How to Listen to Apple Music Offline

'I have subscribed Apple Music service, and want to listen to Apple Music while working. However, I'm always working at outdoor. Not connecting a Wi-Fi network with my iPhone, so I'm concerned it will surpass cellular plan with the cellular data playing. Can I listen to Apple Music offline without an internet connection?' asked from an Apple Music user on Apple Music discussion community.

As one of the most popular streaming music platforms, Apple Music provides more than 50 million songs for users. Besides, it also provides an awesome option to customers – you are allowed to download your favorite tracks, albums, and playlist for offline listening. We'll show you in this post as below: How to save Apple Music for offline playback.

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Method 1. Download Apple Music for Offline Listening

Lucky for you, if you have subscribed Apple Music, you can download any song or album from catalog to your device for offline playing. If you are a new user, Apple Music offers 3-month free trial for newer, after that, you need to pay $9.99 per month.

To download Apple Music tracks on your device, please make sure you have installed Apple Music app. If you have a computer, you can also use iTunes to download Apple Music offline via iCloud Music Library. Just follow these steps as below:

Step 1. Launch the Apple Music program on your machine.

Step 2. Browser and choose the songs, albums or playlists you want to download from Apple Music Store.

Step 3. Touch the 'More' button (Looks like three dots) at the right of the music title, and then you will see the 'Make Available Offline' option.

Step 4. Now, all the tracks will begin to download to your phone. After that, move to 'My Music' section, and tap on 'view type dropdown' button on the screen, where you can find downloaded Apple Music and play them.

Method 2. Make Apple Music Offline Available on Any Device

With the first easy solution, you will able to download Apple Music for offline playback. However, this way has some weaknesses you need to know that you are required to continuously subscribe Apple Music service, once you canceled Apple Music subscription, all your downloaded tracks will unplayable on your mobile phone or other devices. Additionally, all these songs can be played offline on authorized machines only such as MacBook, iPad, iPhone, etc. Why?

That's because Apple Music songs are protected by FairPlay, which is a DRM technology designed by Apple to protect the digital streams copyright. To get rid of this restriction, you need to use a program – AudFree Apple Music Converter. It is well-designed software support to completely remove DRM from Apple Music with converting Apple Music to common formats like MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC. Now, let's see how to unlock DRM from Apple Music as following:

Step 1. Import Apple Music to AudFree

Upon launching AudFree Apple Music Converter, you will see iTunes app will be loaded simultaneously. Then, please select the tracks you want to convert and drag & drop them from iTunes library to AudFree main interface.

Step 2. Customize Output Format

Simply click the 'Format' button next to the 'Convert' option, and then define the output format as MP3(default), WAV, AAC or other popular formats. In this window, you also can change bitrate, sample rate, channel, etc.

Step 3. Download Apple Music Songs Offline

Once all settings have finished, now please touch the 'Convert' button. AudFree will start to remove DRM and convert Apple Music to the target format with keeping the original audio quality. After conversion, you're able to sync them to any device listening and preserve them permanently.

Summary:

If you'd like listen to Apple Music on Apple devices only, the first method is easy to operate for you. But if you need to listen to Apple Music offline on Zune, Amazon Echo, Car stereo, and any other machines, you can use AudFree Apple Music Converter to enjoy Apple Music offline forever without any limitation.