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By Justin SabrinaUpdated on December 17, 2022

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Summary
Since the limitation of Apple Music, you may looking for a way to convert Apple Music to non-DRM audio format, such as FLAC, MP3, M4A, etc. This article teach you how to convert your favorite Apple Music to FLAC lossless format with an amazing Apple Music to FLAC Converter -- UkeySoft Apple Music Converter.

Apple Music to FLAC

I often stream Apple Music songs on iPhone and iPad, I want to save Apple Music on PC in lossless FLAC format, how to convert Apple Music to flac lossless format for burning onto a CD?” - Asked by Phil Pollard

How can I get Apple Music lossless and put them to iPod nano? I looking for a way to convert Apple music to lossless flac format for listening on my MP3 player, thanks to help me!” Asked by Adair Moreno

About FLAC - Free Losslessly Audio Codec

FLAC means as Free Lossless Audio Codec. The FLAC format is suported on all major operating system,including windows10,macOS High Sierra and above, Linux distributions.And FLAC is diffrerent from MP3 and WAV,MP3 is lossy and WAV’s file take up a great sizes.Besides,FLAC becoming the most popular format because it occupied a small part of place and it also is a lossless format. Espacial, the FLAC is compatible with many devices,such as computers, smartphones (such as the iPhone -- with an app, run on Android 3.1 or later), portable music players (PMP) and hi-fi components. Its compatibility with a wide range of devices is undeniable as well.

FLAC is free lossless audio codec and supported with most operating systems, including Windows, systems developed based on the Unix Like kernel (Linux, BSD, Solaris, IRIX, AIX, etc.), BeOS, OS/2, Amiga. And FLAC provides a build system on the development tools autotools, MSVC, Watcom C, and Project Builder.

Now, most streaming music platforms like Apple Music, Spotify provides FLAC music downloads, and publishers generally grab .cda tracks directly into .flac after purchasing a CD to ensure the original lossless quality of the CD.

Why Convert Apple Music to FLAC?

As we all know, all Apple Music files are encoded in the M4P audio format, you can only play Apple Music songs on Apple authorized devices such as Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. If you want to keep Apple Music forever, or play Apple Music on any devices - MP3 player, you will need to convert Apple Music songs to MP3, FLAC, M4A and other plain audio format. For music lovers, they all pursue higher audio quality, so FLAC lossless format is the best choice. Apple Music streams at a bitrate of 256kbps, which seems lower than Spotify's 320 kbp/s at face value, but it's not exactly like-for-like because Apple Music uses its own AAC audio codec. Apple also defaults to audio of the highest quality, assuming your device is connected to Wi-Fi. If you are interested in upgrading Apple Music from 256 KBPS to the highest bit rate quality losslessly, such as 768 KBPS in FLAC format, well, you are in the right place, this article will show you how to convert Apple Music songs to FLAC (48000 Hz, stereo, 768 kbps).

Apple Music to FLAC converter

To convert Apple Music songs/playlist to FLAC lossless format, you will need to use a professional Apple Music Converter, like UkeySoft Apple Music Converter(Up to 16X conversion speed on Windows 10/8.1/8/7) or TunesBank Apple Music Converter(Up to 5X conversion speed on Mac OS X 10.14 or Higher).

Best Apple Music to FLAC Converter - Convert Apple Music Songs to FLAC

If you are looking for a method to convert Apple Music to FLAC, a professional Apple Music Converter would be the best choices, however, which is the best Apple Music Converter? Firstly, the Apple Music Converter should can remove DRM from Apple Music songs, and secondly, the Apple Music Converter can convert Apple Music from M4P format to common format such as MP3, FLAC, M4A, AAC, etc.

UkeySoft Apple Music Converter is a powerful Apple Music to FLAC/MP3 Converter and Apple Music DRM Removal, which not only support convert Apple Music to FLAC, M4A, MP3, WAC and AAC formats with ID3 tags preserved, but also support convert iTunes pruchased M4P music, iTunes M4B audiobooks and Audible AA/AAX audiobooks to FLAC, MP3, M4A, AC3, AIFF, AU, M4R and MKA. Most importantly, the Windows version of UkeySoft app provides selectable speed, it can batch convert Apple Music songs at up to 16X speed. Becuse Apple Music files has added Fairplay DRM protection, so, to remove DRM protection from Apple Music is the best way to save Apple Music forever, even after you unsubscribe Apple Music. Fortunately, Ukeysoft Apple Music Converter can do that, after removing Apple Music DRM, you can enjoy Apple Music more convience, and never worried about lossing your Apple Music tracks while cancleing the subscription. By the way, the program multilanguage suport and we offer lifetime free update and technical support for all UkeySoft customers.

Key Features:

  • Convert Apple Music losslessly with half size of original file;
  • Remove DRM from Apple Music songs, playlist and albums;
  • Convert iTunes M4P songs to MP3, M4A, FLAC, etc.
  • Convert Apple Music to FLAC, MP3, M4A, AC3, etc.
  • Convert iTunes M4B audiobooks and Audible AA/AAX audiobooks to FLAC, MP3, etc.
  • Convert iTunes videos to FLAC, MP3, etc.

Guide: How to Convert Apple Music to FLAC Lossless Format

STEP 1:Fire up Apple Music Converter on Computer
After downloading, installing and starting UkeySoft Apple Music Converter on a Mac or Windows PC, the main screen will be displayed. It will also launch iTunes automatically.

Run Apple Music to FLAC converter

STEP 2: Select the Apple Music Songs
Click the “Playlist”and select the songs in the library,which you want to transform .Or,you can directly search for songs by entering the music title into the search box at the top of the screen.

Select Apple Music to converter

STEP 3: Set The FLAC As Output Format
After adding,the next step is choosing the output format according to what you need. If you want to convert Apple Music to FLAC, please select "FLAC" as output format in the output format option.

Select FLAC as output format

You also can change the output setting like ouput format,bit rate,codec,Output Folder and so on.

Select FLAC as output format

Step 4: Set Start Time & End Time(Option)
The Windows version of UkeySoft Apple Music Converter added new function, which allows you adjust the Start Time & End time before converting a specific part of a song. If you want to set Apple Music as ringtone, this function is very useful for you.

Set Start Time & End Time

STEP 5: Adjust the Conversion Speed(Windows)
This is the optional step,change the speed may save many time. Click “Option”,and then move the slider to change the conversiong speed from 1X to 16X in the pop-up window.

16X conversion speed

STEP 6: Start to Convert Apple Music to FLAC format
Click the “Convert” button to start converting Apple Music to FLAC format losslessly. Wait a few minute, all of your selected Apple Music songs will be converted to FLAC files.

Convert Apple Music to FLAC

After conversion completed, click the botton “Explore Outout File”, then you can see all selected Apple Music songs be converted to FLAC format and saved onto the computer as local files.

get apple music FLAC tracks

With those simple steps to convert Apple Music to FLAC format, now you can use your Apple Music songs as a freer way. If you want to know more about the function of UkeySoft Apple Music Converter, such as how to convert iTunes music to FLAC, how to convert Audible audiobooks to MP3, or how to extract audio from iTunes movies, TV shows and music videos, you can entrance our website to get more information, we provide many kinds of language and patiently explain to solve your demand.

Apple Music to FLAC Converter
Justin Sabrina

Justin Sabrina

Justin Sabrina has over 10 years of content writing experience. She specializes in product reviews, how-to guides, tips and tricks, top lists, etc. on data encryption, multi-media conversion, screen recording and iOS unlocking. At UkeySoft, she performs in-depth research SEO copywriting and collaborates with our R & D team to offer effective software solution, most of her articles on software are helpful and easy to read, helping our reader easily solve problems through using software or apps.

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