Play Apple Music and Spotify Music on Sonos After Cancelling Subscription

By Sarah ConnorUpdated on July 17, 2018

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Summary:

Are Looking a way to play Apple Music and Spotify Music on your new Sonos without paying? This article shows you two easy way to remove DRM from Apple Music and Spotify Music, then add and playing DRM-free streaming music on Sonos after cancelling subscription.

When you subscribe Apple Music and Spotify Music streaming service, you must know that about the limitions of Apple Music and Spotify Music, you can only access to the streaming music from devices registered with your Apple Music or Spotify Music account. However, the tracks would become unplayable after you canceling the subscription, and the most annoyance – you are not allowed to transfer the downloaded songs from Apple Music and Spotify Music to other music players or devices for offline playing.

So what If you want to transfer some Apple Music and Spotify songs on Sonos , the best way is to unlock DRM protection and convert streaming music tracks to plain MP3 format which is the most widely used format currently. The following is a detailed tutorial about how to convert and transfer Spotify Music/Apple Music songs to on Sonos One for playing offline.

• Part 1: How to Remove DRM from Apple Music
• Part 2: How to Remove DRM from Spotify Music
• Part 3: How to Add DRM-free Apple Music and Spotify Songs to Sonos

The Sonos One has Amazon Alexa built-in for hands-free voice control, while will allow you to access music from many music streaming services, Amazon Music, Spotify, Pandora, iHeartRadio, TuneIn and SiriusXM.Nowadays, it appears listening music out loud at home is a great way to enhance most music lovers’ daily lives. Now with a simple app, Sonos just makes it easier for you to control your Apple Music and Spotify Music on a room-by-room basis. All you need to do is downloading the Sonos Controller app and you’ll be able to access Apple Music and Spotify Music on Sonos speaker system with just one tap on your mobile device. To help you getting closer to Apple Music、Spotify Music and Sonos, this post will focus on the complete guide of how to set up Apple Music and Spotify Music on Sonos step by step, as well as introducing an effective solution to let you listen to Apple Music and Spotify Music songs on Sonos even after you cancelling the subscription.

Here is the complete guide teach you how to set up Apple Music on Sonos and listen to Apple Music songs and Spotify Music songs on Sonos even after you cancelling the subscription.

Apple Music membership: If you want to add Apple music services to play on Sonos, there are two conditions: Apple Music membership is one of the necessary conditions; then you have to use iPhone/iPad/iPod touch base on iOS 8.4.1 or later, or Android devices with Android 4.3 or later. The following are the detailed steps to add Apple music services to Sonos Controller app on iOS/Android devices for playing on Sono One with bluetooth.

Step 1. Download and install the Sonos Controller app on your mobile phone.
Step 2. Launch Sonos app and tap Add Music Services in the main menu..
Step 3: Select Apple Music from the music service list.And then tap add to Sono One.
Step 4. Log into your Apple Music account with your Apple ID.

After adding your Apple Music membership to Sonos Controller app on your device, you can listen to the entire Apple Music catalog or your personal music collection while connecting mobile phone to SONOs One with Bluetooth, all through your Sonos speaker system. In this case, each family member must add Apple Music to the Sonos Controller app using their own Apple ID.

Note: After canceling subscription, you can’t play Apple Music songs on Sonos, and you can’t enjoy Apple Music songs on Sonos offline, becuase the DRM protection off Apple Music tracks. However, how to listen to Apple Music tracks on Sonos when the subscription ends? You must to remove DRM from Apple Music, and convert Apple Music M4P files to DRM-free MP3, M4A, FLAC, AC3 or other plain formats firstly.

Part 1. How to Remove DRM from Apple Music

Apple Music Converter can perfectly help you convert DRM-ed Apple Music M4P songs to DRM-free MP3, M4A, etc, then you can play the converted Apple music with MP3 format on Sonos or other MP3 player for free. Apple Music Converter enables to remove DRM from iTunes audiobooks, Audible audiobooks and other iTunes purchased M4P music.

Step 1.Download and Launch Apple Music Converter

At first,download the Apple Music Converter on your computer.

When you launch the program, iTunes will be launched automatically at the same time.

Step 2.Select the Apple Music to Convert to MP3

The program will loads all iTunes files automatically,including music, playlists, Audiobooks, M4P Audio, iTunes movies and TV shows.Please click on “Library” and mark the Apple Music tracks that you want to remove DRM and convert to MP3.

Note: If you cannot find the music you want to convert, you can search it. And please make sure that you have downloaded and saved the Apple Music tracks you want on computer.

Step 3.Set the Output Format – MP3 for the Converted Music

After selecting the Apple Music songs you want to download/convert,you should select the music output format,in order to converting all Apple music songs to MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC, etc.

Step 4.Convert Apple Music to DRM-free MP3

In this step you should click “Convert” button to begin converting Apple Music from M4P music to MP3 and save the converted MP3 Apple songs on the computer.After completed,please click on the “Open Output File” button to find the converted MP3 music files on your computer,then you can enjoy the converted Apple music in DRM-free MP3 format for free.

Part 2: How to Remove DRM from Spotify Music

Spotify Music Converter is an excellent Spotify music downloading and converting tool, which helps you remove DRM from Spotify music, download music from Spotify for free easily, and convert them to MP3, AAC, FLAC or WAV with 100% original quality. After conversion, you can transfer these non-DRM music songs to Sonos and other devices for offline listening.

Step 1.Run Spotify Music Converter on A Computer

Download, install and launch Spotify Music Converter and you will get the main interface as below.

Step 2.Add Songs, Playlists from Spotify

Select songs or playlists you want to stream on Sonos. You are able to drag&drop them to the program directly. Or you can copy&paste the link of the song/playlist from Spotify player. Then Click the ‘Add’ button to import all selected songs.

Step 3.Choose MP3 as Output Format

If you need to download Spotify music to MP3, please choose MP3 as output format. You can also change the output quality, bitrate and output folder as you prefer.

Step 4.Removing the DRM from Spotify Music

Simply click “Convert” button to remove DRM and convert those DRM-ed audio file to MP3 format without loss of any quality.

Download Spotify Music Converter for Mac and Windows:

Part 3: How to Add DRM-free Apple Music and Spotify Songs to Sonos

When you have converted the music into MP3 format, firstly make sure you download the Sonos Desktop Controller App for Mac or PC and install it on the computer. The following guide will show you how to add Apple Music and Spotify Songs to play on Sonos in 3 simple steps only.

1.Double click the Sonos icon to open the interface, click the management menu, and select the music library settings.

2.If you are using MAC, click “+“. If you are using WINDOWS, click the “add” icon.

3.Import and check the apple music tracks that you have converted. You can also search for songs directly

When you import an apple music song without DRM protection, you can freely play the DRM-free apple music and spotify music on the SONOs One, SONOs Play 1/Play 3/Play 5, SONOs Beam, SONOs Playbase, SONOs Playbar and SONOs Sub, even if the cancellation of a subscription is not restricted.

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