Apple Releases iTunes 12.2 With Apple Music and Beats 1 Support

[Jstuts5797]

This may help some people:

http://www.cnet.com/news/apple-offers-ibook-user-guides-to-help-you-with-ios-8-4/

 

[shandyman]

I've just been avoiding updating iTunes for. Few reasons #1 it's rare I use it for music much anyway, unless it's for adding stuff to iTunes Match... Which brings me to my next reason #2 I still want to be able to add stuff to my iTunes Match without worrying if it got added to the iCloud music library instead(I've heard of this issue) and #3 I've heard that even some iTunes Match subscribers have had issues with their library. I wish I had an idea of how widespread the issues with iTunes really is. You can't really tell on here because the people who have issues are louder than those who don't. If I were to find that people in my particular situation as a whole haven't been having widespread issues I would go ahead and update. I'm also soooo happy to have up next! Been waiting for that forever! And despite claims of just being Ping 2.0 I'm finding connect way more engaging for me.

You could always make a backup of your iTunes library. I do that all the time, on a separate drive, separate to my Time Machine backup. That way, if anything goes wrong, I always have a copy.

 

[senrab]

I ended up restoring my entire computer to the day before and got the old iTunes back with iTunes Match working. I don't need Apple Music, I want iTunes Match to work.

I don't have Time Machine, but I was able to completely wipe out iTunes from my computer using the Terminal (I followed an online tutorial). Then I got a download of 12.1 that a wonderful person posted over on the Apple Support boards. They had the URL address of the 12.1 from the server. Problem solved

 

[GIZBUG]

So I am on the free 3 month trial. I also use Itunes match.
On my pc, i go to the apple store, see an album/songs, and it still wants me to pay per song to get them. I thought with apple music, I can grab any song and not pay the $1.29 per song. Am I missing something???

 

[ErikGrim]

So I am on the free 3 month trial. I also use Itunes match.
On my pc, i go to the apple store, see an album/songs, and it still wants me to pay per song to get them. I thought with apple music, I can grab any song and not pay the $1.29 per song. Am I missing something???

Yes. You are on the store, not on Apple Music.

 

[GIZBUG]

Yes. You are on the store, not on Apple Music.

Thanks

 

[Benjamin Frost]

Thanks

I sympathise with your confusion.

T'would have been better if Apple had combined streaming and downloads in iTunes.

 

[shandyman]

I sympathise with your confusion.

T'would have been better if Apple had combined streaming and downloads in iTunes.

That would have confused things more. You don't merge a public library with a book store....

 

[Tech198]

"So what gets DRM? Any matched track you download to another device. It gets DRM because the file itself is coming directly from the Apple Music catalog, which, as we established above, has DRM on it.

Uploaded tracks that you re-download will never get DRM, because they're not coming from the Apple Music catalog."

Should probably not mix local and cloud merge, since u'll be sorry... u did..

I have a clean library, but with iCould turned on, i now see 3 of the same "albums" "disk 1", "disk 2" etc..

and not even correct covert art either...

I think i'll keep local separate and use a separate iTunes library just for Apple music only. Apple still has some way to go.

 

[navaira]

That's just way too much PITA to be honest... two separate libraries? So you can't make a playlist that has both your local songs and AM songs on it?

 

[Tech198]

it has its benefits, but dealing with Apple music mixing local and cloud is asking for a messy library with incorrect covert art for what u know is the same album.

That's been my experience so far.