert YouTube music to MP3, M4A, AAC, FLAC, WAV, AIFF.
• Preserve source audio quality (256kbps, 320kbps) and ID3 tags after conversion.
• Built-in with YouTube Music web player, music player and music manager.
• Organize the output files by Artist, Album, Artist/Album, or Album/Artist.
• Save YouTube music to Mac/Windows computer without subscription.
• Transfer YouTube music to any MP3 player, USB disk, SD card and more devices.

Tutorial: How to Download Music from YouTube Music on Mac?

4kFinder YouTube Music Converter is easy to use. Currently, it supports Mac OS X 10.8 or above, Windows 7-11 systems. Here we will show you the detailed tutorial on how to download YouTube Music on Mac computer. To begin with, please download 4kFinder YouTube Music Converter for your Mac in advance.

Step 1. Run 4kFinder YouTube Music Converter
After installation, launch the 4kFinder YouTube Music Converter on your Mac. On the start-up interface of the program, please log in your YouTube Music account (either free or premium).

Then you will enter the YouTube Music web player, and get access your music library.

Step 2. Change the Output Settings
Click on "Settings" (a gear icon) to pop up the setting window. From where you could customize the output parameters, like Output Format (MP3 format is recommended), Output Quality(up to 320kbps), Output Folder, Language, etc.

Step 3. Add YouTube Music Tracks and Playlists
On the home page, you may search or browse to find what you want. Open a YouTube Music playlist or album, and click "+" icon suspending on the right side. You can also use the search box to find what you want.

Then select the desired YouTube songs that you would like to extract to your Mac computer.

Step 4. Start to Download YouTube Music to PC
To start the downloading, simply press on the "Convert" button. Then 4kFinder will start downloading music from YouTube Music web player to your local Mac at 10X faster speed.

Step 5. Find Downloaded YouTube Songs
After the download is complete, to find out the output YouTube songs on your Mac computer, you can tap on the "History" (a clock icon) in the upper right corner. With the built-in music player, you could play these YouTube songs on the tool directly.

Also, you may directly go to the output folder you've previously set in Step 2 to locate the output YouTube Music files.

Justin Sabrina

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.

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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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