How to Transfer Songs from Apple Music to foobar2000? foobar2000 is a powerful and flexible music player with an unique modular design and a raft of hidden features, for example, you are happy to spend some time in "dressing up" its initially unappealing interface and turn it to suit your taste. Or you want to use foobar2000 to listen to the local lossless music and unlock other more features by using the powerful plug-ins and extensions. Before you explore its appealing features, you will need to import your vast iTunes library to foobar2000, but only to find that the purchased music from iTunes isn't making it over. These files you purchased from iTunes or downloaded from Apple Music streaming service are protected AAC or M4P audio files.
Why Purchased iTunes Music Can’t be Imported to foobar2000? Any purchased music from iTunes during 2003-2009 are encoded with DRM (Digital Rights Management) to prevent unauthorized copying of purchased items. And it is same for its streaming music service – Apple Music. With the DRM protection, subscribers are allowed to play Apple Music on Apple authorized devices or players within the subscription period. In order to make your Apple Music songs or iTunes music can be successfully imported to foobar2000, you might be practiced to find or write a component to accomplish this task.
To make this easier, we recommend a powerful music converter – Sidify Apple Music Converter to help you losslessly convert Apple Music songs/iTunes M4P music/DRM-ed audiobooks to unprotected MP3, AAC, FLAC or WAV, and these audio formats can be fully supported by foobar2000.
How to Transfer Apple Music Songs or iTunes Music to foobar2000 Let's come to the specific steps on how to convert Apple Music or iTunes music to MP3 and import converted Apple Music to foobar2000. Step 1: Launch Sidify Apple Music Converter Please make sure that iTunes was well installed on your computer. Then launch Sidify Music Converter after the installation completed.
Step 2: Add Music from iTunes Library Click "+" icon at the top right corner and an adding window will be shown to list all your music files including purchased iTunes music and Apple Music songs. You can select the music you want to convert and click "OK" to add them to track view interface.
Step 3: Choose the Output Format Tap on Setting button button at the right corner and a dialogue will pop up to indicate you to choose output format, output quality, and output path. Here you can choose MP3 as output format, and if you want to output the lossless quality, you can choose FLAC as the output format, audio bitrate to 320kbps. Tips: In order to keep the output audio files organized, you can check the box of "Keep output folder organized" to save the converted music into Artist/Album folder.
Step 4. Start Conversion Click "Convert" button to start converting Apple Music or iTunes music. You can check "Open Output Folder" selection at the right panel, so that the output folder will pop up automatically after the conversion completed.
Step 5: Import the Converted Apple Music to foobar2000 Since all the purchased music from your iTunes library were already saved to local drive, now you can launch foobar2000 on PC or Mac and start importing these converted music to foobar2000. Click File > Add Folder and select the file folder you chosen to save the converted Apple Music songs, then click Select Folder to add the local music to foobar2000.
Then you can start playing the Apple Music songs you added and DIY your own specialized UI and organize your music libraries with powerful foobar2000.
Useful Components You will Need 1. WASAPI. The plug-in that really improves the sound quality. It will change the output mode and allow foobar to monopolize the entire sound card output, then the sound quality is instantly improved. 2. Lyric Show Panel 3. A UI element which can download and display both timestamped and text only lyrics. 3. DTS decoder. You can install it for listening to DTS audio files. Learn more about how to add Apple Music songs to foobar2000: https://www.sidify.com/guide/import-apple-music-to-foobar2000.html