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.
Details
- Who
- YouTube (we)
- What it does
- Make limited necessary changes
- What it covers
- Your Stored Music Content
- Why
- Playback functionality 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
Cross-references
- contrast (model-proposed): YouTube makes it available only to you through your account — The policy says the content is only accessible by you through your account, and separately says YouTube may need to make limited necessary changes to it for playback. The page does not say how these fit together, so the changes may be the processing that the only-you access statement leaves unmentioned.