When you authorize your Mac or PC, you give it permission to access your music, movies, and other content.
- This video introduces the detailed steps to download songs from Apple Music to your iMac or Macbook with the most popular Apple Music Converter - NoteBurner.
- Get Apple Music on Sonos with AirPlay on Mac. You can also use a Mac computer to load Apple Music to Sonos with AirPlay. See how to play Apple Music on Sonos in the guide below. Open System Preferences on your Mac and click the Sound option. Go to the Output tab and choose a Sonos product.
- You can authorize up to 5 computers, which means that you can play your content on 5 different computers.
- You can't authorize a computer from another computer or from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
Before you sell or give away your computer or send it in for service, deauthorize your computer to remove its access to protected purchases. For other devices, learn how to see where you’re signed in or remove devices.
The Apple TV app (yes, for all your devices, not just an Apple TV) is where TV shows, movies and music videos will live on the Mac, including HBO and Showtime, and those iTunes movies you bought.
Store availability and features might vary by country or region.
How to authorize a Mac or PC
Before you authorize a Mac, update it to the latest version of macOS. On a PC, update to the latest version of iTunes for Windows.
- On a Mac, open the Music app, Apple TV app, or Apple Books app. On a PC, open iTunes for Windows.
- Sign in with your Apple ID.
- In the menu bar on your Mac or PC, choose Account > Authorizations > Authorize This Computer.
If you're asked to authorize your computer again, it won't use a new authorization. Apple ID uses the same authorization for the same computer.
See your authorized computers
To automatically sign in to your Account Information page from your computer, click here. Or follow these steps:
- On a Mac, open the Music app, Apple TV app, or Apple Books app. On a PC, open iTunes for Windows.
- Sign in with your Apple ID.
- In the menu bar on your Mac or PC, choose Account > View My Account.
- Sign in with your Apple ID.
- On the Account Information page, scroll to the Apple ID Summary section. You'll see the number of computers that you've authorized with your Apple ID. You can’t see the names of those computers. If you haven't authorized 2 or more computers, you won't see this section.
If the number of authorized computers listed is more than what you expect, you might not have deauthorized the computers that you no longer use, gave away, or sold. You need to deauthorize all of your computers and then authorize each one that you still use.
Deauthorize a computer
- On a Mac, open the Music app, Apple TV app, or Apple Books app. On a PC, open iTunes for Windows.
- From the menu bar at the top of your computer screen, choose Account > Authorizations > Deauthorize This Computer.
- Sign in with your Apple ID.
- Choose Deauthorize.
If you run out of authorizations, deauthorize all
If one of your 5 authorizations is on a computer that you don't use anymore, deauthorize it. If you sold or gave away a computer that's used one of your 5 authorizations, you need to choose Deauthorize All on the Account Information page. Then authorize each computer that you still use.
About authorizing other Apple devices
You don’t need to authorize your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or other Apple device. These devices don’t use your available authorizations. Learn how to check your Apple ID device list to see where you're signed in and how to remove a device.
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Apple Music On Laptop Mac Computers
- Learn what to do if your computer keeps asking you to authorize when you try to play your content.
- You can deauthorize all computers once per year.
- If you don't see Account in the menu bar at the top of your computer screen or the top of the Music app or iTunes window, check your Restrictions. You might have access to the iTunes Store turned off.
Store availability and features might vary by country or region.
Apple Music is a well-known streaming music service, for which we are limited to listen toApple Music with iTunes or its’ App and unable to download any songs from Apple Music, whose alleged “offline” listening are only temporarily saved on the cloud for its’ subscribers. Once the subscription is cancelled, we won’t have any access to the Apple Music that we used to listening to. This tutorial is going to introduce you a good way to download Apple Music to the local file on your Mac so that you can keep listening to Apple Music even if you cancel the subscription.
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Apple Music can’t be downloaded because they are protected. As long as we can record those songs, we can download whatever we want from Apple Music. Next we are going to introduce a popular Apple Music downloader – NoteBurner iTunes Audio Converter for Mac and guide you on how to download Apple Music on your Mac computer step by step.
Tool Required: NoteBurner iTunes Audio Converter
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NoteBurner iTunes Audio Converter is a combination of Apple Music Converter, Audiobook Converter and iTunes M4P Audio Converter. This all-in-one program helps music lovers to easily download Apple Music, audiobooks & iTunes M4P music and save them to local files on Mac, which attracts increasing fans year by year.
Features of iTunes Audio Converter:
- Record iTunes music, audiobooks, Apple Music;
- Convert Apple Music files to MP3/AAC/FLAC/WAV/AIFF;
- Convert iTunes audio at 10X faster speed with lossless quality;
- Keep ID3 Tags information after conversion;
- Support macOS 11 Big Sur & iTunes 12.11;
- Enjoy free update & technical support.