Talk to me about Apple Music...

[ssledoux]

Worth it?

I’ve never tried it or anything like it (well, I have Pandora, but I think that’s different).

If you have Apple Music and download music, what happens to it if you end your Apple Music subscription? I just don’t really know a thing about how this works.

Also, I’m assuming it’s streaming - does that use a lot of data? Our data isn’t top notch where we live, and even though it’s unlimited, I get toggled after a while.

Just give me the ins and outs.

Thanks!

 

[AlliFlowers]

You're basically renting every bit of music ever. You can listen to whatever you'd like, by genre/artist/album/group, as long as you have your subscription.

I like it more than Spotify because there seems to be more in the genres that I prefer.

 

[BrianBaughn]

Renting is a good description.

You can download any(?) song they have to your device for listening without streaming. So...you can download them on wifi and not use data when they play. It will get deleted if your subscription ends. You can add or remove songs/albums/playlists to your heart's content.

I don't listen to music anywhere near as much as I did when I was younger and it still seems like a fantastic deal to me...either Apple Music or Spotify.

 

[emoe76]

I feel it is a fantastic deal as well. Just about any song, artist and album you could possibly want. There also seems to be an infinite amount of playlists to choose from and a decent amount of radio stations as well. I like it enough that I cancelled my SiriusXM subscription about a month ago.

 

[ssledoux]

I feel it is a fantastic deal as well. Just about any song, artist and album you could possibly want. There also seems to be an infinite amount of playlists to choose from and a decent amount of radio stations as well. I like it enough that I cancelled my SiriusXM subscription about a month ago.

Well I’m struggling, as usual. I signed up for the free trial, and when I try to add stations it’s asking me if I want to keep my current music on my phone, and I tell it yes then it thinks for a while, and tells me it can’t access music in the cloud. I don’t know if it’s because my data is just too slow, or if I have a setting wrong, or what.

I’m so illiterate with all the cloud stuff, hence my question on the other forum about using the cloud. I just back my stuff up and figure I’ll worry about it if I ever have a reason, which I haven’t. Well, apparently now I do, and I have no clue what I’m doing. :-O

 

[nortonandreev]

Worth it?

I’ve never tried it or anything like it (well, I have Pandora, but I think that’s different).

If you have Apple Music and download music, what happens to it if you end your Apple Music subscription? I just don’t really know a thing about how this works.

Also, I’m assuming it’s streaming - does that use a lot of data? Our data isn’t top notch where we live, and even though it’s unlimited, I get toggled after a while.

Just give me the ins and outs.

Thanks!

If you download music and end you subscription, you will not be able to listen to the music downloaded. But you can download music when you have WiFi access and then you can listen to it offline. It uses data, ye, but you can select an option which will use less data (and also the quality will be slightly worse). It depends on how you want to use it and what you want to do, but for me it is incredibly useful and, in my opinion, provides much better experience than Spotify, especially if you have more than one Apple device.

 

[BrianBaughn]

Well I’m struggling, as usual. I signed up for the free trial, and when I try to add stations it’s asking me if I want to keep my current music on my phone, and I tell it yes then it thinks for a while, and tells me it can’t access music in the cloud. I don’t know if it’s because my data is just too slow, or if I have a setting wrong, or what.

I’m so illiterate with all the cloud stuff, hence my question on the other forum about using the cloud. I just back my stuff up and figure I’ll worry about it if I ever have a reason, which I haven’t. Well, apparently now I do, and I have no clue what I’m doing. :-O

Those issues, it seems to me, don't really have much to do with your original questions.

If you have questions about getting started with Apple Music you probably ought to start another thread.

 

[ssledoux]

If you download music and end you subscription, you will not be able to listen to the music downloaded. But you can download music when you have WiFi access and then you can listen to it offline. It uses data, ye, but you can select an option which will use less data (and also the quality will be slightly worse). It depends on how you want to use it and what you want to do, but for me it is incredibly useful and, in my opinion, provides much better experience than Spotify, especially if you have more than one Apple device.

Thanks! I’m not super worried about downloading some songs on data, but I definitely don’t want to stream constantly with data. My daughter has great WiFi at her house also, so I can download some every time I’m over there.

So if you have more than one device, I can play across them all?
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Those issues, it seems to me, don't really have much to do with your original questions.

If you have questions about getting started with Apple Music you probably ought to start another thread.

You’re right. I’m actually gonna try to watch some online videos and see if I can solve the problem.

 

[nortonandreev]

Thanks! I’m not super worried about downloading some songs on data, but I definitely don’t want to stream constantly with data. My daughter has great WiFi at her house also, so I can download some every time I’m over there.

So if you have more than one device, I can play across them all?

Once added to your music library, the music is available across all devices on which you use Apple Music with the same Apple ID account. You can use Apple Music on all Apple devices, Windows and Android. However, you cannot listen to music on more than one device simultaneously.

 

[tonyr6]

I feel it is a fantastic deal as well. Just about any song, artist and album you could possibly want. There also seems to be an infinite amount of playlists to choose from and a decent amount of radio stations as well. I like it enough that I cancelled my SiriusXM subscription about a month ago.

Agreed. Have you had the issue with so much music available you can't find anything to listen to. I get this quite often on AM. On other service the worst Pandora, SiriusXM nope with the same 20 songs over and over again.

As the OP one thing I don't like if you cancel after 3 months all of your recommendations and saved albums are deleted like you are starting new. Other services I came back to even over a year everything was saved.

 

[macnewbie86]

Worth it?

I’ve never tried it or anything like it (well, I have Pandora, but I think that’s different).

If you have Apple Music and download music, what happens to it if you end your Apple Music subscription? I just don’t really know a thing about how this works.

Also, I’m assuming it’s streaming - does that use a lot of data? Our data isn’t top notch where we live, and even though it’s unlimited, I get toggled after a while.

Just give me the ins and outs.

Thanks!

Have you used Netflix?...it's like netflix for music. But you basically get almost EVERYTHING that is being released instead of a few titles here and there. There are over 50 million songs.

I think there are some music streaming services that you can change in the settings, how good the quality is. This will affect how much data you use.

Music uses much less data than streaming video. So, if you have used netflix you will be fine. It should about the same data as pandora.

**DATA: with apple music though..You can DOWNLOAD your albums or individual songs to your device (computer, ipad, iphone) and listen to it as long as you pay the subscription. If you listen to, say, Adele's latest album 10 times in a month it would be better for your DATA usage to just download once instead of streaming it many times.

Once you stop paying the subscription, the files will still be on your device, but you won't be able to listen to them and will be brought to the pay screen.

You can download, delete, download, delete etc. as many times as you want.

If you ad a bunch of albums to your music library and, say, want to stop the subscription for a few months...when you resubscribe all your playlists and albums will still be there. Even if you didn't download them before. Your favourite songs are there when you go back to your subscription. This will help if you want to shop around for other services to see what is your favourite service.

However, as far as I know you can import apple music library and playlists to other services like spotify...you have to add them all over again if you try other services.

Hope this helps.

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EDIT: I was wrong about transfering playlists. If you aren't happy with apple music you can transfer playlists with apps suggested in the following thread. Sorry bout that. I just never had to do it. But it's good to know that it's possible. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/spotify-to-apple-music.2148643/

 

[ssledoux]

Thank you for all the tips! I’ve downloaded a good bit of stuff, mainly because I wanted some of it in my watch playlist on my watch for when I’m walking and don’t want to have my phone.

The only thing I haven’t loved so far is that it rearranged my downloaded music in my purchased playlist (not sure why), so my most recent stuff isn’t last - I tended to just scroll down quickly, knowing the stuff I wanted to listen to was toward the end.

I’m just trying to use the search feature more, but it doesn’t just continuously play because it brings it up by artist. Therefore if I only have one song by that artist, it plays the song and stops, and I have to go back to the main list or search to play another, instead of just clicking forward.

I’ll figure it out. I’m getting better and better with it every day. ;-p

 

[kyussmondo]

Also, if you already have music in your iTunes library or you add music you own then this will all sync to your iCloud Music Library. iCloud Music Library actually has a matching feature, so it will match the song with the same song on the iTunes Store and use that so it doesn’t need to upload every song, just the ones it cannot match. Songs you own will remain yours after you end your Apple Music subscription, any you add with Apple Music will be removed after 90 days after you cancel your subscription.

For me, iCloud Music Library is one of the biggest reasons why I prefer Apple Music over Spotify, that and Spotify has a library limit of 10,000 songs, whereas Apple Music the limit is 100,000 songs.