Upload your music

Add your personal music collection to your YouTube Music library past uploading your songs and albums. One time your music is uploaded, yous can use YouTube Music to play your uploaded music as part of your listening experience.

Upload your music to YouTube Music

How to upload

In that location are two means to upload your music. On a figurer:

  1. Drag your file(south) to whatever surface on music.youtube.com.
  2. Visit music.youtube.com and click on your profile motion pictureand then Upload music.

Supported file formats for uploads include FLAC, M4A, MP3, OGG, and WMA.

Yous will see a progress bar indicating your music is uploading and a confirmation message once the songs have been uploaded. Your uploaded music may take some time to show up in your library, even later it has been successfully uploaded.

Things to know:

  • Music uploads cannot exist completed in the YouTube Music mobile app.
  • Yous can upload up to 100,000 songs to your YouTube Music library.
  • You cannot upload music to a channel on your brand account. If yous wish to upload music, you tin can motion your channel to a personal account.

View, manage, and search your uploads

To view or manage the music you've uploaded, become to Library and then Songs and then Uploads or Library and then Albums and then Uploads. In social club to see your uploads in the YouTube Music app, you must be using the YouTube mobile version three.51+ or newer.

To search for music you've uploaded, click or tap "Uploads" after searching to view uploaded search results.

 Things to know about music uploads:

  • Your music uploads volition non influence your music recommendations in YouTube Music.
  • Music you have uploaded tin can just exist played past you; other YouTube Music users will not have access to your uploads.
  • If you share a playlist with another user that contains music yous uploaded, they will non exist able to play the uploaded songs in your playlist - including members of your Google or YouTube family unit plan.
  • You lot can play uploaded songs in the background, ad-free and offline - fifty-fifty if you are non currently a YouTube Music Premium subscriber.
  • YouTube Music Premium members can also cast uploaded content or play it from smart speakers and Sonos.
  • All YouTube Music users can create playlists containing uploaded music and songs from YouTube Music.
  • Merely audio files and their associated metadata and album art can be uploaded. Video files, PDFs, and other types of content are not supported.
  • YouTube Music will automatically remove duplicate copies from your library if the aforementioned content is uploaded multiple times.

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