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How to Add Apple Music to Rekordbox

hanna ellis By Hanna Ellis
Updated on: September 6, 2024

Rekordbox is a powerful DJ software that enables a comfortable DJ workflow with AI, cloud, and automation tech. It supports multiple music streaming services, including Tidal, Beatsource, Beatport, and SoundCloud. With the services, you can access and manage your music libraries of those supported platforms directly. However, among these platforms, there is no Apple Music. Therefore, although many Apple Music users try to add Apple Music to Rekordbox directly many times, they all failed. So, is it possible to add Apple Music to Rekordbox? Of course, this article will introduce available and useful ways to add Apple Music to Rekordbox. Now follow this article to make it!

Rekordbox Apple Music

Part 1: How to Download Apple Music for Rekordbox

As mentioned above, we can’t access the Apple Music library on Rekordbox directly. Therefore, we need to download Apple Music into formats accepted by Rekordbox, and then we can add Apple Music to Rekordbox. However, the songs we download on Apple Music directly have some constraints, which prevent the downloaded songs from being played by other programs. The songs downloaded in this way are not accepted by Rekordbox. To solve this problem, we can draw support from Sidify Apple Music Converter.

Sidify Apple Music Converter is a professional Apple Music downloader designed to download and convert Apple Music, iTunes M4P music, audiobooks and podcasts to MP3/AAC/WAV/FLAC/AIFF/ALAC. iTunes or the Apple Music app is required to be installed. It keeps lossless audio quality and complete ID3 tags after conversion. Besides, you can use it to convert your local audio files to MP3/M4A/FLAC/WAV/OGG/AIFF, burn Apple Music to CD, and edit ID3 tags. Sidify is fully compatible with Windows & Mac operating systems and offers free updates and technical support.

Sidify Music Converter

Sidify Apple Music Converter

  • okConvert Apple Music to MP3/AAC/WAV/FLAC/AIFF/ALAC.
  • okExport iTunes music, audiobooks and podcasts to the computer.
  • okBurn Apple Music to CD and transfer Apple Music to Spotify.
  • okOutput lossless audio quality, ID3 tags and song lyrics.

How to Download Apple Music by Sidify Apple Music Converter

In the part 1, you can download Sidify Apple Music Converter, and this part is a step-by-step guide introducing how to download Apple Music in Sidify Apple Music Converter.

Step 1Launch Sidify Apple Music Converter

Run Sidify Apple Music Converter, you will access the modern interface of the program.

main interface

Step 2Select the Apple Music that you want to download. Clicking on the Click to add button to put them to the converter for a conversion task process.

choose apple music to convert
add apple music

Step 3Click the Settings section on the left bar. There you can choose output formats(MP3/AAC/WAV/FLAC/AIFF/ALAC), output quality, output folder, and so on. If you choose Auto output format, it will output M4A with original quality.

choose apple music downloading format

Step 4When everything is set, you can simply click on Convert. Then the added songs will be downloaded to your customized folder according to your settings.

convert apple music to mp3


Part 2: How to Add Apple Music to Rekordbox on Windows/Mac

Following the steps in Part 1, you now have got the downloaded Apple Music songs accepted by Rekordbox on your computer with the help of Sidify Apple Music Converter. There are 3 methods here to add your Apple Music to Rekordbox.

1. Launch Rekordbox on your computer.
2. Click on the File option and choose Import Track, Import Folder, or Import Playlist.
3. Locate the converted Apple Music folder in File Explorer or Finder.
4. After choosing the songs you want to import, click on Open. Then the songs are imported successfully.

add music to Rekordbox

1. Launch Rekordbox and open File Explorer or Finder.
2. Locate the converted Apple Music.
3. Select the tracks that you want to add to Rekordbox, drag and drop them to the collection you want to put in the Rekordbox directly.
4. Then you can find your selected Apple Music imported in your Rekordbox collection.

drag and drop to add Apple Music

1. Open iTunes on your computer.
2. Navigate to File, and choose Add Folder to Library.
3. Locate your converted Apple Music files and select them to add to iTunes.
4. Then, click on File>Preferences>Advanced, and tick on Share iTunes Library XML with other applications.
5. Open Rekordbox on your computer, and select the iTunes tab.
6. Right-click on the playlist and choose Import Playlist. Then the songs are imported successfully.

advanced-preferences-in-itunes


Part 3: How to Add Apple Music to Rekordbox on iPhone/Android

If you need to add Apple Music to Rekordbox on your mobile phones, you can follow the following step-by-step guide, which can help you make it easily.

1. After adding your downloaded Apple Music playlist to your Rekordbox on your computer, right-click the playlist and click Import Playlist.
2. Connect Rekordbox for Mac/Windows and Rekordbox for mobile to the same Wi-Fi network.
3. In Rekordbox for mobile, tap Connect to Rekordbox (Mac/Win).
4. In Rekordbox for Mac/Windows, click SEARCH MOBILE. The playlist in Step 1 will be synced to Rekordbox for Mobile.
5. Right-click the track you want to use in Rekordbox on Mac/Windows and click Mobile Library Sync > Transfer to the mobile device. Then, the tracks will be transferred.

cloud-sync-in-rekordbox
Conclusion

Rekordbox is a powerful DJ software and we can use it to build and manage our customized music library. Considering Rekordbox is unable to access Apple Music directly, this article introduces some useful ways to add Apple Music songs to Rekordbox with the help of Sidify Apple music Converter. Then we can play the Apple Music offline within other programs and, of course, add them to Rekordbox. By following this article, we can easily add Apple Music to Rekordbox in many ways.

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Hanna Ellis | Content Writer

Hanna Ellis is an experienced writer with a strong passion for technology, music, and software. Her experience allows her to skillfully infuse her passion into her writing, creating comprehensive, informative, and practical content that appeals to a wide range of audiences.