Cookie Settings. wikiHow is where trusted research and expert knowledge come together. Learn why people trust wikiHow. Categories Computers and Electronics Telephones Smartphones Android How to Add Free Music to Android. Download Article Co-authored by Luigi Oppido and Travis Boylls Last Updated: July 28, Spotify Amazon Music YouTube Music SoundCloud Show more Show less. Method 1. All rights reserved. wikiHow, Inc. is the copyright holder of this image under U. and international copyright laws. This image may not be used by other entities without the express written consent of wikiHow, Inc. Download and install Spotify. Spotify is one of the most popular music apps. You can download the app and sign up for a free account. A free account lets you stream music on shuffle play with commercials. Use the following steps to download and install Spotify: Open the Google Play Store. Type "Spotify" in the search bar at the top. Tap Spotify. Tap Install. Launch Spotify. It has an icon that resembles a green circle with three arching lines in the middle.

Tap the Spotify icon on your Home screen or Apps menu to open Spotify. Sign up for Spotify. You have a few options to sign up for Spotify. To sign up for a new account, tap Sign up free. You will need to enter a valid email address, username, and password. Then you will need to check your email to confirm it. Alternatively, you can sign up for Spotify using your Google or Facebook account. To do so, tap Continue with Google or Continue with Facebook and then log in using your Google account or Facebook account. Enter the name of an artist or song in the search bar. The search bar is at the top of the page. Tap the song you want to play. This displays the song's title page. It also displays what other music it will shuffle play with.

Tap the Shuffle Play icon. It's the green circle icon with a play triangle on the right side. This will not play the exact song, but it will play similar songs and artists on shuffle. You can tap Add to Playlist to add the song to a playlist. Create a playlist. You can create playlists with your favorite songs on Spotify. Use the following steps to create a new playlist. Search for a song and tap Add to playlist on the song's title page. Then tap Add to Playlist. Tap a playlist to add the song to or tap New Playlist at the top. Type a name for the playlist and tap Create. You can access your playlists by tap the LIbrary tab at the bottom of the screen. Tap Playlists at the top to display all your playlists. Method 2. Download Amazon Music. Amazon Music is a music streaming service from Amazon that allows you to stream using a free account. You can sign in to Amazon Music using your existing Amazon account. Use the following step to download Amazon Music. Open the Google Play Store.

Type "Amazon Music" in the search bar at the top. Tap Amazon Music in the search results. Open Amazon Music. It has a blue icon that says "Music" with the curved Amazon arrow below it. Tap the icon on your Home screen or Apps menu to open Amazon Music. Sign in to your Amazon account. To do so, tap Sign In with Amazon. If you are signed into your Amazon account on your Android device, it will detect your account and ask if you want to continue with that account. Tap Continue as [your name] to continue with your current account. No, once your subscription expires, or you cancel it, you cannot access locally downloaded songs that you saved through the streaming app itself. No, if you download music through a streaming app, you can only play that music with the streaming app itself.

It can. Guides How-to's. How to download music on Android Get you tunes to go wherever you go, even without the internet available. By Zak Khan. QUICK ANSWER Spotify: Add the tracks you want to download to a playlist, then select Download in that playlist Apple Music: Touch and hold the song, album, or playlist you wish to download and tap Download. JUMP TO KEY SECTIONS How to download music from streaming services onto your Android phone How to download music onto your Android as a local file. Add the song to a playlist by selecting Add to Playlist. Apple Music subscribers users can download their songs by doing the following: Open Apple Music.

Touch and hold the song, album, or playlist you wish to download. Tap Download. Tap the Library icon at the bottom of the screen. Tap Downloads. The songs downloaded to your device display, along with the amount of space available. Turning on Smart Downloads causes YouTube Music to download your favorite music every night as long as your device is connected to Wi-Fi. Then, you'll always have something to listen to. There are many apps in the Google Play store that offer free downloads. To find these apps, search for terms like free music or download music. Some apps you might find include YMusic , AudioMack , and SoundCloud. The method for downloading music varies. In general, if an app allows you to download tracks for offline listening, tap Download icon next to the track, playlist, or album. It usually looks like a downward arrow. Connect the Gabb Phone to a PC using a ZTE USB Type-C cable, then select File Transfer. Locate and choose the. mp3 music files you want to load onto the Gabb Phone.

Mac users will have to use an app like Android File Transfer to load music directly onto a microSD card. If you download music files through Amazon Music, it will save them in a folder called Amazon Music. You can copy or transfer these files to a Mac or PC using a compatible USB cable. Make sure to use the Chrome web browser and open the Google Play Music web player. Locate the song you want to download, select the three dots , then select the Download icon to start downloading the track. Once you're finished, transfer the saved music files to your smartphone. Get the Latest Tech News Delivered Every Day. By Dave Johnson. Dave Johnson. Dave Johnson has been writing about tech since He's the author of over 2 dozen books and his writing has appeared in Wired, PCWorld, Business Insider, and many other publications.

Jump to a Section. When your smartphone is your music player, the internet is your music library. However, you may not always have access to an internet connection when you want to listen to music. Before that happens, download songs to your phone for offline listening. Here's how to download music from YouTube Music , your computer, and other music sources to your phone. YouTube Music lets you upload your music collection and access it from any device including your phone, tablet , and computer. When you store songs on YouTube Music, you're not downloading the tracks to your phone.

Instead, you're uploading songs to the cloud. As long as you have an internet connection, you can play those songs on your phone. Here's how to upload music to YouTube Music. Open a web browser and go to the YouTube Music site. Select your profile photo in the upper-right corner. Select Upload music. Locate and select the songs on your hard drive that you want to upload, then select Open. YouTube Music automatically begins transferring the songs to the cloud. YouTube Music lets you download songs, playlists, and albums for offline play. Here's how:. Open the YouTube Music app. Select the song or album you want to download.

Tap Download. Download changes from a down-arrow to a check mark when the download completes, making the song available for offline listening. You can copy any music you own from your computer to your phone with a USB cable. Connect your phone to your computer using a USB connection cable. If you see a dialog box asking permission to access the phone data, tap Allow. On a PC, open a folder and locate the music files you want to download to the phone. Open a second folder and navigate to the music folder on your phone. On a Mac, download and install Android File Transfer. After installing it, open Android File Transfer and open the music folder on your phone. Drag the albums or individual tracks you want to download from the computer folder to the phone's music folder.

After you download songs to your phone, either from YouTube Music or by copying with a USB cable, set YouTube Music to show only the downloaded tracks. When you do this, songs are easier to find for offline listening. Tap the Library icon at the bottom of the screen. Tap Downloads. The songs downloaded to your device display, along with the amount of space available. Turning on Smart Downloads causes YouTube Music to download your favorite music every night as long as your device is connected to Wi-Fi. Then, you'll always have something to listen to.

There are many apps in the Google Play store that offer free downloads. To find these apps, search for terms like free music or download music. Some apps you might find include YMusic , AudioMack , and SoundCloud. The method for downloading music varies. In general, if an app allows you to download tracks for offline listening, tap Download icon next to the track, playlist, or album. It usually looks like a downward arrow. Connect the Gabb Phone to a PC using a ZTE USB Type-C cable, then select File Transfer. Locate and choose the. mp3 music files you want to load onto the Gabb Phone. Mac users will have to use an app like Android File Transfer to load music directly onto a microSD card. If you download music files through Amazon Music, it will save them in a folder called Amazon Music. You can copy or transfer these files to a Mac or PC using a compatible USB cable. Make sure to use the Chrome web browser and open the Google Play Music web player.

Locate the song you want to download, select the three dots , then select the Download icon to start downloading the track. Once you're finished, transfer the saved music files to your smartphone. Get the Latest Tech News Delivered Every Day. By Dave Johnson. Dave Johnson. Dave Johnson has been writing about tech since He's the author of over 2 dozen books and his writing has appeared in Wired, PCWorld, Business Insider, and many other publications. lifewire's editorial guidelines. Tweet Share Email. In This Article Expand. Upload to YouTube Music. Download From YouTube Music. Download From Computer to Phone. View Music in YouTube Music. Download From Other Apps. Frequently Asked Questions. You need a premium subscription to use this feature. How to Clear Your YouTube Queue With Chromecast on Android. How to Buy Music on Android Without Google Play. Can I download music onto a Gabb Phone? Where does Amazon Music save files on my phone?

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