How To Download Music From Mac To Cd

Alternative: Copy Audio CD with Quicktime (AAC) You Mac comes with QuickTime, and QuickTime actually allows you to rip your music CD – albeit one song at a time – to M4A files (which uses in this case the Apple AAC codec). Obviously not the MP3 format we have been talking about but some MP3 players, iTunes, and some tablets and smartphones. To start downloading CDs, take one CD from the pile and insert it into the CD drive. ITunes should recognize the CD and request whether you want to download it to your library. Click on the button that states 'Yes.' The CD subsequently downloads to your computer. A blank disc is needed. You must create an iTunes playlist containing the Apple Music songs you want on the disc. To create a playlist, choose File New Playlist and then type a name for the playlist. An Apple Music to CD Converter is needed to record Apple Music, thus to burn the converted Apple Music songs to CDs with iTunes.

By Sarah ConnorUpdated on January 20, 2020

Summary:

Want to burn Apple Music songs/playlist/albums to CD for enjoying in car player? Firstly, you need to remove DRM from Apple Music tracks and convert Apple Music to MP3 format, then burn the converted Apple Music tracks to CD with iTunes or Windows Media Player.

“How to burn Apple music onto a disc? I want to play the Apple music with CD in my music class and show it to my student. However, I find that I can’t make an audio CD from Apple music by myself since the Apple music is DRM-protected.”

“I want to burn a CD for my girlfriend as his birthday gift, how to burn Apple Music songs to CDs?”

Apple music are in Apple music AAC/M4P format, which is DRM-protected. They can’t be burned to a disk. Apple doesn’t want to give people the dual permission to zillion albums during one month of Apple music subscription, burn them all and then drop the subscription. Is it impossible to burn Apple music to CD? Absolutely no. What you need to do first is removing DRM protection from Apple music and convert the Apple Music tracks to MP3 format, then you can burn the converted Apple music to CD and for free playing.

Tools you need for burning Apple Music songs to CDs

A blank CD: A blank CD disc is needed to save the Apple Music tracks.
A CD/DVD burner: The computer must have a disc drive that can burn CD discs. If you don’t have one of these burners, you can buy an external DVD burner that plugs into your computer’s USB port.
Apple Music Subscription: Before burning CDs, you should create an iTunes playlist containing the Apple music songs you want on the disc. To create a playlist, choose File > New > -Playlist and then type a name for the playlist.
An Apple Music Converter – (Important): In order to ripping Apple Music to CDs, you need to use a third-party Apple Music Converter to remove DRM protecting from Apple music, thus to burn the converted Apple music songs to CDs with iTunes.
Disc-burning software – (Free): iTunes or Windows Media Player for burning MP3 songs to CDs.

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How to Convert Apple Music to MP3 for Burning to CDs?

The Apple Music Converter (Windows/For Mac) can help you easily to remove DRM from Apple music and convert them to MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC, AC3, etc,. , then you can burn the converted Apple music to CD easily. It keeps the original quality of your converted Apple music tracks. Apple Music Converter allow to convert Apple music with up to 16X speed. What’s more, after the conversion, you can freely play the converted Apple music on any Windows/Mac computer and any media player devices such as iPod, iPhone, iPad, PSP, Zune, MP3 player, mobile phones, etc,.

Free download the Apple Music MP3 Converter and try to convert Apple Music files to MP3.

Part 1: Convert Apple Music to MP3 with Apple Music Converter

Step 1 Download and Install Apple Music Converter
First of all, please download and install Apple Music Converter on the computer.

Step 2 Select Apple Music Songs or Playlist to Convert
The Apple Music Converter is integrated with iTunes. After launching the program, you will see iTunes playlists on the main interface. Click on “Library” and select the Apple music that you want to convert. You can choose a few songs even the whole music library as this program supports batch conversion.

Step 3Specify MP3 as Output Format
You will see “Output Settings” tab at the bottom of the main interface. Go to “Output Format” and you can choose to output the audio as MP3, M4A, MKA, AIFF, FLAC, etc. In this case, you should select the “MP3” option. In addition, you can specify the location for saving the converted Apple music tracks.

Step 4 Convert Apple Music to MP3
Just click on “Start” button and the program will immediately pop up the conversion window. Wait for minutes until the conversion is finish.

Now you have all the output MP3 files saved in the location you specified. Please free download the Apple Music Converter and try to get Apple Music for free.

Apple Music Converter Video Tutorial:

Part 2: Burn the Converted Apple Music to CD with iTunes

1). Open iTunes, choose File > Add File to Library… to import the converted Apple music files to iTunes library.
2). Create a new playlist (click on File > New > Playlist), name it and drag these converted Apple music songs to this playlist.

3). Insert a blank CD disc, waiting until the disc is detected.
4). Check the newly created playlist, right click the option “Burn Playlist to Disc”.

Tips: A new window will pop-out which allow you to choose the preferred speed, disk format for CD burning.

5). Click “Burn” to begin the process of copying all the Apple music files to CD.

For Mac and Windows users, you can burn the MP3 Apple Music songs to CD disc by using iTunes, you also can burn the converted Apple Music files to CDs with Windows Media Player, please reading the following guide.

Part 3: Burn the Converted Apple Music to CD with Windows Media Player

Step 1. Insert a blank CD or DVD into your CD/ DVD drive of the Windows computer.

Note: Make sure the drive is either CD-RW or DVD-RW. The ‘W’ stands for writeable, which is for burning the output Apple Music songs to the CD disc.

Step 2. Launch Windows Media Player on computer, and then click on the “Burn” tab located in the right pane. An empty burn list shall be displayed.

Step 3. Find the converted Apple Music songs and drag them to the burn list. Then click the menu in the Burn panel. This opens a menu with different burn options. Select “Audio CD” from the menu.

Step 4. Once done, click on “Start burn“. The Windows Media Player start buring the MP3 Apple Music to CD. After completion the disc will eject automatically and be ready for playback.