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Best Apple Music Downloader for Mac

Updated on: November 24, 2024

Though Apple Music is not the earliest launched streaming music service, it wins over a great number of competitors and attracts millions of paid subscribers by some distinct features.

Firstly, Apple Music offers a great selection of songs. Currently there are 100 million songs available in Apple Music's library and you can also find exclusives. Some albums have its debut right on Apple Music before landing to others. Secondly, Apple Music provides users with 1 month free trial. If you like the service and would like to continue using it after the trial, you'll be billed ($10.99 per month for individual plan) automatically. And if you don't like the service, you can cancel the membership at any time. Thirdly, to make Apple Music more popular, Apple Music is available on all kinds of devices, not only iOS but also Android.

Best Apple Music Converter for Mac

However, like other streaming music services, all the songs that Apple Music offers are locked in DRM, for which we are unable to download them as local files for convenience. As a result, there are all kinds of Apple Music downloaders specially designed for saving Apple songs to local computer available on the Internet. By comparison, NoteBurner is the most welcomed one, in view of the interface, operation, stability, and so on.

In this article, we are going to give you an overview of the program and show you how to download songs from Apple Music to a Mac computer with NoteBurner iTunes Audio Converter step by step.


Main Interface

When launching NoteBurner iTunes Audio Converter, we'll see a concise interface as below. We can see several buttons clearly – "Add" button, "Settings" button on the bottom left and "Convert" button, and more.

Main Interface

Key Features

NoteBurner iTunes Audio Converter is a powerful DRM removal tool, which is able to remove the DRM from Apple Music, .aa/.aax audiobooks as well as iTunes M4P music and convert them to a popular format (MP3/AAC/WAV/FLAC/AIFF/ALAC) at fast conversion speed with lossless output quality.

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Features of NoteBurner iTunes Audio Converter:

  • Record Apple Music, iTunes M4P music, podcasts, audiobooks;
  • Convert iTunes M4P music, Audiobooks, Apple Music files to MP3/AAC/WAV/FLAC/AIFF/ALAC;
  • Convert any audio at 10X faster speed with lossless quality;
  • Keep ID3 Tags & lyric after conversion;
  • Easy-to-use with an intuitive and streamlined user interface;
  • Enjoy free update & Technical Support
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How to Download Songs from Apple Music to a Mac Computer

NoteBurner iTunes Audio Converter supports both Windows and Mac OS. As most Apple Music subscribers are macOS fans, here we are going to guide you through the whole process with the Mac version.

Note: For Windows users, please refer to How to Download Music from Apple Music to PC for detailed steps.

Step 1: Add Apple Music to NoteBurner iTunes Audio Converter

Launch the program and please choose to download Apple Music songs from web player. Open an Apple Music playlist on the web player window and click the button "Add" at bottom right. A pop-up window will show you all songs in the playlist. Select the Apple Music you like for converting and "Add".

add audio

Step 2: Select output format and confirm output path

Click the Settings button on the bottom left of the interface, and then a pop-up window will enable you to choose output format (MP3, AAC, FLAC, AIFF, WAV, or ALAC ), output quality, as well as output path.

preferences

Step 3: Start Downloading Apple Music on Mac

Click button "Convert". When the conversion is done, all your Apple Music you chose in Step 1 have been saved to the local file on your Mac.

conversion process

By clicking the menu button on the top right of NoteBurner iTunes Audio Converter or directly going to the output folder you set in previous step, you can find all the downloaded Apple Music on your Mac.


Support

NoteBurner is one of the best brands well-known for offering excellent programs and good after-sales service. NoteBurner iTunes Audio Converter promises life-long free updates and technical support. Should you encounter any problem when using the program, please contact NoteBurner support team at support [at] noteburner.com (replace [at] with @ before sending e-mail) for help.


Final Thoughts

NoteBurner iTunes Audio Converter is an ideal Apple Music downloader if you are looking for a program to download songs from Apple Music. The only reason that users may hesitate is that it's a shareware instead of a free program. We advise you download the trial version first and then decide whether you want to get the program with technical support.


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