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
- In the YouTube Music app
, tap on your profile picture
.
- Select Settings
Playback and restrictions
- Select one of the available options:
, tap on your profile picture 
.
Playback and restrictions - High
- Uses extra data
- Upper bound of 256 kbps AAC and OPUS
- Normal
- Default setting
- Upper bound of 128 kbps AAC and OPUS
- Low
- Uses the least data
- Upper bound of 48 kbps AAC and OPUS
- Always high
- Maintains high quality even when the connection is poor
- Bitrate: 256 kbps AAC and OPUS
Audio quality on mobile network
- In the YouTube Music app
- Select Settings
- Select one of the available options:
- High
- Uses extra data
- Upper bound of 256 kbps AAC and OPUS
- Normal
- Default setting
- Upper bound of 128 kbps AAC and OPUS
- Low
- Uses the least data
- Upper bound of 48 kbps AAC and OPUS
- Always high
- Maintains high quality even when the connection is poor
- Bitrate: 256 kbps AAC and OPUS
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':
- Tap on your profile picture
- Select Settings
- Turn on Stream via Wi-Fi only
.
Select your download audio quality
- In the YouTube Music app
- Select Settings
- Tap Audio quality.
- Select your download quality:
- Low
- Uses the least storage on your device
- Bitrate: 48 kbps AAC and OPUS
- Normal
- Default setting
- Bitrate: 128 kbps AAC and OPUS
- High
- Higher-quality audio will use more storage on your device
- Bitrate: 256 kbps AAC and OPUS
- Low
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.