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The best free apple music downloader that supports high quality mp3?
Sold my Mac and bought a new Windows 11 laptop. I need to pull off the music from my Apple music library. However, the official download is protected and I can't play it on my Android phone and PC. W...
It’s a good question. Unfortunately, Apple Music tracks are protected by DRM, which means you can’t simply copy or convert them with free online tools—most of them either don’t work properly or don’t support high-quality 320kbps MP3 output.
There are generally two ways people handle this:
- Recording in real time with tools like Au_dacity. This method is free, but it’s slow since you need to play each song fully, and the quality depends on your playback/recording setup.
- Using a dedicated Apple Music downloader. These tools can remove the protection and let you convert your entire library in batch to formats like MP3, M4A, WAV, or FLAC, with higher bitrates such as 320kbps.
If you’re looking for a reliable option on Windows, one example is Tune Fab Apple Music Converter
. It works with the built-in Apple Music web player (no iTunes needed), supports up to 35X faster conversion, preserves ID3 tags, and allows you to download full playlists or albums in lossless quality.
This way, you can transfer the songs to your Android phone or keep them as regular MP3s on your Windows 11 PC.