You can make a difference in the Apple Support Community!
When you sign up with your Apple Account, you can provide valuable feedback to other community members by upvoting helpful replies and User Tips.
When you sign up with your Apple Account, you can provide valuable feedback to other community members by upvoting helpful replies and User Tips.
📰 Newsroom Update
Billie Eilish is Apple Music’s Artist of the Year for 2024. Learn more >
Billie Eilish is Apple Music’s Artist of the Year for 2024. Learn more >
I don't want to subscribe to Apple Music and would just like to search, preview and buy songs like I have been doing for years. Every time I get close to finding a song and try to preview it I get a prompt to join Apple Music.
Hans’s iMac
OK- I'm in the Apple Music app and click on the link for the iTunes Store. then I enter the name of the song I'm searching for. It takes me to the page "top results".I find the song and click on it to preview it and I continuously get the window "Get 1 month of iTunes free". I click on "Not Now". This continues forever.
What am I missing? Thanks in advance for your help.
OK- I'm in the Apple Music app and click on the link for the iTunes Store. then I enter the name of the song I'm searching for. It takes me to the page "top results".I find the song and click on it to preview it and I continuously get the window "Get 1 month of iTunes free". I click on "Not Now". This continues forever.
What am I missing? Thanks in advance for your help.
I am having the same problem and this suggestion did not help.
I can listen to music previews on older albums and songs, but when I try to hear a preview for a song that was released in the last month, nothing plays.
I know I can preview the music on genius, or Amazon music, or probably Youtube. The point is that if Apple wants to sell music, I shouldn't have to go to another app to preview what I'm thinking about buying. The preview doesn't always work anymore if you don't have a subscription, and I don't want a subscription.
Thanks for the extra details! It sounds like you need to enable iTunes Store on Music. Try this:
Then, you can browse the iTunes Store by selecting it from the sidebar in Music, under 'Store'. :)
Note that this is the Music for iOS forum. In case anyone reading this has an iPhone, and gets confused by the description of where things are on a Mac:
I have an app called Apple Music on my Mac. Within Apple Music is a link to the iTunes Store. Do I need app for iTunes? if so, I can't seem to find one. Thanks for your reply
Use Feedback - Apple Music - Apple to vent. Good luck!
I have already done this see below
Apple Music isn’t for purchasing music, it’s for subscription streaming. Use iTunes for that.
Nope! You can access the iTunes Store using the link you described within the Music app. :)
MY mistake The message in the pop up window says "Get 1 month of free music"
Try genius for previews https://genius.com/, no fuss, all song.
why can't I preview a song without an Apple Music subscription
