Why can't I buy music on my AppleTV?

I Can rent or purchase a movie on new ATV, but cannot buy MUSIC anymore? Sometimes my friends and I were looking together at different songs on old ATV to buy. Now I cant? Nuts! Time for feedback alright!

We can purchase iTunes music on Mac, iPhone, iPad but not the new Apple TV. I’m hoping a future update will add the option. I have submitted feedback.

You used to be able to purchase songs through iTunes on your appleTv. It appears this functionality has been removed to push users into their music subscription service. Not cool.

Really enjoying Apple TV 4 but have to admit the set up involving iTunes purchases bugs me. With the older version setup only involved entering your account information then the system was intuitive enough to set up the rest. Its one of Apple's best features being nearly idiot-proof designed software overall . If this is a push to promote Apple Music over purchases I hope Apple comes up with a patch to restore this function as Apple Music isn't for everyone but for myself all music purchashes come fome the Apple Store. Apple TV 4 had no problem recognizing rental and purchase functions for movies and TV shows.

I think this was a fairly recent addition to the Apple TV 3, it started with the introduction of "iTunes Radio". While listening to a streaming song, you can choose to purchase it. I don't recall being able to purchase music prior to the "iTunes Radio" streaming service.

On the Apple TV 4, you should still be able to browse for music in the Music app. When a song is playing, you can click the remote to reveal a menu icon at the top of the screen, that has an "Add to My Music" option. I have an Apple Music subscription, so I'm not sure what happens if you don't, but it might be worth checking to see if that turns into a "purchase" option instead.

[edit: I said "Apple Music" before instead of "iTunes Radio". These work differently, "Apple Music" is based on "Beats Music" and lets you build a library of streaming music, "iTunes Radio" didn't let you do that - you had to purchase]

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Hi

You can stream music to apple TV 4

You need to turn on home sharing on all your Apple devices including

ATV 4

Then you buy music on other apple devices & stream to apple TV

ATV 4 does not store your music its gets it from the cloud .

Cheers

Brian

I didn't even realize you could browse the store and buy music on the Apple TV3 as I hardly ever use mine to play music.

I suspect that the number of people that used this feature was extremely small as most would want to purchase music within iTunes so that it downloads instantly to your PC, iPhone, or iPad. Buying music on a streaming device that can't download the purchase doesn't make as much sense even though it was possible. Since the Apple TV is a streaming device the new Apple Music service is a better fit in my opinion.

so I'm not sure what happens if you don't, but it might be worth checking to see if that turns into a "purchase" option instead.

I did check it out and there is no option to purchase. However, search (I'm not a subscriber) did bring up suggestions that I don't have, so it appears to be searching the store (or something other than my own library) and maybe it's something in the pipeline.