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How to Save Music from Apple Music to Computer

Updated on: August 24, 2024
Category: Apple Music Tips

As we all know, Apple Music is a popular streaming music service, for which all the songs on Apple Music are protected. We can only get access to Apple Music's entire catalogue by applying the 1-month free trial, or by subscribing to its service. Once we cancel the subscription of Apple Music, we will lose access to the whole iTunes library.

In other words, we won’t be able to own the Apple Music songs that we listen to, UNLESS we can find a way to save songs from Apple Music to our local computer. Here you will learn a quick and easy way to save and download music from Apple Music to your Mac / PC for offline listening.

Download Music from Apple Music to Computer

Why Can’t We Really Download Songs from Apple Music to Computer?

Apple Music adopted access control technology and the original downloaded files from iTunes are encrypted, due to which we can't easily really save those files on computer. But from another point of view, if we find a way to record Apple Music as plain music files, we can easily preserve any songs from Apple Music to our local computer and enjoy them forever.

Here we going to apply the most popular Apple Music Recorder – NoteBurner iTunes Audio Converter (with key features as follow) to show you how to save Apple Music songs to Mac / PC step by step.

  • Converter Apple Music, Audiobooks and iTunes M4P music;
  • Convert iTunes audios to MP3/AAC/WAV/FLAC/AIFF/ALAC;
  • Download songs from Apple Music to Local Computer;
  • Support Windows 11/10/8/7 & Mac OS 10.15-14;
  • Provide timely technical support & prompt customer service;

Tutorial: How to Save Apple Music Songs to Computer (Mac | PC)

NoteBurner iTunes Audio Converter supports both Windows and Mac OS. Here we take the Windows version as an example to guide you to save Apple Music as local files.

Note: For Mac users, please refer to Download Music from Apple Music on Mac for detailed steps.

Step 1: Download, Install and Launch NoteBurner Apple Music Converter

It's suggested to choose the "iTunes App" conversion mode if you're using the Windows version.

streaming music recorder

Step 2: Add Apple Music to the Program

Click button "+ Add", then a pop-up window will show you all your music downloaded in your iTunes Library. Or you can also directly drag & drop the downloaded Apple Music files to NoteBurner. Choose the Apple Music that you want to save to your computer and then press OK.

Add files

Step 3: Customize Output Settings for Offline Listening

Click the gear Settings button on the bottom left. Here you can customize Output Formats (MP3, FLAC, AAC, AIFF, WAV, or ALAC), Output Quality as well as Output Path.

settings

Step 4: Save Apple Music Songs to Computer

Click button "Convert", and all the Apple Music you chose in step 2 will soon be converted to the format you selected in step 3 and downloaded & saved offline to your local PC.

settings

When the conversion is done, you can find all your downloaded Apple Music on your computer by clicking the "Converted" button on the upper right or directly going to the output folder you customized in previous step.

Now you can listen to Apple Music offline anywhere anytime or transfer them to your preferable devices for enjoying at convenience.


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