How to Upload Apple Music to Google Drive

By Annie Cale

Updated on: April 8, 2026

Category: Apple Music Tips

Google offers 15 GB of free cloud storage, making it easy to store and share files like photos, videos, documents, and music. Many users want to upload their favorite Apple Music songs to Google Drive for backup or flexible playback. However, due to Apple Music’s DRM restrictions, these songs can’t be uploaded directly.

So, is there a way to convert Apple Music tracks and upload them to Google Drive successfully? In this guide, you’ll find a simple and practical solution to make it work.

Google Drive, launched by Google on April 24, 2012, is a widely used file storage and synchronization service. It allows users to store files in the cloud, share content, and collaborate in real time on documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Today, Google Drive is part of Google Workspace, which has grown to over 3 billion users worldwide. With its seamless integration across Google services and continuous feature updates, Google Drive has become one of the most popular cloud storage platforms.

So why do people choose Google Drive to store their files? Here are five key reasons.

1 Support various kinds of documents:

Users can build, share, and view many types file, such as image files (.JPEG, .PNG, .GIF, .TIFF, .BMP, .WEBP), video files (WebM, .MPEG4, .3GPP, .MOV, .AVI, .MPEG, .MPEGPS, .WMV, .FLV, .OGG), Audio formats (.MP3, .M4A, .WAV, .ogg) and so on.

2 Support to access it from any location:

PCs, Mac computer, Android smartphones and tablets, iPhones, iPads and so on.

3 A powerful search function:

Google Drive not only supports the way of key word search, file type and format, but also uses Google Goggles and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology. Users can search for images by describing or naming what is in them. For example, a search for "mountain" returns all the photos of mountains as well as any text documents about mountains.

4 Sharing:

Users can share their files with anyone, and the owner may also set an access level for regulating permissions. The three access levels offered are "can edit", "can comment" and "can view". Users with editing access can invite others to edit.

5 App:

Different from others, Google released an API for Google Drive that enables third-party developers to build collaborative apps that support real-time editing, which means that users can upload their files by using each program with API of Google Drive, and do not need to install Google Drive APP.

Apple Music protects every track with DRM encryption — even songs you've downloaded for offline listening are locked in M4P, AAC, or ALAC format. That means you can't play them on a MP3 player, a car stereo, or burn them to a CD. And if you try to upload them directly to Google Drive? It simply won't work.

The good news: there's a straightforward fix. To successfully add Apple Music to Google Drive, you first need to convert your tracks into a standard audio format using a professional Apple Music converter. NoteBurner Apple Music Converter is built exactly for this — it lets you record and convert Apple Music songs and playlists, along with audiobooks and iTunes downloads, into formats like MP3, AAC, FLAC, AIFF, WAV, or ALAC that you actually own and can use freely.

Once converted, your music is saved as regular audio files on your computer — ready to upload to Google Drive for backup, access across devices, or sharing with others. Follow the step-by-step tutorial below to get started.