Dakota23

Q: Make available offline

How do I get the songs to automatically download to my iPhone after adding to my library without having to press "make available offline" ? It is annoying to have to click "make available offline" on every single song.

iPhone 6 Plus, iOS 8.4

Posted on Jul 10, 2015 3:59 PM

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  • by Avantyoong,

    Avantyoong Avantyoong Jul 10, 2015 6:45 PM in response to Dakota23
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    Jul 10, 2015 6:45 PM in response to Dakota23

    Since it is a streaming music app, making it downloaded would be the second priority of this app. Therefore, in order to avoid your iPhone storage occupied with all the music, it is better for you to choose which musics you want to listen offline. You may don't want each songs which 7mb/song and above take most of the free spaces of yours.

  • by johnnygoodface,

    johnnygoodface johnnygoodface Sep 4, 2015 9:12 PM in response to Avantyoong
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    Sep 4, 2015 9:12 PM in response to Avantyoong

    I feel sooooo much like Dakota: We're not talking about downloading ALL our library songs to our iOS devices, but all the NEW downloads in iTunes. How many times have I downloaded songs, just to find out, once in my car, that I forgot to "Make Available Offline" an album or two. That really ****** me off and an automatic download of the new songs would be a great great great new feature to add to Apple Music

     

    Cheers!

    Johnny

  • by modular747,

    modular747 modular747 Sep 4, 2015 9:46 PM in response to Dakota23
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    Sep 4, 2015 9:46 PM in response to Dakota23

    The $10/month streaming service doesn't pay for unlimited, automatic offline storage, which would be like unlimited iTunes downloads.  The need to manually save individual songs does limit what can be saved, otherwise buy the music outright.

  • by johnnygoodface,

    johnnygoodface johnnygoodface Sep 4, 2015 9:57 PM in response to Dakota23
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    Sep 4, 2015 9:57 PM in response to Dakota23

    I'm sorry Modular, but Apple Music is exactly that: unlimited downloads! Apple protects its stuff by DRM'd it when downloaded to iTunes and on iOS devices... So there's no risk for Apple and anyone paying their monthly fees can download anything he likes. If someone stops its subscription, all downloaded music (both on iTunes and iOS devices) will become unplayable. End of story.

     

    This being said, there's no need to "limit what can be saved" and Dakota's and my request remain a very valid and legit request to automatically synchronize the music downloaded in iTunes to the iOS devices.

  • by modular747,

    modular747 modular747 Sep 4, 2015 10:05 PM in response to johnnygoodface
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    Sep 4, 2015 10:05 PM in response to johnnygoodface

    No, the service Apple sells is unlimited streaming, not unlimited downloading.  Saving for offline is available manually without limit.  The fact that the songs are DRM protected is irrelevant - you sill have them on the device, and as I'm certain you well know, the DRM is hackable. 

     

    You obviously feel entitled to Apple providing the service as you define it.  Feel entitled to use other streaming services that provide what you want.

  • by gail from maine,

    gail from maine gail from maine Sep 4, 2015 10:14 PM in response to johnnygoodface
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    Sep 4, 2015 10:14 PM in response to johnnygoodface

    This is how it works:

     

    Add music from the Apple Music catalog to your library - Apple Support

     

    If you would like to let Apple know how you think it can be improved, do so here:

     

    Apple - Feedback

     

    Cheers,

     

    GB

  • by johnnygoodface,

    johnnygoodface johnnygoodface Sep 6, 2015 6:26 AM in response to modular747
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    Sep 6, 2015 6:26 AM in response to modular747

    Hi modular,

     

    You know, I'm not criticizing Apple... I love them and I'm all Apple here (from stern to stem)

    And the purpose of my reasoning is not to win a argument but just to point out that it would be a "nice to have" feature for the future.

    As you say "Saving for offline is available manually without limit" so why not add an automatic option that would do the job in background for those who would like that.

     

    Now I'm gonna follow gail's advice and write Apple and see what comes out of it.

    I appreciated your inputs

     

    Cheers

    Johnny

     

     

    ...now back to my reading on HomeKit

  • by LeoOfSparta,

    LeoOfSparta LeoOfSparta Dec 8, 2015 9:21 AM in response to Dakota23
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    Dec 8, 2015 9:21 AM in response to Dakota23

    I posted a reply here:

    Re: Make songs off-line automatically

     

    A sort-of working solution:

    - Make a smart playlist

    - Location is iCloud

    - Location is not on this Computer

    - Media Kind is Music

    - (Optional) Date Added in last 1 month

     

    Now open YOUR IPHONE (not iTunes on the computer). Find the newly created smart playlist, select "make available offline".

    (If you do this on your computer, the 'make available offline' doesn't carry onto to the phone.)

     

    This should sync newly added songs automatically to your iPhone.

     

    My Observations:

    - After the first pass, it does seem to continue to download newly added songs but not instantaneously.

       E.g I added a new song, after some minutes it appeared in the playlist but was not getting downloaded.

       The next day the new song was available offline.

       Also after rebooting my phone it seems to download pending songs.

       I.e, I haven't figured out the interval, but it seems that it does periodically downloads newly added songs.

     

    I've only been using Apple Music for a few days thou with only few songs (100 atm), dunnow if this works well in the long run with lots of songs. ~any feedback/suggestions are welcome.

     

    (This is actually my first ever post on this forum. This was really frustrating because it took me such a long time to figure this out, considering I have a degree in Computer Science...).