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This How.com.vn teaches you how to download YouTube Music songs, albums, and playlists to an SD card in your Android. You'll need to be a YouTube Music Premium subscriber to download music.
Steps
Enabling the SD Card in YouTube Music
Open YouTube Music on your Android. You’ll usually find it in the app drawer, and sometimes on the home screen. It’s the round red icon with a white triangle inside.
Tap your profile photo. It’s at the top-right corner of the screen.
Tap Settings. It’s the option with a gear icon.
Tap Downloads. It’s at the top of the menu.
Slide the ″Use SD Card″ switch to the Onposition. Music you download will now save to your SD card instead of your phone or tablet’s internal storage.[1]
- It’s not possible to move music you've already saved to internal storage over to the SD card. To get that music onto the card, delete it all, and then re-download.
- To delete your old downloads, tap Clear downloads (on the Downloads screen in Settings where you just enabled the card), and then REMOVE to confirm.
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Downloading Music
Open YouTube Music on your Android. You’ll usually find it in the app drawer, and sometimes on the home screen. It’s the round red icon with a white triangle inside.- Now that you’ve enabled the SD card, your downloads will automatically save to the card instead of your phone or tablet’s internal storage.
Open an album, playlist, or song you want to download. Anything on YouTube Music can be downloaded to your SD card, including the playlists, songs, and albums on the Home tab.
Tap ⁝. It’s at the top of the screen.- If you only want to download one song from an album, tap ⁝ next to the song in the album’s track list.
Tap Download. The selected song, album, or playlist will now download to the SD card.[2]- To listen to music you’ve downloaded, tap the Library tab at the bottom of the screen, tap Downloads, and then select what you want to hear.
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1. Open YouTube Music.
2. Tap your profile photo.
3. Tap Settings.
4. Tap Downloads.
5. Toggle on "Use SD Card."
6. Find something to download.
7. Tap ⁝.
8. Tap Download.
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