YouTube Music will recommend similar songs based on your music preferences. How can you use YouTube Music’s algorithm to customize the recommended songs? This MiniTool Video Converter post will tell you how YouTube Music recommendation system works and how to improve the recommendations.

What Is the YouTube Music Recommendation?

YouTube Music recommendations are some recommended audio generated by YouTube Music based on your listening data, including songs, albums, radio, and more.

YouTube Music does not have a special option for recommendations. However, you can find “for you” options such as “albums for you”, “featured playlists for you”, “radios for you”, “mixed for you”, etc. under the Home tab of YouTube Music. These are all recommended content from YouTube Music. Among them, “mixed for you” is also called “YouTube Music Supermix”, which contains some of your favorite songs and some recommended tracks.

Mixed for you section on YouTube Music website

How YouTube Music Recommendation System Work?

YouTube Music recommendations are generated based on what you listen to on YouTube Music. By collecting your data, YouTube Music can infer your favorite music genres, artists, melodies, and more. The main process of YouTube Music collecting and analyzing data is as follows:

Step 1: Collect Your Data

YouTube Music will collect your interaction data every time you listen to a song, such as playing, liking, disliking, skipping, adding to a playlist, etc.

Step 2: Create a User Profile

The YouTube Music system will create a user profile for you based on the music genres and artists of the songs you listen to.

Step 3: Analyze the Content of the Songs in Detail

YouTube Music will further analyze the content, genre, artist, rhythm, and melody of the songs you listen to.

Step 4: Find Similar Users

YouTube Music will find other users with similar tastes to you. Then recommend the songs they like to you.

Step 5: Find Similar Songs

Based on the songs you and users with similar tastes listen to, YouTube Music will find more songs with similar features and recommend them to you.

How to Improve YouTube Music Recommendations?

Want to make your YouTube Music recommendations more tailored to your musical tastes? Try these tips.

#1. Manage Your YouTube Music History

YouTube Music history is an important data source for YouTube Music recommendations. If you don’t like a certain type of song recommended by YouTube Music, you can adjust the content of YouTube Music recommendations by regularly deleting the music you don’t like in the music history. It should be noted that this method may take some time to take effect.

#2. Save Songs to Your Library

If you want YouTube Music to understand your music preferences, you can add your favorite songs, artists, or albums to the library. These data will be considered as your music preference data by YouTube Music.

#3. Interact More with Your Favorite Songs

YouTube Music will capture and analyze your interaction data. For example, adding a song to a playlist, liking a song, skipping a song, etc. Among them, liking is the most intuitive way to express your love for a song. Therefore, you can like more songs you like to let YouTube Music remember your preferences and recommend more songs you like.

Can You Save Songs from YouTube Music Recommendations?

Yes, you can download songs on YouTube Music with YouTube Premium or YouTube Music Premium. If you don’t want to subscribe to Premium on YouTube, you can also use this free application to get YouTube Music songs – MiniTool Video Converter.

MiniTool Video Converter can download videos from YouTube and songs from YouTube Music. Therefore, you can use it to get YouTube Music recommended songs. All you need to do is paste the song’s URL into the address bar of MiniTool Video Converter.

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How to use MiniTool Video Converter to get YouTube Music songs? Here’s a guide:

Step 1: Download and install MiniTool Video Converter.

Step 2: Go to YouTube Music and play the song you want to download. Then, click the three dots icon in the bottom play bar, choose the Share option, and click the Copy button in the pop-up window to get the song’s URL.

Step 3: Launch MiniTool Video Converter, choose the Video Download tab, paste the song’s URL into the address bar, and click on the Download icon beside the address bar.

Step 4: In the pop-up window, select the output format, and click the DOWNLOAD button to start downloading.

Choose the output format and click on DOWNLOAD in MiniTool Video Converter

Step 5: Once the song has been successfully downloaded, click the Navigate to file icon to locate the downloaded song, or click the Play icon to play the song directly.

Conclusion

This article explains YouTube Music recommendations in detail. In addition, if you want to improve YouTube Music recommendations, you can use the 3 tips mentioned in this article. Don’t forget that you can use MiniTool Video Converter to save the songs recommended to you by YouTube Music.

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