Saving Bandwidth With YouTube

Do you have internet traffic cap or are you on a very slow connection? Otherwise, there would ne no point in this.

Anyway, I don't think you can turn video off completely, but what you can do is select a lower resolution video, since you care only about listening.

For example, in this video, youtube was defaulting to 720p, but there was an option as low as 144p.

Thank you for clarifying.

I can now see why your concerns about bandwidth usage are justified.

If you are really only interested in audio, at least in some cases, perhaps you can download just the audio and listen to it offline. I believe that some applications, like 4K Video Downloader, can download just the audio, if you give them a link to a youtube page.

dialabrain wrote:

FWIW, I could be wrong but apps like 4K Vdieo Downloader and the like only record the audio portion. They can't reduce the size of the stream. Using a lower resolution as mentioned would seem to be the only practical way.

I think you are right. Thank you for pointing that out!

Wait... There exists a youtube music...

FWIW, I could be wrong but apps like 4K Vdieo Downloader and the like only record the audio portion. They can't reduce the size of the stream. Using a lower resolution as mentioned would seem to be the only practical way.

ttibsen wrote:

Yikes! You are right Dialabrain. Both the link and my response are indeed there. They're up there in the middle of the thread whereas I expected them to be at the bottom - that's why I didn't see them. All is well.

Yes, someone managing these discussions decided that having posts ordered by "Best" makes sense.

You can change it to "Oldest" to restore chronological order.

And you can login, go to your profile and change the preferred order to "Oldest". This way after you login the threads show in chronological order.

You're welcome.

https://music.youtube.com/

Not sure what you mean. Your posts are here, and you're welcome. :)