How to Add YouTube Music to Your Canva Creations

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July 22, 2024

Canva empowers even beginners to create stunning visuals with its user-friendly interface and vast library of design elements. This includes a collection of free and premium music tracks that you can integrate into your projects.

However, what if you have a specific song in mind that’s not available in the Canva library, like something from YouTube Music?

While Canva doesn’t directly support adding music from external platforms like YouTube Music, it does offer an upload feature, enabling users to add their own music to their projects. If you’ve downloaded YouTube Music as local files on your computer, you can upload them to Canva. Here’s how you can accomplish this task. Please remember to use music from YouTube only for personal use.

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Step 1. Download YouTube Music to MP3

YouTube Music offers a download feature to Premium members, but downloaded files are limited within the YouTube app and cannot be used by other applications such as Canva. To add YouTube Music songs to Canva, you need the help of a professional downloader like Pazu YouTube Music Converter.

Pazu YouTube Music Converter allows both Free and Premium users to download YouTube Music songs, albums, playlists, and podcasts on Mac/Windows. The downloaded files are stored in formats such as MP3, M4A, and WAV, compatible with Canva upload formats. Moreover, this reliable tool features a built-in YouTube Music web player, so you don’t need to copy and paste song links manually. Just search for the music within the YouTube Music catalog, and download it in lossless quality with full ID3 tags.

Here are the detailed steps for downloading YouTube Music to MP3 with Pazu YouTube Music Converter.

1. Run Pazu YouTube Music Converter 

To get started, download, install and run Pazu YouTube Music Converter on your Mac or Windows, which features a built-in YouTube Music web player.

Launch the YouTube Music to MP3 Converter. If you have already purchased a license, click the key icon to register the converter. Otherwise, continue using the trial version.

You don’t need to sign in to your YouTube Music account.

YouTube Music Converter

2. Customize the Output Settings

Click Settings (the gear icon) in the upper right corner and set the output format to MP3. You can also customize the output quality, folder, file name, language, and more for your downloaded music files.

output settings

3. Add Songs to Download

Browse or use the search function to find the songs, albums, or playlists you want to convert to MP3, then click the red Add to List icon to load the songs.

choose YouTube Music playlists

All songs in the playlist/album will be selected by default. You can uncheck the songs you don’t want to download.

choose YouTube Music songs

4. Download YouTube Music to MP3

Click the Convert button and the program starts converting the YouTube Music songs.

convert YouTube Music to MP3

5. Locate the Converted Songs

After the conversion is complete, click on the clock icon in the upper right corner to access the converted YouTube Music songs. To locate the the converted YouTube Music songs:

  • You can either click the folder icon to open the output folder where the songs are saved;
    or
  • Directly go to the output folder you customized in the previous step.
YouTube Music to MP3 converter

Step 2. Add Downloaded YouTube Music to Canva

Now that you have located the downloaded YouTube Music tracks on your computer, you can upload them to your Canva projects. The upload feature is available on the Canva Free plan as well.

  1. Log in to your account at canva.com and go to a new or existing project.
  2. Click Upload from the left-side menu and choose the Audio tab.
  3. To import the downloaded YouTube Music songs to Canva:
    • Drag and drop the music files to the box under Audio,
    • Or use the Upload Files button and browse your device to select the music tracks you want to add to your project.
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  1. To add YouTube Music to your project, drag the uploaded file and drop it into the timeline at the bottom.

After adding the YouTube Music song to your project, you can edit and trim the music within the Canva timeline.

Conclusion

Although directly adding music from external streaming services like YouTube Music isn’t supported, Canva’s upload feature allows you to import and incorporate your own music into projects. To download YouTube Music to your computer for use in Canva, use Pazu YouTube Music Converter, this smart tool offers a smooth and enjoyable experience for creating visually and sonically engaging projects.

To get started, download and install Pazu YouTube Music Converter on your Mac or Windows

YouTube Music Converter

YouTube Music Converter

Download and convert YouTube Music to MP3, M4A, etc