[Summary]: Do you want to burn Apple Music to CD for listening on Car CD player or at home? This page will teach you two ways to burn Apple Music to CD for listening offline, you can follow the tips here to see how to songs/playlist to a CD from Apple Music.
“Can I burn Apple Music songs and playlist to CD for offline listening on my car when I am driving? I have download lots of songs in iTunes library, but when I choose the option “Burn Playlist to CD Disc” from iTunes, it doesn’t work as the option is grayed out. Why I can’t directly use iTunes to burn Apple Music to CD, what I should do?”
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Part 1. Why Apple Music Won’t Burn to CD
Nowadays, we can easily stream music on various streaming services, such as Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal, Google Play Music, and others. If you have joined in Apple Music membership, you’re able to access 70 million songs across iTunes or Apple Music app during the subscription, you also can download any songs for offline listening on computer via iTunes or Apple Music app. However, once you cancel the subscription, all the downloaded Apple Music songs will be invalid, even though you have download them to your device in advanced. That is because Apple Music songs comes with DRM protection, you cannot share, copy, transfer or burn the downloaded songs. In other word, you can’t burn Apple Music into a CD directly, unless removing the DRM from Apple Music and converting them to DRM-free format, like MP3, M4A, FLAC, WAV, etc. Here we’ll share an easy way to let you convert Apple Music to MP3, and then burn songs onto a CD with Windows Media Player or iTunes.
Part 2. Preparation to Burn CD from Apple Music
In order to burning Apple Music to CD. Here is the detailed tool required to burn Apple Music to CD:
A blank CD – Saving Apple Music files.
A CD/DVD burner – A Windows or Mac computer with a disc drive that can burn CD. If not, you need to buy an external DVD burner to plug into your computer’s USB port.
iTunes app – to get unprotected Apple Music songs and burn the converted Apple Music tracks to CD.
CD burning software – iTunes or Windows Media Player.
TunesBank Apple Music Converter – It is strongly recommended that you use TunesBank Apple Music Converter, which can help you remove Apple Music DRM and convert it to MP3/MP4 files. Another alternative is UkeySoft Apple Music Conveter.
Part 3. Convert Apple Music to MP3 for Burning to CD
Apple’s DRM restricts that you cannot directly burn downloaded Apple Music songs to CD, nor can you transfer them to MP3 players, such as iPod nano, iPod shuffle, SanDisk, Sony Walkman, etc. This section will recommend you a powerful Apple Music Converter to remove DRM and convert Apple Music M4P songs to MP3 first, and then you can easily burn Apple Music to CD.
TunesBank Apple Music Converter is a powerful DRM Removal and Audio Converter for Apple Music and iTunes. With it, you can not only remove DRM from Apple Music, but also convert Apple Music to MP3, M4A, FLAC, AAC format with original quality and ID3 tags kept. 320 Kbps bitrate lets you easily get lossless output files of Apple Music songs. After that, you can burn the converted Apple Music songs into a CD on iTunes or Windows Media Player.
In addition, it not only lets you remove DRM protection from iTunes purchased music, Audible audiobooks and iTunes audiobooks, but also convert iTunes purchased M4P music, iTunes M4B audiobooks and Audible AA/AAX audiobooks to M4A, MP3, AC3, AIFF, AU, FLAC losslessly. If you want to play Audible audio books on MP3 player, or burn audiobooks to CD, you can add the downloaded Audible AA/AAX files to iTunes and authorize with your Audible account, then use this tool to convert Audible AA/AAX to MP3, so that you also can burn Audible audiobooks to CD.
Key Features of TunesBank Apple Music Converter:
- Strip DRM from Apple Music, Audible audibooks and iTunes audibooks;
- Convert Apple Music M4P songs to MP3, M4A, FLAC at 5-10X faster speed;
- Convert iTunes Music/Audiobook, Audible Audiobook to MP3, M4A, FLAC;
- Preserve original audio quality and all ID3 tags of Apple Music songs;
- Extract audio from iTunes movies, TV shows and music videos;
- Fully compatible with Windows 10 and the latest macOS 11 Big Sur.
How to Convert Apple Music M4P to MP3 for Burning CDs
Step 1. Launch TunesBank Apple Music Converter
Download, install and launch TunesBank Apple Music Converter on your Mac or PC. iTunes will be opened automatically, and TunesBank will load the whole iTunes library immediately.
Step 2. Choose Apple Music songs
Click “Music”, or “Playlist” in the left side, and then choose the songs you want to convert. Click the top checkbox if you want to download all songs in this playlist.
Step 3. Choose MP3 as Ouput Format
If you want to burn Apple Music to CD, MP3 format is recommended. This Apple Music converter also supports converting Apple Music to M4A, AC3, AIFF, AU, FLAC . Besides, you also can also adjust the codec, channel, sample rate, bit rate, edit ID3 tags and much more.
Step 4. Start to Convert Apple Music to MP3
Finally, hit on “Convert” button to start converting Apple Music M4P songs to MP3 without losing any quality.
Step 5. Get MP3 Files
Once done, you can go to “Finished” section, click the “View Output File” to locate the output folder, and you can get the converted Apple Music MP3 tracks.
Part 4. 2 Ways to Burn Apple Music to CD
Well done, you have successfully downloaded and converted Apple Music tracks to MP3 files, and all converted Apple Music MP3 songs are saved in the local drive. Now you can use iTunes or Windows Media Player to burn Apple Music to CD, or transfer it to iPhone/iPad/iPod/iPod nano for offline listening.
Way 1. Burn Apple Music CD via iTunes
When it comes to burning Apple Music to CD, iTunes is a good helper. Follow the detailed steps to burn Apple Music songs to CD in iTunes.
Step 1. Launch iTunes on your computer, then click “File” > “New” > “Playlist” to create a new playlist in iTunes library.
Step 2. Drag and drop the converted Apple Music songs from local folder to the new created playlist.
Step 3. Insert a blank CD into your computer, click “File” > “Playlist”, select “Burn Playlist to Disc” > “Burn” to burn Apple Music into CD.
Way 2. Burn Apple Music to CD via Windows Media Player
Windows Media Player is also a great tool for Windows users to burn Apple Music to CD. You can refer to the simple steps to burn Apple Music songs to CD on Windows Media Player.
Step 1. Insert a blank CD into the CD drive of the Windows PC.
Step 2. Launch Windows Media Player program on your PC, and click on the “Burn” tab on the right. Then, you will see an empty burn list.
Step 3. Directly drag and drop the converted Apple Music songs to the burn list. Then select “Audio CD” in the “Burn” panel.
Step 4. Click “Start Burn” to start burning Apple Music to CD.
Conclusion
That’s all. It’s very easy to burn Apple Music to CD, what’s the most important things is to convert Apple Music to MP3, after getting the Apple Music MP3 tracks, you are able to burn songs to CD via iTunes or Windows Media Player. Now, you can enjoy your favorite Apple Music everywhere.
