Listen To YouTube Offline
YouTube is, as you know, a collection of moving pictures and audio. Sometimes, you just need the the sound, and not the video. But how do you listen to YouTube everywhere, even when you're offline?
Do you need a way to download the sound of any YouTube video? You may use paid YouTube for downloading videos and music. Furthermore, there are online tools available for making MP3 files of YouTube videos, as well as offline apps and software for downloading. Or the low tech (and low quality) solution: Place your phone next to your computer speakers, be silent for a moment, and press record on your phone and play on your computer.
It's easy if you follow the official route, which is to use YouTube Red (paid YouTube) and then save the video.
Official answer from the YouTube Music Help site:
If you're a YouTube Music Premium member, you can enjoy music offline by downloading your favorite songs and videos to your mobile device. This means you can keep listening to your favorite artists even if you're not connected to the internet or want to save on data. You'll need to reconnect to the internet at least once every 30 days to maintain your downloads.
But that's for music. What if you want to download the soundtrack of any YouTube video, not just music videos.
Take a look at guides such as wikihow: Use YouTube Offline, and you'll notice this is much harder then it should be.
How To Listen To YouTube Offline on Android or iPhone?
The short answer is, there's no satisfiable solutions.
If you want to listen to YouTube on Android, there are apps you could install and use. Same goes for iPhone and other portable iOS devices.
Sadly, we haven't found any solution that are really great.
Also, it may be against the YouTube Terms of Service, not including the paid and official YouTube Red / YouTube Music solution.
The YouTube Missing Feature
Carrier costs can be substantial. In the future internet may be available everywhere at zero cost, but this is still not the case today.
If you want to listen to YouTube, and not watch the damn pictures, well, you can't.
Why isn't there a play audio only feature in YouTube?
If you care, do us a favor and contact Google/YouTube regarding this.
Alternatives To Downloading YouTube Videos For Offline Consumption
It's not always convinient to store gigabytes of video on your phone, just in case you have an available moment for watching these videos later.
Check if the video is available as a podcast. If the videos you prefer to listen to offline also is available as a podcast, you may want to check other and better options, such as Spotify, podcast apps, direct downloads from the podcasters site or internet channel.
Other methods. There are many other methods available as well, where you download the sound only of selected YouTube videos, and convert them to MP3 or other formats. How? Google it. Or try DuckDuckGo.
Online software for downloading sound track of YouTube videos. Again, Google it. It's very easy to find those, but a word of caution: These sites can contain malware, and there might be legal issues, copyright infringement, privacy violations, borderline piracy and so forth. Do your due diligence before proceeding.
Offline software for YouTube downloading. There are offline tools, software and apps available, which will led you download content from YouTube. Is it legal? IANAL. And there's the added danger of this software being bundled with malware, adware.
The Very Low Tech Solution. Just use your phone and record the sound of any YouTube video. If you don't need high quality and the sound clip is not too long, this might be an option.
