I really dont understand this whole iCloud Music Library thing

[dvir971]

Turns out you can't make (or use) public playlists (or any playlists whatsoever) on your Apple Music account without enabling that stupid iCloud Music Library feature.
I decided to turn it on, and at first I hated this thing where all your music from your computer appearson your iPad, even random songs you didn't even know you had in your computer and has "unknown artist" on them- but that I could stand. Worst case scenario I'll look up the songs that are actually stored on my device.
But now I see I cant sync musc from my computer at all, when I plug it to the computer and go to the music tab it tells me it's now connected to iCloud library and music can be added via Wi-Fi.

What do I do in this case? How do I move something from my computer to the iPad so it'll be available even when I don't have Wi-Fi around?

 

[Brookzy]

Apple really needs to explain better what iCloud Music Library is.

It's literally a single music library, that is stored in iCloud, and accessible from everywhere.

That's why there is no concept of "syncing" anymore - if it's in your iTunes library it's automatically on your iPhone, iPad, or whatever.

To make a song or album or playlist available offline, tap the cloud icon to download it.

 

[Tech198]

Maybe not syncing but that's only because Apple gives you the ability to have their music *and your own* music in one playlist...

What it should be:

- adding your own music..
- sync Apple music.

If there is no notion of 'syncing' anymore just because of this, then we would basically be able to rule out all the problems as to why music appears on one device, yet it's missing from others.

Apple needs to define a way why that is.. And being the way it is with "the cloud" in general *eg syncing drop box files etc," for instance, its probably the preferred

 

[dvir971]

Apple really needs to explain better what iCloud Music Library is.

It's literally a single music library, that is stored in iCloud, and accessible from everywhere.

That's why there is no concept of "syncing" anymore - if it's in your iTunes library it's automatically on your iPhone, iPad, or whatever.

To make a song or album or playlist available offline, tap the cloud icon to download it.

That is theoretically ideal when you think about it but I still think there should be an option to choose orderly from a list like we used to.. also wish I could ‘hide’ some of those albums that shouldn’t be there

 

[Farsider]

If I don’t have iTunes Match or an Apple Music subscription, can I use iCloud Music Library to store and stream all my ripped CDs by storing them on my 2TB iCloud Storage plan?

 

[Brookzy]

If I don’t have iTunes Match or an Apple Music subscription, can I use iCloud Music Library to store and stream all my ripped CDs by storing them on my 2TB iCloud Storage plan?

Nope.

 

[airbusking]

dvir971 I agree with you. I gave AM a try, not bad but not great. It was confusing to me how AM work with and/or iCloud Library. My experience w iCloud Library and AM was not user friendly. Would be nice if you could do what Farsider wanted to do.

So I am going to give Tidal a free 30 day try. If anyone has pro or con with Tidal, please let me know.

 

[webbuzz]

Is Apple Music still randomly replacing album artwork for owned music?

 

[Farsider]

Nope.

Damn. OK, here’s my final question.

I used to subscribe to iTunes Match where I uploaded my entire CD collection. Not much was matched and so most of it was uploaded. Then I subbed to Apple Music. When I heard the news that Apple Music didn’t DRM your uploaded tracks anymore I cancelled iTunes Match.

If I sub to iTunes Match now and then cancel my Apple Music sub, will all my uploaded music still remain in the Cloud in its non-DRM’d form?

 

[Brookzy]

Damn. OK, here’s my final question.

I used to subscribe to iTunes Match where I uploaded my entire CD collection. Not much was matched and so most of it was uploaded. Then I subbed to Apple Music. When I heard the news that Apple Music didn’t DRM your uploaded tracks anymore I cancelled iTunes Match.

If I sub to iTunes Match now and then cancel my Apple Music sub, will all my uploaded music still remain in the Cloud in its non-DRM’d form?

Good question. Before doing that I would ensure you have a full backup of your library.

I don’t think you can actually subscribe to iTunes Match while having an active Apple Music subscription (I could be wrong here - it used to be impossible but Apple might have changed this after realising that people with older models of Apple TV needed both or something...) so you might have to cancel Apple Music first, which could be an issue.

If you make a backup then worst case scenario is it has to re-upload.

 

[Jjayf]

Turns out you can't make (or use) public playlists (or any playlists whatsoever) on your Apple Music account without enabling that stupid iCloud Music Library feature.
I decided to turn it on, and at first I hated this thing where all your music from your computer appearson your iPad, even random songs you didn't even know you had in your computer and has "unknown artist" on them- but that I could stand. Worst case scenario I'll look up the songs that are actually stored on my device.
But now I see I cant sync musc from my computer at all, when I plug it to the computer and go to the music tab it tells me it's now connected to iCloud library and music can be added via Wi-Fi.

What do I do in this case? How do I move something from my computer to the iPad so it'll be available even when I don't have Wi-Fi around?

Turn off ICML sync, then turn it back on. iTunes will not sync with ICML enabled.