How to Keep Apple Music Songs Playable after Canceling Subscription?

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What happens if you unsubscribe from Apple Music?

Today I was playing music on my iPhone that I have downloaded through Apple Music. Whenever I try to play the song, I get a message saying that my Apple Music subscription is expired and I need to turn it on in order to stream this song. I get the same exact message when I try to download the song to play offline on my iPhone. I'm perplexed as to why I can't play this song.

You may also have such problem after canceling subscription from Apple Music. If you unsubscribe from Apple Music, you are no longer to play any streaming music you've added or downloaded to your library from the Apple Music catalog. Besides, you cannot get access to Connect content any more, and you will be skip-limited when listening to Apple Music radio stations. Why this happens? Because Apple adds DRM protection to all Apple Music’s tracks to avoid the situation that users just sign up and download a bunch of songs for offline listening, then cancel subscription and run away.

How to Keep Apple Music Forever Even After Unsubscribing

As mentioned above, Apple Music streams are DRM-locked, which restricts you from listening to downloaded Apple Music tracks after canceling subscription. To keep your downloaded Apple Music songs forever on your iPhone, iPad, Mac or other devices, you should remove DRM from Apple Music songs. Then how to remove DRM from Apple Music tracks? NoteBurner Apple Music DRM Removal, a professional DRM removal to remove DRM from Apple Music songs thus to convert them to plain MP3, AAC, FLAC or WAV, comes to rescue.

You can download NoteBurner Apple Music DRM Removal for a free try. It can remove DRM from Apple Music songs and convert Apple Music DRM-ed M4P songs to DRM-free MP3, WAV, FLAC or AAC formats at super-fast speed with 100% lossless quality.

Tool Required: NoteBurner iTunes DRM Audio Converter

Features of iTunes DRM Audio Converter:

Remove DRM from iTunes M4P music, audiobooks, Apple Music;
Convert Apple Music files to MP3/AAC/FLAC/WAV;
Convert iTunes audio at 10X faster speed with lossless quality;
Keep ID3 Tags information after conversion;
Easy-to-use with an intuitive and streamlined user interface;
Enjoy free lifetime update & technical support.

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Tutorial: How to Remove DRM from Apple Music Downloaded Tracks?

The following detailed tutorial will take Mac version as example to illustrate how to remove DRM from Apple Music tracks with NoteBurner Apple Music DRM Removal.

1 Add Apple Music Songs

Launch Apple Music DRM Removal on Mac. And then click Add button to add any music file you want to remove DRM. All your playlists will be listed. You can add whatever music to the program. And make sure that the music you want to convert has been downloaded.

2 Choose Output Format

After adding music, all your added files will list in the main interface. Then please click the Setting button to customize the output settings, including output format, output path.

3 Remove DRM from Apple Music

Now, all you need to do is to click the "CONVERT" button. Your music files will be converted at 20X faster speed with all ID Tags and Metadata kept. Generally, the output folder will open automatically if complete the conversion.