new iPad won't download some Apple Music

[QCassidy352]

I just got a new iPad Air (2019) after 4+ years with my Air 2. Love it so far!

One pretty annoying issue though. I have Apple Music and a library of about 8,000 songs. The iPad readily downloaded most of those songs, but a sizable minority simply will not download. I click the download icon in the iPad's music app, and the little blue circle just spins endlessly. I had this same issue with the first iPad Air I just bought (and had to return for unrelated reasons).

Not that this should make a difference, but these are songs I owned as downloads before I ever got Apple Music but are now part of my Apple Music library.

It's not most of the music, but definitely enough to be an issue. This is a wifi iPad, and I'm not always on a network.

Any help much appreciated! Thank you!

 

[Shirasaki]

I have a feeling that those music are pulled from Apple Music. I could be wrong.
In the meantime, maybe try to play those songs from Apple Music and “make it available offline”?

 

[Matthew Essex]

I have the same issue on my iPhone XS Max.
I think it’s the music I loaded into iTunes Match that cause this issue.
What I have done to fix the issue is to delete the album from the phone and then add it to my library again, then they download as normal.

 

[QCassidy352]

I have a feeling that those music are pulled from Apple Music. I could be wrong.
In the meantime, maybe try to play those songs from Apple Music and “make it available offline”?

There’s a lot of songs, though. Too many to have all been pulled at once.

When I stream them from Apple Music, I’m not seeing an option for “make it available offline.” Can you tell me where that is? Thanks!

I have the same issue on my iPhone XS Max.
I think it’s the music I loaded into iTunes Match that cause this issue.
What I have done to fix the issue is to delete the album from the phone and then add it to my library again, then they download as normal.

Hmm, I tried that with one song, and it did work - thanks! But, it’s a lot of songs... that would take a while! I’m hoping there’s something else I can do.

Thanks for the help, all.

Edit: Had a thought - what if I turned off Apple Music, deleted all the music on the iPad, and then music over from my Mac? But then what would happen when I turned Apple Music back on for the iPad?