How to download Apple Music to SD card?

As a user of the Apple Music, you can download songs, playlists and albums from Apple Music's vast catalog to your iPhone, iPad, Android devices so that you can listen to them when you're offline. While this makes for great listening when you don't have internet connection, it can quickly eat up internal storage space.

Although Apple Music allows users to download 100,000 songs to their library, it's hardly to reach that amount. Apple Music playlists will take up internal storage space if you download them onto your device for offline listening. With a 128GB iPhone, you can download about 25,600 songs.

Apple Music for Android users can download songs onto SD cards. This feature lets Android listeners "keep more music offline" - and potentially more music than any iPhone or iPad can store.

In this article, we will also show you 2 ways to download Apple Music to your SD card. By using the second option, the downloaded songs will not disappear even after you cancel Apple Music subscription.

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Contents

Option 1 Download Apple Music to SD card on Android
Option 2 Download Apple Music songs to MP3 and then transfer to SD card
Part 3 How to transfer music from computer to SD card?

Option 1 Download Apple Music to SD card on Android

Apple Music for Android allows you to store downloaded songs onto SD cards since 2016. The ability to move a music catalog to external storage is an easy way to free up storage on your smartphone. It also lets Android listeners "keep more music offline" - and potentially more music than any iPhone or iPad can store. Here's how to move your Apple Music library to an SD card:

Step 1. Open Apple Music, slide out the Menu and tap on Settings.

Step 2. Find and tap Download Location

Step 3 Tap "Yes" on the pop-up window.

(Apple Music for Android now lets you save songs to an SD card)

After that, when you download Apple Music songs on your Android, they will be saved to the SD card.

Option 2 Download Apple Music songs to MP3 and then transfer to SD card

iOS users may feel disappointed since Apple Music for iOS doesn't have above "save to sd card" feature, which means iOS users can't save Apple Music songs to sd card directly. However, you can download Apple Music songs on your Mac/PC and then transfer them to your SD card. Here we don't refer to download m4p songs since they are drm protected. To play Apple Music from your SD card, you need to download the songs to drm-free format such as mp3, m4a etc. Follow below steps to download Apple Music to DRM-free songs.

1. Download and Launch Apple Music Converter

Download, install and launch Ondesoft Apple Music Converter on your Mac or Windows. Features a built-in Apple Music player, there is no need of Music or iTunes app.

2. Sign in your Apple Music account

Click the Sign in button and enter your Apple ID.

3. Change output format(optional)

Click the gear icon on the top right corner to open Settings panel. Choose MP3 as the exporting format. In the meantime, you can customize the output quality, destination folder, output file name and archive downloaded songs by album or artist.

4. Find the Apple Music Tracks and Select Them

Follow the on-screen instructions to choose the playlist or album you want to convert.

Click to open the album or playlist you want to download, the program will display all the music files on the main interface. Click "Add songs".

5. Convert Apple Music to MP3

By default, all songs in the playlist/album will be checked. If there are songs you don't want to convert, please uncheck the box. Click the Convert button to download selected Apple Music songs to MP3 files. When the conversion process completes, you can find the converted files in the destination folder you set and listen to these unprotected Apple Music songs anywhere anytime without restriction.

After conversion, click below folder icon to quickly locate the downloaded songs.

6. Transfer Apple Music songs to SD card

Plug your phone's SD card to this computer and transfer the downloaded Apple Music songs. Then plug it back to your iPhone or Android to play them offline. In this way you can download more songs without worring about your phone's memory. What's more important, these downloaded songs are still playable even after you cancel Apple Music subscription .

Part 3 How to transfer music from computer to SD card?

1. Insert your SD card into your PC's SD card reader.

2. Click "Open folder to view files" when the Windows AutoPlay box pops up on your screen.

3. Drag the SD card's open file window to the right side of the screen.

4. Click Start and then "Computer."

5. Navigate to the local folder where your music is stored on your PC.

6. Click on a music file you'd like to transfer to your SD card and drag the song file from your local folder to the SD card folder you opened previously. Repeat this process for each song you'd like to download to your SD card.

7. Remove your SD card from your PC's SD card reader when finished.