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Track YouTube

YouTube is one of the five services you can follow in Library → Tracked, alongside Discord, Telegram, Google Drive, and Dropbox. A YouTube source is one channel. Motif shows that channel’s uploads as a list you can play, browse back through, and download from. You must be signed in to Motif to track a YouTube channel.

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Add a channel

  1. Open Library → Tracked.
  2. Choose Track YouTube. When you have no Tracked sources yet, choose the YouTube tile instead.
  3. In the Track YouTube dialog, choose a channel from your subscriptions or add a public channel by link.

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From your subscriptions

To choose from the channels you subscribe to, Motif needs read-only access to your YouTube subscriptions.
  • If YouTube is not connected yet, select Connect YouTube and approve access in your browser.
  • If YouTube is connected but has no subscription access, select Allow subscription access.
After access is granted, Motif lists your subscriptions. Use Search channels… to filter the list, and Load more subscriptions when more are available. A channel you already follow shows Tracked and cannot be added twice. You can also follow any public channel without connecting YouTube:
  1. Select the + button next to the search field.
  2. In Public channel link or @handle, paste the channel link (for example youtube.com/@producer) or type its @handle.
  3. Select Track channel.
Motif accepts only youtube.com channel links over https. If you paste a video or another kind of page, Motif shows That YouTube link is not a channel. Open the channel page and copy its link. Open the channel’s own page and copy that link instead.

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Listen to a channel

Open the channel’s card in Library → Tracked. Motif names the source after the channel and uses its avatar as the initial cover. You can change the cover later like any other Tracked source. The newest uploads appear first. Scroll down to load older uploads. If loading stops, select Load older uploads, or Retry after an error. Playing a YouTube upload works like any other Tracked audio. It does not add the upload to your local Library.

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Save a beat as MP3

Right-click an upload and choose Download. Motif saves an MP3 copy in Documents\Motif\YouTube. After the download finishes, the menu shows Show in folder instead. See Save Tracked music locally for what a local copy does and does not change.

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Manage the source

A YouTube source card has the same More actions as other Tracked sources: Refresh, Rename, Change cover art, Remove cover art, and Remove. See Manage Tracked sources. Removing the source from Motif does not unsubscribe you from the channel on YouTube.