
When you subscribe Apple Music streaming service, you'll find it's necessary to own a special Apple Music tool as Apple doesn't allow you copy any Apple Music track to non-iOS devices. The cause of the inconvenience is something called DRM, known as Digital Rights Management. In general, due to DRM copyright protection, only Apple approved players are capable of playing the Apple Music songs. If you want to freely share your downloaded Apple Music streams to any popular device, a smart Apple Music DRM removal tool can be of great help. Therefore, in order to assist you find the best Apple Music converter software shortly, we are here listing the top 3 highly rated Apple Music M4P to MP3 converters from design, functions, performance, etc.
1. ViWizard DRM Audio Converter (Mac & Windows)
The reason why we put ViWizard DRM Audio Converter (DRM Audio Converter for Mac) in the no.1 position of this top list is because it's an all-in-one Apple Music and DRM audio cracker with an extremely clean interface. It's well designed to convert any of the songs in your iTunes library, including offline Apple Music tracks and iTunes M4P songs as well as M4A, M4B audiobooks to MP3, WAV, FLAC, AAC, M4A, M4B and more other DRM-free audio formats. In addition to a powerful Apple Music converting tool, ViWizard DRM Audio Converter also serves as a professional Audible Audiobook Converter and common Audio Converter due to its capabilities of converting Audible AA, AAX and other common audio files. It comes with super fast speed up to 30X while preserves the lossless audio quality including ID3 tags and metadata. By using ViWizard DRM Audio Converter, you can keep your Apple Music forever in your local library and share the songs to other devices as well. You can easily access to Apple Music tracks even after you cancelled the subscription.
Availability: $39.95 with free trial version provided
Supported OS: macOS 10.13, 10.12, 10.11, 10.10, 10.9, 10.8 & Windows 10, 8, Win 7, Vista, XP
- All-functional DRM removal tool for Apple Music and audiobooks
- All-in-one any audio converter tool
- Proceed at up to 30X faster speed
- Obtain 100% original quality and ID tags
- Provide customization for output audios
- Fully support latest iTunes and macOS, Windows
- Only a few output formats available
- Only 1X conversion speed on macOS High Sierra
2. iMusic Downloader (Mac & Windows)
As an all-in-one music downloader and manager, Aimersoft iMusic is specially developed to help music lovers easily discover, record and download music and transfer them between iPhone/iPad/iPod/Android phones and iTunes/Mac/PC. This ultimate music tool is able to download any songs and playlists from more than 3,000 music sites, including Spotify, Pandora, last.fm, YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Facebook, VEVO, and more. It also provides a Record button for you to get any song you like and save it to your iTunes library. As a smart music manager, iMusic lets you transfer music, playlists, Podcasts, iTunes U, TV Shows, etc. between iPhone, iPad, iPod, and iTunes Library freely. It's a complete music toolbox enables you remove music DRM protection and transfer the songs for offline listening at anytime.
Availability: $59.95 with free trial version provided
Supported OS: macOS 10.13, 10.12, 10.11, 10.10, 10.9, 10.8, 10.7, 10.6 & Windows 10, 8, Win 7, Vista, XP
- Support more than 3000 online music streaming sites
- All-in-one music recorder and manager
- Record any song and playlist with ID tags kept
- Easily for backing up iTunes library
- Not compatible with latest iOS 11 yet
- Limited accessibility for downloading Apple Music tracks
3. AppleMacSoft DRM Converter (Mac & Windows)
Similar to ViWizard DRM Audio Converter, the AppleMacSoft DRM Converter is also a multi-functional audio converter that supports removing DRM from Apple Music, M4P songs and audiobooks for any other device. It enables you convert Apple Music M4P, iTunes M4A, M4B, Audible AA, AAX audio files as well as unprotected audios to MP3, M4A, M4R, AC3, AU, AAC, FLAC, AIFF, or MKA. Different from the other two programs, this DRM Audio Converter is able to extract audio tracks from protected iTunes M4V videos. The conversion speed of AppleMacSoft DRM Converter is up to 16X while preserving the original ID tags.
Availability:$39.95 with free trial version provided.
Supported OS: macOS 10.12, 10.11, 10.10, 10.9, 10.8 & Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, XP
- Support a wide range of input and output audio formats
- Support converting iTunes movies to audio tracks
- Support latest iTunes
- Not compatible with macOS High Sierra
- Conversion speed can be improved
Conclusion & Suggestion
To decide which Apple Music converter to pick up, you should firstly confirm your converting requirements. Specifically speaking, if your goal is targeted for Apple Music tracks only, then ViWizard DRM Audio Converter should be the top priority as it works much faster in removing DRM from Apple Music. If you however need to convert not only Apple Music, but also other DRM-ed audio, then you should try AppleMacSoft as well. In other cases, if you prefer more to audio recording for Spotify, Pandora and hundreds of other music sources, then we'd suggest you try iMusic downloader. No matter which Apple Music solution you finally choose, remember to test the trial version in advance.
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