3 Proven Ways to Listen to Apple Music on Sonos

As Artificial Intelligence technology comes up, our entertainment mode has become more diverse. For example, with the assistance of the smart speaker like Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant, users can play movies, streaming music, and podcasts easily. When you cooking at home at the weekend, enjoy your favorite Apple Music songs on a room-by-room basis with Sonos. It's amazing, right?

Today in this post, we will focus on providing 3 simple ways to assist you to use Apple Music on Sonos. It includes utilizing the Sonos Controller App, Airplay, and an ultimate solution even after you stopping to subscribe to Apple Music service, you will able to play Apple Music on Sonos.

Method 1. Add Apple Music to Sonos with Sonos Controller

This solution is the easiest solution to get Apple Music on Sonos. It also is available both to iOS and Android users. Please following this guide to see how to add Apple Music to Sonos with 3 steps only:

Step 1. You need to install the Sonos Controller App on your phone. For Apple users, you can search it from Apple Store. For the Android client, you can also get it from Google Play Store.

Step 2. Open this app on your mobile phone and then touch the menu button to select the More>Add Music Service. After that, you need to choose the Apple Music service and hit on Add to Sonos option.

Step 3. Enter your Apple Music account and password, then simply click the Open button.

That's all. Now you have transferred Apple Music to Sonos. With the help of the Sonos Controller, you can freely listen to your collected songs on this smart speaker. If you have multiple Apple Music account or subscribed the Apple Music family plan, Sonos allows you to add several accounts music into it.

Note: Please notice that you will capable of adjusting the play settings in the Sonos Controller app only. In other words, you can't change the playing parameters in the Apple Music app in this way.

Method 2. Listen to Apple Music on Sonos via Airplay

Apple provides a convenient way for customers to sync streams to other devices via Airplay. In this case, you'll able to use Apple Music on Sonos speaker with the Airplay. Here is the detailed tutorial to set everything up.

Please make sure your Sonos app has updated the latest version.

Step 1. When you opening the Sonos app, it will show a request to install the Airplay 2 firmware update on your phone.

Step 2. The Sonos will auto recognize and show up Airplay speakers in the Apple Music menu on your iPhone.

Step 3. Now, you can select and play an Apple Music song. It will be played on Sonos through Airplay.

Method 3. Play Apple Music Playlist on Sonos without Subscription

Those above solutions are useful and easy to operate. But they also have some weaknesses such as connection unstable and would not to customize the play settings. More importantly, after canceling subscribe Apple Music service or lost your account, you will not able to play Apple Music on Sonos.

Here we found an ultimate method to access to Apple Music songs on Sonos Speaker after unsubscribing. With the assistance of this way, you can also sync Apple Music to other devices. In order to get Apple Music on Sonos, you need to know that Apple Music is Integrated with FairPlay DRM, a special copyright protection tech designed by Apple. Therefore, even you already downloaded Apple Music tracks, you can't play them on common players.

To break out this limitation, you are highly recommended to use a professional program – AudFree Apple Music Converter. It supports to remove DRM from Apple Music by converting Apple Music to MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC, etc. losslessly. After that, you can get full DRM-free Apple Music songs and enjoy them on Sonos even without subscription.

Step 1. Import Apple Music playlist to AudFree

When you launch AudFree Apple Music Converter, it will load iTunes app on your computer automatically. Then browse and choose the songs you want to convert and simply drag and drop them from iTunes to AudFree main interface to import it.

Step 2. Change Output Preferences

After adding Apple Music to AudFree, you need to click the menu button and then hit on the "Audio" button to set the format settings. To use Apple Music on Sonos, here we suggest you'd better set the output format as MP3. Moreover, AudFree enables you to change the sample rate, bitrate, channel, etc. according to your demands.

Step 3. Convert Apple Music to Sonos Supported Format

In this section, the final step is clicking the "Convert" button. Just waiting for a few second, AudFree will convert Apple Music to the target format.

Step 4. Add DRM-free Apple Music to Sonos

Open up the Sonos app on your computer. Move to "Manage" menu, choose "Music Library Settings" then touch on the "Add" button. Congratulations, you can freely listen to Apple Music on Sonos even unsubscription.