How To Download Music On The Mac

Posted on 05-10-2021 by admin

Jul 18, 2019 This is one of the best music downloader application for Mac. It can download music and can automatically tag and identify songs. It is easy, yet powerful to use to download music in your Mac. To use this software, you need to download it first. Then, you must follow the following steps.

Open iTunes and make sure iCloud Music Library is enabled in iTunes Preferences General. Choose Music from the dropdown menu, and select the Library tab. Go to the iTunes Preferences menu (in the top left corner of the iTunes screen) Click General and Click on the checkboxes next to iCloud Download. Songs that aren’t already stored. In the Music app on your Mac, choose Music Preferences, click General, then select Automatic Downloads. If Music is open when you make a purchase on another computer or device, the purchased item is downloaded to your computer at the same time that it’s downloaded to the other device. If Music isn’t open at the time of purchase, the item.

Hey Caleb,
I see you're trying to download multiple songs to listen to offline from Apple Music. While there's no immediate way to download all of your songs at once, you can download either the individual songs, albums or playlists. You'll be able to save time by downloading an artist's list of songs from your Library, rather than tapping on the individual songs themselves. In the future, you can enable the option to download music automatically when you add it to your Library. Take a look at the information below to learn more.

How to download music to listen to offline

You can download songs, albums, or playlists to your device so that you can listen to them when you're not connected to the Internet.* You must download songs, albums, or playlists on each device that you want to use for offline listening.

In the Music app on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, or in iTunes on your Mac or PC, find the song, album, or playlist that you want to download. Then:

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch: Tap Download .
On your Mac or PC: Click Download .

If you don't see or , you need to add the songs, albums, or playlists to your Library first.

View only downloaded music

If you want to see only music that's downloaded to your device, follow these steps:

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch: In the Music app, tap Library > Downloaded Music. A message that says 'Showing only music on this [device]' appears at the top of the screen. Tap Library in the upper-left corner to see all of your music.
On your Mac or PC: In iTunes, click Library. Then, from the menu bar at the top of your computer screen or the top of the iTunes window, choose View > Only Downloaded Music. Choose View > All Music to see all of your music.

If you want to download music automatically

The first time that you download music to your device, you might see a message that asks if you want to download music automatically.

Tap Download Automatically to download all songs, albums, or playlists automatically to your device. The next time you add music to your Library, it also automatically downloads to your device.
Tap Not Now to download the music later.

If you want to turn on Automatic Downloads for all music that you add to your Library in the future, go to Settings > Music, then scroll to the Downloads section and tap Automatic Downloads.

Add music from the Apple Music catalog to your Library
Take care.

Oct 7, 2016 3:46 PM

'I enjoy listening to Apple Music on my iPhone often and have structured a large amount of playlists. I want to know is it possible to download all these Apple Music playlists on my Mac easily? Really don't want to repeat the process again.'

'iTunes is going to be dead. Can I still listen to Apple Music on my Mac with old EICapitan 10.11 system in future? I am really worried.'

Though Apple Music is compatible with Mac devices and players, you may still encounter the issues above. Well, these issues are easy to solve. The instruction is similar to the previous tutorial how to download Apple Music to PC which we talked previously. For your convenience, we will explain it with more specific details again here for Mac users.

Part 1. How to Sync Apple Music Playlists to Mac

Turn on iCloud Music Library with Apple Music

One of the big features of Apple Music for subscribers is the iCloud. It enables users to sync music between all Apple devices including iOS, Macbook, Windows computers with iTunes. All you need to do is to turn on the option from your devices.

For iOS Devices:

Go to Settings > Music > iCloud Music Library.
You will see the option to turn on iCloud and please click it. Note: If you haven't signed up iTunes Match or you don't have Apple Music subscription, you won't see such an option.
It will ask if you want to keep music from your devices and add them to your iCloud Music Library, please choose 'Yes' since you have created your playlists on your iPhone.

For Mac computer:

Open iTunes on your Mac computer > Click the top menu 'iTunes' > 'Preferences', you will see the pop up settings window.
Go to the 'General' tab, select iCloud Music Library to turn it on'.
Click 'OK', your Apple Music songs will sync from iPhone to your Mac computer.

Sign In Apple Music on Mac

Still not see your songs? Maybe you still haven't signed in iTunes yet.

Open iTunes and select the category as 'Music' from the top of the window.
Click 'Account' > 'Sign in' menu.
You can input your account and password to sign in.
You will see all the songs & playlists from iCloud. To download Apple Music to Mac, just tap the 'iCloud' icon beside each one on iTunes.

Part 2. How to Backup Apple Music on Mac to Play without iTunes

With the iCloud, now you have synced Apple Music to your Mac and you can play it with iTunes. But what if iTunes is dead? According to the rumors online, Apple will kill iTunes this fall with the release new hardware devices and new 10.15 macOS Catalina.

Many users are worried that they will lose the Apple Music playlists they have curated on their Mac once iTunes is discontinued.

Actually instead of removing the software completely, Apple is replacing it three separate media streaming apps: Apple Music, Apple Podcasts and Apple TV.

This means in the future, users will still be able to listen to music with the new Apple Music app for Mac.

Is It Necessary to Backup Apple Music on Mac?

The answer is yes. There is a small caveat that this app maybe not be compatible with the old Mac system such as EICaptitan 10.11, Yosemite 10.10, Mavericks 10.9, Mountain Lion 10.8.

So to play it safe, we'd recommend you another ultimate way to download Apple Music on Mac for backup with the DRmare Apple Music Downloader for Mac/Windows.

This software uses the advance technology to get rid of any limitations from Apple Music songs and enable you to play them on any players on Mac such as VLC player, KMPlayer besides QuickTime and iTunes.

Besides, there is a hidden benefit you may not notice after downloading, you can enjoy Apple Music forever without subscription anymore. This will save you a lot of money in the long run. That is terrific, isn't it?

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Are you ready to get Apple Music songs on your Mac now? It is not difficult to do that too. You just need 3 steps to play Apple Music without iTunes on Mac.

Step 1Import Apple Music tracks: To convert Apple Music tracks, you can drag & drop them from iTunes library to the DRmare main screen or you can click '+' button to add them from your Mac Finder.

Step 2Set new parameters: The source Apple Music files are in M4P special format. To make them playable without iTunes, you can choose another universal format such as MP3, M4A, AAC by clicking the format icon from the bottom right of the DRmare software. Among all the formats, the MP3 format is supported best.