How to sync music using iCloud?

We seem to be going round in circles here.

1) you can see from my sig on the left I am in the UK

2) we've established that you don't see the Music option

3) we've established that we don't believe it's a regional issue as it's on the Swiss web site

4) we've established that I don't know the answer to your problem - I'm only giving you my opinions on what happens/should happen.

As I said above, let's hope that someone else can chip in here with an answer. Why don't you ring Apple support and ask them? Or email iTunes support, They are very good and always respond within 24 hours.

So you when go on iTunes on your Mac and you click 'Purchases' on the right-hand menu - what appears? It should be Music, Apps, and Books.

On your iPhone when you go into iTunes and tap 'Purchases', what appears?

Before iOS 5 launched, this was ONLY available in the US, the rest of the world could only sync Books and Apps in the Cloud. It does state on the Swiss site that the service is not available in all countries, however this does not appear on the UK site as the service is available. Maybe it just needs a bit of re-wording to avoid confusion.

Then the iTunes in the Cloud service is not available in your country. It is rolling out internationally.

I think the conclusion we have all come to is that it just isn't available on the Swiss Store. As you say, it does actually say on the Swiss site that it isn't available in all countries.

Now, it seems to me this is the same naughtiness on Apple's part when they didn't make it clear that most of Siri's functions are not available in the UK!

Surely, they could just state somewhere the countries that do have these facilities available to save all this confusion.

As a side issue here, when I click on 'Purchased' in iTunes, I only get music and books - no apps. Yet, the apps do sync automatically.

OK Guys... after a 15 minute wait in the queue, I managed to speak with Apple customer support Germany. The following statement applies for Germany, Switzerland and Austria:

"Music syncing is - for reasons of copyright - not yet available in said countries."

It's actually written in small, bold type on the following pages:

http://www.apple.com/de/icloud/features/

http://www.apple.com/chde/icloud/features/

So we'll just have to be a little bit patient.

It's still showing the Store options on the iPhone with Music on the link I posted above.

I'm still mystified by this. Why is it a rights issue? Syncing with multiple devices via USB on iTunes has always been available. What's the difference now? (Except for the ease-of-use factor.)

Yup, I also don't recall seeing that caveat when I checked a few hours ago.

Because if you lose your music library, or delete a track, you have never been able to re-download that track. iTunes in the Cloud adds that option, thats why it needs permission from the record labels.

Of course! I'd forgotten that, thanks.

if you are using/signed in to the UK iTunes store it is working fine.

@bevers72 Eh, I think we established that some time ago in this thread!