Q: Problem saving to my music or to a playlist
Everything worked perfectly yesterday, I could add tunes/album in Apple Music to playlists and save them to My Music.
Today the window I saw when I first ran the Music app on my iPad unexpectedly appeared again, asking if I'd like to switch on Apple Music and which plan I'd like to sign up to (individual or family). I switched on Apple Music again and selected the plan again.
Since then I can't save any Apple Music to playlists or to My Music. This happens on my Mac, iPhone and iPad.
If I click the + button to add it to My Music it shows a tick as if it's been added. On my Mac, if I then switch over to My Music, everything is grey and the album I've just added isn't there.
Eventually it reconnects and My Music is all available once again. As soon as I try to add an album again, the same thing happens. The album doesn't get added and My Music is unavailable for a few minutes. I can still stream from Apple Music, I just can't save to My Music or access anything from within My Music.
Something slightly different is happening on my iPad. If I add an album to My Music, the tick appears and suggests it works. If I flick over to My Music to access it, I can very briefly see the album in Recently Added but it promptly disappears. I can still play anything else already in My Music though (whether available offline or only in iCloud), unlike on my Mac where everything is unavailable for a few minutes when I try to add something to My Music.
Is anyone else having a similar problem or does anyone know a solution?
Thanks. I was so impressed with Apple Music yesterday and then it became largely unusable today.
MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.4)
Posted on Jul 3, 2015 1:40 PM
I set up a smart playlist to list all the non-purchased songs and sure enough it came to 25,008.
I deleted about 50 songs and was then able to add an album without problem.
So that answers it for me - I'd hit the 25,000 limit without realising.
It would have saved so much time if Apple Music had just given me a quick "your library is too large" error when I try to add more songs to it...
Posted on Jul 8, 2015 6:15 AM