Summary
Do you want to play Apple Music on Sony Walkman? This post guides you a way to convert Apple Music as MP3 format so that you can transfer Apple Music songs to Sony Walkman and any other MP3 players for offline listening.

“Can I use Apple Music with my Sony Walkman? How do I transfer Apple music tracks to my Sony Walkman?”

Can you transfer Apple Music to Sony Walkman directly? Sony Walkman is one of the most popular MP3 players, it would be an ideal choice for those people who love sports. Compared with iPhone, it is lighter and smaller, so playing Apple Music songs on Sony Walkman are more convenient and portable. If you subscribe to Apple Music and want to put Apple Music on Sony Walkman, then you can’t miss this post.

Part 1. Why Can’t Transfer Apple Music to Sony Walkman Directly?

If you try to move Apple Music songs to Sony Walkman, you will find it cannot directly recognize Apple Music files. Apple Music subscribers can download music for offline listening. But Apple Music tracks are encoding in M4P format, and are encrypted by FairPlay DRM, which prevents users from transferring Apple Music songs to unauthorized Apple devices such as Sony Walkman players, SanDisk, MP3 players, PSP, old iPod Nano, iPod Shuffle, etc. Worse, when you cancel the subscription, the downloaded Apple Music tracks will not be playable. On the other hand, Sony Walkman is compatible with MP3, AAC, WMA. Obviously, Apple Music M4P songs are not supported by Sony Walkman.

Under such circumstances, to make Apple Music songs available for Walkman MP3 player, the best way is to use a professional third-party Apple Music converter to unlock the DRM protection and convert Apple Music M4P songs to plain audio formats such as MP3, AAC, WMA formats. In this way, you can freely transfer Apple Music songs to Sony Walkman.

Part 2. How to Convert Apple Music for Sony Walkman?

TunesBank Apple Music Converter is a powerful and useful converter. It not only can help you get rid of the DRM protection from Apple Music, but also convert Apple Music M4P songs to MP3, M4A, FLAC, AAC formats supported by most MP3 players and portable devices. What’s more, 100% lossless quality and ID3 Tags will be preserved while converting your tracks. In addition, 5X-10X faster speed and batch conversion functions can help you convert a entire playlist from Apple Music to your local drive in a short time. With the help of TunesBank Apple Music Converter, everyone can transfer and play Apple Music on Sony Walkman, SanDisk, MP3 players, PSP, etc.

Core features of TunesBank Apple Music Converter:

  • Delete DRM from Apple Music, iTunes M4P music and audiobooks.
  • Convert Apple Music songs to MP3, M4A, etc. plain formats.
  • Keep Apple Music songs, playlists, albums on local drive forever.
  • Play Apple Music songs on Sony Walkman, SanDisk MP3 player, iPods, etc.
  • Remain 100% original audio quality, ID3 tags and metadata information.
  • Fully compatible with the latest iTunes APP, Mac OS 10.11-11 & Windows 11.

Guide: How to Convert Apple Music for Sony Walkman?

Before you transfer Apple Music songs to Sony Walkman or other MP3 players, you need to convert Apple Music tracks to MP3 or other popular formats. The following tutorial will guide you how to use TunesBank to convert Apple Music to MP3 files.

Step 1. Run TunesBank Apple Music Converter
Install and run the TunesBank Apple Music Converter on your Mac. Then the Apple Music(MacOS 10.15 Catalina) or iTunes APP will be opened automatically. The Converter will load the entire iTunes library synced into the converter at the same time.

launch the converter and sign in Apple ID

Step 2. Select the Apple Music Songs to Convert
Click “Playlist” and select the songs you want to convert. You can use the “Search Box” option to locate the songs you wanted easily.

Select Apple Music Songs

Step 3. Choose MP3 Format for Sony Walkman
Choose the format you want under “Output Settings” option. If you choose the MP3 format, you will get 100% original quality audio. You can set the output profile, codec, bit rate, sample rate and channel as needed.

customize output settings

Step 4. Start to Convert Apple Music to MP3 for Sony Walkman
Click “Convert” button to begin converting Apple Music to MP3 without any quality loss.

Convert Apple Music to MP3

After converting, you can click “Finished” button, then tap”View Output File” button to find the unprotected Apple Music songs.

get Apple Music MP3 files

Part 3. Transfer Converted Apple Music to Sony Walkman

You got the DRM-free Apple Music tracks as your local files. Now it’s time to move Apple Music songs to Sony Walkman.

Step 1. Connect Sony Walkman MP3 player to you computer with a USB cable.

Step 2. Locate the converted Apple Music songs on your computer.

Step 3. Drag and drop the converted Apple Music songs to “Music” folder of Sony Walkman player.

transfer apple music to sony walkman

Step 4. Unplug the SanDisk device and enjoy your Apple Music songs on Sony Walkman.

Conclusion

Apple uses the DRM-protection to encrypt all Apple Music tracks so you can not transfer Apple Music songs to Sony Walkman or other unauthorized devices directly. To listen to Apple Music on generic MP3 players, you need to use a professional Apple Music Converter. With the assistance of TunesBank Apple Music Converter, you can not only unlock DRM easily, but also convert Apple Music songs to MP3, M4A, FLAC formats so that you can copy Apple Music songs to Sony Walkman or other players and devices such as SanDisk, iPod Nano, Android, PS4, Zune, PSP, car player, etc.

Apple Music to Sony Walkman

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