Best YouTube Music Downloader in 2025?

[scottmartin]

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for recommendations for a reliable YouTube music downloader. I mainly want to download high-quality audio tracks from YouTube for offline listening. Key things I’m looking for are fast downloads, good audio quality, and safety (no malware or annoying ads).

Bonus if it supports playlists or multiple downloads at once. I’ve tried a few apps, but some either had poor audio quality or required sketchy workarounds.

Has anyone found a trustworthy tool recently that works well on both desktop and mobile?

Any suggestions or experiences would be greatly appreciated!

 

[scottmartin]

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for recommendations for a reliable YouTube music downloader. I mainly want to download high-quality audio tracks from YouTube for offline listening. Key things I’m looking for are fast downloads, good audio quality, and safety (no malware or annoying ads).

Bonus if it supports playlists or multiple downloads at once. I’ve tried a few apps, but some either had poor audio quality or required sketchy workarounds.

Has anyone found a trustworthy tool recently that works well on both desktop and mobile?

Any suggestions or experiences with YMusic would be greatly appreciated!

thanks in advance for any help

 

[rob aylestone]

We used to get lots of posts like this but as people here tend to be striving to maximise quality, YouTube is rarely where we would source music from. If you want to do it then for me I tend to use OBS and hit record. Then I’ll just take just the audio. The kids have dozens of apps for this but with streaming services having the better quality, I rarely do it from YouTube as the adverts ruin it! You’ve probably got screen capture with audio so they all need a level of fiddling. Or do you have some better software you use?

 

[VomitHatSteve]

I can't find the latest version of the forum rules, but I'm pretty sure piracy is still considered a no-no.

But as Rob said, recording the output as it plays on your device is the most sure-fire way. If you only need audio (e.g. you're learning a song and need a better way to jump around to sections than YT's scrub bar), Audacity is good

Any bulk, ad-free, or direct download is going to be sketchy and/or low quality tho because it's all piracy.

 

[Papanate]

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for recommendations for a reliable YouTube music downloader. I mainly want to download high-quality audio tracks from YouTube for offline listening. Key things I’m looking for are fast downloads, good audio quality, and safety (no malware or annoying ads).

Bonus if it supports playlists or multiple downloads at once. I’ve tried a few apps, but some either had poor audio quality or required sketchy workarounds.

Has anyone found a trustworthy tool recently that works well on both desktop and mobile?

Any suggestions or experiences would be greatly appreciated!

I find VideoProc Converter AI to do a good job.

 

[DM60]

4 bucks a month, YouTube let's you download for later or offline viewing/listening and add free. I use YouTube so much, I thought it to be a better value than any of the film sites. Oh, and they do have movies, but to me the whole purpose behind YouTube, 15ish minutes and I'm done to the next topic. Either I have a short attention span or there is not much content out there that is good enough for more than 15 minutes. Another hero movie?

 

[mixsit]

We used to get lots of posts like this but as people here tend to be striving to maximise quality, YouTube is rarely where we would source music from. If you want to do it then for me I tend to use OBS and hit record. Then I’ll just take just the audio. The kids have dozens of apps for this but with streaming services having the better quality, I rarely do it from YouTube as the adverts ruin it! You’ve probably got screen capture with audio so they all need a level of fiddling. Or do you have some better software you use?

Hey just a quickie, what's OBS? Thanks Wayne

 

[rob aylestone]

Really popular software that lets you live stream - but it does other useful stuff like audio and video capture - you can capture windows, or full screen, and capture audio from a youtube video or other sources connected. Lots of useful formats and it is free! Unlike ordinary capture software, it's a bit more complicated, but can do an awful lot.

 

[TAE]

So I've used a lot of downloaders over the years but lately If I want to share any video clip on the internet...not just facebook I just use the free snippet tool in Windows. You grab the video in snipet and then you edit it in Clipchamp...simple stupid easy.... I had no idea it even existed in the windows suite...then I did and that's how grab any images or video's I'm wanting copy...ez pz.

I just grabbed this one..copied and pasted it into a gmail e-mail draft then dragged it into this post...
20251130-1456-41.6383891.mp4

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[TAE]

I can't find the latest version of the forum rules, but I'm pretty sure piracy is still considered a no-no.

But as Rob said, recording the output as it plays on your device is the most sure-fire way. If you only need audio (e.g. you're learning a song and need a better way to jump around to sections than YT's scrub bar), Audacity is good

Any bulk, ad-free, or direct download is going to be sketchy and/or low quality tho because it's all piracy.

Audacity for grabbing audio on your computer is so dang easy ! Love it.