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Some Apple Music Subscribers Experiencing Library Syncing Issue Across the iPhone and Mac
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Your story just cements my determination to never touch Apple Music under any circumstances. Or even streaming service for that matter. Certainly Apple does NOT care about music no matter what their official statement says. Actions speak lower than words, as it always does.
I just joined to confirm it's fixed, finally some proper syncing across devices. However, I also want to emphasize that the user base of Apple was the iPod users (Music) for a long time. And it's even more frustrating if this got fixed just because this has popped up on Macrumors. This issue has been there for a while. While I deeply thank Macrumors for giving exposure to the issue, I also want to condemn Apple for taking this into priority/speeding the release once the exposure has happened...
Sounds like a user problem. Never had major issues
Oh dear…
I'll ask you to go cast off the blinkers, and point you to the discussions years ago when the transition from iTunes to iTunes Match or Apple Music Match or whatever flavour of the day Apple wanted to call it happened.
No, not user error… just one of the many unfortunate enough to be ****ed over by Apple.
Anyway, I could go on… but instead I'll wave you goodbye and wish you a nice day.
Cheers.
Unfortunately still not syncing on my new Mac mini.
Of course, tried signing out, deleting the local library & restarting - still refuses to sync, for weeks now
Very frustrating.
This is an important news story. I can't sync between Mac, iPad and iPhone. I can't sync my owned music to my iPhone or iPad. I really appreciate that MR is lobbying on our behalf.
The only reason I've stuck with Apple Music is Apple Music Classical. Otherwise I'd just be with Spotify.
I still have this 'Genius results can’t be updated right now. An unknown error occurred 18004' issue. It's really annoying.
I buy a lot of my music on BandCamp, a lot of times some vinyl records with the accompanied downloads that then get added into the Music app and synced with Match. A lot of music I like just isn't on Apple Music at all, so being able to at least upload music is great. That makes it easier for me to add the music for the band I'm in, too.
I still have my OG brown Zune that I modded to add an 80GB flash drive.
No matter what, I still believe in Apple Music and I have slowly been noticing it getting improved.
That said the core experience is still too glitchy.
Music is already feature-packed, what it needs to truly shine is a little polish and an increase in performance.
I'd also like apple to invest in automatic playlists; the "Discovery Station" was a great step in the right direction (I discovered so much amazing music), but more needs to be done.
Hopefully by the end of this year Apple Music will have become an actual competitori to Spotify.
That said the core experience is still too glitchy.
Music is already feature-packed, what it needs to truly shine is a little polish and an increase in performance.
I'd also like apple to invest in automatic playlists; the "Discovery Station" was a great step in the right direction (I discovered so much amazing music), but more needs to be done.
Hopefully by the end of this year Apple Music will have become an actual competitori to Spotify.
1) too had a run of issues with iCloud and syncing. Long long ago, when I had multiple systems and before I bought into iCloud, I had iCloud turned off on all devices. Then a replacement iPhone slipped in with iCloud enabled, I decided to play with it, and a couple of devices were brought online, merged, and synced. All was well. Until I turned on one of the older systems and updated it. New features defaulted to iCloud, but existing configured items did not. This resulted in a host of issues with iCloud and syncing that took a cycle of disabling iCloud on everything and re-enabling it. (FWIW, this means de-registering Find My also) A painful process, but once completed and confirmed that iCloud had no devices nor data and then re-enabling the devices, everything started working pretty well.
2) Music, first thing - disable managing my music. Second - make a backup (Actually, this should be step 0 and 2). Third, point your Music app to your local library. All should be well after that, although I personally do not like how Music deals with personal libraries, cloud libraries, and playlists. I have well over 10K lossless ripped songs in my personal library store, so I made darn sure that it didn't get destroyed by iTunes/Music, and I always keep a backup.
Discovery Station is what I was waiting for. Spotify/Pandora, unless they've changed, absolutely failed in this area. So AFAIC Music already bests both, because in every other way it was at least equivalent (for my purposes)
Feeling smug with my CDs ripped and playing on my phone with no issues 😂.
Thing with streaming is if the internet died you all lose access to your music.. I knows it never gonna happen but if it did I’d be feeling smug again 😂
Thing with streaming is if the internet died you all lose access to your music.. I knows it never gonna happen but if it did I’d be feeling smug again 😂
I've always had loads of issues with syncing across multiple apps, not just Music. I constantly get settings being reset entirely in Podcasts, playlists duplicating, syncing just plain not syncing, among dozens of other little and constant annoyances.
I really don't get how a three trillion dollar company can be this pathetic.
Oh wait, yes I can, that's why they have so much money, 'cause they sure as hell don't spend it on QC.
I really don't get how a three trillion dollar company can be this pathetic.
Oh wait, yes I can, that's why they have so much money, 'cause they sure as hell don't spend it on QC.