Transfer Apple Music to USB Flash Drive [Useful Tip]

Apple Music is a music and video streaming service developed by Apple Inc on June 30, 2015. Although it is a young streaming music service compared with other platforms, as a matter of fact, Apple Music now has 40 million paying subscribers among the worldwide. It's really surprising developing speed.

For most Apple Music users, they have collected massive favorite songs in Apple Music playlists. When driving the car on the road, we would like to play these Apple Music songs in car stereo. So, can we transfer Apple Music to USB Flash Drive to play in the car? The following guide teaches you how to transfer Apple Music to USB Flash Drive easily.

Part 1. Convert Apple Music to USB with Best Tool

It's an annoying moment when you sync Apple Music songs to USB Drive, but it can't play on your car stereo due to DRM protection. Apple Music files are encoded in M4P format, which restricted users play these songs on Apple devices only. Therefore, if you would like to listen to Apple Music on non-Apple player, you need to get rid of DRM protection at first.

As for decoding DRM restriction from Apple Music, AudFree DRM Audio Converter is a specialist to finish this work. Compared with common music converters, which can't only help you completely bypass DRM protection from Apple Music, but also convert Apple Music to MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC, or other popular formats. Then you are able to sync them to USB easily.

To get this job done, you need to prepare these tools as following first:

1. A computer Windows or Mac
2. Apple Music Subscription (If you haven't used Apple Music before, you can try it out with three months free subscription)
3. Apple Music Converter
4. A USB Drive or USB Flash Drive

Part 2. Steps to Transfer Apple Music to USB Flash Drive

After prepared all the tools we need, now follow the steps here to begin removing DRM from Apple Music and transferring the songs to USB Flash Drive.

Step 1. Download Apple Music Songs into Computer Local Folder

Launch iTunes app on your computer and sign in your Apple account. Then choose the tracks you want to download and add them to your playlist. In "My Music" section, click the song you newly added and touch the cloud icon with a downward arrow to download it offline on your computer.

Step 2. Add Offline Apple Music Tracks to AudFree

You can click the "+" menu from the bottom left, then it will pop up a new window shows all of your Apple Music songs and playlists. Please choose all the songs you want to convert and touch "Add" button. If these files don't show up there, maybe it's caused by iTunes settings. Just go to the 'Preference' window of your iTunes and then enable the option 'share iTunes library XML with other applications'.

Step 3. Customize Output Format as MP3

Now moves your mouse to the bottom right corner and click on the 'audio' icon. Then you'll be led to the Format Setting widow, where you can choose the output format and define the audio parameters like codec, channel, sample rate, etc. To make the songs readable by USB Flash Drive, you'd better set the output format as MP3.

Step 4. Convert Apple Music to MP3

When finished the output settings, you can start converting the Apple Music songs to MP3 by clicking the 'convert' button at the bottom right corner. Then it will automatically remove DRM from your Apple Music tracks and convert the M4P files to MP3, WAV, or other formats at up to 30X faster speed.

Step 5. Transfer Converted Apple Music Songs to USB Flash Drive

Once converting process is finished, connect your USB stick to computer, and then find the DRM-free Apple Music tracks in the target folder and freely copy them to your USB drive for playback in your car or anywhere else.

Up to now, you have learned all tutorial to transfer your Apple Music to USB Flash Drive. Therefore, take action immediately after reading this article. If you meet any other question when do this job, please leave a message in the comment area below.