How to Disable Music Videos on YouTube Music
Nothing can ruin your music streaming experience like when a music video lags or keeps buffering. And unless you want to watch a particular music video, they aren’t all that necessary when streaming music anyway.
Fortunately, YouTube Music allows you to stream in audio-only mode to avoid such problems. Continue reading to learn how to disable music videos on YouTube Music.
Why Disable Music Videos on YouTube Music?
Playing music videos can affect your streaming experience and cause unnecessary interruptions. While you canwatch music videos on Apple Musicand other music streaming platforms, YouTube Music offers one of the biggest libraries of music videos.
However, there’s a time and place for watching music videos. It all depends on your motivation for streaming music at the time. If you stream music to get through the day—while you work, during your commute, while doing some chores, or meditating—then you don’t really need music videos. In these cases, you can get away with having music videos disabled on YouTube Music.
More importantly, as we all know,streaming videos consumes a lot of data, even more than just streaming audio. Streaming videos on YouTube Music consumes the sameamount of data that YouTube uses—especially when music videos play at a higher pixel rate.
While you can choose the video quality you want, YouTube Music plays music videos in auto quality by default. This means it can play some videos in higher quality, thereby using more data. If you’re concerned about data usage when streaming on YouTube Music or want toreduce mobile data usage, you have a few options.
You can always switch to audio while playing a song by tapping theSongtab at the top of the screen (next to theVideotab). If the app doesn’t allow you to tap theSongorVideotabs, it means that the particular track is only available in audio mode. This method is tedious because you must do it for every song you stream, but there’s a better way—disabling music videos altogether.
For starters, as a YouTube Music Premium member, ask yourself if you really need to be paying for the service if you never watch music videos. YouTube Music’s free version is an audio-only music streaming service—you may’t play music videos. If you don’t mind the ads, you might want to downgrade.
On the other hand, you might have YouTube Music Premium because of YouTube Premium. If you considerYouTube Premium is worth the cost, you may simply switch your YouTube Music Premium account to audio-only by following these steps:
And that’s it—a quick and easy process. Please note that even though YouTube Music plays videos on the desktop platform, you’re able to only switch to audio-only mode on the mobile app. If you want to enable music videos later, simply follow the steps outlined above and toggleDon’t play music videosoff. However, it’s better to watch music videos on the YouTube app, in our opinion.
Enjoy Uninterrupted Streaming on YouTube Music
Streaming music should be a chilled, pleasant experience. But playing music videos can impact your music streaming experience. Sometimes, this can use up more data than you’re comfortable with.
Consider switching to YouTube Music’s audio-only mode if you don’t watch music videos, want to save mobile data, or just prefer using the main YouTube app to play your favorite music videos.
Learn how to easily find your favorite song’s lyrics on YouTube Music on your phone or desktop.
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