How to Listen to Apple Music Offline

Part 1: How to Listen to Apple Music Offline on iPhone & Android

Many Apple Music users know listen to Apple Music on their phones with internet connected. Does Apple Music work offline? Of course yes, Apple Music allows its users to download their songs, playlists, and albums in app and listen to them offline. The most efficient way to listen to Apple Music offline with your mobile phones is to download them onto your original platform or app.

How to Download Apple Music on Your Mobiles Devices:

Step 1: Open your Apple Music on your mobile phones and log into your Apple Music account.

Step 2: Go to Search bar and search for your favorite songs, playlists and albums.

Step 3: Click on ellipses(…) > Add to Library/a playlist.

Step 4: Go to the library you add your songs to, and choose song, playlist and albums.

Step 5: Click on ellipses(…) next to the songs you want to download.

Step 6: Click Download in the options menu.

How to Play Apple Music Offline on Your Mobiles Devices:

For iPhone:

Step 1: Open the Settings on your iPhone.

Step 2: Turn on Airplane Mode.

Step 3: Go back to your Apple Music > Download, and you can play them offline.

For Android:

Step 1: Open the Settings on your Android device.

Step 2: Click Network & Internet.

Step 3: Turn on Airplane Mode, and back to Apple Music for playing.

Part 2: How to Listen to Apple Music Offline on Mac & PC

The steps to listen to Apple Music offline on Mac or PC are similar to the ones on iPhone and Android.

How to Download Apple Music on Your Mac or PC:

Step 1: Open your iTunes on your Mac/PC and log into your account.

Step 2: Go to Search bar and search for your favorite songs, playlists and albums.

Step 3: Add your songs from Apple Music to iTunes Library.

Step 4: Click on ellipses(…) > Add to Library/a playlist.

Step 5: Go to the iTunes Library you add your songs to, and choose song, playlist and albums.

Step 6: To download a certain song, click the Songs tab in the Library, then select the song you wish to download by clicking the Download button.

To download a particular playlist, select it from the Playlists menu, then click the ellipses (...) icon > Download. Alternativeely, you can immediately right-click > Download on the playlist you choose in the sidebar.

To download a specific album, go to the Library, select the Albums tab, and then click the Download button next to the album cover.

Step 7: Click the Download button in the upper-right corner of the iTunes desktop software to start the download. From here, you should be able to monitor it. You can verify your downloads by clicking the Downloaded tab in the sidebar when the download has been completed successfully.

How to Play Apple Music Offline on Your Mac & PC:

For Mac:

Step 1: On your Mac, choose Apple menu > System Settings.

Step 2: Click Network in the sidebar, and then click Wi-Fi.

Step 3: Turn off Wi-Fi, go back to iTunes Library and you can play them offline.

For PC:

Step 1: Open the Settings on PC, click Network, Volume, or Battery on the taskbar.

Step 2: Turn on the Airplane Mode.

Step 3: Go back to iTunes Library for offline playing.

Part 3: How to Listen to Apple Music Offline on MP3 Players

Above all, we know how to listen to Apple Music offline on devices that can install the original app. In addition, the methods above require you to pay for an Apple Music subscription. Moreover, you can only play the downloaded songs on its authorized devices. In a word, you can’t play Apple Music offline on your other devices, such as MP3 players.

So, in order to play Apple Music offline anywhere and anytime, you’d better download your songs as a common format and transfer them onto your MP3 player. However, as we all know, Apple Music doesn’t allow users to download its songs outside its app, as a result, we need a third-party tool to download the songs and play them on your MP3 players or other devices offline.

Tool Required – NoteCable Atunes Music Converter

NoteCable Atunes Music Converter is specially designed to record tracks from Apple Music and convert them to common formats for offline playback. Once songs are downloaded to plain format files, you can play songs via any MP3 player, burn them to CD, and move them to your computer or other devices, such as iPad, iPhone, Android phone, or Android tablet.

Steps to Download Apple Music on Your Computer

Here is a step-by-step tutorial on how to download Apple Music songs into a common format and sync them to your devices for offline playing.

Step 1Install and Run the NoteCable Atunes Music Converter and Choose Conversion Mode

* If you don't see the "Choose Conversion Mode" option in Step 1, simply move on to Step 2.

Launch the NoteCable Atunes Music Converter on your computer. And then you can choose App Mode or Webplayer Mode as your conversion mode.

Step 2Sign into Your Apple Music Account

With simple choosing Webplayer Mode, you ought to enter the necessary information to access your Apple Music content.

Step 3Customize the Output Settings

Please go to the Settings part on the left panel. There you can set up the output format, output sound quality, output folder, output file name according to your needs. In order to add music to iMovie, you are suggested to select MP3, MAV, AIFF as output formats.

If you are used to putting all downloaded songs in one folder, you can set up the option to None on the output organized column.

Step 4Choose Apple Music Playlists to Convert

Now, pick a playlist of the songs that you want to get them to get downloaded. By clicking on the feature Click to add, NoteCable will read the current playlist and put them in the conversion panel. You then can select the songs to convert.

If you want multiple playlists conversion, you can put every playlist on the waiting list by clicking Add More button. All playlists will be converted when you press Convert button to work out the task.

A brilliant 10X conversion speed will cut off the costs of the time spent waiting.

Step 5 Check out the Downloaded Files

After downloading, you could navigate to Converted to view the converted Apple Music tracks. Tap the Folder icon after the songs, you can reach out to the local file.

Now, you have saved Apple Music albums, songs and playlists on your PC or Mac, you can listen to the converted Apple Music songs offline on the computer, and you can also use a USB cable to sync your downloaded songs to MP3 player for offline listening.

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