Why have they made it so complicated to use ordinary shuffle with my own music? I used to plug in and just hit shuffle every morning on my way to work. Now I have to select a song to start with, turn on shuffle and then hit the NEXT button. SO ANNOYING. What is the point of that?
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Apple Music Tidbits: Nicknames, Playlist Management, and More
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Q: Are play counts permanent? Or do they get reset after deleting and re-downloading tracks?
A: They are not permanent and will reset after deleting and re-downloading tracks.
Well, that's just stupid.
A: They are not permanent and will reset after deleting and re-downloading tracks.
Well, that's just stupid.
I would expect that they only get reset if you remove them from the 'My Music', not if you merely delete the downloaded copy. And since I see no reason why you would do the former instead of the latter, this is pretty much a moot point.
If you have enough space, once downloaded, they should stay there forever. All music that was on your phone before you enabled Apple Music should stay on it. If you add songs to the 'My Music' catalogue by selecting 'Make available offline' instead of just 'Add to my Music' (the former includes the latter), then all new songs added will also be available offline on the phone.
Plenty of reasons. I removed the song completely. Then two days later, I changed my mind and decided I liked the tune. I re-downloaded it but the play count is back to 0. Annoying.
You're not answering my question.
I have 4,560 Apple Music songs on my iPhone. How do I make them available offline?
How did they get there?
- Did they get there because they used to be in your iTunes library? Then they already have the 'downloaded' status and will remain available offline.
- Did they get there because you added them to 'My Music' from the phone? Then you should have used 'Make available offline' instead of 'Add to My Music' and you know have to repeat the process by selecting 'Make available Offline' for each of them. That sucks if you already have 4560 times selected 'Add to My Music' but I somehow doubt that is what you did.
- Did they get there because they were added via iTunes to the 'My Music' sections? Then the same applies as in point (2).
If you rip a song from a CD, play it, delete and re-rip it, it also will loose its play count. Nothing new under the sun. More people would be startled if a newly ripped song started off with a play count higher than zero than those who would mis this play count.
Yes, but now our songs are tied to our Apple IDs. I don't see why it shouldn't preserve the play count.
When Apple Music launched on June 30th, I added 4,560 songs to My Music on my iPhone. I'd like to make all 4,560 available offline. How do I do it?
Select 'Make available offline' for every individual song. Or you can add them to a playlist and then set the playlist to 'Make available offline'. Either way, you have to do this for each song individually, as you added each song individually to the 'My Music' collection.
If you add songs to the 'My Music' collection by adding a whole playlist, you also have the ability to make all songs in that playlist available online but that does. This however doesn't add the downloaded/phone icon to each song individually and I thus don't know if that is as permanent as selecting it for each song separately. It survives a force-quit of the Music app, so it might be permanent but then it still leaves the option to make the song available offline in the UI, so it might not be as permanent. The problem is naturally that you might not find the playlist via which you added the songs to 'My Music' easily anymore.
So you want Apple to preserve your lifetime play history indefinitely? Couldn't an argument be made that if you delete songs (as in remove from your 'My Music', not just merely delete the downloaded file), you would want Apple to forget about it.
It should. When I buy an app with my Apple ID and then delete the app, Apple makes it available for me for free indefinitely. Similarly, play counts should be preserved indefinitely too (at least for the duration of Apple Music membership and Apple ID). If I ever want to reset play count (why would anyone wanna do that anyway?), I will do so myself, manually.
Some people might prefer that if they delete stuff that Apple forgets about it, the privacy stuff. But I guess if you disagree with that that is their problem since any service should of course work exactly as you want it to.
Looking further, the switch to make what is shown in the current view available offline exists both in Spotify and Apple Music when you view a given song, album, artist or playlist (the difference here is that Apple music only shows the position of the switch for playlists, albums and individual songs, not for artists and the position of that switch, ie, the phone icon, can appear on the playlist/album or the individual song which is confusing and might hide unknown or buggy behaviour at this point).
The key difference is that Spotify also offers that switch when you are in the All Songs view (though not in the all albums, all artists, or all playlists views). That difference allows it to download (aka make available online) all songs in one fell swoop whereas in Apple Music the best you can do is to do so for each artist separately (still better than for each song separately as I said initially).
In principle, you can download all songs in iTunes by selecting all songs, right-click and select 'Make Available Offline'. But I cannot say whether that syncs this status over to your phone (it would make sense if it didn't as one easily might want to have all music in 'My Music' available on the computer but not on every device).
Yes, but Apple isn't known to expose every imaginable option to the user via a setting (mostly for good reasons but for every option there is at least one person who would wish it were user-selectable).
Is it possible to separate the albums in LPs, EPs and "featured on"? It is pretty annoying that they are all mixed up (especially in electronic music as people often release singles or EPs instead of LPs)... Spotify does a pretty good job at separating them and I hope Apple will have a look at this...
Another thing that I find a little annoying is that when you click on "Albums", then the information about the qty. of tunes and the year of release isn't written anymore...
Another thing that I find a little annoying is that when you click on "Albums", then the information about the qty. of tunes and the year of release isn't written anymore...
Quick Question:
Anyone know if you are able to search for "User Curated Playlists"? i.e. in Spotify I can search for friends via their handle or facebook name(if they have signed up through facebook) and follow playlists that they have made public. It is easy to share playlists & music between each other. I know that you can create a nickname handle in Apple Music, but I can't seem to discover if you can add friends or just artists that are signed up on Apple Music. I think that's what breaks Spotify apart from Apple Music(currently). I'm not referring to the curated playlists by Apple and its partners(Wired, GQ, etc..). If Apple Music does have this feature, I might just might not have stumbled upon it yet...? Anyone know?
Anyone know if you are able to search for "User Curated Playlists"? i.e. in Spotify I can search for friends via their handle or facebook name(if they have signed up through facebook) and follow playlists that they have made public. It is easy to share playlists & music between each other. I know that you can create a nickname handle in Apple Music, but I can't seem to discover if you can add friends or just artists that are signed up on Apple Music. I think that's what breaks Spotify apart from Apple Music(currently). I'm not referring to the curated playlists by Apple and its partners(Wired, GQ, etc..). If Apple Music does have this feature, I might just might not have stumbled upon it yet...? Anyone know?