When it comes to media players, there is hardly anyone who wouldn’t have heard about VLC.

  1. VLC media player requires Mac OS X 10.7.5 or later. It runs on any 64bit Intel-based Mac. Previous devices are supported by older releases. Note that the first generation of Intel-based Macs equipped with Core Solo or Core Duo processors is no longer supported. Please use version 2.0.10 linked below. Web browser plugin for Mac OS X.
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Windows Media Player is an audio and video player based on Windows operating system. As a facile audio player, it perfectly support the audio playback including MP3, WAV, WAV etc, and it also allowed users to import iTunes music for playback in case that iTunes can’t be installed on PC. So can we import Apple Music songs from iTunes library to Windows Media Player for offline playback or if we only want to play Apple Music without iTunes?

Can I Play Apple Music Songs with Windows Media Player?

It is admitted that Windows Media Player is a powerful media player for audio, video and image, and K-Lite decoder can be added as plug-in to support for more media file types. But considering for the copyright issues, Windows Media Player can't play Apple Music songs packaged in protected M4P or M4A format, unless the protection can be removed in a legal way.

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 or FLAC, thus the converted Apple Music songs can be import simply to Windows Media Player for playback.

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Sidify Apple Music Converter

  • Convert Apple Music songs to MP3, AAC, FLAC or WAV.
  • Work for Apple Music, iTunes Music and Audiobooks.
  • Convert the Apple Music songs losslessly at fast speed.
  • All ID3 tags kept for better organizing your music library.
  • Perfectly compatible with macOS High Sierra & Windows 10.

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

We will take Windows PC as an example to show you how to convert Apple Music songs to the audio formats like MP3, WAV which are perfectly supported by Windows Media Player on the following part. And this is also easy to operate on Mac.

Step 1 Download and Install Sidify Apple Music Converter.

Download and install Sidify Apple Music Converter on your Windows PC or Mac from the link below, then launch it, and iTunes will be launched automatically if you have installed it.

Step 2 Add Apple Music Songs to Sidify Apple Music Converter.

Click + button on Sidify Apple Music Converter interface to add Apple Music songs. And please make sure that all your Apple Music songs have been downloaded already within the validity period. Then click 'OK' button to finish adding Apple Music files.

Step 3 Customize the Output Setting.

Click Setting button on the top right of Sidify to customize the parameters like Output format, Output quality, Output path and Output speed. Here you can choose MP3 or WAV as output format, and output quality to 320kbps to keep the best sound quality.

Step 4Start Conversion and Find the Conversion History.

After the settings competed, you can click 'Convert' button to start converting Apple Music songs to the audio format you chosen. When the conversion process completed, you can go to Converted to find the converted Apple Music files.

Step 5Import 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.

Video Tutorial: How to Play Apple Music on Windows Media Player

Note: The Sidify Apple Music converter trial version can only converts the first three minute of each track. To convert the full tracks, please purchase the full version.

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Devices and Mac OS X version

VLC media player requires Mac OS X 10.7.5 or later. It runs on any 64bit Intel-based Mac. Previous devices are supported by older releases.
Note that the first generation of Intel-based Macs equipped with Core Solo or Core Duo processors is no longer supported. Please use version 2.0.10 linked below.

Web browser plugin for Mac OS X

Support for NPAPI plugins was removed from all modern web browsers, so VLC's plugin is no longer maintained. The last version is 3.0.4 and can be found here. It will not receive any further updates.

Older versions of Mac OS X and VLC media player

We provide older releases for users who wish to deploy our software on legacy releases of Mac OS X. You can find recommendations for the respective operating system version below. Note that support ended for all releases listed below and hence they won't receive any further updates.

Apple Video Player

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

Use VLC 2.2.8. Get it here.


Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

Use VLC 2.0.10. Get it for PowerPC or 32bit Intel.


Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger

Apple Tv Media Player

Mac OS X 10.4.7 or later is required

Use VLC 0.9.10. Get it for PowerPC or Intel.


Mac OS X 10.3 Panther

QuickTime 6.5.2 or later is required

Use VLC 0.8.6i. Get it for PowerPC.


Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar

Apple Media Player For Pc

Use VLC 0.8.4a. Get it for PowerPC.


Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah and 10.1 Puma

Use VLC 0.7.0. Get it for PowerPC.