Use & Processing · Permission or license
YouTube may make limited changes to your files for playback
YouTube says it may need to make limited changes to your Stored Music Content, only as needed for playback on YouTube Music or through the YouTube Music app.
Supporting quotations
We may need to make limited necessary changes to your Stored Music Content as may be needed for playback functionality on YouTube Music or through the YouTube Music app.
Qualifications & exceptions
- Changes are described as limited and necessary
- Purpose is playback functionality on YouTube Music or through the YouTube Music app
- Worded as something YouTube may need to do, not as a promise to do it
Not stated here
- The page does not say what kinds of changes are made, such as format conversion