Do I have to keep music stored on my computer if I have itunes match and apple music? I am hoping to free up disk space on my macbook - so was hoping it can work like my other devices: storing only selected songs or playlists at any given time?

Hi,

Make and keep a backup of your iTunes library, and only stream from the cloud.

Jim

Hi,

Once all your music is matched or uploaded, you will see all the music and playlists in the cloud when you open the new iTunes library.

Jim

As Jim says, it will work but the backup of your music files AND your iTunes Library files is important in case you want to discontinue either Apple Music/iCloud Music Library and/or iTunes Match. However, be aware that there are still a lot of mis-matching going on with ICML (to a greater extent) and iTunes Match (though reportedly a much lesser extent) meaning that when you stream the music that ICML "matched", you might not get the same version that you originally matched.

Hi,

Follow the instructions contained in my earlier post.

Jim

The original suggestion to leave everything in the Cloud is a non-answer. This means that all my devices will require high cellular bandwidth to use away from home.

Apple Music will not work with different devices that have different memory capacities and I find this very frustrating to the point where I feel better off canceling the service and going back to my existing song collection.

Does Apple have any other solutions to the problem of different playlists for different devices using Apple Music?

Thanks

For instance, when I turn on Apple Music on a new device, it automatically starts downloading files from my playlists until it fills up the local memory. Due to different memory capacities, I have noticed different songs being available on different devices.