“First, connect to wifi.” Yeah, that does a lot of good on a plane or train without an Internet connection. And whenever I do this at home, while connected to wi-fi, before leaving for my trip, it is excruciatingly and painstakingly slow to have to re-download every song one by one. This has happened to me three times on the same phone. Several iOS/iTunes updates have made me do this over and over again. If iCloud auto-saves all my documents (which I don’t need on a phone) and photos to all my iDevices and Macs for instant offline access, why can’t it do that for my music library (especially those songs ripped from CD or downloaded from sources other than iTunes)? And why can’t I delete some photos on one device without permanently deleting them from all my Apple devices? Gee thanks, iCloud. Steve Jobs must be rolling in his grave.
And that “Music without Wifi” link is in such broken English (badly and literally translated?) that it is difficult to read; moreover, all its suggestions require downloading other programs (which requires wi-fi or cellular data) and choosing songs from those programs and platforms. I don’t want to listen offline to stuff from Spotify or iHeartRadio—I want to listen to my music, for which I have already paid and previously downloaded to that device. Once downloaded, it should stay downloaded!
I truly resent having to subscribe to Apple Music.
