Change your audio quality
YouTube Music Premium members can select the bitrate at which music is streamed and downloaded. If you haven’t selected a quality setting, it will automatically be set to the “Normal” bitrate for your location.
Select your streaming audio quality
Audio quality on Wi-Fi
- In the YouTube Music app 👁 YouTube music app icon
, tap on your profile picture 👁 Image
. - Select Settings 👁 Image
👁 and then
Data saving 👁 and then
Audio quality on Wi-Fi. - Select one of the available options:
- Low
- Uses least data
- Upper bound of 48kbps AAC & OPUS
- Normal
- Default setting
- Upper bound of 128kbps AAC & OPUS
- High
- Uses extra data
- Upper bound of 256kbps AAC & OPUS
- Always High
- Maintains high quality even when connection is poor
- Bitrate: 256kbps AAC & OPUS
Audio quality on mobile network
- In the YouTube Music app 👁 YouTube music app icon
, tap on your profile picture 👁 Image
. - Select Settings 👁 Image
👁 and then
Data saving 👁 and then
Audio quality on mobile network. - Select one of the available options:
- Low
- Uses least data
- Upper bound of 48kbps AAC & OPUS
- Normal
- Default setting
- Upper bound of 128kbps AAC & OPUS
- High
- Uses extra data
- Upper bound of 256kbps AAC & OPUS
- Always High
- Maintains high quality even when connection is poor
- Bitrate: 256kbps AAC & OPUS
Stream using Wi-Fi on mobile
If you're using YouTube Music on your mobile device, you can turn on the "Stream via Wi-Fi only" setting.
To turn on "Stream via Wi-Fi only":
- Tap on your profile picture 👁 Image
. - Select Settings 👁 Image
👁 and then
Data saving. - Turn on Stream via Wi-Fi only 👁 Image
.
Select your download audio quality
- In the YouTube Music app 👁 YouTube music app icon
, tap on your profile picture 👁 Image
. - Select Settings 👁 Image
👁 and then
Download & storage. - Tap Audio quality.
- Select your download quality:
- Low
- Uses least storage on your device
- Bitrate: 48kbps AAC & OPUS
- Normal
- Default setting
- Bitrate: 128kbps AAC & OPUS
- High
- Higher-quality audio will use more storage on your device
- Bitrate: 256kbps AAC & OPUS
- Low
If you’ve previously downloaded songs, they'll stay at their current audio quality unless you re-download them. Changing the download audio quality only impacts the quality of future downloads.
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