By
Justin SabrinaUpdated on April 18, 2025
Summary
Wonder discover how to transfer Apple Music to USB Flash Drive? This post offers 2 methods to download and put Apple Music onto USB drive, so that you can play Apple Music on any devices anywhere and anytime, such as car media players, mobile speakers, smart TVs, and gaming consoles.
Although Apple Music is able to streamed on iPhone, iPad, Android phone, computer and other Apple authorized devices, and even allows to download tracks to play offline, there are still many restrictions on using its service. For instance, even you have download Apple Music songs on your device, you keep its downloads by paying subscription fees every months, and you can't transfer Apple Music downloads to USB drive or other external hard drive directly. Even when you get Apple Music downloads, you can only stream them within Apple Music app or iTunes. If you want to play Apple Music on other Apple Music unsupported devices, such as car stereo systems, Bluetooth speakers, we suggest you download and transfer Apple Music to USB flash drive. In addition, for your favorite tunes, you may want to backup your Apple Music library before subscription expired, so saving Apple Music to USB drive is a good choice, you can play Apple Music on any devices via plugging in USB flash drive.
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Therefore, many users want to transfer Apple Music to USB sticks/USB flash drive for backup or flexible playback on various devices via USB flash drive. However, how to transfer Apple Music to USB? To transfer Apple Music to USB, you'll need to download Apple Music songs to MP3 and put them onto USB drive. In this article, we will teach you 2 easy ways to transfer Apple Music to USB. No matter you use Windows nor Mac computer, you can download and transfer Apple Music to USB drive.
Part 1. Download and Transfer Apple Music to USB Drive
Tools you will need to download and transfer Apple Music to a USB drive:
- A Computer running Mac OS or Windows OS - Windows 7/8/10/11 and Mac OS X 10.6 above.
- Subscribed to Apple Music - Get all songs and playlist from Apple Music store.
- USB flash drive - Store the downloaded MP3 Apple Music song for playing in car, smart TV, speaker, etc.
- Tuxera NTFS for Mac - Tools for Mac users easily to transfer the downloaded Apple Music songs to USB devices.
- UkeySoft Apple Music Converter - A professional Apple Music downloader to download Apple Music songs/playlist/albums to MP3, M4A, WAV, etc.
UkeySoft Apple Music Converter is a professional Apple Music to MP3 downloader for you. It is specially designed to download and convert Apple Music to MP3, M4A, AAC, AIFF, WAV, FLAC. After converting Apple Music to MP3 format, you can transfer the downloaded MP3 Apple Music tracks to USB flash device.
UkeySoft Apple Music Converter Key Features:
- Download Apple Music songs, playlist and albums directly.
- Convert Apple Music songs to MP3, M4A, AAC, FLAC or WAV.
- Keep song’s original metadata after conversion.
- Batch download songs and playlist from Apple Music.
- Up to 16x fast conversion speed, batch downloading supported.
- Built-in Apple Music web player, no need to install the Apple Music app.
- Fully compatible with Windows and Mac computer.
Do you want to transfer Spotify music to USB flash drive for playing in the car? Spotify Music Converter is able to helps you, which is a free Spotify music downloader tool. With this tool, you can download Spotify music to MP3 for free, so that you can transfer Spotify music to USB flash drive.
How to Download Apple Music to USB Drive?
The following guide teaches you how to download Apple Music songs to MP3, and how to transfer the downloaded Apple Music songs to USB drive, you can also follow the same steps to download and transfer Apple Music to USB drive on Windows PC. After geting the MP3 music files, you can transfer Apple Music to your USB drive, memory card, SD car, MP3 player, etc.
Step 1. Launch UkeySoft Apple Music Converter
Download, install and launch UkeySoft Apple Music Converter on your PC or Mac. Then click "Sign In" with your Apple ID.
You will enter the Apple Music web browser and see your Apple Music library.
Step 2. Choose MP3 or M4A as Output Format
Click on the Gear icon at the upper right corner. The default format is AUTO M4A. Then, please choose a output format you want, this software allows you to convert Apple Music to DRM-free MP3, M4A, AAC, WAV, AIFF, FLAC audio files, because the MP3 and M4A format are the most popular output audio formats that most devices and players supported, so we recommend you select "MP3" or "M4A" as output audio format.
For each output format, the UkeySoft Apple Music Converter provides different output quality options: High, Normal and Low with different Bitrate, SampleRate and channels. You can also customize the Volume as you like.
Output file name can contain Title, Artist, Album, TrackID and DiskID. Click the down arrow to customize output file name format if you like.
Step 3. Select Apple Music Songs You Want to Remove DRM from
After setting the output format you want, you need to add Apple Music tracks to the program. You can use the "Search" function to directly locate the Apple Music songs/playlists, and play the songs online. If you like the song, tick the red "+" icon in the right side.
If you select a playlist/album/artist, all songs in the playlist will be displayed in the converting list. Check and choose the desired Apple Music songs you want to save.
Step 4. Remove DRM from Apple Music Songs
Hit on "Convert" button to start removing Apple Music track's DRM protection and converting them to DRM-free MP3 or M4A format.
When the Apple Music DRM removal process is done, you will get the DRM free Apple Music by clicking the "History" icon. Click the blue icon, and you will see all selected Apple Music songs converted to MP3 audio files and saved onto the computer as local files.
Step 5. Copy Converted Songs from Mac/PC to USB Drive
For Windows PC users: Insert the flash drive into a USB port and open it on a computer. Then find the converted Apple Music songs in the target folder, simply copy to your USB drive.
For Mac users: you can't directly copy files to MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac or iMac Pro, because Mac OS X does not support writing to Microsoft Windows formatted NTFS volumes out-of-the box.
We recommend you install Tuxera NTFS for Mac on your Mac computer first, after installing this Tuxera NTFS for Mac tool on Mac(It provides 15 days free usage for new users), now you can access your Windows disks as easily as any Mac disk. Then, please insert your USB drive to the Mac computer and directly transfer converted Apple Music songs from Mac to USB drive.
After saving your Apple Music songs to USB drive. Now, you can play Apple Music songs in your car or anywhere you like.
Tip: System Requirements:
Windows 7 or later on 64bit required
Part 2. How to Transfer iTunes Music to a USB Drive
Some people may ask how to transfer music from iTunes library to USB drive? If you have added the local songs (MP3, WAV, FLAC or other DRM-free audio files) to the iTunes library, you can directly copy songs from iTunes to a USB flash drive, USB stick, external USB drive, thumb drive, memory card, SD card or USB pen drive. As shown in the picture below, if the songs in the iTunes library are DRM-free files(.mp3 format), when the songs are dragged and dropped to the USB flash drive, the mouse will automatically show a + sign, which means that those iTunes songs can be copied to the USB flash drive directly.
Let’s teach you how to copy the local songs from iTunes library to USB drive.
Step 1.
Plug in the USB flash drive into a USB port of your computer, the computer will detects it automatically, then open the folder of your USB drive on your desktop.
Step 2.
Open iTunes application and choose the songs or playlist that you want to copy, make sure all songs in the iTunes are DRM-free audio files, as shown in the screenshot below, this is an mp3 song.
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There are four ways to select the songs in your iTunes library that you want, as follows:
1) If you want to copy a song from iTunes to the USB drive, just click one song to select it.
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2) To select a range of songs, click the first, hold Shift, and click the last.
3) To choose a bunch of selected songs that are not in order, hold the CTRL key and click each one.
4) To select all the songs in the same playlist, click one, and then CTRL+A.
Step 3.
After selecting song(s) in the iTunes library, simply drag them into the USB drive’s folder.
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It starts transfering songs from iTunes library to the USB drive, the time required for the transfer process depends on the number of songs and the capacity of the file.
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Step 4.
Well done, you have export music from iTunes to USB or flash drive successfully.
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Now, you can play iTunes music in car or everywhere via USB flash drive.
With the help of UkeySoft Apple Music Converter, you can convert Apple Music and iTunes M4P songs to MP3, M4A, FLAC, WAV and more plain audio formats, then copying them to USB drive freely, this is the best way to keep Apple Music forever. What's more, if you want to to listen to Apple Music in high quality, this converter are able to convert Apple Music songs from 256kbps AAC to 320kbps MP3, so that you can get Apple Music as 320kbps MP3 files.
Transfer Apple Music to USB Drive
Justin Sabrina has always had great enthusiasm for writing, programming and web development. He likes writing about software and technology, his works are featured on some tech blogs or forums like Tom's Hardware, CNET, etc.
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