I like to listen to my playlists which have a large variety (multiple genres) of music. I use Shuffle which gives me the greatest variety. I've been trying to figure out if there is some way to combine my playlists with Apple Music. I've done a lot of searching, but there doesn't seem to be anyway to do this.
Thanks for any suggestions any of you may have.
Mac Pro, macOS 10.13
Depends what you mean by "combine my playlists with Apple Music"... if you take the plunge and turn on Sync Library which takes over sync'ing all your devices via the apple cloud, then your music library becomes a hybrid of your owned music & playlists plus things you "Add" from Apple Music. From there you can create playlists crossing either your own library's owned music and music Add'ed from Apple Music. Clicking Add on a playlist in Apple Music will add that playlist to your library's playlists (and then you need to separate Add any missing songs to play it offline).
Depends what you mean by "combine my playlists with Apple Music"... if you take the plunge and turn on Sync Library which takes over sync'ing all your devices via the apple cloud, then your music library becomes a hybrid of your owned music & playlists plus things you "Add" from Apple Music. From there you can create playlists crossing either your own library's owned music and music Add'ed from Apple Music. Clicking Add on a playlist in Apple Music will add that playlist to your library's playlists (and then you need to separate Add any missing songs to play it offline).
I just went through it on Catalina, and I don't feel any less in control than I did with the manual sync :)
Apple Music includes iTunes Match so when you turn it on on the Mac (or wherever you keep your master library), Apple will try to match all your music to their catalog and upload anything they don't know to their cloud (privately, and except missing music videos). I did that first to see how it went then turned on Sync Library on the iPhone. Apple Music will then sync your library via the cloud.
I encountered some issues when turning it on - there were a number of songs/albums duplicated (but small % of my library), which needed cleanup which took some time to work through but now it seems to be stable. That said today I lost all playlists on my phone for no apparent reason but was able to force Apple Music to resync by turning Sync Library off and on. I am sure other issues will pop up but for the most part I'm pretty happy with it for now, and personally I like getting rid of the manual sync.
Should be able to go back though I am sure there will be some sort of issue and there will be threads about that - any music downloaded from Apple Music is stored in its own directory in your library and presumably gets erased when turning it off.
This post has some more information on some of the issues I encountered https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250904926
This is the Apple support post on this topic https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204926
That sounds exciting. What happens when you "take the plunge and turn on Sync Library". Loss of control? Can't go back?
Mix my playlists with Apple Music
