- Part 1: What You Need to Know about WAV Audio Format
- Part 2: TuneMobie Apple Music Converter: Best Solution to Convert Apple Music to WAV
- Part 3: How to Convert Apple Music to WAV in Simple Steps
- Part 4: Should You Use MP3 or WAV as Background Music When Editing Videos?
What You Need to Know about WAV Audio Format
WAV is most popular uncompress audio format. An uncompressed file means that it's the original data. The advantage is data accuracy and excellent compatibility. However, it also has the disadvantage that the file size is large, and a 1-minute audio file uses about 10MB. "WAV" and "AIFF" are commonly used. It is common to use "WAV" on Windows and "AIFF" on macOS. In fact, WAV is also widely used in macOS. And because of higher market share of Windows, WAV is much more popular than AIFF even on macOS.
Some music enthusiasts who love to enjoy high-quality music also love to get their music in WAV format. In the past few years, more and more music users buy and download music from online stores, and the sales of Audio CDs are also getting less and less. It is also inconvenient to play CDs since more and more computers are not equipped with a CD/DVD drive. So many users also rip CD and save as WAV files on computer. Because this is a lossless conversion, the WAV format has the same sound quality as a CD.
WAV comes with high compatibility. It's comaptible with Windows, macOS, and Linux, and it can be played with all kinds of media players like VLC media player, Foobar, MediaMonkey, KMPlayer, etc. WAV can be played on iPhone, iPad, Android devices, PS3/4/5, Sony Walkman, Xbox 360/One and all kinds of smart devices. Most MP3 players including iPod Shuffle, iPod Nano, Sandisk Clip Jam, Apetek and more can play WAV files as well. WAV format is also widely supported by video editing programs and apps.
Apple Music have released Apple Music Lossless some time ago. However, like Apple Music AAC audio, Apple Music lossless audio is still protected. On macOS, if you download Apple Music songs in lossless or hi-res lossless quality, you will get *.movpkg files. The file size of a *.movpkg file is much bigger than a *.m4p file. However, because of the protection, you won't be able to enjoy or use Apple Music lossless on many devices. That is why many users want to convert Apple Music to WAV files.
You can consider using an audio recording program to record Apple Music songs as WAV files, however, sooner or later, you will find audio recording software is only suitable for converting one or several Apple Music songs to WAV. There are many problems like repeated Start/Stop button clicks, time-consuming recording, lacking of ID3 tags, etc. If you want to convert an Apple Music album/playlist or more to WAV, a professional Apple Music to WAV converter should be used instead of the chore of recording.
Best Solution to Convert Apple Music to WAV
TuneMobie Apple Music Converter is a professional Apple Music to WAV converter. It comes with an easy-to-use interface, 20X faster conversion speed, diverse output formats and flexible output options. With this Apple Music to WAV converter, you can easily save your favorite Apple Music albums and playlists as WAV files.
- Convert Apple Music songs, albums and playlists to WAV in batch
- If necessary, you can also choose M4A, FLAC, AIFF or MP3 output formats
- Convert Apple Music to WAV with a built-in web player without using iTunes or Music app
- Keep music information including title, album, artist, track number and artwork in output MP3 files
- Rename output WAV files in bulk by title, album, artist, track number, hyphen, space, etc.
- Sort output WAV files into folders by album, artist, artist/album or album/artist.
- Perform 20X faster Apple Music to WAV conversion speed on both Windows and macOS
- Fully compatible with latest Windows and macOS (Intel & Apple silicon)
The free trial version of TuneMobie Apple Music Converter allows you to convert 3 minutes of each song and convert 3 files at a time. If you want to get WAV files from your Apple Music songs, do not hesitate to download it and have a try.
How to Convert Apple Music to WAV in Simple Steps
TuneMobie Apple Music Converter uses a built-in Apple Music web player to convert Apple Music to WAV or other formats, it's extremely easy-to-use. Converting Apple Music to WAV only requires several steps and clicks.
Step 1: Launch TuneMobie Apple Music Converter and Sign in
Launch TuneMobie Apple Music Converter and you will a built-in Apple Music web player. Click "Sign in" button in the upper right to log in Apple Music web player. If you don't sign out, you don't need to enter Apple ID and password in next time.
Step 2: Choose WAV Output Format
The default output format is AUTO option. It is actually 256kbps M4A. To change the output format to WAV, you need to click Settings icon in the upper right to open Settings dialog, then change output format to WAV.
In Settings dialog, you can also change output folder, the way of renaming and sorting output files, action after conversion, etc.
Step 3: Open Apple Music Album/Playlist
Go back to the built-in Apple Music web player and browse your favorite album or playlist, then open the detailed page of an album or a playlist and song list will be displayed.
Step 4: Add Album/Playlist to Conversion List
You can easily find a button in the center right, move your mouse to the button and it will be changed to "Add to list" button. Click "Add to list" button to add all the songs in the album/playlist to conversion list.
Step 5: Choose the Songs
All the songs will be checked by default. If you don't want to convert some of the songs, you can simply uncheck them.
Step 6: Start Apple Music to WAV Conversion
Now simply click the Convert button to start converting Apple Music songs to WAV format. 20X faster conversion speed will help you get the output WAV files in a short time.
Should You Use MP3 or WAV as Background Music When Editing Videos?
TuneMobie Apple Music Converter can convert Apple Music to WAV, MP3 and some other formats. If your purpose of converting Apple Music songs is to use as background music, you may wonder whether MP3 or WAV should be used. We have introduced WAV above, so we will introduce MP3 in brief as well.
MP3 is a lossy compressed WAV file. Lossy compression can greatly compress the data volume, but the compressed data cannot be restored to the original data even if it is decompressed. You have to be careful with the conversion, as it degrades the data in such a way. It eliminates sounds that cannot be heard by humans, and at the same time, compresses the data volume to about 1/11 while maintaining the same sound quality as a music CD. The main difference between WAV and MP3 is whether they are compressed or not.
So, when editing videos or shooting videos, which one is better, WAV or MP3?
When shooting a video, it is recommended to record the sound in WAV with good sound quality from the beginning. If you feel that the file size is large and the editing software starts up slowly when editing the video, it is easy to compress it to MP3. In fact, such a case is rare. However, converting audio recorded in MP3 to WAV does not necessarily improve the sound quality.
But there are also special cases. For example, if you are editing a short video to upload to Twitter, Instagram, etc., MP3 is sufficient for the recording format when shooting. This is because even if you upload a high-quality video to Twitter, Twitter will automatically re-encode it to a smaller size. If you want to create high-quality video for DVD or Blu-ray, or you want to upload 1080P or 4K videos to YouTube or other video sharing websites, etc., we recommend using audio recorded in WAV.
Bottom line
As music enthusiasts, we all want to enjoy lossless Apple Music songs freely, and now we can finally achieve this with the help of TuneMobie Apple Music Converter. We hope that people who use Apple Music can get rid of limitations and get better music enjoyment. WAV format is an important part of music propagation, if you want to convert Apple Music to WAV format, you should click the button below and try it now.