Make all Apple Music songs available offline listening just one click

Bless you Bareech! The highlighting was key to getting the right click "offline" choice available. Problem #1 now solved....onto problem #2 (getting my library onto my iPhone). 😉

Had the same problems with Apple Music since the start if the service. Just cancelled the renewal for good.

it was just one click to make all of my music available on spotify. The download of about 800 songs is nearly finished now. Only took about half hour.

Also my denon reciever supports spotify directly.

usually i had to start playing music on my iphone. It would then download the song via wifi. Then by airplay stream it to my stereo.

With spotify my iPhone just tells the denon reciever via spotify connect which song to play. Less battery drain on the iPhone. Less wifi electrosmog at home.

Only downside so far. My BMW doesnt support spotify directly. sigh...

this is not intended as advertisment for spotify. Just try both and make up your own mind.

FINALLY!

Someone who understands my problem!

Why does Apple have to control everything? They say it is "helping" us, or it increases "ease of use".

Apple has become what they originally were fighting against-- a Goliath corporation controlling as much technology as possible.

Any Davids out there willing to go up against them?

Nope. With this solution songs still get greyed out when you leave WiFi range.

How to make your music available at all times

Here is a workaround for the above issue of Apple removing your music from your phone without asking, forcing you to redownload the music you own. All of your music will be available offline.

I am using OSX 10.11.1 and iTunes 12.3.2.35. I am not using Apple Music, iTunes Match or any such nonsense.

I am not a techie or a pro, just a guy who wants to be in charge of his data.

Use your good judgment if you do this.

It is a bit long but Apple is no longer in control of my music!

WARNING: You will be resetting your phone which erases all data -- be wise and do what you must to backup/protect your data.

1. Back up any files you need outside of iTunes
2. Shut off iCloud, cell data and WiFi on iPhone; shut off router (it can't hurt to put phone in airplane mode as well).
3. In settings choose General>Reset>Erase all content and settings
4. When phone resets skip entering Apple ID (I told the phone I don't have an Apple ID)
5. immediately shut off cell phone data
6. Start iTunes on your computer. Hit the musical note icon in upper Left. Check the boxes on songs you wish to have on phone
7. Plug iPhone into computer -- DO NOT LET iTUNES SYNC ANYTHING!
8. Click on the phone icon in upper left
9. Select "Music" from the On My Device list on Lower Left, not from the top Settings list
10. Click on "Edit Playlist" on the Right
11. Drag individual checked songs to Music Playlist on right (you may be able to select your entire music library and drag it over. I have heard that only the checked songs will be added to the playlist but I am not positive).
12. My version of iTunes immediately added the songs to my phone. You might have to click "Done" button and/or manually sync depending on your software.
13. Check out your phone-- ALL THE MUSIC IS ACTUALLY RESIDING ON YOUR PHONE!
14. Restore other files, settings and software.

I am hoping that I don't have to go through all of this each time I want to change up my music. We'll see.

Oh, and be sure to shut of Cellular access to Music in Settings

This is what did it for me. I have something like 4400 songs from my Apple Music subscription and iTunes will not let me sync my library because of iCloud Music Library. After following this and setting the rule to "Checked" items, I was able to download all of my library to my 64gig iPhone 6S.

Thank you so much for this suggestion.

You do not have chose Apple, it's free world, you can use anything you prefer.

Old post, however here is the solution since I also encountered the problem

create a smart playlist with the condition "media kind is music", so that all your tracks will be listed within this playlist...her you´ll have the option to grab every song and download it...

you´re welcome

cheers

hey I'm having the same issue and raised a separate question....albeit in a lot more of a long winded way 🙂 ...apple music download library new iPhone.

I can't believe that theres not a way to mimic the 'old way' of restoring the from an iTunes backup, so you can have the same music downloaded from an old device.

I like the playlist idea above. can this be done easily on an old phone also? Even with this though it will still all have to download from apple music, luckily i don't think i have a limit on my broadband download usage!!

I just gave up with iTunes and Apple music etc...

I use Plex now and it works, well, just ad you would expect.

Apple have lost the plot (not that iTunes has every really HAD a plot!!), making the simplest tasks completely impossible, I mean, seriously... in my mind when I do a "full backup" everything should be restored EXACTLY as it was before. I shouldn't have to re-download ANYTHING, let alone EVERYTHING !!!! Worst case there should be an option to put my phone back as it was when I said "do a full backup" !!! Discovering at some completely inconvenient time later that the app, song or movie I TOLD YOU TO BACK UP AND RESTORE actually isn't there and I need to re-download!!!

Hello thanks for that an

As of iOS11:
Create a new playlist with all your songs. Use the download all button at the top. Once they're all downloaded then you can delete the new playlist