Apple Music Apple will not allow me to stream multiple streams of my own purchased music - seems like licensed theft.

[whitby]

All the music in my library is purchased. I will not allow Apple Music digitally licensed music into to my library and if one sneaks in I remove it.

Here is my issue: My wife wants to stream music from my library and I want to stream different music tracks from my library but Apple Music will not allow it demanding I must have a family subscription. I see no reason for this. I own the music and I should be able to stream any number of different streams from my purchase music library that I want, but it will not allow it.

I see this as stealing as Apple are doing nothing but provide a host to my purchased music. In the last instance my wife was trying to stream a CD I uploaded and I was trying to stream my favorites (all of which were purchased). Why would Apple Music demand a family subscription to do this? BTW all my music is downloaded to all devices, so all music is locally available. Now I am aware that the lossless versions are not actually available for purchase even if you purchase them (again something Apple does not explicitly make clear) and you need the compressed AAC versions on your local servers/computers.

Has anyone found this restriction? I am about to cancel my Apple Music subscription as this is blatant stealing of my purchased music. Oh and BTW I have iTunes Match as well as Apple Music.

 

[Basic75]

It sounds like you subscribed to services that do not do what you actually want. Why not put all the music on a NAS where you have full control and everybody in your family can have unrestricted access to stream and download everything?

 

[whitby]

It sounds like you subscribed to services that do not do what you actually want. Why not put all the music on a NAS where you have full control and everybody in your family can have unrestricted access to stream and download everything?

I think you are absolutely right. I have a NAS with all my music and I can use it to stream to my devices. I sometime use Apple Music to find new music, but when I do, I buy it which is why I do not use Spotify. But I did want to stream from my library when I am not at home and have used iTunes in the past to do just that. However I can make my NAS accessible from the Internet, just a little wary of the security issues.

 

[Juicy Box]

I have an iTunes Match subscription, and I am able to stream the same purchased music on multiple devices at the same time.

 

[whitby]

I have an iTunes Match subscription, and I am able to stream the same purchased music on multiple devices at the same time.

The message is from Apple Music, so I am thinking it is an Apple Music issue. Prior to Apple Music, and I only had ITunes Match, it appeared to allow me to stream different selections or playlists to different devices simultaneously whatever I wanted from my library. That no longer works.