How Can we Play Apple Music Songs on Xbox One

Play Apple Music on Xbox One

By Selena KomezUpdated on March 19, 2018

“Apple Music app is not available on Xbox One, how can we play Apple Music songs on Xbox One without limits? Can you give me some advice? I need a simple solution. Thanks a lot.”

Add background music has been one of the most-requested for Xbox fan features. In July, 2016, background music came to Xbox One finally. With supported music apps, you are now able to play music in the background of Xbox One. No matter listen to music while you are playing games or browse the internet, background music can provide the soundtrack to your Xbox experience. What suffer from most of Xbox One user? Actually, Xbox One is not in the list of supported services of Apple Music, since Apple Music is DRM-protected, it means that you can’t play Apple Music on any non-Apple device. Here brings a new question – that’s how to stream Apple Music on Xbox One.

Why Can’t We Directly Stream Apple Music to Xbox One
A.Apple Music songs are encrypted with DRM protection. That’s to say, you can’t stream Apple Music songs to Xbox One for listening like streaming common MP3 songs.
B. There is no official Apple Music app or iTunes for Xbox One.

If you are one of them who want to enjoy Apple Music on Xbox One, the only way is to remove DRM from Apple Music, convert Apple Music to Xbox One supported format. Before we started, you should know what the format supported by Xbox One. Supported Formats of Xbox One: 3GP audio, AAC, ADTS, MP3, WAV, WMA, WMA Lossless, WMA Pro, WMA Voice.

Remove DRM Protection from Apple Music for Xbox One

Once we know the supported audio format supported of Xbox one, we should get a music converter tool called Apple Music Converter that is capable of removing DRM protection from Apple Music for Xbox One, converting Apple Music to Xbox One with compatible formats, such as MP3.It allows you to strip DRM from Apple Music, M4P songs and iTunes/Audible Audiobook, convert them to common audio format with up to 16x speed. The converted music will be output with its original quality. What’s more, when the conversion is finished, you could transfer the converted music files for offline playing on any compatible devices, like Android device, iOS device, computer, PSP, MP3 player and Xbox One.

How to Stream Apple Music to Xbox One

Step 1. Launch Apple Music Converter
Launch Apple Music Converter and iTunes will be automatically opened to load all your media file. Then you can choose a relevant playlist and select the Apple Music tracks that you want to sync to Xbox One.

select music to convert

Step 2. Choose MP3 as the Output Format
Open the “Playlist” and then choose the Apple Music you want to play on Xbox One.Then select “MP3” as the output format of the converted music files. Here you can also setting other parameter of the converted music files, like the conversion speed and conversion quality.

setting the parameter

Step 3. Convert Apple Music to MP3
Ready? Simply click “Convert” to start conversion and then wait for the conversion finished. When the conversion is finished, you can click “Explore Output File” to find the converted Apple Music in MP3 format under destination folder.

remove DRM from Apple music

Step 4. Stream Apple Music to Xbox One via a USB Cable

1. Install the Xbox Media Player App from the Xbox Sore.

2. Connect the USB drive with your computer and copy converted Apple Music onto it.

3. Then eject it from your computer and connect it to one of the USB ports on your Xbox One.

4. Open the Media Player app and you’ll see your connected drive as an option. Select the drive and you can browse all the media files on it and play them, control the playback with your Xbox controller.

Done. Now you can freely enjoy Apple Music as the background music on Xbox One while you are playing games or browse the internet using it. Sounds so great?