Just started subscribing to Apple Music, question about merging of different libraries

DavidOC wrote:

Hi Phil0124, thanks for that.

So all I really need to watch out for is to hope that my iCloud capacity has enough space to store whatever music I have on my hard drive that might not be on Apple Music service as it will upload this to my iCloud, but not the files physically to my phone.

It won't use any storage from your own iCloud account directly.

It uploads to a generic icloud area where you have an allowance for up to 100,000 tracks to be uploaded if required.

I presume I'm correct in assuming that my phone hasn't picked yet on the laptop tracks because that library is on a hard drive, and that the uptake will happen when I hook up the external drive.

I'll give it a try and fingers crossed.

Thanks for your help.

David

If the library is not available to the music app or itunes app on a computer , it won't match or upload.

Once it can access it, it will match what it can, and upload the rest.

It will potentially do both.

It will match any music it can to the Apple Music subscription service catalog and make it available to your other devices, and will upload whatever music it cannot match as is (with some caveats) to the iCloud Music library and again make it available to your other devices as if it where coming from the subscription service.

It will not on its own try to transfer it to the iPhone, you need to either sync them to the iPhone or manually download the songs to the iPhone from the iCloud music library for that to happen.

The iCloud Music library does not automatically download music onto a device. You need to manually do that if you want it to be available while offline.

click here ➜ Add and download music from Apple Music - Apple Support