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How to Download Music from Apple Music to Mac

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By Justin SabrinaUpdated on September 01, 2021

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Summary
To download music from Apple Music on your iMac or MacBook, a good Apple Music downloader for Mac is needed, which is specially designed to download Apple Music as MP3, M4A, AC3, AAC, AIFF, AU, FLAC, M4R, MKA and WAV files and save onto your Mac computer local folder.

Apple Music is a popular streaming music service, most Mac users have subscribed Apple Music service to download music for offline listening, some wise users want to download and convert songs from Apple Music and play them even without the app. As we all know, Apple Music songs are protected by Apple's FairPlay DRM, even you have subscribed Apple Music service, you only allows listen to Apple Music with iTunes or its’ App. Apple Music subscribers can download songs for offline listening, but once you cancel the subscription, you cannot listen to the previous downloaded songs, unless you pay for it again. Actually, the Apple Music “offline” mode are only temporarily saved on the cloud for its’ subscribers, we can’t save Apple Music on Mac forever!

But if you convert Apple Music to MP3 or other DRM-free formats, you can enjoy Apple Music on Mac even if you cancel the subscription. Moreover, you can transfer Apple Music to any device to playing at any time without limitation! This tutorial main teach you a simple way to download Apple Music as the local file on your Mac so that you can save Apple Music forever, or converting Apple Music to other non-DRM protected audio format for playback on any MP3 player.

Download Apple Music to Mac

Since Apple Music songs are DRM-protected, we cannot directly download Apple Music songs, playlist and albums. Fortunately, with the right tool, you still have the opportunity to download and convert Apple Music to MP3 files and therefore enjoy Apple Music songs everywhere. Next we are going to introduce a popular Apple Music downloader – UkeySoft Apple Music Converter for Mac and show you how to download music from Apple Music to your Mac computer step by step. Apple Music to MP3 downloading will no longer be an arduous task.

Tool Required: UkeySoft Apple Music Downloader & Converter

UkeySoft Apple Music Converter is a all-in-one Apple Music Converter, Apple Music DRM Removal, Audiobook Converter and iTunes M4P Converter. It no only can help you download Apple Music, iTunes audiobooks & iTunes M4P music and save them to local files on Mac, but also supports converting Apple Music to MP3, M4A, AAC, FLAC, AU, AC3 or other popular audio formats, so you can transfer and play Apple Music songs, albums, playlists on any MP3 players, such as Sony Walkman, iPod nano, iPod classic, iPod shuffle, and SanDisk MP3 player, and other mobile devices including Android tablet, Android phone, iPhone, iPad, PS4, and Xbox One. The downloaded Apple Music also playable on your wearable devices.

Features of UkeySoft Apple Music Converter

  • Remove DRM from Apple Music tracks, playlist and albums;
  • Download Apple Music files as DRM-free audio files;
  • Convert Apple Music songs to MP3/M4A/AAC/FLAC/WAV;
  • Convert your iTunes purchased music and audiobooks to MP3/M4A;
  • Convert Audible AA and AAX audiobooks to MP3/M4A;
  • Convert Apple Music at 16X faster speed with lossless quality;
  • Save metadata and ID3 Tags after conversion;
  • Support macOS 11 Big Sur & iTunes 12.10.

Guide: How to Download Music from Apple Music on Mac

Step 1. Add Apple Music Songs to Your Library
You don’t need to download songs firstly, just add songs, albums or playlists to your iTunes Library or Music app’s library(for macOS 10.15 and later).

Add Apple Music to Your Library

Step 2. Launch UkeySoft Apple Music Converter
Launch the converter, and the iTunes/Music app launch automatically and load all your media files together with playlists.

Run Apple Music Converter

Step 3. Select Apple Music Songs or Playlist
Then tick the checkbox before the Apple Music songs you want to download, if you want to download whole playlist, please tick the top checkbox. If you cannot find the songs you want, you can quickly find the song you want to download through the search box in the upper left corner.

Select Apple Music

Step 3. Select Output Format and Output Quality
In this step, please choose the format ( MP3, M4A, AC3, AAC, AIFF, AU, FLAC, M4R, MKA or WAV ) you want, then select the output audio quality (low, normal, high) or set bitrate, sample rate according to your needs.

Output Format

Step 4. Start Downloading Apple Music on Mac
Click the “Convert” button, the program start downloading and converting Apple Music to MP3 or other DRM-free format.

Download Apple Music on Mac

When the conversion is done, all your selected Apple Music songs saved to the local file on your Mac, which is the best way to keep Apple Music forever!

apple music on mac

As above screenshot, the MP3 songs saved onto the folder of your Mac computer. Now, you can offline listening those downloaded Apple Music on your iMac/Macbook, or transferring them to any MP3 player for easily playback everywhere you go.

Note: The free trial version of UkeySoft Apple Music Converter allows you convert the first three minutes of each audio file only. If you want to convert the entire songs that more that 3 minutes, please purchase the full version to unlock the time limitation.

YouTube Video: How to Keep Apple Music on Mac Forever

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Justin Sabrina

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.

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