How to Put Apple Music on an MP3 Player?

By Justin SabrinaUpdated on March 14, 2023

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Many people like to transfer or sync Apple Music songs to MP3 players for enjoying on the move without worrying about fragile phones, cellular data overages and battery drain of your phone. The portable MP3 player has brought us great convenience in enjoying songs anytime anywhere. To enjoy Apple Music on the generic MP3 player or even the iPod classic/nano/shuffle? Since generic MP3 player and iPod nano cannot download Apple Music app, if you want to put Apple Music on any MP3 player, you can get help from this guide.

Do you have subscribed to Apple Music and download many songs for offline listening? You may found that you cannot transfer those downloaded Apple Music songs to MP3 player. However, how to play Apple Music to an MP3 player? How to transfer or sync Apple Music to iPod device?

CONTENTS

Part 1. What iPod Models and Devices can You Use Apple Music on?

• All iPhones, iPads, and iPod touch models which run iOS 8.4 or later
• Mac and PC via iTunes 12.2 or later
• Android smartphone which runs Android 4.3 or later
• Apple TV
• Apple Watch Series 3 or later

Note: So, you can't use Apple Music on some Apple devices, such as iPod shuffle, iPod nano, iPad first generation and iPod touch 4th generation. For an Apple ID(already subscribed to Apple Music service), you can enjoy Apple Music up to 5 computers with iTunes or Apple Music app. So that means 5 computers and 5 iDevices/Android or 1 computer and 9 iDevices/Android or any other combination in between.

Because all of Apple Music files are encrypted by Fairplay protection, when you add Apple Music songs to iTunes library or Music app’s library, you will find the added songs is Apple Music AAC audio file, if you download Apple Music songs for offline playing, the downloaded songs come in m4p format which can't be not allowed to be copied to other MP3 player.

Part 2: How to Convert Apple Music to MP3 Player Compatible Formats

To put Apple Music into MP3 player, like Sony Walkman, Apple iPod Nano, iPod Classic, iPod Shuffle, Archos, Sandisk, Creative Zen, iRiver, Cowon and more general MP3 player/mobile devices, you need to remove DRM from Apple Music and convert them to MP3 format. Well, you need the help of a third-party Apple Music to MP3 converter software, Apple Music DRM removal and iTunes M4P converter software.

UkeySoft Apple Music Converter is such an Apple Music to MP3 converter and Apple Music DRM removal, you can easily convert Apple Music songs to MP3 on Mac / PC and then transfer them to any MP3 music player you use. In another word, UkeySoft Apple Music Converter helps you listen to Apple Music on any MP3 player. How does it work? UkeySoft legally unlock DRM from Apple Music songs and playlists and convert Apple Music AAC/M4P files, M4B/AA/AAC audiobooks, or other iTunes M4P songs to MP3, M4A, FLAC, AAC or WAV format at 16X faster speed, it will keeps lossless audio quality and save songs metadata/ID3 tag (such as the song title, artist name, album name, genre or album artwork.) after conversion. In this way, you can freely put your Apple Music songs on your MP3 player for offline playing anywhere anytime you want.

Features of UkeySoft Apple Music Converter:

• Convert iTunes music, audiobooks, Apple Music;
• Convert Apple Music files to MP3/M4A/AAC/FLAC/WAV;
• Legally remove DRM from Apple Music songs;
• Convert iTunes M4P songs at 16X faster speed with lossless quality;
• Save ID3 Tags information after conversion;
• iTunes-like interface loads all your iTunes contents automatically;
• Multilingual interface: English, Français, 日本語, Españo, Deutsch, 简体中文and繁體中文;
• The program is compatible with the latest Windows and Mac OS.

Part 3: Convert and Put Apple Music to an MP3 Player

To convert Apple Music to MP3 or M4A for playing on MP3 player or Apple iPod classic/nano/shuffle/touch, please download UkeySoft Apple Music Converter for Windows or UkeySoft Apple Music Converter for Mac, both trial version allows you convert the first 3 minutes of each songs.

Step 1. Launch UkeySoft Apple Music Converter
After downloading and installing UkeySoft Apple Music Converter, launch the program and then you'll see the user-friendly interface of this Apple Music Converter. Please login with your Apple ID in it's built-in Apple Music web player.

Step 2. Select MP3 Player Compatible Formats - MP3 or M4A
Since most MP3 player can play MP3 audio file, please choose the MP3 as your output format from the "Setting" tab. For Apple iPod nano and other iOS devices, the best output format for the Apple iPod device is M4A, you can also set M4A as output format.

And it provides pre-designed profile settings: High, Normal and Low with different Bitrate, Sample Rate and channels. You can choose one that meets your needs. If you don't change the output path, the output audio files will be saved under the default folder.

Step 3. Add and Select Apple Music to Download
After that, you can open the relevant playlist and click "Add to List" icon, then please select songs that you want to download.

Step 4. Convert Apple Music to MP3 or M4A Format
The last step, just click "Convert" button to start converting Apple Music MP3 or M4A format. The software will help you remove DRM from Apple Music during conversion.

Step 6. Get DRM-free Apple Music(in MP3 or M4A Format)
After the conversion is done, you can get the non-DRM Apple Music files by clicking the blue "Output Folder" button or directly go to the output folder that you set in previous step.

You will find the output files is MP3 or M4A format, and all ID3 tags, including artist, album, year, track number and genre, are preserved in the output MP3/M4A files.

Step 7. Put the Converted Apple Music on an MP3 Player
Now, you have got the MP3/ M4A songs, you can easily copy the output Apple Music songs from Mac/PC to MP3 player.
1.Connect your MP3 player or iPod Nano/Classic/Shuffle/touch device to computer with USB cable, for generic MP3 player, you can directly insert it into USB port of the computer.
2.Wait a few seconds, the computer will recognize the MP3 player as an external device.
3.For Windows users: Clicking “Computer” and open the MP3 player folder
For Mac users: Because you cannot directly copy songs and other files from Mac to USB drive/ MP3 player, please install a Microsoft NTFS for Mac firstly, after installing completed, you can directly copy the converted Apple Music from Mac to MP3 player, like copying files from Windows PC to USB drive.

4.After putting the converted Apple Music to MP3 player, eject the MP3 player from your computer. Now, you can enjoy Apple Music on your MP3 player.

That’s it! The DRM restriction is gone and you can copy, transfer or sync all of the converted MP3 files to any MP3 player or mobile phone for enjoying.

The free trial version of UkeySoft Apple Music MP3 Converter only converts the first 3 minutes of each audio file. If you want to unlock the time limitation, you can purchase the full version from UkeySoft Store.