How to download Apple Music to MP3 for offline listening

By Sarah ConnorUpdated on July 11, 2018

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Summary:

Want to free download Apple Music and convert to MP3 for offline listening? Want to cancel Apple music subscription and keep listening without paying? This article teachs you how to download and convert Apple music files to mp3 for playing on any devices.

What is the Apple Music?

Apple Music is available in iTunes, and for iOS and Android devices. Download albums, tracks, and music videos to your personal library and play them offline. Stream anything in the Apple Music collection on all your devices ad-free.Apple Music tracks are only playable on device with a current Apple Music subscription.Start your three-month free trial and cancel anytime.

ASK: How to Download and Convert Apple Music M4P to MP3?

Any streaming music you’ve added to your library from the Apple Music catalog will no longer be playable, and you’ll not any more to search through the streaming catalog or play custom playlists. Apple Music tracks are only playable on authorized device with a current Apple Music subscription, so the Apple company not allow users enjoying Apple Music on many other authorized device, including MP3 player, iPod nano/shuffle/classic and Sony Walkman. However, how to download Apple music and keep them forever after Three-month Free Trial? How to get Apple music free without credit card? How to get apple music free after trial?

Apple Music tracks are encrypted with Apple’s Fairplay DRM?

Any song from the Apple Music catalog has DRM (digital rights management) applied to it, which is how the company makes sure you don’t sign up for a streaming service, download a bunch of songs for offline listening, then cancel and run away with the DRM protection. Consequently, you can play any song in the apple music catalog on your equipment, but you can’t playing on any unauthorized computer and audio devices such as iPod, PSP, Zune, MP3 player, mobile phones, etc.

This means you don’t really own the music, even you have downloaded before. If you cancle the subscription service, the songs will disappear from your library automatically. What is worse, even if you have paid for the service, you can’t get full use of them due to the Apple Music tracks adds DRM protection.In additional, you can’t download Apple Music on portable player offline easily as there is no Apple Music app supported for it.

Note: If you cancel your Apple Music subscription, those matched or uploaded tracks will disappear from iCloud Music Library, but any tracks you’ve downloaded will remain playable. Any songs from the subscription catalog, however, will become unplayable.

Apple Music users asking:
“I have downloaded some songs from Apple Music in M4P format. How can I download Apple Music songs to MP3 for offline listening on my iPod nano?” — Asked by Kerrance Joy

“I want to convert and keep the songs even after canceling Apple Music subscription, how I can continue to enjoy the downloaded songs and playlists on Samsung Galaxy S9 offline?” — Askedy by Riu Kilton

What is the Best Apple Music Converter and Downloader?

By converting Apple Music to MP3, users can enjoy Apple Music tracks with more freedom and convenience.

Apple Music Converter not only helps you easily remove Apple Music DRM and convert Apple Music to MP3, but also convert iTunes M4P songs, Audiobooks and Audible Audiobooks to DRM free MP3, M4A, AC3, AIFF, AU, FLAC, M4R and MKA formats.

To download Apple Music songs and save them as mp3 format, you don’t need to download the Apple Music songs to your computer, just add songs, albums or playlists from iTunes store to your iTunes Library, when launching the Apple Music Converter program, it will load all your iTunes media together with Apple music songs & playlistss, iTunes M4P music and iTunes Audiobooks, and then 1-click batch convert Apple Music songs to mp3 at up to 16X speed with 100% lossless quality. After getting the DRM free Apple Music songs, you can save the music as local files for playing without Apple Music app or iTunes program; streaming the Apple music to any unauthorized device for listening offline; saving the DRM free Apple Music songs to SD card; transfer the music to USB drive and playing in car; even set the Apple music as phone ringtone.

3 Steps to Download Apple Music to MP3 to Listen Offline

Step 1.Launch Apple Music Converter and Add Songs

After running the program on your computer, the Apple Music Converter automatically pops up the iTunes interface and loads all the iTunes media with the playlist (including Apple Music songs/playist and iTunes audios), so you don’t have to download your apple music songs to your computer. Just add songs, albums or playlists to the iTunes library before launching the Apple Music Converter.

Step 2.Choose MP3 as Output Format

Click on the 3 White Icon in the upper right corner to change the appearance of the interface. Apple Music Converter supports PC’s 8 output formats: MP3, M4A, AC3, AIFF, AU, FLAC, M4R and MKA. You can also select audio quality from low, normal, high or set bit rate and sampling rate according to your needs.

In addition, you can also specify the location for saving output MP3 files. as well as adjust the output parameters. Here we suggest you set the bitrate as 256kbps which is the Apple Music bitrate. By doing so, you can keep the original quality.

Step 3.Start Converting downloaded Apple Music to MP3 Format

Click the “Convert” button to begin converting the downloaded Apple Music tracks to mp3 music files. After conversion, you will get DRM free apple music or iTunes songs in MP3 format. So that you can listen to the DRM-free Apple Music songs offline in any devices or players without paying.

Final Thoughts

Personally, as an Apple Music and Spotify users, I want to switch from Apple Music to Spotify, but when I cancle Apple music subscription, the songs will disappear from the library automatically. I love this Apple Music Converter much, I can easily convert Apple Music songs to MP3 and add to the Spotify app, now I can listening Apple Music songs on Spotify app. In additional, It is a sad truth that iPod nano, iPod shuffle, iPod classic and Sony Walkman MP3 player won’t sync Apple Music songs. But this Apple Music Converter helps us to convert Apple Music to MP3 and make it playable on iPod and MP3 player.

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