Icloud Music Library Mac 10.13.4
Sibyl Piccuillo
Yup, both the Apple Music subscription service and the stand-alone iTunes Match option. iCloud Music Library lets you upload or \"match\" your personal music library with the DRM-free iTunes Store catalog.
Yes. Yes, yes, yes. iCloud Music Library may give you copies of your songs in the cloud, but it is in no way a backup service. So please, heed our warning: Make sure you have a complete, local copy of all of your music on your primary computer (or external hard drive) before turning on iCloud Music Library.
If you don't have a backup of your Mac's library, have lots of tracks with crazy metadata that you're worried iCloud will mess up or don't want to save songs offline from Apple Music, you probably should leave iCloud Music Library turned off.
If you subscribe to Apple Music, you'll get iCloud Music Library included as part of your $9.99 monthly subscription; otherwise, you can subscribe to Apple's iTunes Match service and pay $24.99 a year to store your iTunes library (up to 100,000 songs) in iCloud.
Yup, both the Apple Music subscription service and the stand-alone iTunes Match option. iCloud Music Library lets you upload or "match" your personal music library with the DRM-free iTunes Store catalog.
Note: Currently, you'll need an iTunes library with 100,000 songs or less in it for iCloud Music Library to work correctly; if you have too many songs, here's how to create a secondary iTunes library.
If you've already enabled it and you don't have all your music locally on one computer, don't panic: Make sure your music shows up as Matched or Uploaded and not Apple Music, then download all the tracks you're missing to your main Mac.
Note: If you're only using the $24.99/year standalone iTunes Match service, iCloud Music Library won't give you access to music from the Apple Music catalog: You need an Apple Music subscription for that.
Use Sync Library to stream your music library on any device that's signed in to the Apple Music app with the Apple ID that you use with your Apple Music subscription. Learn what you need to use Sync Library and how to turn it on.
After you turn on Sync Library on your Mac, PC, iPhone, or iPad, you can stream your music library on any device that has the Apple Music app. Just make sure that your device is signed in with the same Apple ID that you use with your Apple Music subscription. You can also stream your music library on music.apple.com.
My second solution was to create a non-smart playlist and manually update that one with any new music the smart playlist catches. (Let's call that Playlist 2.) That works (I can set this manual playlist to be kept accessible offline on my phone), but it's cumbersome to manually copy-paste songs every time I heart new tracks.
My third solution was to create another smart playlist especially made to mirror the first. (Let's call this Playlist 3.) The first playlist is set to auto-add any hearted tracks, but since this parameter doesn't carry to mobile, I made this second smart playlist that simply adds whatever music is added to the first. Essentially a mirror playlist, but with a different parameter.
What about a ratings playlist? I've done this for years with my iTunes library and it's just a matter of creating a smart playlist for all songs rated five stars. You could import the Spotify list, select all, rate them five stars, and then they would automatically be added to the list.
Now we have switched to Family Sharing, an Apple Music family plan, and iCloud Music Library (since our collection(s) are far larger than could fit on our phones). She signs into Apple Music with her Apple ID, I sign in with mine, and everything is great. Our customizations in Apple Music don't affect one another. We still use the shared iTunes account on our Apple TV for kind of joint music access.
Apple's Family Sharing is limited to iTunes purchases (music, movies, TV, books). What it does not provide is access to the main account's full iCloud Music Library. While the main account can add, access, and delete non-iTunes media to the iCloud Music Library, it cannot share that content, even with those in Family Sharing. I think it stinks and cripples the value this service.
If your wife goes to the purchased section on iTunes on her computer and looks under family member (your) purchases, does she see the music you added? Then she would tap on it to download onto her computer/device.
Yes and when I shutdown followed by a startup, the session expired message returned. I think that the problem is that I listen to music during every computer session and shut down the computer after each session with the option that every open window at shutdown is reopened at startup. iTunes is one such window; thus, the session is declared expired with each shut down. Since iTunes automatically reopens at start up and I am still in logged in, iTunes tells me that the session has expired since iTunes did not log me out at shutdown and automatically log me back in at startup. The same thing does not occur if iTunes is closed and reopened while logged in without a shutdown, so it has something to do with the shutdown and startup. I have not tried closing iTunes, shutting down, starting up, and reopen iTunes while logged in to see if something is saved at manual closing before the shutdown that is not saved in the automatic closing, then opening during shutdown.
I think my problem stems from when Apple changed from non-email id's to email id's and the music purchased under the old id did not get updated properly before Apple deleted the old id and password leaving me with no way to confirm the purchase. I have had problems related to that music for a while now that has manifested in many different ways. This may just be another manifestation of that problem.
I've searched the Apple Community for the same problem that I'm having with not using iCloud Music Library which transfers my entire Music Library to my iPhone. I'd like to add and remove music from my iPhone the previous way where I can check artists, albums, genres, or manually add and remove music my dragging and dropping. I went to iTunes > Preferences and unchecked iCloud Music Library, and restarted iTunes, but when I go to Music under my iPhone, it still says that iCloud Music Library is ON, even when I go back to Preferences and still see that it is unchecked.
I hope that was clear, please help! I LOVE apple music but this is such an annoying burden on me. I would definitely like iCloud Music Library because I have my whole collection on my iPhone, but it seems like they're streaming and take a long time to load.
I had this problem as well. In addition to turning it off on my computer, I went to settings>music on my iphone and then turned off iCloud Music Library there too. After that I was able to sync normally.
After two days of just about pulling out my hair with this stupid Apple music i final found logging out of Apple music on both laptop AND the app on my iPhone was not longer stuck in loop of iCloud turning itself on all the time. I can add my own music.
I finally found the answer. In the Music app, click the down arrow on Songs. Slide the toggle for Music Available Offline: Only show music stored on this iPhone. It finally removed all the songs. I haven't seen this anywhere so maybe it will save someone else some craziness.
I have turned off Show Apple Music on both my iPhone 5s and itunes 12.2. I have also turned off iCloud Music Library. I have deleted all music that I have synced to my iPhone. When I open up the Music app, I still show every song I own under there. I only want to see the songs that I sync from iTunes to my iPhone. Is that possible? Have I missed a setting? My iOS is 8.4.1. Thank you for any help you can offer.
Also, I have duplicate playlists and playlist folders after updating iCloud music library on my iPhone. Some of the folders are empty. Some contain the playlists with the actual songs. Any ideas on how to fix either problem.
I got a free trial of Apple Music with my AirPods. The iCloud library sounds appealing, but I keep reading about how peoples' carefully organized libraries got hosed by it, so I haven't enabled it yet. Is that (still) an issue these days, what could happen, and how can I prevent problems?
I have a 100 GB library of non-DRM music on my Mac, with a good number of obscure tracks that Apple doesn't have. It would be good to access it on my iPhone. I understand that the "matched" tracks on the phone might not be exact, but my concern is somehow having my original library and metadata get screwed up. Of course I'll make a backup first, but if there's really a danger of that, I won't bother with it.
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