Upload your music

Add your personal music collection to your YouTube Music library past uploading your songs and albums. Once your music is uploaded, you tin use YouTube Music to play your uploaded music as office of your listening experience.

Upload your music to YouTube Music

How to upload

There are two ways to upload your music. On a calculator:

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

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

You 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 fourth dimension to show up in your library, even afterwards it has been successfully uploaded.

Things to know:

  • Music uploads cannot be completed in the YouTube Music mobile app.
  • You can upload up to 100,000 songs to your YouTube Music library.
  • You cannot upload music to a channel on your brand account. If y'all wish to upload music, yous can move your channel to a personal business relationship.

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 come across your uploads in the YouTube Music app, you must be using the YouTube mobile version 3.51+ or newer.

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

 Things to know about music uploads:

  • Your music uploads volition not influence your music recommendations in YouTube Music.
  • Music you take uploaded can simply exist played by you lot; other YouTube Music users volition not have access to your uploads.
  • If yous share a playlist with some other user that contains music you uploaded, they volition not exist able to play the uploaded songs in your playlist - including members of your Google or YouTube family plan.
  • You lot tin play uploaded songs in the background, ad-gratuitous and offline - even if y'all are not currently a YouTube Music Premium subscriber.
  • YouTube Music Premium members can besides bandage uploaded content or play it from smart speakers and Sonos.
  • All YouTube Music users tin create playlists containing uploaded music and songs from YouTube Music.
  • Only 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 same content is uploaded multiple times.

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