How to Record Apple Music M4P to MP3

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Do you have the same harassment as me that I can enjoy Apple Music services with a 3-month free only? Whether you are upset for audio files downloaded from this streaming service are not allowed to play on MP3 players, such as Sony Walkman, Apple iPod, and more? When you are confused for the above problems, you can solve it in this article. We will show an effective solution to record and convert Apple Music streams to MP3 so that we can keep Apple Music forever.


Part 1. Common Knowledge about Apple Music & M4P Format

As the one of the most popular streaming music service, Apple Music has 40 million users in the world. With subscribing Apple Music plan, users can temporarily download songs for offline listening. That sounds good for listening to the music offline walking on the road. However, when you transferred your songs from Apple Music to your MP3 playing devices, you will find that it can’t work on some MP3 devices. Why? Because the download Apple Music songs are in the M4P format (protected AAC format), which limits users listening to music from many aspects. In other words, Apple Music streams are encoded as protected M4P music.

To get rid of the restrictions, you can record the protected M4P to plain audio formats. As a result, you can play Apple Music on MP3 supported devices for offline listening when taking a boring commute or a long walk on the road.

Part 2. Smartest Audio Recorder for Apple Music

Common streaming audio recorders can’t work to record steams preserved from Apple Music due to DRM protection. So, I will recommend you a professional streaming music recorder named Audfree Audio Capture.

Audfree Audio Capture, which is designed to record any audio from your computer applications, not only from Apple Music but also including YouTube, BBC, Spotify, etc. As a powerful audio capture, this software brings a full set of flexible and enriched methods to record your Apple Music songs with quality lossless. Compared to other audio recording tools in the market, AudFree Audio Recorder has five features as follows:
  •  Record any Apple music and playlists in high quality;
  • Save recorded Apple Music streams in MP3, AAC, etc.
  • Support multi-track audio recording;
  • Keep and fix the ID3 tags of Apple Music;
  • Cut, trim and merge recordings flexibly.

Part 3. Detailed Tutorial to Record Audio from Apple Music

Whether it is very difficult to record the songs from Apple Music with AudFree software? Absolutely not, Adufree Audio Recorder is a very smart and easy-to-use software, which brings a set of flexible methods to record Apple Music streams. Let's take a try.

Step 1 Launched Audfree Audio Capture and Select Basic Settings

Once you have opened Audfree Audio Capture application, it will display the programs you have installed on your computer like Apple Music app, Google Chrome, iTunes store, etc. If the recording app is not in the line of this list, you can click '+' button to add directly.
The next, please click the ‘audio’ icon in the bottom right corner to set output format and other parameters like codec, channel sample rate, and bit rate.

Step 2 Start Playing and Recording Apple Music

Please click Apple Music app or web browser to enter to Apple Music website. To start the recording process, you should play any streaming files from Apple Music, and Audfree Audio Capture will automatically capture and grab playing songs from Apple Music. This smart audio recording tool also can support multi-track audio capturing. 

Step 3 Cut and Split Unwanted Audio Segments


If you recorded the exclusive songs under the mistake, please click the edit icon and a new window will pop up, where you will see a media cutting interface. Now you should set the start time and the end time accord to your needs.

Step 4 Stop and Preserve Apple Music

You can stop the converting process by quitting the Apple Music app or whole web browser or stop playing Apple Music. And then all added Apple Music M4P have recorded to MP3 files successfully and you can locate them on "history" folder.





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