How to Download Music to a USB for Backup and Convenient Playback

The whole process of downloading music to USB usually involves two parts. First, you need to find a good place to download music or proper music downloader that will help you download favorite music online, and then transfer the downloaded music to your USB drive. Saving music from a website that offers download option is quite easy. You only need to click the corresponding download button. But in more scenarios, people want to download new or high quality songs from the likes of YouTube that has a massive music collection yet doesn’t go with a download feature to USB. So the question arises, how to download music to flash drive for free in such cases? We will walk you through the procedure on how to download music to a USB with a detailed explanation and pictures in the following part.

Part 1: The Useful Music Downloader for Saving Your Favorite Songs

Part 2: How to Download Music on Computer?

Part 3: How to Put Music on a USB Flash Drive?

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Part 1: The Useful Music Downloader for Saving Your Favorite Songs

A good music downloader is a must-have to save music online. Here comes the simple yet powerful tool – WonderFox Free HD Video Converter Factory. It’s designed for people who want to save movies, music, and video clips from YouTube, Facebook, Dailymotion, Bandcamp, SoundCloud, and other 500+ websites. It’s no exaggeration to say that Free HD Video Converter Factory can handle almost all videos and music you run into on the web. Meanwhile, it functions as a video converter that can convert online and local music to common formats that compatible with all modern devices. Zero quality damage and easy operation are other outstanding features that make it be the top spot in the market. Let’s see how the software works to help you download music to USB for free.

Please note that it’s not legal to download any copyrighted content without permission. WonderFox doesn’t advocate any illegal download action. This tutorial is for personal fair use only.

Part 2: How to Download Music to a USB on Computer?

Before start, please free download free download the software on your PC.

Step 1. Open the Music Downloader

Launch WonderFox Free HD Video Converter Factory, select “Downloader” on the home screen, and a Video Downloader window appears. Hit “+ New Download”.

Step 2. Copy the URL of the Target Music

Open the web page you want to download music from. Here we show you how to download music from YouTube. By the way, you can make use of YouTube search filters to find out kinds of songs. After opening the target song on a page, copy its URL, namely web address.

Step 3. Paste and Analyze the URL

Then go back to the music downloader, click “Paste and Analyze”. Soon, it will display all formats for the music that you can download. Head to “Download Audio” and select a download option. Click “OK.”

Step 4. Download the Music

By repeating the steps above, you can add multiple download tasks. After you have finished analyzing all songs and added the corresponding download tasks, click the “Download All” button.

Step 5. Optionally, Convert Music to More Formats

If there is no desired audio format, when the download process is complete, you can convert the music to MP3, WAV, WMA, FLAC, M4A and other formats, as follows:
Click “Converter” on the startup window, hit “Add Files” and import the downloaded music, click the output format icon on the right side, choose the desired audio format under the Audio tab. If you have inserted your USB device into the computer, you can set it as the target output path to download music to USB by clicking the inverted triangle button, or choose any folder you can easily find on your computer as the output destination. Finally, hit “Run” to start the conversion.

Part 3: How to Put Music to a USB Flash Drive?

Since you have downloaded songs on your computer, it’s time to transfer them to your USB drive.

On Windows:

Step 1. Insert the USB drive into one of the USB ports on your computer.

Step 2. If you have connected the USB drive with your computer properly, it will prompt that a USB drive is inserted and an auto-play dialog pops up. Select “Open folder to view files” and open the USB drive. Or you can click on “This PC” or “Computer” on your desktop, then all the drives connecting to your computer will be displayed. Click and open the USB drive folder.

Step 3. Head to the folder containing your downloaded music files. If you have used WonderFox Free HD Video Converter Factory to download online music and doesn’t change the output destination, the default path should be C:\Users\Documents\WonderFox Soft\HD Video Converter Factory\Download. Copy all the music files you want to put into the USB drive.

Step 4. Switch to the USB drive folder, right click, select Paste or press Ctrl+ V to transfer the files.

Step 5. It may take a while before the transfer process. When it ends, right click the USB icon on the System Tray and select Eject.

On Mac:

Similarly, you can put music on a USB drive as follows:

Step 1. Connect your USB drive with your Mac.

Step 2. Open Finder, click the USB drive’s name and the USB drive window will be opened.

Step 3. Open the folder saving music files, click and drag the files into the USB drive window.

Step 4. When the transfer is complete, click on the drive icon on the desktop and select “Eject”.

In Summary

It’s all about how to download music to a USB drive. We hope that this tutorial will help you easily enjoy music on the way and back up files. If you have any questions, please contact us anytime and we will get back to you in time.

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