Apple Music Experiencing Outage [Update: Fixed]

[szw-mapple fan]

Working for Mac but not iOS devices

Working on all devices for me.

 

[Bazooka-joe]

Apple Music seems ok for me. I am in the UK. Working on all devices.

 

[B4U]

Downloaded music from Apple Music isn't affected. It can still be onboard, but with DRM.

…you can download the music for offline playback, though. And even have it downloaded automatically when adding music to your library.

Again, we would still not OWN the music when comparing having them on the device.

 

[JosephAW]

App Store back up

 

[now i see it]

as I pop another cassette into my Walkman

 

[jonblatho]

Again, we would still not OWN the music when comparing having them on the device.

Which has precisely squat to do with the service experiencing an outage.

 

[glowplug]

Ok, that was fun. Can we have iTunes back now please?

 

[coolfactor]

Akamai is who Apple and others use for content delivery and they are down. Hence the Apple Music, iTunes, App Store outages.

You got a link with more info? Even Akamai doesn't seem to be provide an "uptime" status page for their own service, at least I haven't seen it yet.
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All green again. MacRumors, update?

 

[apolloa]

Spotify’s working just fine.....

 

[bob118]

I looked at my iTunes on my macbook and when I logged in earlier to my iTunes account today all my Apple Music songs vanished right before my eyes. Apple music was dead on my Apple TV4K as well. Well now that the outage is over I logged back into my MacBook and nothing there It's telling me to join and pick a plan. What the hell I just paid my bill this week as well. Hopefully overnight everything gets restored back to normal. If theres a few tricks to be known I'd appreaciate it very much. Sorry treats are handed out Thursday night LOL

 

[applemacfan007]

…you can download the music for offline playback, though. And even have it downloaded automatically when adding music to your library.

I have downloaded some songs and they don't work either if they are part of apple music. If I have purchased them separately, they work.

 

[B4U]

Which has precisely squat to do with the service experiencing an outage.

Because this business model makes the user not owning the music, but just paying for a subscription service.

 

[jonblatho]

Because this business model makes the user not owning the music, but just paying for a subscription service.

I don’t recall asking a question, but again, this has nothing to do with a brief outage for downloaded music.

 

[B4U]

I don’t recall asking a question, but again, this has nothing to do with a brief outage for downloaded music.

I believe you started quoting me first, so responding to your “critiques” is the least I shall do.
It still has everything to do with an outage to a service when it is inferior to having our own music.

 

[jonblatho]

I believe you started quoting me first, so responding to your “critiques” is the least I shall do.
It still has everything to do with an outage to a service when it is inferior to having our own music.

…you’re responding to points that I’m not making, though, effectively arguing to yourself. Seems like a great use of free time.

 

[B4U]

…you’re responding to points that I’m not making, though, effectively arguing to yourself. Seems like a great use of free time.

But couldn’t have the music download during its downtime, right?
So who is not responding to whose points originally?

 

[jonblatho]

But couldn’t have the music download during its downtime, right?
So who is not responding to whose points originally?

I was listening to Apple Music songs during the outage because they were downloaded to my phone. Therefore, the outage did not impact me. A great many Apple Music users have much or all of their libraries downloaded; they should also not have been impacted for those downloaded songs.

The iTunes Store has also certainly had downtime incidents before, and when that happens, you’re precisely as SOL for any of your “owned” music from the iTunes Store (or iTunes Match) that you haven’t downloaded as Apple Music users were for streaming music during this outage.

 

[B4U]

I was listening to Apple Music songs during the outage because they were downloaded to my phone. Therefore, the outage did not impact me. A great many Apple Music users have much or all of their libraries downloaded; they should also not have been impacted for those downloaded songs.

The iTunes Store has also certainly had downtime incidents before, and when that happens, you’re precisely as SOL for any of your “owned” music from the iTunes Store (or iTunes Match) that you haven’t downloaded as Apple Music users were for streaming music during this outage.

Again, still have to download after paying for the service.
Meanwhile, I have my collections that can be put onto any devices that I own and does not need the network or service to be up and running.
Ultimately, you don't own those music since it is just a service and is dependent on if Apple is kind enough to let you keep them at their discretion.

 

[szw-mapple fan]

Again, we would still not OWN the music when comparing having them on the device.

Your comment was about having the music on your device, not whether you owned the songs.

 

[B4U]

Your comment was about having the music on your device, not whether you owned the songs.

They are equivalent.

 

[szw-mapple fan]

They are equivalent.

You can have music offline on your device without owning it.

 

[B4U]

You can have music offline on your device without owning it.

And the moment you don't keep paying them?

 

[szw-mapple fan]

And the moment you don't keep paying them?

You loose access obviously. But it doesn't have anything to do with music access during an server outage, which was my original point.

 

[B4U]

You loose access obviously. But it doesn't have anything to do with music access during an server outage, which was my original point.

My original point still stands.
The service is down, and no music is played. The music is going to play if and ONLY if the user downloads it.