How to play Apple Music without internet connection
Apple Music boasts access to more than 100 million songs and 30,000 expert-curated playlists. Content can be streamed or downloaded for offline playback, and there are song and genre-based radio stations, as well as the carefully curated Apple Music 1 radio station. Apple Music also supports Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio, both of which are available for free to Apple Music users.
Like other music streaming services, Apple Music not only allows you to listen to a massive library of music online, but also allows you to download songs for offline playback when you are not connected to WiFi or cellular data.
- Option 1. Download songs and videos from Apple Music
- Option 2. Download Apple Music to MP3 and play with any music player
Option 1. Download songs and videos from Apple Music
Apple Music subscribers can add and download songs and videos from Apple Music. You can stream music when you have an internet connection. To play music when you’re not connected to the internet, you must first download it.
Find your favorite songs, albums, or playlists within the Apple Music app and download them for offline listening. Make sure to add the music to your Library before downloading. Please keep in mind that downloaded music is only playable within the Apple Music app on the device it was downloaded to. Additionally, downloads become inaccessible upon canceling your subscription.
Option 2. Download Apple Music to MP3 and play with any music player
However, sometimes the downloaded music won't play when offline. As a user posted on Apple Communities "A few days ago I’ve had an issue with playing my download music offline (it says “the music isn’t downloaded” but it was) anyway I’ve downloaded all of my songs again and thought it would be OK, but after a while, it did the same thing. So what is the problem i am subscribed, music is downloaded but it won’t play when you are not connected to the internet!?"
To avoid the above problems, the most stable way to play Apple Music when you are not connected to the internet is to download Apple Music songs to a universal format, such as mp3, then you can play the songs with any compatible music player.
To download Apple Music songs/albums/playlists to MP3 format, all you need is a professional Apple Music Converter - Ondesoft Apple Music Converter. It works with both Mac and Windows operating systems and is designed to completely convert Apple music songs without quality loss. With this clever application, you can easily convert Apple music tracks from protected M4P format to regular M4A, MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV and AIFF while preserving the original ID tags. We recommend you download the free trial version below before you start converting Apple Music songs.
1. Download and Launch Apple Music Converter
Download, install and launch Ondesoft Apple Music Converter on your Mac or Windows.
2. Sign in to your Apple Music account
Click the Sign in button and enter your Apple ID.
3. Change output format(optional)
The default output format is lossless M4A. Ondesoft Apple Music Converter also supports converting Apple Music to MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV and AIFF. You can also customize output file name with any combination of title, artist, album, playlist index and track ID.
4. Select music
Follow the on-screen instructions to choose the playlist or album you want to convert.
Click Add songs.
5. Start Conversion
By default, all songs in the playlist/album will be checked. If there are songs you don't want to convert, please uncheck the box. Then click Convert button to start downloading songs to the format you choose.
After conversion, click below folder icon to quickly locate the downloaded songs.
If you want to convert Spotify to MP3 , try Ondesoft Spotify Music Converter .
Features of Ondesoft Apple Music Converter:
Built-in Apple Music web player
Ondesoft Apple Music Converter features built-in Apple Music web player.
Once logged in your Apple Music account, you can easily browse and select any songs, albums and playlists you want to download.
Customize profile settings
Apple Music to MP3 converter allows you to customize Codec, Bitrate, Sample rate and Channels of the output file. Also you may save them as custom profile for future use.
Fast Conversion Speed
The conversion speed can be as fast as 16X and you are free to set it as you desired.
Search Function
The powerful search function enables you to quickly find Apple Music tracks you need according to name, artist and album.
Customize file name format
Output file name can contain Title, Artist, Album, TrackID and DiskID and you are free to customize it as you like.
Save ID tags
ID tags such as song name, Artist name, Album, Album artist, Genre and Artwork will be saved to the output MP3 and M4A files.
Batch conversion
Batch conversion allows you to convert as many Apple Music tracks as you want at a time.
Apple Music Converter
Download Apple Music songs, albums, playlists to MP3, M4A, AAC, FLAC, WAV and AIFF.
