Summary
Converting Apple Music to MP3 is the best way to enjoy Apple Music songs offline on any devices. this article teach you how to convert Apple Music to MP3 with Apple Music Converter, Apple Music app or iTunes. Please follow the free, paid ways to download high-quality MP3 files from Apple Music, so that you can enjoy your favorite music on any MP3 player.

Convert Apple Music to MP3

Apple Music is a popular music streaming service, like Spotify, Amazon Music Unlimited, Qobuz, Tidal and YouTube Music. Most people would like to choose the Apple Music, because it not only covers a huge music library of more than 100 million songs, but also the artist’s new albums are released here, so that users can listen to the latest albums and songs in the first time. If you want to enjoy Apple Music freely, the most effective way is to convert Apple Music to MP3.

The easiest way to convert Apple Music to MP3.

TunesBank Apple Music Converter is the most userful program that I used, and highly recommend with confidence for all Apple Music subscribers. Hopefully, it’ll help you download MP3 music from Apple Music.

Important Note:

The latest version of TunesBank Apple Music Converter(V.3.0.7) is updated now! A built-in Apple web player in the converter, TunesBank Apple Music Converter no longer requires to sync with iTunes to process the music conversion anymore! Just sign in your Apple ID, you’re able to download, convert and play music in a comfortable place. Please check whether you use the V.3.0.7 and update, enjoy your musical journey!

Apple Music Converter

Apple Music to MP3

Recently, many Apple Music users want to convert Apple Music to MP3 format for offline listening on any devices, someone may ask: “Is it possible to convert Apple Music to MP3?” “How to rip music from Apple Music?” “Can I play Apple Music on MP3 players?”… I’m very sorry to tell you that Apple Music songs have been encrypted by DRM to prevent unauthorized use. Therefore, it is difficult for you to enjoy Apple Music on devices that are not associated with your Apple Music account. In other words, you cannot stream Apple music to MP3 players, such as iPod nano, iPod shuffle, Sony Walkman, Sandisk, etc. In order to put and play Apple Music songs to MP3 player, converting Apple Music to MP3 files seems to be the best practice. Here is a tutorial about how to convert Apple Music to MP3 with an Apple Music converter, you’ll get high-quality MP3 files from Apple Music. Let’s take a look at how to do Apple Music to MP3 conversion successfully.

Tool You Need to Convert Apple Music to MP3 Successfully
● TunesBank Apple Music Converter – the best Apple Music to MP3 Converter for Windows and Mac
● Apple Music App – a free music player and converter on MacOS 10.15 Catalina and above
● iTunes – a free media player and manager, as well as music to MP3 converter available on Windows, Mac

How to Convert Apple Music to MP3?

Many Apple Music users may ask “How to convert Apple Music to MP3?” “How do I convert protected Apple Music to MP3?” “How to remove DRM from Apple Music” “Can I convert Apple Music to MP3 with the Apple Music app or iTunes for Windows?”… As we all know, the Apple Music is a streaming music service, all songs downloaded from Apple Music are encoded in DRM M4P format. Although there is built-in MP3 encoder in iTunes application and Apple Music app, you can convert a song to MP3 format with iTunes and Apple Music app. But, the iTunes/ Apple Music application cannot convert the DRM-protected Apple Music songs, because the Apple company doesn’t provide any way to directly convert the protected Apple Music M4P songs to MP3 format.

Apple Music AAC audio file

If you plan to convert Apple Music AAC file to MP3 for offline listening on MP3 players, you need to use an Apple Music to MP3 Converter. Here, we will teach you how to convert Apple Music to MP3 and how to convert a unprotected song to MP3 format with the Apple Music app or iTunes application.

Tool Required: Apple Music to MP3 Converter

Which is the best Apple Music to MP3 converter? Is there a free Apple Music Converter? As the best Apple Music converter, a tool must be able to remove DRM protection from Apple Music and convert Apple Music songs to DRM-free MP3 and other common audio formats.

Apple Music AAC audio file

TunesBank Apple Music Converter is a reliable and safe Apple Music to MP3 converter and Apple Music DRM removal tool, which stands out in DRM music conversion field. With this tool, you can convert Apple Music songs from its original DRM-ed AAC format to MP3 and many other formats, such as M4A, FLAC, WAV and AAC. Another attractive feature is its built-in Apple Music Web Player and Music Player. You can discover, search, browse and stream music online! In this way, after get rid of Fairplay DRM encryption and convert Apple Music to MP3, so you can play Apple Music on MP3 players or keep the Apple Music songs on your computer forever. In addition, with the help of TunesBank, you also can convert iTunes M4P songs, iTunes audiobooks and Audible AA/AAX audiobooks into high-quality MP3 formats.

Unlike other Apple music converters, TunesBank converts Apple music tracks at 10X conversion speed on Mac and Windows computer. When it starts to convert, you are also allowed to continue adding songs to the Converting list, and the conversion will not be interrupted. TunesBank offers the best solution to convert Apple Music to MP3, and all ID3 tag information will be retained in the output MP3 file, so that you can better organize your local music library, and easily to control your music while play in MP3 player.

Best for: Convert music content from Apple Music to high-quality MP3 files. For instance, it can convert all kinds of protected music files including Apple Music tracks, albums, artists, podcasts, playlists, etc.

Key Features of TunesBank Apple Music Converter:

  • Convert Apple Music to MP3 losslessly.
  • More output formats: M4A, AAC, FLAC, AC3, AU, and AIFF.
  • Remove DRM from Apple Music, iTunes M4P songs, iTunes audiobooks and Audible audiobooks.
  • Extract audio from iTunes videos.
  • Preserves the best lossless audio quality of your Apple Music songs.
  • Download and convert music content fom built in Apple Music Web Player.
  • Built in Music Player for direct streaming Apple Music contents.
  • Keep all ID3 Tags and metadata in the output music files.
  • Support continuing to add songs even if the conversion has started.
  • Support batch conversion and 10X faster on Windows PC & Mac.
  • Fully compatible with latest iTunes & Windows 11 & macOS 12.

Part 1: Convert Apple Music to MP3 with TunesBank Apple Music Converter

How to get MP3 files from Apple Music with TunesBanlk Apple Music Converter? Here we will show you the complete user guide on how to convert Apple Music to MP3 at 320kbps. In this way, you can transfer Apple Music to any MP3 player as you want.

Requirements:
* A Windows PC or Mac
* A valid Apple Music subscription (Free trial or Premium)
* TunesBank Apple Music Converter (Free trial or Lifetime License)

Tips: Before converting Apple Music to MP3 format, please added the song, playlist, or album to the iTunes Library, and make sure you can play those added/downloaded music normal in iTunes/Apple Music app, then quit the iTunes/Apple Music app. You can see the added Apple Music songs are Apple Music AAC audio file, and the downloaded songs are M4P format on computer, all songs which comes with Apple FairPlay Streaming DRM.

Step 1. Launch TunesBank Apple Music Converter and Login Your Apple ID
Firstly, download and install the TunesBank Apple Music Converter on your Mac or Windows computer. When you are on the welcome page, you can see there is a built-in Apple Music web player in the program. Just hit the “Open the Apple web player” to enter the main feed of the converter. Then, please login your Apple ID.

launch the converter and sign in Apple ID

Tips: TunesBank Apple Music Converter no longer requires to sync with iTunes to process the music conversion anymore! If your want to convert your iTunes library to MP3, please turn on iCloud Music Library and sync iTunes music library to Apple Music firstly, and make sure you can play them normal with Apple Music web player.

After logging the Apple ID, you’re able to access, browse, search, play and download Apple Music songs & playlist with it’s built-in Apple web player.

Apple Music web player

Step 2. Search and Add Apple Music Songs and Albums to Download
Now, you are able to access any Apple Music songs, playlist or album you desire to download, you can also use the search function provided by the Apple web player to search songs you want. Please open a playlist/album and directly drag to the floating “+” button to add songs to the converting list, then the program will add all the tracks to the converting list for you.

add Apple Music playlist

If you have synced playlist from iTunes to Apple Music web player, you can also added iTunes music that you want to convert.

add iTunes Music

Step 3. Select Apple Music Songs to Convert
When all the tracks are added to the converting list now, please select the Apple Music songs that you want to download.

Select Apple Music Songs

By default, all songs are selected, you can tap “Select All” beside the “Remove” icon or scroll the list to manually tick the songs you desire to download are both available.

Step 4. Set Output Preferences
TunesBank Apple Music Converter can convert Apple Music tracks to MP3/M4A/WAV/FLAC. Because MP3 is a universal format that most devices and players supported, I suggest you set MP3 as the output format firstly. Under the same network condition, M4A normally enjoys faster conversion speed than other formats do. If you want to get the best music quality, please select FLAC as output format, of course, the FLAC files takes up much space.

Select MP3 Output Formats

Output Music Quality: TunesBank can helps you quickly convert Apple Music to high-quality MP3, M4A, FLAC, and WAV formats as easy as adjusting the sound volume on your devices. For each output format, it provides pre-designed profile settings: high(48 kHz), normal(48 kHz) and low(22 kHz), with different bit rates, sample rates and channels. You can customize Bitrate and Sample Rate to maintain the original sound quality of Apple Music: 256 Kbps, 44.1 kHz (best at 320 Kbps, 48 kHz).

customize Bitrate and Sample Rate

Metadata: TunesBank can read and save music metadata, such as the song title, artist name, album name, genre or album artwork. You can also edit them as you like before converting.

save Apple Music Metadata

Output Folder: You also can change the output folder, we suggest you save the output file on your computer firstly. Don’t set other USB device as output path.

Select Output Folder

Step 5. Convert Apple Music to MP3
After the custom output parameters are completed, just clicking “Convert All” button to start converting Apple Music tracks to MP3/M4A/WAV/FLAC. TunesBank allows you to convert as many Apple Music songs as you like in batch in 10X conversion speed.

Convert Apple Music to MP3

Tips: You can also convert different Apple Music tracks to different format at one. For this powerful feature, only TunesBank can do that!

Step 6. Get MP3 Music Files
After conversion finished, please click “Finished” section to review the conversion history.

Apple Music to MP3 conversion completed

Then, clicking “View Output File” button to locate the converted Apple Music MP3 files. As below screenshot, you can see the converted Apple Music songs are .mp3 format, all Apple Music songs save onto the folder of the computer. Now, you are able to play the downloaded Apple Music songs offline without Apple Music app or iTunes application, you also can transfer, copy or share them freely.

get Apple Music MP3 files

If you want to enjoy Apple Music offline on other mobile devices, you can transfer all of the well-converted Apple Music songs to iPod nano, iPod shuffle, iPhone, Zune, PSP, Sony Walkman, Sandisk and any other MP3 players for listening anywhere you want.

The Original Apple Music Songs Vs. The Output MP3 Music Files

TunesBank helps you save Apple Music tracks as local files. What’s more, it will keep original ID3 tags & metadata information, such as such as title, artist, album, cover artwork, etc. Let’s compare the original Apple Music song with the output MP3 music files. As the below screenshot, you can see the ID3 tags and media metadata can be detected and saved automatically, which for you easily to manage your music collection.

Keep original ID3 tags & metadata information

TunesBank brings you free music, please download the program and try to convert Apple Music to MP3 format now!

More Tips for converting Apple Music/iTunes Music with TunesBank:

  • 1. The converted MP3 files are the same as original quality.
  • 2. If your songs purchased before 2009, TunesBank also can convert them.
  • 3. If you are using macOS 10.15 and above, you can convert the protected and unprotected songs to MP3 via the TunesBank, make sure the Apple Music app can play them normal before converting.
  • 4. TunesBank can convert everything that iTunes can plays, including Audible books, iTunes Podcast, iTunes audiobooks & music. Make sure those files can be played in iTunes, then TunesBank can recrod and convert them to other format.

Part 2: How to Convert Music to MP3 with the Apple Music app

For macOS 10.15 and above, you can directly convert unprotected music to MP3 format with the Apple Music app. You can also add the unprotected songs from local to the Apple Music for playing or converting, but make sure those songs are unprotected. Let’s see the instructions below about how to convert a song to MP3 with original audio quality retained by using the Apple Music app.

convert music to mp3 with apple music app

Step 1. Launch Apple Music app and Go to Preferences
Launch the Apple Music app on your Mac. From the menu bar, choose the Music > Preferences button.

Open Preferences in Apple Music app

Step 2. Set MP3 Encoder
Select the Files > Import Settings.

Import Settings

Then, please click MP3 Encoder button.

Set MP3 Encoder in Apple Music app

Step 3. Select Music to Convert
Choose the songs you want to convert. If you want to select all songs in this playlist, just hold the Shift key on your keyboard and select the last song you want to convert.

Step 4. Convert Music to MP3
The latest step, please choose File > Convert.

Convert Music to MP3

Clicking Create MP3 Version, then your selected music be converted to MP3 format soon.

Create MP3 Version

After converting music to MP3 with the Apple Music app, you can find the MP3 music under the original track, then right click the converted songs and tap “Song Infor” to get its information, you can find where it saved.

Part 3: How to Convert Music to MP3 with iTunes

If you use Windows PC or your Mac computer works on macOS 10.14 or older, you can use iTunes to convert a song to MP3 with original audio quality retained. First, let’s see how to convert unprotected music to MP3 with iTunes on PC or Mac.

Let’s view the full screenshot about how to convert music to MP3 with iTunes on Windows PC:

Convert Music to MP3 with iTunes in Windows

Below is the detail steps to convert music to MP3 with iTunes on Mac:

Step 1. Launch iTunes and Click Import Settings
Open iTunes application on PC or Mac, and then click Edit > Preferences > General > Import Settings.

click Import Settings in iTunes

Step 2. Set MP3 Encoder
Under the “Import Using” windows, the iTunes offers multiple output formats: “MP3 Encoder”, “AIFF Encoder”, “Apple Lossess Encoder”, “WAV Encoder” and “ACC Encoder”.

select MP3 Encoder

To convert music to MP3, please select “MP3 Encoder”, here you also can set the conversion quality, such as High Quality(160kbps). Then, Click OK and go back to iTunes Library.

select MP3

Step 3. Select Music to Convert
In this step, please choose a song that you want to convert. If you want to convert more songs at a time, please select one of song in this playlist, then hold the Shift key(for PC) or the Control key(for Mac) on your keyboard and select the last song you want to convert.

Step 4. Convert Music to MP3 with iTunes
The latest step, just click File > Convert > Create MP3 Version. The iTunes start to convert your selected song(s) to MP3 format.

convert song to mp3 with itunes

Tips: If you try to convert Apple Music tracks with iTunes or Apple Music app, a prompt will pop up to tell you that “the protected music file could not be converted to other formats”.

the protected Apple music file could not be converted to other formats

Therefore, if you want to convert the unprotected music files to MP3 or other format with iTunes, you need to import them from local computer to the iTunes library, then follow the above detail guide to create MP3 version.

Apple say: “Music that you lease with an Apple Music subscription is copy-protected to only play on Apple-approved devices and cannot be converted to other formats. You should still be able to convert songs that you bought from the iTunes Store or music you imported from a CD.

If you want to convert the DRM protected Apple Music songs to MP3, you must to use a professional Apple Music converter. Above tutorial, we have showed how to convert Apple Music AAC audio file to MP3 successfully, please download the trial version of TunesBank Apple Music Converter and try to convert your favorite song, albums and playlists to MP3 or other format.

Part 4: Benefits of Converting Apple Music to MP3

DRM-lock in prevents us from making good use of Apple Music songs even if you are a subscriber. After converting Apple Music to DRM-free MP3 format, you will always keep Apple Music songs even if you do not subscribe. In fact, you will get more, here we have listed a series of advantages of extracting MP3 files from Apple Music.

There are no equipment restrictions. You will be able to listen to your favorite Apple music tracks on any device and MP3 player.

  • You still can play Apple Music, even after you cancel the subscription.
  • You can play Apple Music on multiple devices without a family plan.
  • You can keep Apple Music songs forever after a 3-month free trial.
  • You can transfer Apple Music to an external hard drive or USB flash drive or SD card at will.
  • You can upload Apple Music to Google Drive, Google Home, common web music player, etc.
  • Apple music songs can be transferred to MP3 players for offline listening, including iPod nano, iPod shuffle, Sony Walkman, Sandisk, Xbox, PS4, PS3, PSP, etc.
  • You can easily set Apple Music as iPhone or Android phone ringtone.
  • You can burn Apple Music to CD or transfer Apple Music to car stereo for playback in the car.
  • You can easily add Apple Music as background music in a video.

Now, you have learn how many benefits you would get after converting Apple Music to MP3, why not download an Apple Music Converter to convert your favorite music to MP3 format? TunesBank Apple Music Converter is a must-have tool that all Apple Music users need to own one, please try this program to convert your Apple Music to MP3 so that you’re able to listen to streaming music offline on any devices.

Part 5: FAQs of Apple Music to MP3

Q1: What Is Apple Music?
Answer: With the growth of streaming, Apple Music has become the second most popular music streaming platforms after Spotify. Unlike other streaming music services, Apple Music doesn’t offer a free plan. But it offers a 30-day free trial for new users, and you will need to pay for it after free trial.

  • Student: $5.99 per month
  • Individual: $10.99 per month
  • Family: $16.99 per month
  • Individual Annual: $109 per year

Apple Music is encoded in 44.1Khz/16-bit or 24-bit AAC format, with 256Kbps. In addition, it also offers lossless audio, which is a boon for music lovers.

Q2: Why Convert Tidal to MP3?
Answer: Apple Music indeed offers users with an amazing listening experience. However, Apple Music has some drawbacks, like the fact that users can only stream Apple Music on Apple-authorized devices with the Apple Music app or iTunes. Even if you pay for it monthly, you don’t have full control over the playback of Apple Music. In this case, converting Apple Music to MP3 is the best way to enjoy your favourite songs on all your devices.

Q3: Which is the Best Way to Convert Apple Music to MP3?
Answer: As we mentioned above, the best and easiest way is to use a profession Apple Music Converter. TunesBank Apple Music Converter has a built-in Apple Music Web Player for direct converting Apple Music songs. You can also get more extra and effortless features from it (Read its key features above).

Q4: Can You Convert Apple Music to MP3 for free?
Answer: There is no such thing as a free lunch. There are a lot of software that claims to be free Apple Music converter is actually just a simple recorder that works at 1:1 speed with lossy audio quality. Some are web converters with annoying ads and unsafe pages. Please think twice. If you want to get a better high quality of Apple Music MP3 audios, you’d better use a paid but professional Apple Music to MP3 Converter, like TunesBank Apple Music Converter.

Conclusion

Featuring a huge music library with over 100 million songs, Apple Music is a top-rate streaming music platform to explore music. But all Apple Music songs can be played within the Apple Music app or iTunes. Then, converting Apple Music to MP3 is a good bridge to enhance your listening experience.

Generally speaking, TunesBank Apple Music Converter is an awesome Apple Music to MP3 Converter. Just give it a try, and start your Apple Music to MP3 conversion. In this way, you can put Apple Music on iPod Nano, play Apple Music on MP3 players, smartphones, tablets, game consoles, smart speakers, smart TVs, USB disk, etc. offline. Besides, without installing the Apple Music app and iTunes, you can simply open these converted Apple Music MP3 files with the built-in music player on your devices!

Convert Apple Music to MP3

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