Why can't I manually manage my music on itunes?

I only have certain songs that are syncing from my itunes music library to my phone. They're all checked, also. When I go to the summary on my phone, there used to be an option to manually manage music and videos, however that was replaced by the option of only being able to manage videos. Why is this, and how can I get around it?

MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2013), iOS 8.4.1, Syncing with iPhone 5s

Posted on Sep 7, 2015 11:16 AM

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Sep 7, 2015 11:20 AM in response to teeny03

When you enable Apple Music, iTunes stops syncing music from your CD library since you can access all those songs theoretically from My Music now. But I didn't like the idea of being dependent on wireless and cellular data coverage to access my songs and didn't want to download my 3,000 favorites from Apple's cloud. What I did was turned off iCloud Music Library (iTunes Preferences > iCloud Music Library check box). Selected the device in iTunes and choose music the old way by checking sync selected music and synced the device. That put my songs on my iPhone. Then I turned iCloud Music Library back on and I have my 3,000 favorites on the Phone and access to My Music.

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