Playlists and music are not syncing (can't add any music to my iPhone now)

to me the interesting question still is how do they get into a mess like this. Yes we can speculate their priority is pushing their content not helping us managing our libraries, but do they do ANY User beta testing at all? It would have taken them about five seconds to realize the chaos they'd be causing. I can't decide if the root cause is arrogance or incompetence or both.

My main problem is that, as a live music fan and collector, I have a lot of official bootlegs collected over the years (Phish, Wilco,...etc).

Obviously none of them are present in the iTunes catalogue which means that they must be uploaded from my iMac to iCloud so that I can listen to them on my iPhone.

This is counter productive.

Why on earth can't I manually transfer my music from my iMac straight to my iPhone and sill enjoy Apple Music from the cloud ?

"official bootlegs" ? I need to check with my friend about that. He is a big bootleg fan but I didn't think they were "official".

In any case, I agree with your basic premise. They could of kept the old method of sync'ing along with any new features. It would have involved a fairly complex set of options so perhaps that is why. For example, when I sync, do I want to sync my music via USB and consume all of that space on my iphone? etc. But many of those options already exist.

marxmarvelous,

Thank you so much, you solved a problem where my iTunes Apple Music songs where not showing up in my playlist, but it said there where. I followed you instructions on the bottom of your post and my problem was solved. Again thank you so much Craig 🙂

Using your response, I FINALLY got all the music downloaded, but it the playlist doesn't show as a playlist. At least it's on the iPhone.

Hi Pedz,

Just a few examples of "official bootlegs":

https://archive.org/details/etree hundreds of tape & trade-friendly bands (from The Grateful Dead to The Smashing Pumpkins)

http://wilco.kungfustore.com/roadcase.html

http://www.livedownloads.com/

http://www.livephish.com/browse/music/latest

http://live.brucespringsteen.net/catalog.aspx

http://livemymorningjacket.com/

...and many more.

Apple doesn't know any of these, nor any of the hundreds live shows I patiently collected, ripped, tagged,...

I've been having sync issues too between iTunes on OS X and Apple Music on my iPhone. I seem to have found a fix:

Go to iTunes>Preferences>General ...ensure "Show Apple Music" & "iCloud Music Library" are checked

Once I had done this, all my music and newly created playlists appeared on my phone.

Hope it works for you

I was having problems getting my iPhone to sync with the Mac. Solution was to go into Settings on the iPhone, turn Apple Music and iCloud Music Library off, and then back on again. I chose "Replace" all music (vs. the "Merge" option), and it has been working so far.

I have a question that may be similar to the original post. The problem that I am having is when I add music to my iTunes library and sync my phone, it becomes categorized as music that is not stored on my phone (not offline). I couldn't understand why music I have downloaded straight to iTunes wasn't showing up in my phone library. I unchecked the "Music Availabe Offline - Only show music stored on this phone" option and the songs showed up. Why are songs downloaded on my computer considered to be music not stored on my phone?

What follows is pure speculation. I'm a programmer for 40+ years. If I were to implement Apple Music, how would I do it?

There must be a cache of music and as a cache it must have a fixed size or perhaps some other method of releasing the space that it consumes. From experimentation, I know that if you mark an album as "Make Available Online", the tracks do not get marked and vice versa. So, I assume that each album, each play list, and also each track has a bit that says "do not purge me from the cache". That bit is called "Make Available Offline" because that is more along the lines of how a normal users thinks of things.

So... all this to say that maybe a particular track is on your iphone right now this very second but if space gets tight, it will get released and not be available to you as you are driving through the Mohave Desesrt outside of cell coverage. If you set "Make Available Offline", then it will not get purged and either some other tracks will get purged or you will end up with an error that says "out of space".

To me the interesting question still is how do they get into a mess like this. Yes we can speculate their priority is pushing their content not helping us managing our libraries, but do they do ANY User beta testing at all? It would have taken them about five seconds to realize the chaos they'd be causing. I can't decide if the root cause is arrogance or incompetence or both.

Have they published anywhere the precise criteria & algorithms etc for 'matching' and deciding just what is where?

Judging by many of the kludges (sorry, solutions) published in this thread, their servers must be flooded with spurious up and down load traffic as people turn iCloud on and off and on again etc etc to try and clean things up.

Fortunately, I haven't tried using any of this iCloud/Apple Music stuff.

DId the recent iTunes & iPhone updates not solve anything in this regard?

I don't want to speak too soon, but I think this fixed the problem. This has been bugging me ever since Apple Music came out. I haven't been able to sync songs. I had tried everything. I rebuilt my iTunes library. Wiped my phone and restored from backup. Just tried the steps and it appears to be syncing now. We'll see, however. It's just started syncing. My goodness i wish they'd just stop changing stuff. Why would they introduce something that STOPS a basic function.

Having a similar issue tried downloading a mixtape to my iphone and doesnt work it appears in my ituns library but it will not download it says it syncs but it just refuses to add new songs unless i buy them from the itunes store from my phone...

If you look at your music in a list with the checkmarks not sure exactly what that format is called you have to make sure the music is checked, that solved the problem for me