With an active Apple Music subscription, you can take your music anywhere! Download your favorite music to enjoy offline, saving cellular data and avoiding interruptions from poor internet connections. This guide will show you how to download Apple Music songs and playlists on both your phone and desktop, along with several clever methods to enhance your offline experience, including managing automatic downloads, downloading your entire Apple Music Library, and saving Apple Music songs as local files on your computer.
Want to listen to your favorite Apple Music content offline without manually downloading each song or playlist? Enable Automatic Downloads. This feature automatically downloads music you add to your Library or purchase from the iTunes Store.
Unfortunately, Automatic Downloads is currently unavailable on the Android version of the Apple Music app. You’ll need to manually download music on your Android device.
Tired of picking out individual songs for offline listening? Here’s a clever trick to download your entire Apple Music library at once using a smart playlist on your Mac or PC.
1. In the Music app on your Mac or iTunes app on your PC, choose File > New > Smart Playlist from the menu bar.
2. To include every song in your library, simply set the rule to “Time is greater than 00:00.”
Tick the Live updating checkbox if you want the playlist to automatically add any songs you add to your library in the future.
Click OK to create the smart playlist.
3. Name your newly created smart playlist. Click the Download icon to download all songs in your Apple Music Library at once.
While creating smart playlists is limited to desktops, Apple Music’s Sync Library feature can bring the playlist to your iPhone or Android. Once synced, you can download all the songs on your phone for offline listening.
Apple Music encrypts its downloads to restrict them played within the Music or iTunes app. If you want to play them with other apps or devices, you’ll need to convert them to a more widely compatible format like MP3. One professional tool to achieve this is the Pazu Apple Music Converter. It can download Apple Music playlists, albums, and songs to MP3, AAC, FLAC, and other popular formats on both Mac and Windows. Additionally, you can keep the downloaded songs even if your Apple Music subscription ends.
When downloading Apple Music songs and playlists, Pazu Apple Music Converter preserves the original audio quality, ID3 tags, and metadata, ensuring you won’t lose any important information. The converter has a remarkably fast download speed—almost 10 times faster than comparable software. Follow the tutorial below to download Apple Music to MP3 with Pazu.
Download, install and run Pazu Apple Music Converter on your Mac or Windows.
The default format is M4A in 256kbps. Apple Music Converter also supports MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV, and AIFF. Click the gear icon if you want to change the output format or output folder.
Follow the on-screen instructions to choose a playlist, artist, or album you want to download.
Click the “Convert” button to download Apple Music songs, albums, and playlists to MP3. After downloading, you can play them anywhere you want, even after canceling your Apple Music subscription.
After the download is complete, click on the clock icon in the upper right corner to view the converted Apple Music songs. To locate the downloaded Apple Music songs:
This guide covered several methods for downloading Apple Music content to your iPhone, Android, Mac, and Windows PC. You can even automate downloads or download everything in your library with a smart playlist. For ultimate flexibility, consider converting Apple Music to MP3 with Pazu Apple Music Converter. This allows you to keep your music collection even if your Apple Music subscription ends.
To get started, download Pazu Apple Music Converter on your Mac or Windows.
Download Apple Music to MP3, M4A, etc.