Tips You Need to Know about How to Backup Apple Music

Step 1 Launch iTunes on your PC or Mac, then click iTunes > Preferences > Advance tab to find the iTunes Media folder.

Step 2 Consolidate your iTunes library by clicking iTunes > Library > Organize Library.

Select "Consolidate files" > click "OK".

Step 3 Quit iTunes and find iTunes music folder, then drag the iTunes music folder to your external hard drive.

Solution 2: Backup Apple Music before the Subscription Expired

After canceling the Apple Music subscription, you will lose access to the music you already downloaded before expiration, because Apple Music is a streaming service which adds copy protection on all Apple Music contents to protect their intellectual property. If you want to keep the files you downloaded from Apple Music before return to the free trial, you can turn to a third party program – Sidify Apple Music Converter, which is capable of removing protection from your Apple Music contents and converting Apple Music to unprotected audio files including MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC or AIFF.

Step 1 Add Apple Music Songs

Launch Sidify Music Converter after the installation.

Then click the "Add" icon, a dialogue will pop up to show the list of Apple Music files you downloaded to iTunes library. You can select the music files you want to convert, then click "OK" to check it.

Step 2 Change the Output Format

Tap on the "Settings" button on the top right corner and a window pops up to let you choose the output format, output path, output quality and output file name. You can choose the output format as MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV, AIFF or ALAC, and output quality to high 320kbps.

Step 3 Start Conversion

Now start converting Apple Music by clicking "Convert" button. After the conversion is completed, you can click the "Menu" button to check the well-converted Apple Music files.

After 3 simple steps above, you can get Apple Music songs, you can keep them to the local drive or move them to your external hard drive for safeheeping. And if you have iTunes M4P music need to be backup, you can use Sidify Music Converter to convert them to MP3 or other unprotected audio files.