Does Apple Music Work On Windows 10
Harold Yengo
Since the new Apple Music App on the Microsoft Windows Store launched, I installed it on my default C: drive on my Windows 10 PC, and when I logged in with my Apple ID nothing in the app would load, and it would not install any of my purchased music, not could I stream any of them. Searching for music would give results, though clicking on songs or albums would not load them.
I use a wired ethernet connection with download speeds that can stream on other services without issue. I've tried a WiFi connection and the issue persisted. I tried repairing the application and resetting it in Windows settings, nothing changed. I changed the drive that it would install to (my G: drive) and the issue remained. Restarting my PC while logged out or logged in had no effect. I also tried re-authorizing my PC as well as de-authorizing but this did not change anything.
I installed the same app on my Windows 10 laptop on the same Apple account and it loaded everything just fine, and music streamed with no issues. I'd like to have it installed on my main PC though since that's where I listen to most of my music.
I found a fix, for me at least. I sat on the phone with support for about an hour. We tried one final thing that ended with me figuring out the problem. They asked me to create a new user account and try there. It worked. That lead me to think about file pathing. In the past I had changed my default Music and Video file paths and that seemed to be the only difference between the new account and my main. Sure enough, I set the Music and Video file paths to default and this fixed the issue. It seems like the Apple apps want default library paths to setup their own libraries. If they are different it just does nothing.
I am also having this problem. Really frustrating. I was super excited that Apple FINALLY released Windows apps. I have mostly Apple products except for a Mac because I game. Deleted iTunes and picked up the Apple Music and AppleTV app... Neither work.
I'm a Mac/iPhone user when it comes to personal equipment, but have a work's laptop that runs Windows, which I've installed Apple Music on to. When I work from home on my work's Windows Laptop, I've found Apple Music is really hit and miss, with the same problem as you (i.e. no content loading).
What I've discovered is that if I use my work's laptop without a VPN to the office, because my profile is held on the company network and not my laptop, Apple Music simply doesn't work. If I close Apple Music and connect to the office VPN, then re-start Apple Music, the app then works as it can now see the data it needs.
As a software developer on the Microsoft platform, Apple should not use the default "Music" folder for storage, as they aren't actually storing playable media files (e.g. mp3, etc.) in the Music folder, they are storing configuration data for the app in the Music folder, which is not right. Configration data and cached DRM protected copies of music that are not playable in any music player should be stored in an App specific folder, i.e. %LOCALAPPDATA%\AppleMusic\...
I used to have Music in Windows set to D:\Music but then the drive was gone and the link was broken in Explorer. Fixing that link fixed Apple Music loading. For some reason if it can't understand the default Windows Music folder it can't do anything else.
I had this problem as well so what I did to fix it was delete all the music I had placed into the default windows music folder. So the "This PC/Music" had a bunch of albums in it from ages ago and for some reason the app couldn't install all the other required files in there but this was solved when I wiped the folder and restarted my computer it installed all the secondary files and it worked perfectly.
I'm seeing the same problem, as well as an issue where the phone orientation will occasionally cause only part of the widgit to be visible. Killing the app that was playing music (or video) has no impact on this.
Not only do i see this but when i connect my iPhone to my car via the USB it doesn't display all of the playlists i created and will not let me skip forward through the tracks using the car's controls.
Hard reset seems to be the only thing that works, but then it comes back. I am to the fu**ing boiling point now with this effing bug. Please Apple, fix it. I don't want to have to restart my GD phone 5 times a day because the music widget is on the lock screen.
Yes hard reset seems to be only fix, and that only works until the next time you open podcasts, Pandora, etc., anything that plays audio, then you are back to the same problem. I hope Apple sees this as the annoying bug that it is and not an unwanted "benefit" of the OS.
Having the same issue. It comes on when I turn off my car so I think it might be a bluetooth issue. I rebooted the phone, didn't play any media, and it still appeared on the lock screen. Hope Apple fixes this soon!
Update: I reset my phone and went to a meeting. When I came out, the music player was on my lock screen. No bluetooth, no media was played. It just appeared. My next step is to delete the music app and reinstall it. But I think I'll lose all my playlists. ?
If you subscribe to the Apple Music streaming music service, you probably usually listen on an Apple device such as a Mac, iPhone, or iPad. But you can also enjoy Apple Music on a Windows 10 or Windows 11 PC equally as well. Here's how.
The Apple Music app officially arrived on Windows 10 and Windows 11 in early 2024. You can install the Apple Music app from the Microsoft Store, though you'll also need to install Apple TV and Apple Devices to get everything working.
Apple has created a web-based music player with an interface similar to iTunes and the Music app that runs directly in your browser. To use it, simply open your favorite browser, then visit music.apple.com to get started.
As part of the login process, you might need to authenticate your login with a passcode on one of your Apple devices. Once you're signed in, you can search, browse, or play music just as you would in iTunes or the Apple Music app.
When you're done listening, bookmark the site and just close your browser. The next time you want to listen, click the bookmark and you'll be right back in where you left off. And don't forget---the web player works on Mac and Linux as well!
You can also access the Apple Music service from iTunes. While Apple has migrated to the Music app on its Mac platform, iTunes is still alive and well on Windows 10 and Windows 11. If you don't have iTunes already, you can download and install it from the Microsoft Store.
For example, if you click "Browse," you can pick any artist on the Apple Music service and listen to the music almost instantly because the music will stream to iTunes from the internet---no downloads required.
Big news for people who prefer iPhones but also prefer to use Windows PCs: Apple has quietly overhauled its entire suite of Windows apps, including non-beta versions of the Apple Music, Apple TV, and Devices apps that it began previewing for Windows 11 users over a year ago. Collectively, these apps replace most of the functionality from the iTunes for Windows app; iTunes for macOS was discontinued all the way back in 2019. Apple has also released a major iCloud for Windows update with an overhauled design.
All of the apps are currently available in the Microsoft Store. While the previews that Apple released last year required Windows 11 22H2 or newer, the final versions of all four new apps also work in Windows 10 for people who have chosen not to upgrade or whose PCs do not meet the system requirements.
The Apple Music and Apple TV apps both offer access to Apple's streaming music and video libraries for people with subscriptions, though both apps will also import and play your local music and video libraries from iTunes if you have them.
That said, these apps don't put the final nail in iTunes for Windows' coffin just yet; iTunes is still used to manage podcasts and audiobooks in Windows, as the app will inform you if you try to launch it after installing the Music or TV apps. If Apple eventually plans to launch Windows versions of the Podcasts or Books apps from macOS and iOS, the company hasn't done so yet.
The Apple Devices app is what you'll use if you want to back up an iPhone or iPad to your PC or perform system restores for iDevices in recovery mode. It can also be useful when trying to install updates on devices without enough free space to download and install updates themselves. This app doesn't exist in macOS, but it's broadly similar to a bunch of features that landed in the Finder when Apple initially discontinued iTunes for macOS back in 2019.
The biggest change in the new iCloud for Windows app is an overhauled design, and though some will lament the decreased information density, it actually does a surprisingly good job of looking like a native Windows 11 app. It supports Dark Mode in both Windows 10 and Windows 11, and in Windows 11 it even uses the "mica" background material that Settings and other Windows 11 apps use to pick up a color tint from your PC's underlying desktop wallpaper (Apple does something similar in macOS). The app also features a streamlined first-time setup process that asks you what you would like to sync and how.
But functionally, the app still does pretty much what it did before. The iCloud for Windows app will sync iCloud Drive files locally; offers password syncing via a Chrome/Edge browser extension; will bookmark syncing for Chrome, Edge, and Firefox; has mail, contact, and calendar syncing via the new Outlook for Windows app; and also provides iCloud Photos syncing, with the option to download either native HEIF images that modern iPhones capture by default, or more-compatible JPEG versions.
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