How to Download Apple Music for Offline Listening?

By Justin SabrinaUpdated on March 29, 2024

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Apple Music is one of the most famous streaming music services. For Apple users, the Apple Music app or iTunes comes pre-installed on iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Apple Watch, Windows or Mac, etc. Streaming Apple Music online is convenient when you have a fast, smooth and stable network. But sometimes you may experience a poor network connection or poor signal. Lucky for you, Apple Music allows to download songs, albums, playlists to play offline.

If you want to listen to Apple Music offline, make sure you have an active subscription and using a compatible device. With Apple Music subscription (Student, Individual, or Family), you can download up to 100,000 songs for offline listening on your devices. In this article, we will guide you how to download Apple Music for offline listening during your subscription or forever!

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How to Download Apple Music for Offline Listening (Officially)

Apple Music subscribers can stream over 70 million ad-free songs on iPhone, iPad, Android, Apple Watch, Apple TV, Mac, HomePod, CarPlay, PC, Sonos and Amazon Echo, or download your favorite Apple Music tracks to listen offline in authorized Music app or iTunes application. You can download Apple Music songs for offline playback, please follow.

How to Download From Apple Music to Your Phone Manually?

Step 1. Open the Apple Music app on iOS or Android device.

Step 2. You can search for any song, album, playlist you like.

Step 3. Then tap on it and click "Add to Library".

Step 4. Tap "Library", select any playlists, artists, albums or songs.

Step 5. Tap the three dots at the upper right corner, click "Download".

How to Download Apple Music to Mac/PC Using iTunes or Music App?

Step 1. Open iTunes or Music app, go to "Library".

Step 2. Find any song, album, artist or playlist.

Step 3. Open it, and click the three dots, select "Download".

How to Make Apple Music Available Offline?

Step 1. Launch the Apple Music app on your iPhone or iPad.

Step 2. Go to the playlist, album or song you want to download.

Step 3. Tap the "More" icon (looks like •••) to the right of the music.

Step 4. Tap on "Make Available Offline" option.

Note: The song(s) should immediately begin downloading to your device; you can see their progress by tapping the download bar at the top of the screen.

The playlist and its included songs should immediately begin downloading to your device; you can see their progress by tapping the download bar at the top of the screen. After the playlist is finished downloading, you'll find it in your local playlists.

How to Download Apple Music on Computer As Plain MP3 👍

However, Apple Music songs are protected by Apple FairPlay DRM. The downloaded songs are stored in .m4p file format, which can only be playable within Apple Music or iTunes app. Worse, they will disappear from Apple Music or iTunes once your subscription expires. to listen to Apple Music offline forever, you can use a third-party tool to download Apple Music as plain MP3. Here we highly recommend the UkeySoft Apple Music Converter.

UkeySoft Apple Music Converter also is an Apple Music Downloader, Apple Music DRM Removal and M4P to MP3 Converter for Windows and Mac users. It can remove DRM from Apple Music songs and convert Apple Music DRM-ed M4P songs to DRM-free MP3, M4A, WAV, FLAC, AAC or AIFF formats at super-fast speed with 100% lossless quality. What’s more, it comes with an in-built Apple Music web player. When you log in to your account on the software, it will automatically read and load your library. Thus, you can easily search, stream or add any Apple Music songs/albums/playlists to download with few clicks.

Once you get DRM-free MP3 Apple Music songs, you are able to transfer and play Apple Music on iPhone/Android phone without Apple Music app. And you can transfer the Apple Music songs to any MP3 player, iPod classic, iPhone nano, PSP, memory card, Samsung phone, etc. for playing offline. In additional, you can also burn them to CD easily.

How to Download Apple Music to Mac/PC As MP3 Files?

Here is the detailed tutorial on how to use UkeySoft Apple Music Converter to remove DRM from Apple Music songs and convert Apple Music M4P to MP3 instead of downloading them directly.

Step 1. Download and Install UkeySoft Apple Music Converter
Click on the above button to download and install the Apple Music Converter on your computer. After launching the program on your computer, log into your Apple ID on the program.

After logging in, you can find songs, albums, and playlists in your Library.

Step 2. Select Apple Music Songs to Download
Open any song, album or playlist you want to download, then click "+" icon to load the items.

Then, choose the desired Apple Music tracks that you want to download and convert to MP3 files.

Step 3. Choose MP3 as Output Format
Next, click the "Setting" button at the upper right corner. You can set the Output format as MP3, M4A, AAC, AIFF, WAV and FLAC. Because more devices and media players support MP3 format, we recommend you select MP3 as output format. Also, you are allowed to set output quality, output folder, or organize output files, etc.

Step 4. Start to Download Apple Music to MP3
Now, all you need to do is to click the "Convert" button, the program start to download and convert Apple Music to DRM-free MP3 format.

After conversion, you can get Apple Music songs in MP3 format by click “History” icon. Then, click the blue folder icon to locate the folder.

Step 5. Enjoy Downloaded Apple Music on Any Devices Offline
Now, you can listing to those download Apple Music songs without iTunes, the program has a built-in music player. Also, you can also transfer them to MP3 player, PSP/PS4/PS3, iPod nano, iPhone XS Max, Samsung Galaxy S9/S8/Note 9,etc. for offline playing.

With above simple steps, you can remove DRM from Apple Music files and convert them to DMR-free audio format. After downloading Apple Music songs as MP3, you can keep Apple Music forever even after unsubscribing.

Watch this video to learn more about this excellent Apple Music Downloader!

Fixed: Apple Music Not Playing Downloaded Songs

If Apple Music isn't playing downloaded songs, there could be several reasons behind this issue, ranging from software glitches to account-related problems. You can try the following guides to fix the issue.

1. Check your Internet connection
2. Restart or update your device
3. Update your device
4. Uninstall and reinstall Apple Music app
5. Check your Apple Music subscription
6. Re-authorize your device
7. Delete and then redownload the songs
8. Contact Apple Support for help

FAQs About Downloading Apple Music

Q1: How to Download Apple Music tracks for Offline Playback?
Because of the Digital Right Management restriction on Apple Music, we cannot download, transfer or play Apple Music on unauthorized device like MP3 player, iPod shuffle, Android phone due to DRM protection. Have paid $9.99 per month for streaming Apple Music songs? But, you don't really own the music, if you cancel subscription, the songs will disappear from your library automatically. What is worse, even if you have paid for the service, you can’t keep Apple Music playable due to the DRM protection. For example, you can't download Apple Music on MP3 player/iPod Nano offline. Because there is no Apple Music app supported it.

Q2: Can you download Apple Music to play offline?
There are many FAQ’s regarding the Apple Music streaming service like is there DRM protection on Apple Music files? How to download music to listen offline? Can I still enjoy Apple Music after unsubscribing? How to download Apple Music for offline listing?

Q3: Can you use Apple Music offline even after unsubscribing?
If you looking for a way to download Apple Music songs for offline listening on any devices, you must to remove DRM from Apple Music and convert Apple Music M4P to MP3. This page will teach you how to download Apple Music songs as MP3 for playing on any devices offline, even after you unsubscribe from Apple Music.

Q4: How to Remove Downloaded Songs from Apple Music?
1) Use Apple Music App on Mobile

Step 1. Open the Apple Music app on your iOS or Android device.

Step 2. Sign in with your account, and tap "Library" at the bottom.

Step 3. Select "Downloaded", and click "Remove..."

Step 4. You can choose either "Remove Download" or "Delete from Library".

2) Use iTunes/Music App on Mac/PC

Step 1. Launch iTunes or Music app on desktop and go to "Library".

Step 2. Tap "Recently Added", click the "Three Dots" icon next to a song, album, or playlist.

Step 3. Select "Remove Download" or "Delete from Library" option.

Conclusion

Above different methods to download and save Apple Music for offline listening. With a subscription, users can make Apple Music songs and playlist available offline listening. However, Apple Music tracks are FairPlay DRM protected, if you unsubscribe from Apple Music, you are no longer to play any streaming music you've added or downloaded to your library from the Apple Music store. In order to keep songs downloaded from Apple Music forever even after unsubscribe from Apple Music, we recommend you use UkeySoft Apple Music Converter to download and convert Apple Music to MP3, which is the best way to make Apple Music tracks offline playback on any devices.

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

Li Zhang is a sophisticated editor for UkeySoft in tech blog writing, as well as a SEO and content marketing expert. She has been writing related article about multimedia conversion, streaming music and streaming video since 2018. Also, she's starting to write article about data security, including articles about file lock, USB encryption, DVD encryption, etc. Each helpful tutorial and solution is based on her practical tests, she is aways energetic and trustworthy in this field.

Justin Sabrina

Chester is an experienced editor for UkeySoft focused on tech article writing, software & hardware produce review and tutorial. He specializes in composing posts about music conversion, video downloading, video conversion, screen recording and other tech knowledge tips. He always understands user needs and pain points and familiar with all kinds of multimedia conversion software and streaming music downloader on the market. So far, he has published 400+ helpful tech articles of software reviews, how-to guides to help reader in need.

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