Summary
Wondering how to add your favourite songs from YouTube Music to Apple Music? This article will teach you two ways to download songs from YouTube & YouTube Music to MP3 320kbps format, and then add YouTube Music songs to Apple Music or iTunes without hassle.

YouTube is the most popular video and music streaming service, with many funny videos, clips, tutorials, music videos, movies, etc. In addition, it also has its music streaming service that is called YouTube Music, which offers more than 80 million songs. Sometimes, we can find some fantastic songs on YouTube Music, or discover beautiful music videos on YouTube platform, but not in Apple Music. Moreover, some users prepare to switch from YouTube Music to Apple Music, as Apple Music has much more compatibility. Whether you just want to add songs from YouTube Music to Apple Music, or plan to transfer YouTube Music to Apple Music, this article is written for you.

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Part 1. YouTube Music vs. Apple Music: A Simple Comparison

Music streaming is the primary way people listen to music today. Apple Music and YouTube Music are two popular music streaming platforms. If you want to switch from YouTube Music to Apple Music, you can read this part carefully.

Here’s a brief summary of the paid plans on both platforms:

Platform Free Trial Individual Premium Family Plan Student Plan Others
Apple Music 1 month $10.99/month $16.99/month $5.99/month Voice Plan for $4.99/month
YouTube Music Free 1 month Come with ads No No No
YouTube Music Premium 1 month $9.99/month $14.99/month $4.99/month YouTube Premium for $11.99/month

YouTube Music vs. Apple Music: Which One is Better?

　 Apple Music YouTube Music
Free Plan No Yes, but with ads
Music Catalogue Over 90 million songs Over 80 million songs
Music Quality A bitrate of 256kbp/s 128kbp for Free users
256kbps for Premium users
Listening Experience Offers lossless audio without extra cost Standard, also comes with an equalizer
Cross-platform Availability iOS, iPadOS, Apple Watch, Apple TV, HomePod, and Amazon Echo iOS, iPadOS, Android, and Wear OS
Availability Over 168 countries Over 100 countries

Intuitively, Apple Music seems to offer a higher price plan than YouTube Music. However, Apple Music gives you a better listening experience and it works best on Apple devices. You can choose the right one based on your needs. Next, we will show you different ways to transfer tracks from YouTube Music to Apple Music.

Things You Need to Know About YouTube Music:
Many people wonder how to add songs from YouTube Music to Apple Music. Due to copyrights, users can’t transfer YouTube songs to Apple Music or other music platforms. We all know that all songs from YouTube are streaming content, not real songs. Although the YouTube Music allows its Premium subscribers download songs offline, they can’t take the downloaded songs out from YouTube Music app. To transfer YouTube Music to Apple Music, you need to download YouTube Music to your local drive. Why not utilize a third-party YouTube Music Converter tool?

Part 2. Best Method to Add YouTube Music Songs to Apple Music👍👍👍

If you are looking for a perfect solution, you need this well-designed 4kFinder YouTube Music Converter. This software is capable of download all music contents from YouTube Music at the fastest speed. You can save all the YouTube Music songs to MP3 or other common formats locally in a few simple steps, like M4A, WAV, AAC, AIFF, FLAC. It will output music with original audio quality and all ID3 tags. Besides, this software is built-in music web player and music player, which means that you will get a great user experience in the conversion process. In this way, you can get YouTube Music forever without subscription, play YouTube Music on any devices without limits, like smartphone, tablet, MP3 player, PSP, Xbox, smart TV, wearable, etc,.

Features of 4kFinder YouTube Music Converter

  • Download all music contents from YouTube Music
  • Save all the YouTube Music songs to common formats
  • Output music with original audio quality and all ID3 tags
  • Built-in music web player and music player
  • Get YouTube Music forever without subscription
  • Play YouTube Music on any devices without limits
  • Download YouTube Music with fastest speed
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How to Download Songs from YouTube Music

Step 1. Run 4kFinder and Log in YouTube Account
First of all, download, install and run 4kFinder YouTube Music Converter on the computer. Log in your YouTube account in its built-in YouTube Music web player, you don’t need to install YouTube Music app.

open youtube music to mp3 converter

Step 2. Change Output Settings
Click the “Setting” button in the upper right corner to change the output format for downloaded YouTube Music. M4A is the default option, other options are available, like MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV, AIFF. Apple Music app supports MP3, M4A, AAC and WAV audio format. In normal, tap “MP3” option, since it is most widely used audio format. If you need, you can also change output folder, output quality, output file name and more in this step.

change output setting

Step 3. Add YouTube Music
In the music web player, you can browse, search or play any song/album/playlist . Click the playlist/album, then click the red icon to load items in it.

add youtube music

When you click a playlist/album, all songs in it will be selected by default. In the tickbox you can cull some items you don’t need.

Step 4. Download YouTube Music
When all 3 steps are done above, click “Convert” button to begin downloading YouTube Music contents to computer with super fast speed.

download YouTube Music to MP3

Step 5. Check YouTube Music
Once the music download finishes, click the blue folder icon to get and check the output YouTube Music songs with lossless audio quality and ID3 tags kept.

output youtube music mp3 files

Now you have got YouTube Music forever for free, you can access YouTube Music even after subscription expires, even play YouTube Music on any devices at anytime, anywhere.

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Part 3. Download YouTube Music Videos to MP3 for Apple Music

“Can you add youtube video’s audio to your apple music?” – from Reddit

4kFinder Video Downloader is an excellent YouTube Music Downloader and YouTube Video Downloader for Mac & PC. It is capable of downloading music videos, albums, playlist, channels, videos, movies and any content from YouTube without YouTube Premium subscription. With it, you can easily download YouTube music videos and playlist in MP3 320kbps high quality. Apart from this, it also supports to download videos and songs from YouTube, Vevo, Dailymotion, SoundCloud, Vimeo, Facebook and more than 1000 popular video sharing websites. By using this great tool, you can easily move all of your favorite songs, albums and playlists from YouTube to Apple Music or iTunes, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Play Music, Deezer, TIDAL and any other music platforms.

Features of 4kFinder Video Downloader:

  • Download music and videos from YouTube and 1000+ sites.
  • Download music videos, playlist, channels, etc. from YouTube.
  • Download YouTube music videos to MP3 in 330kbps bitrate.
  • Download YouTube HD 1080P/4K/8K videos to MP4 format.
  • Extract MP3 audios from YouTube videos without quality loss.
  • Batch download & multi-task downloading; up to 6X faster speed.
  • Import YouTube songs to any other music platform with ease.
  • Enjoy YouTube videos and music on any media player and device.

Steps to Download YouTube Music Video to MP3 with 4kFinder

With 4kFinder you can easily add songs and playlist from YouTube to Apple Music. You can download all your favourite songs and playlists from YouTube to Apple Music. Before starting, please click the “Download” button to install it to your Mac or Windows PC.

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Step 1. Launch 4kFinder & Copy YouTube Music Video URL
First, launch 4kFinder Video Downloader. Go to YouTube on the browser, and login to your account. Search the YouTube music videos you want to download, and copy the URL.

Copy YouTube Video Link

Tips: Transfer playlists from YouTube to Apple Music, please copy the playlist link.

Step 2. Paste YouTube Music Video URL to 4kFinder
Now turn back to 4kFinder program, paste the music video URL to the search bar, and click “Analyze” to get the music video source.

paste video link

Step 3. Choose MP3 320kbps Format for YouTube Music
Next, it will pop up a small window, here you can choose MP3 format and 320kbps bitrate for YouTube music. It’s worth to mention that this program supports multi-task downloading, you can choose several formats as once.

select mp3 as output format

Step 4. Start Download MP3 Songs from YouTube
Finally, hit on “Download” button to download MP3 songs from YouTube music video without any sound quality loss. During the process, you can tap “Pause” or “Resume All” as needed.

Convert YouTube Video to MP3

Step 5. View Downloaded YouTube MP3 Songs
This program runs up to 6X faster speed, just wait a few seconds, than you will get high-quality YouTube songs. After the download is complete, please click “Finished” to find the well downloaded YouTube songs.

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Part 4. Add Downloaded YouTube Music Songs to Apple Music

Now you have saved all your favourite YouTube Music songs on the local drive, it’s time to import them to Apple Music. This part is quite easy.

Step 1. Launch iTunes app on your PC, or Music app on MacOS 10.15 Catalina. Then login into your Apple Music account.

Step 2. Click “File”, and choose “Add to Library” to import the downloaded YouTube MP3 songs from the folder.

add YouTube music to iTunes app

Great! Now you can enjoy your favourite YouTube songs in Apple Music/iTunes freely! By the way, you can also sync the songs to your iPhone, iPad, iPod Nano, iPod Shuffle, iPod Classic and iPod Touch via iTunes!

Extra Tips: How to Add Apple Music Songs to YouTube Music

To add Apple Music songs and playlist to YouTube Music, Spotify, Amazon Music and other music streaming services, you can use TunesBank Apple Music Converter to convert all your Apple Music tracks and playlist to MP3, M4A, AAC or FLAC format. In this way, you can enjoy your favourite Apple Music tracks via YouTube Music app!

Final Words

With both 4kFinder YouTube Music Converter and 4kFinder Video Downloader, you can easily and quickly download music videos, playlist, movies, clips and others from YouTube & YouTube Music to local drives. Better yet, it can help you keep your favourite YouTube music and videos forever, and add them to any music platform like Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer, etc., and any device like MP3 players, PSP, mobile phones, etc. for offline playback. Why not have a try?

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