Upload your music

Add your personal music collection to your YouTube Music library by uploading your songs and albums. Once your music is uploaded, you lot 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 2 means to upload your music. On a computer:

  1. Drag your file(southward) to any surface on music.youtube.com.
  2. Visit music.youtube.com and click on your profile motion-picture showand 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 after information technology has been successfully uploaded.

Things to know:

  • Music uploads cannot be completed in the YouTube Music mobile app.
  • You can upload upward to 100,000 songs to your YouTube Music library.
  • You cannot upload music to a aqueduct on your make account. If you wish to upload music, you can move your aqueduct to a personal business relationship.

View, manage, and search your uploads

To view or manage the music you've uploaded, go to Library and then Songs and then Uploads or Library and then Albums and then Uploads. In order to meet your uploads in the YouTube Music app, y'all must exist using the YouTube mobile version 3.51+ 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 yous have uploaded can only be played by you; other YouTube Music users will not take access to your uploads.
  • If you lot share a playlist with another user that contains music you uploaded, they will non exist able to play the uploaded songs in your playlist - including members of your Google or YouTube family plan.
  • You can play uploaded songs in the background, ad-free and offline - even if you are not currently a YouTube Music Premium subscriber.
  • YouTube Music Premium members tin can as well cast uploaded content or play it from smart speakers and Sonos.
  • All YouTube Music users tin can create playlists containing uploaded music and songs from YouTube Music.
  • Only audio files and their associated metadata and album art tin exist uploaded. Video files, PDFs, and other types of content are not supported.
  • YouTube Music will automatically remove indistinguishable copies from your library if the same content is uploaded multiple times.

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