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How to Play Apple Music on Windows Media Player

author By Harper North
Updated on: August 8, 2025

Apple Music has a rich library of high-quality music and is the preferred music platform for many users. However, if you want to play Apple Music songs on Windows Media Player, you may find that you cannot directly open and play the files. Why is this? How can you solve this problem? This article will explain in detail how to play Apple Music songs to Windows Media Player.

Play Apple Music on Windows Media Player

Part 1: Why can't Apple Music songs be played directly in Windows Media Player?

Apple Music song files are protected by DRM, an encryption technology that restricts the copying and playback rights of music. Although you can listen to them offline in the Apple Music app, these protected music files cannot be played directly with Windows Media Player.

Part 2: How to Play Apple Music on Windows Media Player?

To play Apple Music on Windows Media Player, you need to first remove the DRM restrictions and convert the songs to a format supported by Windows Media Player, such as MP3, WMA, AAC, or WAV.

Fortunately, this can be done easily with the help of Sidify Apple Music Converter, which is specifically designed to losslessly convertApple Music songs and iTunes M4P music to other audio formats as MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC or AIFF, thus the converted Apple Music songs can be import simply to Windows Media Player for playback.

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How to Convert and Play Apple Music Songs on Windows Media Player?

Step 1Launch Sidify Apple Music Converter

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

main interface

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.

add apple music

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.

choose mp3 as the output format

Step 4 Convert Apple Music to MP3.

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

convert apple music to mp3

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.

find the mp3s

Step 6Import the Converted Apple Music Songs to Windows Media Player

Now, you can launch Windows Media Player, then click Organize > Manage libraries > Music, and choose the media folder you store the converted Apple Music songs to add it to Windows Media Player.

Add the converted Apple Music songs to Windows Media Player

Conclusion

With a professional Apple Music converter, you can easily import Apple Music songs to Windows Media Player and play them freely without DRM restrictions.

Note: The free trial of Sidify Apple Music Converter is limited to converting the first minute of each audio file. You need to purchase a license to unlock the time limitation.

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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.

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