I can't transfer Apple Music to iPod Nano

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Those are all rumors but everything I've seen is talking about a significantly updated iPod Touch but only new colors for the Nano and the Shuffle. Unless Apple is going to update the Shuffle and Nano with a much stronger processor, the ability to run iOS and apps, and WiFi I doubt any refresh will make a difference. But the 14th is almost upon us.

I get the same message when I try to sync Apple Music tracks to my iPhone 6...what's the deal? Do you have to download them direct? I think it's stupid. I always sync music to my phone for listening without data usage. My iPad is different, since I only use it on wifi to stream. Now with Apple music my library is kind of messed up...certain seemingly random tracks I own on CD are greyed out, songs are linked to the wrong versions, some cover art is wrong, some things are available at all... It's nice too be able to explore and listen, but the primary way I can listen is on my iPhone and I'm not paying extra to stream music, so if you cannot download your "subscription" tracks to the iPhone, I doubt I will continue.

I fixed the issue with my iPod Touch 5th Gen......read the small print (well pretty big print)!

I just needed to turn on iCloud sharing in settings (on my Mac Book and iPod) then all my subscription albums and playlists synced to my iPod, I then just needed to manually go through each one on my iPod and choose available off line.

Even though I have now fixed the problem, Apple have not made the use of the new Apple Music service easy at all! I'll give it a go for three months before I decide to bin Spotify completely.

What's a pity... I have used to play my Nano connected to BMW adapter in my 7 series... It is so convenient, it allways connected to car instead of CD changer. Bad news it unsupported right now from Apple.....So, Apple Music is needless to me.... I have to get songs and music formy Ipod Nano from other sources....

Great disappointment....

So don't subscribe to Apple Music. Where did you get your music for your Nano before Apple Music?

So I will, as I said. Download any mp3 to HD then to Nano with iTunes, as usial. If Apple do not need my monthly pay for subscription - it's Apple's will. I have to do so as other Nano owners

So nothing has really changed from before they announced Apple Music.

Hm.... Why nothing? I leave a right for mistake, but I think Apple made a decision to earn much less money from one disctinct person, but monthly and from almost all current owners of Apple devices and forthcoming owners, which could came from Google Music for example. It's a big and great difference, isn't it?

I'm ready to pay, but Apple forgot about the iPods (e.g. Nano) it massively produced.

So my car is connected to Nano, I stay with a car, so I stay with Nano with music which came outside Apple Music

I was in this conversation early on when I discovered my newish Nano would not update playlists with Apple Music tracks within them. I have subscribed and have been reading and replying to this thread.

Solution for me will be to buy an iPod Touch for the car [like another poster, I like to have my playlists in the car, but keep them separate from my phone]. The nano will be listed on the healthy ebay marketplace 🙂

Apple did make this clear as Apple Music launched, I realise, see Add music from the Apple Music catalog to your library - Apple Support published on June 30th - the launch day.

So Apple will get more from me for the Music sub plus more hardware . . .

[Also I have a perfect condition 8Gb nano 3rd gen, worth about USD20, might keep this until a museum calls me! ].

Regards,

Tony

Pandora, Spotify, TIDAL, etc. also made the same decision. Subscription music is a different paradigm and has left some technologies behind just as things happened in the past and will in the future. None of the current subscription services are compatible with the older iPods. Apple didn't forget about the old devices you can still rip music from CD's and put it on your Nano or listen to a song on Apple Music then purchase it from the iTunes Music Store and put it on your Nano. Or you can do like the poster starving and switch to an iPod Touch. Or buy an Android device and go with Google music.

Maybe tomorrow you will be surprised with a new nano that works with apple music?

One can hope since that would mean they probably added WiFi and a much more powerful processor and OS. I would guess the price will also go up. Everything I've read though just says new colors for the Nano and Shuffle but a much more powerful iPod Touch. I don't think a new shade of blue on the Nano will change much. A better chance would be an Apple Music upgrade and maybe add a timer, i.e. if you put a playlist on with subscribed music it expires within 10 days unless you sync again. But a new OS, probably iOS and a new processor would be needed for that.

Or maybe they will surprise everyone with an iPod Touch Nano.

i also find it unacceptable not to be able to carry Apple Music on my iPod. I listen to it in the car and on the train where there's no streaming service. I like deggies' idea of expiring the music after a certain amount of days With the caveat that the iPod must be synced to keep the songs active. They expire movie rentals now. We can access the Apple Music for all other Apple devices Except iPods Whose main function is to play music. there are a great many intelligent people at Apple. I hope Mr. Cook can see the value of allowing customers to listen to Apple Music on their iPods.

You can't transfer downloaded items from one device to another in any case, only download them on the item in question (you can't transfer movie rentals from one device to another either). Obviously you can't do that on a Nano or Shuffle. The music industry has insisted on very tight controls to prevent people being able to download music and then listen to it without paying the subscription, which would defeat the whole point of the exercise. You are asking to be able to do something which the system is not designed to do: if you want to listen to songs on a non-connected device you are going to have to buy it and I can't see that being likely to change. The suggestion about changing the firmware on Nanos to permit this would have to be forced onto every Nano ever made - an unlikely situation.