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How to Play Apple Music on Audacious

By Harper North

Updated on: August 7, 2025

Audacious is a lightweight, high-quality, open-source audio player popular among Linux and Windows users. Unfortunately, it doesn't directly support playing protected music files (M4P or AAC) from Apple Music, as these files are protected by DRM. So, how can you play Apple Music songs in Audacious?

Actually, you can easily import and play Apple Music songs in Audacious by converting them to a compatible format (such as MP3, FLAC, WAV, etc.). This article will show you how.

Part 1. Tools Needed – Sidify Apple Music Converter
Part 2. How to Play Apple Music on Audacious?

Part 1. Tools Needed – Sidify Apple Music Converter

Due to the protection of Apple Music, you will find that there are lots of related tools in the market when you search for it in Google. To let you make a right decision among all those programs to convert Apple Music, here we would like to highly recommend Sidify Apple Music Converter (For Mac | For Windows) to you. This program is a professional Apple audio converter, which can not only remove protection and make it easier to convert Apple Music, iTunes music and audiobook to MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV, AIFF or ALAC format, but also enable to keep lossless quality as original audio and ID3 tags information. After finishing converting, you can transfer the converted Apple Music tracks to Audacious or any other devices for offline listening.

Key Features of Sidify Apple Music Converter

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Convert Apple Music and iTunes M4P music to MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV, AIFF or ALAC;
Unlock from iTunes M4A, M4B & Audible AA, AAX audiobooks;
Preserve 100% lossless sound quality after conversion;
10X Conversion Speed; Keep ID3 tags and metadata.

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If you want a tool to convert any streaming music (including Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Tidal, Deezer, YouTube, YouTube Music, SoundCloud, DailyMotion …) to MP3, Sidify All-In-One is the go-to choice.

Part 2. How to Play Apple Music on Audacious?

1: Download Apple Music from iTunes

Step 1Launch Sidify Apple Music Converter

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

Step 2Add Apple Music Tracks to Sidify.

Drag and drop songs, an album or a playlist from Apple Muisc to Sidify. Or you can click the Add button on the interface and copy & paste the URL of your Apple Muisc to the program. Then click the OK button to import them to Sidify.

Step 3 Choose Output Format and Customize Output Path.

Click the Settings icon in the left panel. Here you can choose the output format (MP3/AAC/WAV/FLAC/AIFF/ALAC), the output quality and the output path as well. Besides, you can customize how you'd like to name and sort out the converted files.

Step 4 Convert Apple Music to MP3.

Click the Convert button and Sidify would immediately start converting the Apple Music to MP3s.

Step 5 Find the MP3 downloads on the Local Drive.

Once the conversion is done, click the History tab and you can check all the Apple Music that have been converted successfully. Go to the output folder set in the previous step, you'll find the downloaded MP3s.

2: Import Apple Music to Audacious

Please install Audacious Media Player on your computer. And as for Audacious, there are two interfaces for you to choose, GTK interface and Winamp classic interface. Here we take GTK interface as an example to guide you how to add Apple Music files to Audacious.

Step 1 Launch Audacious Media Player on your computer.

Step 2 Go to "File" >> "Add Files" option, then select the target folder you saved the converted Apple Music to add the songs. Or you can directly add the files to Audacious Player by using the shortcut key "Shift+Ctrl+O".

After that, you can put the Apple Music files to Audacious successfully and then you could play Apple Music on Audacious easily.

Note: The free trial version of Sidify Apple Music to MP3 Converter only converts the first minute of each audio file. If you want to unlock the time limitation, you can purchase the full version of Sidify.

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Conclusion

While Apple Music doesn't natively support Audacious, you can easily import and play music by converting it to a format supported by Audacious using tools like Sidify. This is currently the most stable and compatible solution for users who want to listen to Apple music on Audacious.

Harper North | Staff Writer

Harper is a content writer with a profound understanding of the streaming music landscape and a specialization in music converters. She creates informative content on tools, techniques, and trends in music conversion, providing expert advice, detailed reviews, and guides.