How to Convert Apple Music to AAC Format

By Justin SabrinaUpdated on December 16, 2022

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“I want to play Apple Music tracks on my Sony Walkman, how to convert Apple Music M4P songs to AAC format, so that I can listen to music with my Sony Walkman? Is it possible to convert Apple Music songs as the unlimited AAC format?" --Olivia Rodrigo

"Is there any way to convert Apple Music files to unprotected AAC? I looking for a way to streaming Apple Music aac file to MP3 player, is it possible to record Apple Music M4P streams as unprtected aac(.m4a)? Thanks to help me!" -- Lula Jack

What is AAC Format?

AAC is short for Advanced Audio Coding, it is an audio coding standard for lossy audio compression， and it is designed to be the successor of the MP3 format. AAC encoded audio files can have various extensions, including AAC,M4P, and M4A. However, M4P is a protected AAC file extension, typically used by Apple iTunes purchased songs with DRM ( Digital Rights Management), while M4A is an audio extension of unprotected AAC files. Compared with MP3, AAC usually generates higher sound quality at the same bitrate. Overall, AAC can provide better sound quality with approximately 30% less storage space and bandwidth than MP3 files. And it’s not only supported on most MP3 players and devices, but also supported in the car audio systems. AAC format also provide multi-channel up to 48 full ranges of channels and it has the higher resolution that supportde up to 96 kHz sampling frequency.

How Can I Convert Apple Music AAC File to Unprotected AAC?

AAC is the default format used by iTunes. Apple originally used FairPlay to protect music contents through the iTunes Store/Apple Music Store. When you add Apple Music songs to iTunes library, you will find the kind of the songs is Apple Music AAC audio file.

After you downoading Apple Music songs to local computer, the downloaded songs come in M4P format, you can find the downloaded Apple Music songs under this location: Music - iTunes - iTunes Media - Apple Music.

When you try to transfer those downloaded M4P songs to MP3 player, you will found that you are not allowed copy them to other devices, and you cannot play the downloaded Apple Music songs with Windows Media Player, Windows Movie Maker or other media player, as the following screenshot:

Because all downloads comes will DRM protection, which only be played with iTunes or Music app on authorized devices. However, many Apple Music subscribers ask similar question “how can I convert Apple Music AAC file to unprotected AAC?” "Is is possible to convert Apple Music M4P songs to unprotected AAC?"...

Why We Need to Convert Apple Music to Unprotected AAC Format?

As we all know, Apple Music adds DRM protection to streaming music, so you are not allowed to transfer Apple Music Songs and play them on other device except the authorized Apple device or Android phone. If you are not an Apple Music subscriber, you can only allowed to listen to streaming music while the network is connected. Even if you have subscribed the Apple Music yet, once you cancle your subscription, all the downloaded Apple Music tracks will also disappear after the membership expires. So it is a big pity for those who want to listen to Apple Music without limitation. So if you want to keep Apple Music playable forever, or play Apple Music on other unauthorized devices - iPod Nano/classic/shuffle/Sony Walkman, you will need to convert Apple Music songs to AAC, MP3, FLAC, M4A and other plain audio format. For the reason of this, lots of people are looking for Apple Music Converter to convert Apple Music AAC audio files/M4P songs to some common audio formats like AAC, MP3, FLAC, WAV,etc.

How to Conver Apple Music to AAC Format?

UkeySoft Apple Music Converter would be one of your best choices, it is a powerful Apple Music to AAC converter and iTunes M4P to AAC converter, which not only support convert Apple Music to AAC, M4A, MP3, WAC and FLAC, but also can convert iTunes M4P music to FLAC, MP3, M4A, AC3, AIFF, AU, M4R and MKA. As we mentioned above, Apple Music files are protected by Apple’s FariPlay digital right management (DRM) technology, this converter is able to remove DRM from Apple Music, so that you can to keep listening to Apple Music after canceling subscription.

Key Features:

• Convert Apple Music to unprotected AAC, M4A, MP3, with nearly 100% original quality;
• Remove DRM from Apple Music, iTunes M4A, M4B and Audible AA, AAX audiobooks;
• Convert Apple Music M4P songs to MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV,etc.
• Convert Apple Music at up to 16X speed for Windows version;
• Convert iTunes M4B audiobooks and Audible AA/AAX audiobooks to FLAC, MP3, etc.
• Run on latest Windows 10, macOS 11 Big Sur perfectly.

Tutorial: How to Convert Apple Music to AAC Format?

STEP 1: Run UkeySoft Apple Music Converter
Run the UkeySoft Apple Music Converter on your computer after downloading, and iTunes will launch automatically at the same time.

STEP 2: Select Apple Music Tracks
Click the “Playlist”and select the songs in the library those you want to convert or directly search the songs by entering the songs name into the search box.

STEP 3: Set AAC As Output Format
Finished adding，click "Output Format" and choose "AAC-MPEG4-Adcanced Audio Coding" as the Apple Music format we need to convert.

You also can select high-quality MPEG4-AAC(Advanced Audio Coding) in 265kbps.

STEP 4: Adjust the Conversion Speed(Only for Windows)
This is the optional step,change the speed may save many time for you. Click “Option”,and then move the slider to change the conversiong speed from 1X to 16X in the pop-up window.

STEP 5: Starting to Convert Apple Music to AAC Format
Click the button "Convert" to start converting Apple Music to DRM-free AAC. After finishing conversion,you can click"Explore Output File" button to find out the converted Apple Music songs in unprotect AAC format.

Note: The free trial version of the UkeySoft Apple Music Converter enables you to convert the first three minutes of each Apple Music songs. If you want to convert a full song more that 3 minutes, please get the full version of Apple Music Converter and unlock the time limitation.

Congratulations, after completing simple Apple Music to AAC conversion steps, you will be able to keep the Apple Music forever and copy the output AAC music to your Sony Walkman, iPod Nano or other devices, so that you can listen to music freely. Besides, you can also use this powerful music converter software to remove DRM from iTunes music, iTunes audiobooks, iTunes movies, and Audible books, etc.What’s more, after getting the Apple Music unprotected AAC tracks, you also can burn them to CD, or transfer Apple Music to USB drive for backup. The UkeySoft Apple Music Converter can convert everything that iTunes can plays, please go to the product page to get more informations, we passionately provide many kinds of language and patiently to solve your demand.

Justin Sabrina

Justin Sabrina has over 10 years of content writing experience. She specializes in product reviews, how-to guides, tips and tricks, top lists, etc. on data encryption, multi-media conversion, screen recording and iOS unlocking. At UkeySoft, she performs in-depth research SEO copywriting and collaborates with our R & D team to offer effective software solution, most of her articles on software are helpful and easy to read, helping our reader easily solve problems through using software or apps.

Justin Sabrina

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