No. location = icloud would just be tracks in your library that fall under an iCloud Status (Purchased, Uploaded, Matched, Apple Music)
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No. location = icloud would just be tracks in your library that fall under an iCloud Status (Purchased, Uploaded, Matched, Apple Music)
Yeah, it was stuff I listened to via a playlist, but I added that playlist to my playlists first. Looking at My Music, that didn't add those songs individually. Shame since I added those hearts while I was driving and couldn't add to My Music at the time...
Zeyphersan
Banned
Check preferences and make sure Apple Music is turned on
SmackCrackleNPop
Member
iPod Classic? Can't do that.
iPod Touch/iOS devices, you don't necessarily have to do them individually by songs. You can go to My Music, set to artist, then at the top you should see the three ellipses and select 'make available offline' and it would download all the songs for that artist.
If you have the type of library that has just a song here and there by artists, then I don't know if you can make all songs available offline in a quick way
You can always save all of your songs into a playlist and make the entire playlist available offline on your iOS device.
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
Tried it out on a friends phone. The way the UI is set up feels bloated as shit with a ton of garbage I don't care about. Examples being new music advertisements, streaming menus etc. being upfront while the stuff I care about is hidden in other menus. Miss the simplified menu options for artists, songs, playlists and albums. Still haven't figured out how to just browse those normally. I'll stick with my current version until I'm forced to upgrade.
SmackCrackleNPop
Member
wow, never thought of that. I need to be more clever with playlists.
jts
...hate me...
Well, then it's not worth much I guess.
I do hope Apple adds some one touch method of adding songs to My Music down the line.
Hm, how can I see what tracks are in my iCloud library then? I thought making a Smart Playlist was the way.
My Music is your iCloud Library.
so wait... you added an Apple Music playlist to your playlists, but it didn't add the songs to your My Music? That doesn't sound right. Do you have the "Show Songs Available Offline" turned on?
Mammoth Jones
Member
Ugh, this is confusing
Zeyphersan
Banned
Things can't be saved to a playlist, or as a playlist, without also existing in My Music. That's where it's pulling the data from
Apple Music playlists are curated. That playlist would literally change multiple times a day. I DO understand what you're asking for, but I don't think that playlists would be the right way to handle that.
edit - yeah, I looked all through the charts. Does NOT seem to be an easy way to do it.. Still, I think it is in OUR best interest to leave Apple Music playlists as curated, as that's a major feature of the service. the minute we start being ok with them be algorithms, at that point we have no way of knowing if a specific list was actually thoughtfully put together by someone, or just thrown together because they are all Hot Pop tracks.
but yeah, would be nice if at the top of a list of songs or something, anywhere in Music, there'd be a "..." that would be like "add all songs to music"
But I have iCloud Music Library turned off on all my devices. What's strange is when I updated iTunes on my Mac, I chose Do not Use iCloud Music Library, but it started downloading tracks from my desktop anyway. Which is strange because I specifically did not turn it on on my desktop.
That's why I'm wondering if I have albums in iCloud and how to see them..
got it.
well I'd say just turn on iCloud Music Library and look. You can always turn it off (it absolutely should NOT mess with your content on disk). otherwise... umm... you could try what you are saying... Not sure that it will work, but might as well try it.
Two things. When it goes away, immediately go to Settings and look to see if iCloud Music Library gets turned off. Second, when I was having issues with iCL being turned off yesterday, I was having SERIOUS connectivity issues with Apple Music on AT&T LTE. Once I was on wifi (aka a stable connection), all of those issues (greyed songs and iCL turning off) went away.
So yeah, check if iCL is turned off... and also check to see what kind of connectivity you currently have.
Zeyphersan
Banned
So like... what IS iCloud Music Library? If I keep Apple Music on but turn that option off, what happens?
That's what I was worried about. When my Mac was being updated with Desktop tracks (before I cancelled it), the album art on some albums were definitely wrong.
Oh well. Making a smart playlist with location = iCloud gives me everything I've bought from iTunes (not much), which makes sense that it's in iCloud.
HUELEN10
Member
You won't see matched uploads that are no longer on your local library that aren't on the Apple MUSIC catalog, that is what happens.
Zeyphersan
Banned
So it's basically just a rebranded iTunes Match
So it's because I have ICL turned off? I did that manually because it was duplicating all the songs in my Library. I realize it's not actually stored locally, but I shuffle my Library a lot and having duplicates of all 6000+ songs is a problem.
HUELEN10
Member
Kinda, but not really. This is a service to pull your library wherever you go, Match is a dedicated DRM-free music locker and encoder.
yes, iCL has to be on to add stuff to My Music (which is required to then make available offline)
unfortunate about your duplicates. It seems those of us coming from Match (and already suffered through the potentially god awful setup of that service) were able to migrate into Music flawlessly. But yeah, thinking back to Match 2-3 years ago... IIRC it took me DAYS to get that squared away. IMHO it was worth it... once you get it perfect, the service (including Music) is so friggin good. but yeah, I spent hours fixing that cluster f*** setup. Hundreds of songs ineligible, but then magically matched or uploaded after 1 to 5 times of removing them and adding them back. Duplicates showing up that I never knew about because iTunes automatically hid them. Albums where like 11 of the tracks are matched but like 3 tracks are uploaded (usually gap/gapless inconsistencies). etc. So to me, it's worth going through the growing pain.. because once it's set, it is so so so good.
Then Spotify is the clear winner. I love subbing to the top hits and having it constantly update.
umm.. I wasn't disagreeing with what you want. I understand the desire for it. I was simply saying I disagreed that playlists are the way to do that. Leave playlists curated so all users KNOW playlists are curated, but then put a feature in to follow top genre charts and stuff. Doing it with a playlist ruins the consistency of their entire intent.
So the radio station Beats 1 is always going to be free I take it?
https://www.apple.com/se/music/membership/
My phone is not on IOS8 (iphone 4), but I kinda like that radio station.
Ill probably keep using Spotify though, just because of the IOS restriciton.
https://www.apple.com/se/music/membership/
My phone is not on IOS8 (iphone 4), but I kinda like that radio station.
Ill probably keep using Spotify though, just because of the IOS restriciton.
Ape Gone Insane
Member
Hated it at first but I've come around to it. Cancelled Google, keeping Spotify and this. I think I'll use Spotify for music discovery and this as my main music service.
IMHO, iTunes Match is still a no brainer for $2/month effectively. Here's why I've decided to keep both:
Apple Music for Music I don't own (no duh)
iTunes Match for:
DRM-free cloud backup of all of my owned music (~9000 tracks)
DRM-free integration with Apple Music (anything that is matched or purchased in iTunes or the Music app is done so through Match, not Music. so downloads and stuff are DRM-free)
(currently) access through Apple TV (eventually Music will come)
The first two alone IMHO justify the $2/month extra. Basically I think of it as a $2/month premium on top of Apple Music for those extra features.
edit - lol... just got a Welcome email from Apple Music... yeah... yuo guys REALLY should have put something like this in the app at launch.. instead of an email 3 days later.. Much better explanation of what the tabs are
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
Guys.
GUYS!
GUYS!!
Trent Reznor released "The Fragile" instrumental on Apple Music.
I'm listening to it right now.
HOLY SHIT, IT'S AMAZING! SO AMAZING! NO ONE PAGED ME!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/post/idsa.570ec4a4-1ef3-11e5-8657-4ada505cd8d6
GUYS!
GUYS!!
Trent Reznor released "The Fragile" instrumental on Apple Music.
I'm listening to it right now.
HOLY SHIT, IT'S AMAZING! SO AMAZING! NO ONE PAGED ME!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/post/idsa.570ec4a4-1ef3-11e5-8657-4ada505cd8d6
I haven't seen this answered anywhere but do non-mainstream songs in my iTunes library still get uploaded to the cloud? Or just the songs/albums that can be found on iTunes? Pretty much my whole music collection is mixtapes/unreleased music and I use Beats/Spotify for mainstream albums that I can stream without taking up space.
Backfoggen
Banned
Where the hell is my deluxe edition
JoeyJungle
Banned
In theory, if it's not on Apple Music, it gets uploaded for the cloud for you to stream. I think the song might need to be under a certain length though, I've got some podcasts/audiobooks that were mislabeled as music after various hard drive moves, and a bunch of them were marked as ineligible for cloud upload. I don't think I've had any problems with actual songs, though. It takes fucking forever (because my upload speeds are slow, not Apple's fault), I've got ~17,000 and like a 5 megabit upload speed, I've been uploading on and off since iTunes 12.2 came out and I'm still in the E section of my library.
Got the Shakes
Member
There used to be in iTunes Radio. They had things like "iTunes Pop Top 50" and "iTunes Rock Top 50". Basically one for each genre, haven't looked to see if they are still available there though.
No reason to be so snarky.
It's just weird Spotify can figure it out but apple can't.
Apple needs to find a way to match this. Most people I know with Spotify depend on features like that to play current music at parties/gatherings.
Exactly. I don't have "Available Offline" turned on, but I also didn't download the playlists; I only added/plussed them.
I guess I understand being able to follow a playlist, but not adding the tracks and not storing that Loved data is balls. If it did, Loved would be my #1 used feature.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
This is as deluxe as it gets! Unreleased arrangements, and unreleased tracks!
Somewhat Damaged is such an amazing track in its new form! :O
https://youtu.be/GtXCyFyx9XM
(Fuck Interscope Records).
hyp
Member
I agree. this is the only "feature" I miss from spotify. adding songs to a playlist without them being added to "My Music."
Right at the bottom of the 'New' tab are A-List playlists in different genres. The blurb says they get updated with new songs each week. Is that not similar to what you're looking for? Seems basically like a top 30 list of each genre to me, give or take.
And, not to sound flippant, but couldn't you just put the top chart on shuffle at a party if you wanted?
My Music app has reverted all of my purchased songs back to their original artist. Now I've got a whole bunch of "X feat. Y" instead of my well organized system. Disabled Apple Music, Genius & iCloud Library and resynced but they're still staying that way. Good job Apple...
e: lost most of my artist artwork too and the app is constantly crashing.
e: lost most of my artist artwork too and the app is constantly crashing.
This is annoying:
- Add a single song from an album to your library. Can be purchased or just from Apple Music
- Go to library
- Open song and try to add the rest of the album in one go
You can't. You either have to remove that one song first and then add the whole album or you have to add the whole album as offline. Or add each song one by one. Silly. I just now had to actively remove a downloaded purchased track from my library to avoid having to add the other 39 tracks to my library individually.
- Add a single song from an album to your library. Can be purchased or just from Apple Music
- Go to library
- Open song and try to add the rest of the album in one go
You can't. You either have to remove that one song first and then add the whole album or you have to add the whole album as offline. Or add each song one by one. Silly. I just now had to actively remove a downloaded purchased track from my library to avoid having to add the other 39 tracks to my library individually.