Workable Solutions to Burn Apple Music onto a CD

When talking about CD, most audiences feel that CD has disappeared in our daily life. However, until 2014, the number of digital album downloads exceeded the sales of CD albums for the first time. In other words, there are so many people still use CD to listen to music now. Among these users, some people also subscribed Apple Music service, and want to burn Apple Music to a CD.

Maybe you are familiar with the procedure to burn iTunes songs to CD, but when you opened iTunes, you would found that there is no burn option for burning the streaming Apple Music tracks to CD. In this situation, can we burn Apple Music songs to CD? If you are encountering this issue, this acritical will show you the best solution to accomplish burn Apple Music to a disc effectively.

Solution 1. Burn Apple Music Songs to CD with iTunes

As is mentioned above, it's quite easy to burn MP3 or M4A format songs to a CD with iTunes,. Just need to add the tracks to your iTunes library, create a music playlist and import these audio files to this playlist, then right-click on it, you will find an option “Burn Playlist to Disc” Touch this option then you will see a Brun Settings window. Defined 'Audio CD' as the disc format and click “include CD Text” so that tracks will be displayed with ID 3 tags, instead of track 01. Then click Burn button to start burning streams to audio CD.

However, this feature is only available with unprotected tracks or protected M4P tracks sold in 2009 or earlier. Why? It because Apple has removed the burn feature for Apple Music in iTunes. The behind reason is that Apple add FairPlay DRM to Apple Music in 2009, which is an encrypted technology allows subscribers to play DRM protected songs on Apple authorized devices only. The result is the Apple Music songs are in a protected M4P format and can't be burned onto CD or convert.

Solution 2. Use AudFree to Burn a CD from Apple Music

In this case, you can still burn music to cd, but the Apple Music tracks won't be included in the output CD. You may feel confused about how to burn Apple Music to a CD. Don't feel disappointed as we have AudFree DRM Audio Converter to help you completely solve Apple Music burning issues.

Best Software for Burning Apple Music to CD

AudFree DRM Audio Converter is a well-designed program to help you decode DRM protection from Apple Music. You can permanently get rid of DRM lock from Apple Music by converting Apple Music M4P files to MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC, M4A, M4B with keeping the original audio quality. In addition, this smart DRM removal tool also keeps the original metadata info and ID3 tags in the output files. It's very easy to manage the music library for burning. Now, let's see how to burn protected Apple Music to Disc with easy.

Step 1. Load Apple Music Tracks or Playlists to AudFree

Once launching AudFree DRM Audio Convert, iTunes app will be opened automatically. Now, simply press on the first 'Add' button at the left bottom to import the completely downloaded Apple Music songs to AudFree. In addition, you can go to the original Apple Music file folder and copy and paste the music tracks to the software interface directly.

Step 2. Customize Output Format

After import Apple Music to AudFree, then click the 'audio' icon next to 'Convert' button at the right bottom. Then it will pop-up a window shows the output profile. Here you can choose the output format as MP3, M4A, AAC, WAV, or others. Moreover, you are also able to change the parameters like codec, sample rate, bit rate, etc. Then click 'OK' to save the settings.

Step 3. Convert Protected Apple Music DRM M4P to MP3

Now, touch the 'Convert' button to start converting the DRM-ed Apple Music files to MP3. Once this work is done, you can find these DRM-free tracks from the output folder.

Step 4. Import converted Apple Music to iTunes

Launch iTunes and tab on 'File'>'New'>'playlist' Then create a new playlist with the newly converted Apple Music sons you need to burn to disc. Then you can refer to the first solution to burn MP3 format Apple Music tracks to a CD easily.