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Q: Make songs off-line automatically

Hey community,

 

I've almost got my Apple Music setup sweet, except for one little annoying thing - when I make songs available offline on iTunes on the PC, the songs are not automatically made offline on my iPhone (6S).

 

On the phone they do get added as 'My Music' and automatically go into the correct Smart Playlist but they only show if I'm viewing all music as opposed to only offline music. I've also setup some of my smart playlists on the PC only to show music available offline so those playlists show blank on the iPhone.

 

The outcome isn't devastating, just annoying because it means any offline downloading I do on the PC, I then have to go to each song on the phone and select 'Make available offline' again.

 

In the phone settings, under iTunes and App Stores, I do have 'Music' enabled under the automatic downloads section.

 

If anyone knows how to fix this or if it's maybe not even possible, it'd be great to find out.

 

Thanks.

iPhone 6s, iOS 9.0.1

Posted on Sep 25, 2015 7:49 PM

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  • by LeoOfSparta,

    LeoOfSparta LeoOfSparta Dec 8, 2015 9:20 AM in response to PerthMac
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    Dec 8, 2015 9:20 AM in response to PerthMac

    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...).