Change your audio quality

YouTube Music Premium members can select the bitrate at which music is streamed and downloaded. If you haven’t selected a quality setting, it will automatically be set to the “Normal” bitrate for your location.

Select your streaming audio quality

Audio quality on Wi-Fi

1. In the YouTube Music app, tap on your profile picture.
2. Select Settings.
3. Tap Playback & restrictions.
4. Tap Audio quality on Wi-Fi.
5. Select one of the available options:
   • ​Low
     • Uses least data
     • Upper bound of 48kbps AAC & OPUS
   • Normal
     • Default setting
     • Upper bound of 128kbps AAC & OPUS
   • High
     • Uses extra data 
     • Upper bound of 256kbps AAC & OPUS
   • Always High
     • Maintains high quality even when connection is poor
     • Bitrate: 256kbps AAC & OPUS

Audio quality on mobile network

1. In the YouTube Music app, tap on your profile picture.
2. Select Settings.
3. Tap Playback & restrictions.
4. Tap Audio quality on mobile network.
5. Select one of the available options:
   • ​Low
     • Uses least data
     • Upper bound of 48kbps AAC & OPUS
   • Normal
     • Default setting
     • Upper bound of 128kbps AAC & OPUS
   • High
     • Uses extra data
     • Upper bound of 256kbps AAC & OPUS
   • Always High
     • Maintains high quality even when connection is poor
     • Bitrate: 256kbps AAC & OPUS

Select your download audio quality

1. In the YouTube Music app, tap on your profile picture.
2. Select Settings.
3. Tap Downloads & storage.
4. Tap Audio quality.
5. Select your download quality:
   • ​Low
     • Uses least storage on your device
     • Bitrate: 48kbps AAC & OPUS
   • Normal
     • Default setting
     • Bitrate: 128kbps AAC & OPUS
   • High
     • Higher-quality audio will use more storage on your device
     • Bitrate: 256kbps AAC & OPUS

If you’ve previously downloaded songs, they'll stay at their current audio quality unless you re-download them. Changing the download audio quality only impacts the quality of future downloads.

Stream using Wi-Fi on mobile

If you're using YouTube Music on your mobile device, you can turn on the "Stream via Wi-Fi only" setting.

To turn on "Stream via Wi-Fi only":

1. Tap on your profile picture
2. Select Settings  
3. Turn on "Stream via Wi-Fi only."