Aldobear

Q: Unable to transfer?

some of the items in the iTunes library were not copied to the iphone because Apple Music Songs cannot be copied to an iphone. Then what is the point and can this be worked around?

iPhone 6, iOS 8.4

Posted on Aug 27, 2015 2:03 PM

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  • by Phil0124,

    Phil0124 Phil0124 Aug 27, 2015 2:12 PM in response to Aldobear
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    Aug 27, 2015 2:12 PM in response to Aldobear

    You do not need to copy the music to the iPhone. The entire point of Apple Music is that its available to supported devices from the cloud directly.

     

    If you have downloaded Music items from Apple Music to your library, those same items are available directly on your iPhone, there is no need to sync.

     

    i.e whatever you have on your computer from the Apple Music service, can be accessed directly on your iPhone through the Music App.

     

    Add music from the Apple Music catalog to your library - Apple Support

    Add songs, albums, and playlists

    You can add songs, albums, playlists, and music videos to your library from anywhere in Apple Music. Items you add on one device are also added to your other devices that are signed in to Apple Music.

  • by Aldobear,

    Aldobear Aldobear Aug 27, 2015 3:10 PM in response to Phil0124
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    Aug 27, 2015 3:10 PM in response to Phil0124

    Hi Phil

    I take it you may work for Apple.

     

    When there is wifi coverage at Home, it is useful to access to all the playlists I have, but with no wifi, despite many attempts to make available offline some of the playlists, this just does not work.

    My preference would be to download music onto my phone, to listen to at any time and not have to refer back to the iCloud Music Library, when their is wifi. I take it this is no longer an option with Apple products and I may need to consider a change.

     

    Your thoughts would be appreciated

  • by Phil0124,

    Phil0124 Phil0124 Aug 27, 2015 4:19 PM in response to Aldobear
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    Aug 27, 2015 4:19 PM in response to Aldobear

    Aldobear wrote:

     

    Hi Phil

    I take it you may work for Apple.

    I wish, but Nope, I do not.  These are User to User forums. Barring a few around here. Most of us just volunteer our time to help out other people.

     

    Aldobear wrote:

     

    Hi Phil

     

    When there is wifi coverage at Home, it is useful to access to all the playlists I have, but with no wifi, despite many attempts to make available offline some of the playlists, this just does not work.

    My preference would be to download music onto my phone, to listen to at any time and not have to refer back to the iCloud Music Library, when their is wifi. I take it this is no longer an option with Apple products and I may need to consider a change.

     

    To make contents available offline on your iPhone you need to do it directly on the iPhone. Anything you can make available offline on iTunes on your computer can be made available offline directly on the iPhone.

    You need to be on wifi to make things available offline. Once made available offline, you can turn off Wifi, and any other internet access.

     

    Read the link I provided above. This part in particular:

     

    Save songs, albums, and playlists to listen offline

    You can save songs, albums, or playlists to listen to when you're not connected to the Internet.* You must save songs, albums, or playlists on each device that you want to use for offline listening.

    On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch:

    1. In the Music app, find the item that you want to save.
    2. Tap the More Options icon  to the right of the song, album, or playlist name.
    3. Tap Make Available Offline.

     

  • by Diabulos,

    Diabulos Diabulos Nov 8, 2015 1:56 AM in response to Phil0124
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    Nov 8, 2015 1:56 AM in response to Phil0124

    This does not work, download fails, is slow, the Apple Music app also fails to mark files properly as offline. A playlist may have the offline icon on it but its songs are not necessarily offline, even if the download process finished. If you select show only offline songs it basically changes nothing, as if you are off the wifi grid for some reason, when trying to play a song, it may tell you that the song is not offline (despite 'show only offline songs' is selected).

     

    The app is inconsistent and faulty, during download a large number of songs give the 'could not download this song at this time' message and the retry button does nothing.  The app has a very poor download management, attempting too many consecutive downloads and freezing in the process (in 3 devices, two brand new)

    It provides no list of failed downloads so you can go back and retry, and as the offline icon is randomly given to songs, not to all offline songs, it is hard to identify which file needs re-downloading.

     

    I just tried Google Music, abouta day for my 16000 songs library to upload to their service, it read my itunes structure, transferred my playlists and gave me a list of files that failed (DRM files and Apple Music files of course)

     

    I was able then to make 5 playlists with 5000 songs to download to my iPod touch in just 3 hours and everything runs like a dream.  I have been trying to get my playlists offline in Apple Music for 2 weeks with no success.