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 three-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.
- Mac App Store is the simplest way to find and download apps for your Mac. To download apps from the Mac App Store, you need a Mac with OS X 10.6.6 or later.
- How to Turn On the Option to Manually Manage Music: Connect your iPhone to a Mac using an official Lightning-to-USB cable. Open a new Finder window and select Your iPhone from the sidebar. If you can’t see it, go to Finder Preferences Sidebar and turn on CDs, DVDs, and iOS Devices.
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Nov 28, 2019 How to Turn On the Option to Manually Manage Music: Connect your iPhone to a Mac using an official Lightning-to-USB cable. Open a new Finder window and select Your iPhone from the sidebar. If you can’t see it, go to Finder Preferences Sidebar and turn on CDs, DVDs, and iOS Devices.
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/FLAC/WAV/AIFF;
- Download songs from Apple Music to Local Computer;
- Support Windows 10/8/7 & Mac OS 10.11-11 & iTunes 12.11;
- 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
Step 2: Add Apple Music to the Program
Click button '+ Add' on the upper left. A pop-up window will show you all your music downloaded in your iTunes Library. Choose the Apple Music that you want to save to your computer and then press OK.
Step 3: Customize Output Settings for Offline Listening
Click the gear Setting button on the upper right. Here you can customize Output Formats (MP3, FLAC, AAC, AIFF, or WAV), Output Quality as well as Output Path.
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.
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When the conversion is done, you can find all your downloaded Apple Music on your computer by clicking the history button on the upper right or directly going to the output folder you customized in previous step.
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Now you can listen to Apple Music offline anywhere anytime or transfer them to your preferable devices for enjoying at convenience.