How does this work with Apple Music?

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How does this work with Apple Music?

This article is out of date for anyone who's trying Apple Music. When I try to add or remove music from my phone manually, I get a message saying the action can't be performed because I'm now under the control of iCloud Music Manager. The upshot is that I can't change the music stored on my phone, and sometimes I like to listen to music when I'm not on wifi. Is there a way around this problem? It looks suspiciously like Apple didn't think it through.

iPhone 5s, iOS 8.4

Posted on Jul 26, 2015 7:00 PM

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bobseufert

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Jul 26, 2015 7:22 PM in response to Steve Rugare

Off-line listening is handled by tapping the three dots then tap make available offline.

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Jul 26, 2015 8:25 PM in response to bobseufert

If I understand correctly, that applies to music within the "my music" tab, but as far as I can tell nothing from my library has gone into that tab. I have a large library of classical music, and iTunes is not built to handle it well. I'm used to that. All I want is to be able to drag playlists to the phone when I'm on the "playlists" tab. I figured out how to delete the playlists from the phone by clicking those three dots, but it appears the files are still on the phone, and I can't delete thrm

manually anymore. This has always been a fairly straightforward process. I guess I don't undersrand why Apple Music, which I really like, has to mess it up.

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bobseufert

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Jul 26, 2015 8:40 PM in response to Steve Rugare

Unfortunately I know very little about the workihgs of iTunes and Apple Music and won't be able to help you, sorry. I thought your question was only about off-line listening. Hopefully another Forum member will be able to help you. I can't promise anything but I'll see if I can round up some help.

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léonie

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Jul 26, 2015 11:17 PM in response to Steve Rugare

What worked for me was the same work-round as with iTunes Match. I enabled Apple Music and iTunes Match only on my Mac, but not on my mobile devices. Then I can sync manually selected playlists to the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch like before. However, this will not sync the downloaded Apple Music to the mobile devices, only my own music and the matched songs. And none of my songs that iTunes Match matched to Apple Music.

Added: I don't have a Windows computer, but I expect the service will work similar as on the Mac.

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bobseufert

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Jul 26, 2015 11:24 PM in response to léonie

Please stop by my Batcall in the Lounge. Thank you.

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Jul 27, 2015 3:23 AM in response to Steve Rugare

If I understand you correctly you wish to sync content to the phone manually.

Whilst you can't do that how you previously did (through iTunes on your computer) you can manually choose what is on your phone by selecting it (when 'only show music stored on this phone' is off) and tapping 'make available offline' from the 3 dot menu, as Bob explained above.

As for playlists the procedure is much the same, select the playlist on your phone and hit the 'Make available Offline option.

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Steve Rugare Author

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Jul 27, 2015 5:56 AM in response to léonie

TThanks. I'll try this. I never used iTunes Match, so I'm a little confused. But I'll play around with it and see what happens.

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Jul 27, 2015 5:57 AM in response to Winston Churchill

Thanks. This looks like it should solve a big part of my concern. I still won't be able to work with the music that didn't match to iCloud, but it should give me some good options.

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