To add songs and playlists to your Library, you must use Cloud Music Library

So all of a sudden when adding songs to my playlist i get this message pop up and it asks if i want to "merge library". I click it and then nothing happens, the song does not get added into my playlist. I have icloud sync to library on. Any solutions

iMac 21.5″, macOS 10.13

Posted on Jul 29, 2021 7:57 AM

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When adding songs to playlists from Apple Music, I keep getting "To add songs and playlists to your Library, you must use Cloud Music Library." And then the option to Merge Library. I'm using Apple Music and I click Merge Library, but doesn't work. Usually Apple does things better than other companies. But why are they failing so hard with Apple Music? Spotify is so much easier to use. I have turned off the Sync Library option and turned it back on, but that didn't help either. Very frustrated.
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1ssmith

Community Specialist

Jul 30, 2021 9:14 AM in response to erks89

Greetings, erks89.

Welcome to the Apple Support Communities. We can understand why you’d want to resolve the issue with being unable to add a song to your Music Library.

Start by ensuring that Sync Library is enabled on all of your devices, not just your Mac: Turn on Sync Library with Apple Music

If songs are missing after Sync Library has been enabled, check out: If songs are missing from your music library after you turn on Sync Library

We hope this helps! Thanks for being a part of the Apple Support Communities.

Sincerely.

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