Apple Music is now one of the largest and most popular music streaming providers. It is also the competitor of Spotify and Amazon Music in the marketplace. Music streaming services like Apple Music make it easy to access millions of music songs whenever and wherever you want. While you may encounter a situation like this: You’re likely to make the music slower or faster, and when you’re searching for the setting to achieve that, but only find no option in the Music app. So, can we change playback speed on Apple Music? If the answer is yes, how to make it happen? Here in this post, you’ll find what you want.
Part 1. Can You Change Playback Speed on Apple Music?
The truth is that you cannot change the playback speed of Apple Music songs. You may have a lot of reasons to change the playing speed on Apple Music. However, Apple’s Music app only allows us to control the basic function, such as play/pause, forward, and reverse. Actually, Apple Music has a long history of audio. Since the beginning of the music and media streaming services, Apple has always committed to a principle, that is to ensure the audio quality of its product. Therefore, the app is designed to keep a standard audio streaming quality and the playback speed is 1× as the default. To keep its music and audio player more simple, clear, and easy to use, the playback speed is not the must need for its app.
Changing the playback speed of Apple Music songs is not allowed, but you can customize the playback speed of audiobooks and podcasts on the Apple Music app. In the following parts, I’ll show you how to change the playing speed of audiobooks on Apple Music. And I’m going to introduce an alternative way to change Apple Music songs’ playback speed. Now read them as soon as possible.
Part 2. How to Change Speed on Apple Music for Audiobooks
To change the playback speed of your audiobooks on Apple Music, please follow the steps below. And please note that the instructions below only apply to iOS version 8.3 and older.
1. Navigate to Audiobooks on the Apple Music app.
2. Select an audiobook and tap it to start playing.
3. Under the Now Playing page, locate “1× Speed” in the bottom right corner.
4. You can change the playback speed to 2×, 0.5×, and 1× by tapping the icon once, twice, and three times.
After setting, your audiobooks will play at the speed you set. Just follow the above steps to change the playback speed of audiobooks on Apple Music. But can Apple Music change playback speed for songs? Yes! You’ll need a third-party tool to help. Read the next part to find the answer.
Part 3. How to Change Playback Speed on Apple Music for Songs
As I’ve mentioned above, Apple Music doesn’t have the feature for us to adjust the playback speed of music songs. Therefore, if you want to slow down or speed up your music audio files, you need to purchase and download Apple Music songs first. Then you can just transfer them to other players to change the playback speed for listening. However, as we all know, Apple Music songs will not save in your local folder, they’re just caches stored within Apple Music. You cannot get the physical music tracks on your device even if you’ve downloaded them.
In this case, you’re supposed to download Apple Music with third-party software to help you change playback speed on Apple Music. Tunelf Audio Converter is professional software that you can’t miss. Tunelf Audio Converter is a professional music converter. It can deal with 3 kinds of audio files, including Apple Music, iTunes music, and Audible audiobooks. With this one-click solution, you can convert Apple Music to other popular audio formats without any problem.
Tunelf Audio Converter is designed to remove those special encryption codes and keep these converted music tracks as local files. Therefore, you can listen to the Apple Music playlist on multiple devices after conversion. Then it’s easy to change playback speed on Apple Music.
Key Features of Tunelf Audio Converter
- Convert Apple Music to MP3, WAV, FLAC, AAC, and other audio formats
- Remove DRM from Apple Music, iTunes audios, and Audible audiobooks
- Preserve the converted audio with lossless audio quality and ID3 tags
- Support the conversion of audio format at a 30× faster speed in batch
Step 1 Import Apple Music to Tunelf software
To begin with, please sign up and get registered for Tunelf Audio Converter. When you launch Tunelf, the iTunes app will work at once. So, you need to download and install the iTunes app if you haven’t. After entering the interface, you can see the Add Files icon on the main screen. Click it and choose a song you want, then it will load into the program automatically.
Step 2 Adjust the output format
Here you can set the output audio format. We suggest you choose MP3 and we have set it as default. The format setting is at the left bottom, just click Format to adjust audio parameters. In the process of conversion, the ID3 tags will be retained and the audio quality too.
Step 3 Convert Apple Music to DRM-free audio files
Once set up the output audio parameters, click the Convert button to start the conversion. The conversion speed is 30x fast. You don’t need to wait for too long. When the conversion completes, you can get the Apple Music on your local drive. The converted files are DRM-free, so you can play them on multiple devices if you want.
Step 4 Change Apple Music playback speed on Spotify
Here comes the part you’re interested to know, how to change the playing speed of Apple Music songs? After conversion, you’ll locate the Apple Music MP3 files on your computer. Then you can transfer the converted Apple Music to your phone via a USB cable. And you can upload them to the Spotify app. When you play a song on Spotify, go to the Now Playing page, you can see a speed changer here. Now you can change the playback speed according to your demands.
Conclusion
To change playback speed on Apple Music, you need to download them as local files first as Apple Music doesn’t have the feature. And you can’t download them locally unless with Tunelf Audio Converter. Tunelf makes it possible to save Apple Music in our local folders and keep them playable on multiple devices. After conversion, You can set the playback speed you want within the Spotify app.
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