Getting Apple music working on a Windows 11 PC from India — Oct 2022
Windows subsystem for Android, and Amazon app store wont work from India region as of Oct 2022
Yea, to mitigate this problem there are guides widely available on the internet from reliable sources. I used a combination of these guides. So here is what was done.
Assuming Windows 11 is up and running,
- Enable Virtual Machine Platform and Windows HypervisorPlatform
First, you need to enable two features in Windows 11 — Virtual Machine Platform and Windows HypervisorPlatform. To enable them, Click on Start and type ‘Turn Windows features on or off and press enter. Look for and check both the options to enable them. Restart your computer. - Download and install Windows Subsystem for Android
1. Head to store.rg-adguard.net.
2. Copy the following link and paste it into the URL box: www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/windows-subsystem-for-android/9p3395vx91nr
3. Click the drop-down arrow to the right and select Slow.
4. Click the check mark to search for files.
5. Scroll down and click the largest MSIX bundle to start the download. 6. The latest version, as of writing this (2208.40000.5.0), is 1.34 GB.
7. Double-click on the file and click the Install button
8. Once finished installing, the Windows Subsystem for Android
launches, restart if required. - Install the Android Debugging Bridge (ADB)
Follow these steps to manually install ADB on Windows. Its a whole thing — download files, setup drivers for your device, run cmd from install location. PS: Xiaomi has a java GUI for ADB and Fastboot.
I had these already setup. - Download Apple Music APK from APK Mirror
Or any other source. APK Mirror is safe. - Use ADB to install Apple Music
Install Apple music directly by sideloading it to WSA, follow this guide. Basically:
1. Open WSA, enable developer mode. The IP address mentioned in the guide did not appear for me in the ‘System’ tab, but “ADB can be connected on 127.0.0.1:58526” was mentioned in the ‘Developer’ tab as a description under ‘Developer mode’.
2. Open a Powershell window from the folder where ADB was installed, then run the commands mentioned in the guide to install Apple music. I had to add a .\ before adb as only using ‘adb’ returned an error (eg: .\adb connect 127.0.0.1:58526).
That should do it. If something goes wrong, read the guides to understand what they do, and come up with your own solutions. Or Google.
Pasting references here:
- How it work normally for US users
- High level Guide, this is the steps I followed for WSA.
- Installing the Windows Subsystem for Android using store.rg-adguard.net
- Bypass Amazon store’s region lock (I dint do this, sideloaded apple music itself instead)
- Sideload Android apps on windows
- Manually install ADB on Windows
