Why can't I listen to any music when my iPods wifi is turned off?

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Why can't I listen to any music when my iPods wifi is turned off?

If I'm listening to my music on Apple Music and turn my wifi off on my iPod, or turn on airplane mode, my music pauses automatically. If I go onto the music app I get a message saying "don't miss a beat. Add some music from new or for you to your library, then come back and enjoy your favorites." I'm not even able to listen to music that I bought through iTunes. But if my iPods wifi is turned on and not connected to the wifi then I can listen to my music perfectly fine without any problems. This wouldn't be a problem but I like to turn my wifi off for my iPod when I'm not using the wifi so that my iPod isn't searching for signals. What can I do to fix this? It just started today.

iPod touch, iOS 8.4

Posted on Jul 8, 2015 10:29 AM

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Answer 1

mmao

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Jul 8, 2015 11:06 AM in response to Breenf

Streaming music from Apple Music needs connection to the internet, so if you turn off wi-fi it won't connect to the internet. You need to add music to your collection and download the tracks to your device to listen offline. Obviously, network required services like radio and connect will not work without wi-fi.

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Breenf Author

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Jul 9, 2015 9:22 AM in response to mmao

But I wasnt even able to listen to the music that i had paid for previously. Also all of my music was supposed to be available offline. Any song that I downloaded from Apply Music itself was able to be played offline. It worked for a few days and then I wasn't able to listen to any music at all while I was offline. Right now I'm in the process of making all of my songs available offline again but now this is taking up a bunch of my memory.

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Answer 3

Jul 20, 2015 7:43 AM in response to Breenf

The same exact thing is happening to me... Apple Music was working fine a couple of days ago. Now, if I lose of turn off wifi, all of my songs that are supposedly available offline are all unable to play. This is seriously making me consider going back to Spotify - Apple, I hope you are reading this. Please fix this!!!

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Answer 4

Sep 6, 2015 6:34 AM in response to Breenf

The same thing has happened to me! the apple music on my iPod touch has been working Fine for about two months , then all of a sudden today, I'm unable to access any of my music without wifi , even those I bought and downloaded ages ago! And even with wifi I can't access any of my downloaded musi. Please help!

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Answer 5

Feb 4, 2016 6:24 PM in response to Breenf

OK. Add me to that list. My iPod says if Im not connected to the wifi to go into setting-music and turn on cellular data. Apple. It's an iPod. Fortunately all my music is backed up on my computer, so, just throw away the iPod and get an MP3 player?

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Answer 6

Jul 15, 2015 7:41 PM in response to Breenf

The same thing just happened to me, and I have a ton of music on my IPod. It didn't happen like this before..

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