How to Play Apple Music on Audacious

Maybe you have used so many audio players on the computers like Windows Media player, Groove Music, Media Monkey and so on. Did you try to use this audio player named Audacious? This is an open-source program allows you to play the tracks you want without occupying the computer's resource from other tasks. As same as other players, Audacious also supports to search for artists, albums in you collected music library and create new playlists according to your demand.

Unfortunately, though Audacious can support many kinds of audio files, it doesn't play encrypted Apple Music. In order to make Apple Music is compatible with Audacious player, you need to get rid of the limitation from Apple Music firstly. In this article, we will show you the best solution to play Apple Music on Audacious.

Part 1. A Convenient Audio Player on Computer – Audacious

Compared with other common audio players, the most outstanding feature of Audacious is convenient and clear. It will not take up the space of your computer. Moreover, Audacious use a graphic equalizer to adjust the sound or experiment with the LADSPA effect. Enjoy the modern GTK theme interface or change the Winamp Classic skin. Use the plugin that comes with Audacious to get the lyrics of the music, set the alarm clock in the morning and more.

Although Audacious is compatible with many kinds of the audio files, it doesn't support to play Apple Music. Therefore, you can't stream songs from iPhone/iPad to Audacious for offline listening. But please keep relaxing, in the next part, we will bring you to find the deep reason for this error and solve it with ease.

Part 2. More Details You Need to Know about Apple Music

Unlike other common audio files, Apple Music is encrypted by Apple, which is playable on Apple authorized players only. Therefore, even you have subscribed Apple Music service and downloaded songs from Apple, you are still not allowed to transfer these songs to Audacious.

Due to the protection of Apple Music, you need to find a professional tool to help you to get rid of this lock. To let you make the right choice among the Apple Music converters, here I'd like to highly recommend AudFree Apple Music Converter to you. It is a well-designed program not only support to remove protection and convert Apple Music, iTunes music to MP3, WAV, FLAC, AAC, and other plain formats, but also enables to keep the original audio quality and ID3 tags information.

Part 3. Best Way to Listen to Apple Music on Audacious

Now, let's see how to unlock Apple Music protection and play Apple Music on Audacious with 4 steps only.

Step 1. Import Downloaded Apple Music to AudFree

Please touch the first 'Add Files' button at the bottom-left corner of the main interface, all downloaded Apple Music in music library will pop up automatically and you can choose cherish M4P files to AudFree. Alternatively, you can drag and drop Apple Music files to AudFree conversion window directly.

Step 2. Define Output Format as MP3

Once all Apple Music files that you'd like to convert are imported to AudFree, you can start to define the output format as MP3 by clicking the 'audio' icon to open the format setting window. In this step, you are also allowed to customize the output audio quality, like audio codec, channel, sample rate, and bit rate.

Step 3. Remove DRM and Convert Apple Music to MP3

Now, please tab the 'Convert' button to launch the converting process. AudFree audio converter will automatically convert DRM-ed Apple Music to unprotected MP3 or other output formats that you set before. After conversion, you can locate non-DRM Apple Music files on the target folder and transfer these Apple Music to MP3 player for offline playback.

Step 4. Add Converted Apple Music to Audacious

Double click the Audacious client's icon to launch it, then go to "File>Add files" option. Now, simply find the target folder that you saved the converted mp3 format Apple Music songs. Alternatively, you can directly use the shortcut key "Shift+Ctrl+o".

Congratulations, now you have successfully added Apple Music to Audacious and you are able to play them freely without any limitation.