Customize your music

You can explore new music and customize your listening experience with the YouTube Music app. Each song or playlist that you listen to becomes a radio station that you can personalize.

How to customize your YouTube Music listening experience

For even more customized music, sign in to YouTube Music with your YouTube account. You'll instantly get recommendations based on music you've listened to on YouTube.

Add albums to your library

You can add an entire album to your library by viewing the album details page and selecting Library .

Like or dislike music

Tap Like or Dislike on songs that are playing to customize your station. Videos, artists, stations, playlists, and albums that you like will appear in the Library tab under "Liked songs."

To download your Liked songs:

  1. Tap the Library tab  .
  2. Tap Liked songs.
  3. Tap More  .
  4. Tap Download  .

Explore other music

You can learn more about the song you're listening to and find covers, remixes, and live performances of it by tapping Info next to the song title.

Playlists

You can create playlists in the YouTube Music app and on YouTube. Your playlists will show up in the Library tab of the YouTube Music app, along with any stations you've saved. Learn more about creating a playlist in the YouTube Music app.

Recommendations in YouTube Music

Your recommendations and search results are also based on videos that you’ve liked and playlists that you’ve created in YouTube Music and YouTube. You can remove liked videos and edit or delete playlists to influence your recommendations and search results.

Manage your history

To manage your history:
  1. Select your profile picture.
  2. Select History  .
  3. Select More  next to the song you want to remove.
  4. Select Remove from watch history.

Pause your history

To pause your history:

  1. Select your profile picture.
  2. Select Settings  .
  3. Select Privacy & location.
  4. Toggle on Pause watch history or Pause search history.

Delete your history

To delete your history:

  1. Select your profile picture.
  2. Select Settings  .
  3. Select Privacy & location.
  4. Select Manage watch history or Manage search history and follow the instructions.
Learn more about updating your location settings in YouTube Music.
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