Summary
Apple Music songs are encoded with DRM protection that you are not allowed to put Apple Music to PS4 directly. To play Apple Music on PS4, you can save Apple Music tracks to USB drive or stream Apple Music to PS4 with DLNA Media Server.

“Recently, I switched from Spotify music to Apple Music. Can I listen to Apple Music on PS4? If not, how can I enjoy Apple Music on PS4? Please help.”

For games lovers, it’s quite a good experience to enjoy music while playing PS4 games. However, unlike Spotify music, there is no Apple Music app for PS4. So it’s really a pity that Apple Music lovers can’t play Apple Music on PS4. You may ask “Why can’t we put Apple Music to PS4 or other device directly?” or “How to get Apple Music playable on PS4”. Don’t miss this article, here you will find the answers. After that, you can easily enjoy your favourite Apple Music on your PlayStation 4 anytime!

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Part 1. Why We Can’t Play Apple Music on PS4 Directly?

Apple Music is a streaming music service that can only be played on authorized devices, including iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Apple Watch, Apple TV, Mac, PC, Apple HomePod, Apple CarPlay, Android phone, Sonos and Amazon Echo device. Obviously, PS4 is not on the list.

On the other hand, Apple Music tracks are under DRM copy protection in MP4 format that you can’t transfer Apple Music to other device. The good news is that Sony’s PlayStation 4 can play video and music files from a USB drive. Therefore, to enjoy Apple Music on PS4, you can use a powerful Apple Music Converter to save Apple Music songs to a USB flash drive, such as TunesBank Apple Music Converter.

Part 2. Play Apple Music on PS4 Using USB Drive

TunesBank Apple Music Converter is a professional and reliable app that allows you to unlock DRM and convert any of the songs in your iTunes library, including Apple Music songs, iTunes purchased M4P music and audiobooks. With using it, you can easily convert Apple Music to MP3, M4A, FLAC or AAC for PS4, PSP, iPod, Zune, etc. Even better, it lets you extract audios from iTunes videos for your device. What’s more, it will preserve the original quality, metadata and all ID3 tags after conversion.

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Steps to Convert Apple Music Songs to USB for Playing on PS4

Here’s the detailed guides to convert apple to mp3 for PS4 with using TunesBank Apple Music Converter. Please make sure you have add the Apple Music tracks, albums and playlists to iTunes Library before you start, no need to download them to iTunes.

Step 1. Run TunesBank Apple Music Converter on Mac/PC
Download and install Apple Music Converter on your computer. When you run the program, iTunes app or Apple Music app(macOS 10.15 and later) will run automatically with it.

launch the converter and sign in Apple ID

Step 2. Select Apple Music Songs to TunesBank
TunesBank is such a smart tool, you will see the entire iTunes library is automatically loaded. Click “Playlist” in the left panel, and select the songs you want to convert.

add Apple Music playlist

Step 3. Customize Output Settings for Apple Music
Now go to the bottom of the interface, here you can customize the out format, bitrate, sample rate, output folder and more for your preference. Here you can pick MP3 as the output format.

customize output settings

Step 4. Save Apple Music to Computer
Simply click “Convert” button to get Apple Music songs to your hard drive without quality loss. During the process, TunesBank allows you to turn back to “Library” and add more songs to convert.

save apple music to computer

Its faster conversion speed(5X conversion speed on Mac and 10X conversion speed on Windows) let you get DRM free Apple Music songs soon. After which, you can view the converted Apple Music songs in “Finished” section, tab “View Output File” button to open it.

get Apple Music MP3 files

Step 5. Transfer the Converted Apple Music to USB for Playback on PS4
1)Insert the USB drive to your computer, and create a folder named “Music” on it. Find the folder where the converted Apple Music MP3 songs are saved, then directly drag and drop the MP3 files to the newly created “Music” folder. When finish, safely eject your USB drive.

2)Plug the USB into PS4. It will automatically pop up a window “USB Music Player”. Just press the “X” button to launch the application, then select the music you want to play, and click the “Options” button.

Now, you can enjoy your favorite Apple Music on PS4 without restriction while playing games.

Part 3. Play Apple Music on PS4 with DLNA Media Server

DLNA Media Server is another way to stream Apple Music on PS4. But if you didn’t download them to iPhone, you need smooth Internet or Wi-Fi. You can refer to the following guides:

Step 1. Go to App store on your iPhone, download and install the DLNA application.

Step 2. Run the Media Player application on PS4, and choose your DLNA server on iPhone.

Step 3. Now, as long as the DLNA media server and the PS4 system are connected to the same network, Apple Music songs can be played through the iPhone.

Final Thoughts

TunesBank Apple Music Converter enables you to convert Apple Music tracks to unprotected MP3, M4A, AAC, FLAC, AC3, AU or AIFF formats for offline playback on music players and devices. In a words, it lets you easily play Apple Music on PS4, PSP, Zune, MP3 player, iPod nano, iPhone, Android, etc, or upload Apple Music to iTunes, Googe drive, or even burn Apple Music songs to a CD for playing in your car! TunesBank Apple Music Converter is really worth trying!

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