Gary - thanks a million. You are the user manual that Apple forgot (conveniently) to publish. I think they intentionally keep steering us towards their new subscription service. Fortunately for us, we have YOU to set the record straight!
Hi Gary, Great as always. My question is . . . I have an old iTunes backup file from a couple computers ago. How can I add that to the current music app if it's possible?
Very helpful. I suggest you update this for Big Sur, which wiped my songs/albums & playlists! Thankfully I was able to rebuild my library & playlists/smartlists with a backup XML file I found from my Catalina library. Big Sur music app did not import any data at all.
Thanks so much for explaining this. This was driving me up the wall. I'm really starting to lose respect for Apple for making such a convoluted processes like this. You'd be forgiven for believing they just want to confuse you into ripping you off and spend money on services you don't necessarily need. SHAME.
That's exactly what they're doing. They offered us something good, got us hooked and now we depend on them and do what they want us to do. They used to work for us, now we work for them.
One feature i wish the Apple Music app has is Album Shuffle. The Ipods from 10 years ago had them, not only could you shuffle song you also had the option of shuffling whole albums in tact. But for some reason they took that feature off. i miss that.
Love your clear and concise videos Gary. My question is a bit different. Can I load my existing Library onto my iPhone AND use Apple Music service? It really seems like they want you to use one or the other and can't simply toggle between. My complete library at home around 300GB was visible on my iMac but not able to play once I subscribed to Apple Music. Really nonintuitive. Any help would be great! Keep up the great videos and thank you!
You have been my guide on apple for years - thank you. Well, I have MY music on my mac Iin my library that I am unable to play - the message says"must sign into and join apple music" frustrating! Any ideas? thanks..
Just turn off Apple Music like I show. It is slightly different in the current version of macOS, but same idea. If you still get a message, call Apple Support as something else is going on.
Always like your advise. I just go this new imac last year. In this case my friend, in music preferences I dont have 'restrictions'. So unable to do what you are suggesting. ALSO, whenever I want to play my library music I have, it says subscribe to apple music - nothing goes forward beyond this!!!? Help if you can. Thanks!
Things look a little different in the latest Ventura, but as long as you are not signed in to Apple Music, you can disable it if you look in the Music app Settings.
I have been an iPhone user since it first came out but only started using a MacBook in July 2021; your video is one of the best "how to" ones I have watched thus far; I have added it to my YT playlist just in case I need it in the future. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.
Thank you, I have enjoyed iTunes over the years. I thought you had to swap to Apple Music, or sign up to keep and share you music with all your devices. But as you pointed out, you don’t have to subscribe. Thanks again!
I wasn't able to search for music in iTunes until I did as you said to turn off the Apple Music in settings it now works how I like it, many thanks Gary.
Thanks for this great video explanation, Gary. I'm a diehard holdover using iTunes in High Sierra on a 2011 Macbook Pro with an optical drive, and was always baffled on how to move to the new way of doing things. I'll have to do that soon when I upgrade to an M1 Mac.
You are my go-to expert on everything i ever need to know. Its like a personal call to get information like in the old days when service reps for a company used to be available to answer a simple phone call. (Back in the day.). Thank you so much for all your videos. I love them!!! I live by them!!!!
Gary great info , I have been using iTunes since 2008, now the music app, and just recently bought my first MacBook ! But question is with the new Music app ,its missing the old option to just play purchased music , seems it only play recently added or just songs....I don't want my ripped music or mp3s included in that ,just want the ole purchased music playlist....I give up what happened to this feature ??
Thank you for this excellent presentation. Problem: I often cannot get the 3 areas of choice to show. Sometimes it shows and I use it and sometimes I can't find it. I would appreciate your help. Thanks Gary
Excellent explanation! It seems like you still can edit the tags, is that correct? I've been editing tags on iTunes (on a Windows machine) and I was wondering if that still works on this new app.
Hi Gary, thanks for the video. I use Music app and all my music is stored in an external drive. The music library doesn't store the tracks on my macbooks drive, in order to save space. Now that i want to replace my external drive with a new one, i will copy / paste thw old external to the new one, which i will give the same name as the old. the music library will be ok, or i have to fix it again? Albums, song titles, artwork etc?
I have a question that perhaps you can address with your knowledge. Is there a way to keep all of my mac to iphone music that ive synced over usb? Im worried it will try to upload it all to icloud once i join apple music.
Thanks for that Gary. So I can download all my CD's and save them in the Apple Music app put can I then download the same music onto a USB stick so I can use it in the car?
I assume. Depends more on your car and its capabilities. Why not just connect your iPhone (or other phone) and use that to listen in your car instead. USB stick method is old tech at this point.
Hi Gary, Might be a bit late for a reply but can I do this from an iPad. I have got songs under music files but when I select ‘Your Library’ option it’s blank, I can only listen via the iPads default player, I think it’s quick time. Is this functionality only for Mac OS. Regards John P
Hi Gary, just come across your brilliant vid. I hope you don't think this is a daft q'n as i'm new to apple itunes/apple music, but do I have to get the free trial and put payment details in and then cancel. Then when my free trial is over I can use apple music as you show in the vid? Hope you're still posting, iI would be grateful for your help. Thankyou
If your free trial is over and you cancel, then you can't use Apple Music (the service). You would still be able to use the Music app (not Apple Music, the streaming service). You would just have to purchase music from the iTunes Store or import your own CDs or downloaded media.
This was really helpful especially since I have been putting off updated my mac because I was worried about losing my music library (which is massive). Thank you so much much for your help and clear explanation!
this was very helpful thank you Gary. My only problem and Im not sure why but once I went up to Music as you suggested and go to Preferences to take Music off the side bar there is no Preferences for me to click in only Settings, Services , ETC no word of Preferences and I know Ive seen that other places before, what happened, is it gone now? Im running Ventura 13.4.1 thank you for your input.
It is Music, Settings, General. Then under "Show" you should see Apple Music. But it is only there if you are NOT signed up for Apple Music. If you are signed up, or even using the trial, then you'd need to cancel it first.
I'm a windows user and plan to buy a mac. I been concerned about this and you cleared the confusion. I didn't want to switch to android, thank you very much.
I have an enormous MP3 and M4A library that I play through my current iTunes, and have been hesitating for months upgrading to Mojave only because I thought a) I'd have to pay for it monthly, and b) it would be configured in such a way that I would lose the methods that I use to import files or rip CDs. THANK YOU for assuring me it will be basically no different if I click off Apple Music when searching. I already subscribe to Spotify and don't need another streaming service.
Wow, This is indeed enlightening. Thank you very much for this educational video. Whenever Apple Music popped up I assumed that it was prompting me to subscribe. Now I know I can use Apple Music with my own music library. Thank you
I had Itunes on my computer and have not yet synced my Apple Music Library on my iphone with my macbook Apple Music Library . In these Library's I have allot of Music on my Iphone that are not on the computer and vice versa. Is there a way to not lose any music on my Iphone if I Sync it with my computer music as it does say that you will "REMOVE" all Apple Music downloads on the phone when you do the Sync ??? Thanks
Without Apple Music, HomePod probably isn't the right device for you. But you can use it with iTunes Match instead. Otherwise, you can also use it to play iTunes-purchased music. And you can always use it as an AirPlay streaming output. But the real value is to do it with Apple Music.
@@macmost thanks for the Insight, I’ve been creating a smart home w/Apple and Google devices but already love my music library. I went from Apple Music -> Google Play -> UA-cam Music -> Back to Apple. So far, downloading the tracks I want to hear in Apple Music and ripping/uploading mp3s to my iphone then playing “downloaded” tracks while Bluetooth connected works flawlessly. Just takes some effort. Then Siri on my iPhone does the smart part.
Raally useful thanks, Gary. I have tried to drag mp3 files (and the folder, just in case it was that which I needed to drag) from my desktop to my library area in the Music app but it doesn't add any songs - any help you can give me would be great (a friend purchased the music and got a free download with it so I loaded them to my desktop from a USB). They play fine but won't import!
Hi Gary - I have a question about sharing access to my iTunes/Apple Music library, which I hope you can help with. I created my library years ago and it consists of music ripped from CD's and bought from iTunes. This was all done before my wife got her first iPhone. The library was created using iTunes and saved on my 2014 iMac, running MacOS Big Sur v.11.7.10. My wife has an iPhone 13 and I have an iPhone 14 Pro. Both are running iOS 17.4.1. I am the Organiser of 'Family' on my iPhone and my wife is the only other 'Family' member. I set up 'Family' when she got her iPhone 13 a few weeks ago so she could share the iCloud+ storage plan we have. She has her own Apple ID, which was used to migrate data from her old iPhone to her new one. Her iPhone is using this Apple ID. I've turned on 'Sync Library' on my iPhone but the 'Sync Library' option is not showing on my wife's iPhone? For a reason I just can't work out, she is not getting access to my/our music library, which she'd like to. Any help or advice you could offer would be very much appreciated. Kind regards, Robert
So are you using Apple Music? If so, and you have family sharing, then she should be able to use Apple Music too. But that doesn't mean she see YOUR library of music. She would have her own. So she would listen to whatever songs she likes and build her own library. You can certainly share playlist(s) with her though.
Thanks this helps once your in the Music app but I just got a new MacBook Air M2 and can’t even get into the Music without the Welcome to Apple Music on the screen I don’t want to click on Start Listening on the Apple Music showing on my screen. So how do I get rid of that so I can just get into my Music?
Let's be honest if you are an owner like me of a big library (almost 50 GB) apple music is not enough and still needs a lot of improvements. When I updated to Catalina a lot of my Artworks disappeared and almost a year later since its release is still persisting. So I installed iTunes again with Retroactive, I was not going to replace by hand hundreds artworks. Hope with Big Sur all this get's resolved but I been a Mac user for 12 years now and after a big macOS always something like this happens and more frequent than not it has to be with artworks.
Could not agree with you more. Now on Monterey with an M1 2020 Pro and the Music/iTunes app CAN NOT handle my library collection. Glitches, spinning balls, frozen playlists, can't scroll.... very, very unsatisfied.
Hi great video. I wonder if you can help me further. I have albums which are saying I don’t have authorisation to play. When I do the sign in the still say the same. Any idea? Only about 4 albums but would be nice to know. Thanks. Nigel.
@@macmost it was on a 2008 MacBook Pro. I used its hard drive to transfer music and video files. Just the few albums saying not authorised. Thanks for the amazingly quick response. Nigel.
Hi Gary. Thank you for a very useful and interesting tutorial. I feel I have less to fear now in migrating from iTunes to Music. One thing is still niggling though. Can I still sync my iPhone and iPod wirelessly to Music as I do at present with iTunes, it's such a chore having to get a lead out every time to do it?🐨
Hi. I bought new macbook pro. When I am connecting my oppo enco m31s or realme buds air 2 through bluetooth then headsets are failing to produce good sound. Even they are not giving stereo sound on youtube or apple music. Please guide. A dedicated video will be so helpful.
Hi Gary, This has just answered my question about the frustrating Apple Music. Quick question though, does my music library need to be in iCloud for other devices to use it or can the library be on some other cloud drive eg OneDrive?
Not sure what you are trying to accomplish by storing your Apple Music media (or Library) in OneDrive. It would behave the same as if you put it on any local storage location. You won't get any special cloud-like functionality from that. If you want the ultimate cloud features, you need to use Apple Music (the service) or iTunes Match. Then your music will sync to your other devices automatically. Otherwise, you can only manually sync by connecting a device to your Mac and choosing which songs to sync at that time.
@@macmost Hi Gary thanks for your reply. I accept that using Apple Music would be the best but my objection goes to cost. I am only wanting to play my music files, I am happy to pay for storage and would pay a reasonable amount for the app. But when I have to pay an annual fee, for iTunes Match (as I understand), it seem that I am paying twice to store my files on iCloud just to be able to use the Music app. Or is my understanding of how this all works incorrect. Regards David
@@davidwright8920 iTunes Match is cheap. It allows you to sync all of your devices with your music as if you have Apple Music, but without the monthly fee and without access to the rest of everything. If you find that worth $25/year, then do it. Otherwise, resign yourself to having to manually sync each of your devices as needed all the time. Not sure how you see this as paying for storage twice -- iTunes Match will "match" your songs and store ones it doesn't match (rare) but otherwise what is the other time they are stored? They wouldn't be part of iCloud or anything.
@@macmost Thanks Gary. I may have this wrong but I thought that I would pay for iTunes Match and also for extra storage for iCloud. Is this not correct? Regard, David
@@davidwright8920 Storage would be for your files, photos, etc. I don't think iTunes Match uses any storage as songs are "matched" not stored. I suppose unmatched songs are stored, but since that predates iCloud entirely, I don't think it uses iCloud storage. Even if it did, unmatched songs shouldn't be that many.
Thanks for this video it really helped. One thing I can't seem to do anymore is pick one genre to play at a time. Not sure why this is not possible. I used to be able to it..Any suggestions? Thanks
If I wanted to listen to my own cd collection that was downloaded to my iTunes, would I be able to listen to it on apple music on an iPhone? I tend to download everything in wav files so I don't lose quality.
THIS.... was such a find! Thank you mate from way 'down under'... as this new Apple Music on my Mac was freaking out a long term iTunes user with lots of pre purchased CD's loaded in to my Library over the years. Just one question if I may. I'm on Monterey / MacBook pro, and the 3 'Source' items top right corner you show and refer to, (Apple Music / Library / iTunes store) are nowhere to be found. I'm guessing its a view setting somewhere but I can't seem to find it. Best regards, and thanks again for a mind/life saving vid. Mark - South Australia
@@macmost Thanks for prompt reply mate cheers. Nup tried that still not showing. No real issue tho as I unchecked 'apple music' in prefs so now only my library and itunes store showing down left hand side. Maybe they removed the '3 boxes' in Monterey version? All good cheers
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! This was driving me crazy and I kept reading the information about iTunes and Apple Music but it wasn't making sense. OMGosh!! THANK YOU!!
Thanks Gary, but when I open the Music app on my iMac in Catalina, I only get the prompt to join Apple Music's free trial. Music preferences is greyed out. What can I do yo access my previous iTunes library without signing up to Apple Music?
When I try to import music from an old windows library only a few of the Albums convert most don't organize into an album artwork or "albums" are unknown. It just lists the song title inside the Unknown Album.
Thanks for your advice. I managed to search in my library again. However, I think that not everything that you suggest is still possible. On my MacBook Air (M1, 2020) Monterey V. 12.6 I don't seem to have the option of 'restrictions', so I can't turn Apple Music off. Also, it's quite difficult reaching the toolbar with the options of Apple Music, My Library and I-Tunes Store. I think they're making it gradually more difficult to avoid Apple Music.
@@macmost Thank you for your swift reply. For some reason I don't seem to be able to see it. I can't show you a screen save shot here but the options I have when I click on Music/Preferences/General are: Sync. Library. Automatic Downloads. Download Dolby Atmos. Always check for available downloads. Use Listening History. Show i-Tunes Store. Star Ratings. Songs list tickboxes. List Size. (Medium). Notifications, When song changes.
@@nigelhaywood9753 That's what you should see if you are logged into Apple Music. If you have Apple Music, you can't turn it off (why would you pay for it and not want to see it?). If you don't have Apple Music, you should see a checkbox for Apple Music under "Show:" there on that screen.
@@macmost You’re absolutely right. I’m silly for not realizing but I was actually thinking this was probably the only explanation. I’m subscribed to Apple Music. Someone told me it was the only way to have access to all my old i-tunes albums but it didn’t happen. It was one of those discount, first-month-free deals but they’re just about to raise the subscription fee so I’m going to try and cancel it.
I’m at year late, but have a question. The CDs I imported onto my old iMac were transferred to my newer old iMac. Some playlists are not able to be located. There’s the album picture but I can’t locate the file anywhere. Where are my CD transfers? Some are working. I tried disabling all you said to do. Frustrating, it’s like I’ve lost half my library. What can be done besides buying all the tracks? Thank you!
Sounds like the transfer had problems. Hard for anyone to help without a firsthand look. But why would you need to buy the tracks again? Do you still have them on your old Mac, or a backup? Can you just re-import them? Is the issue that they are just not in playlists? If so, just remake those playlists.
I'm not a big fan of subscription services, but I've found that Apple Music has exposed me to music I never would have found before. 🎶 PS: Shazam is your friend when searching for music while listening to radio streams. 🔍
Hi Gary, What’s frustrating with the Apple Music app is 1. After all these years, Apple doesn’t seem to put effort in good search. Not even to be able to search in a playlist. 2. The like button so deep in menus. Therefore it is not usable. 3. Very poor music suggestions because of the previous point. For all these reasons I went back to Spotify after 1,5 years of using Apple Music. Until today, I cannot believe that Apple does not listen to its users and look at how other streaming services work. I like your videos! Lot’s of greetings, Dennis 🇳🇱
Oh, I forgot to mention the bad ease of use of the UI across platforms and between the app en the iPhone. Spotify does a great job with this. Even when Spotify on my Mac is playing a song and I put in my AirPods Pro, Spotify switches directly to my iPhone. Amazingly not even Apple Music does that.
Gary, Great Video, ... BUT how can I use Apple Music on my iPhone without having an Apple Subscription? The iPhone App keeps asking me to sign up for a subscription. NOTE: I did try out the service for free and created a few playlists which are gone since I cancel my subscription. Also Is there a way to share my local Mac Music library songs with my iPhone. I did not find an iCloud option. Thanks in Advance
Do you mean the Music app? "Apple Music" is the subscription music service. "Music" is the name of the app. If you want to use Music without Apple Music, just say No when it asks if you want to try the subscription. Then use as you always have. You would then sync like always, connecting your Mac to your iPhone and syncing. Or, if you want to sync using the cloud without Apple Music, the product you are looking for is called "iTunes Match."
hi Gary, I always play apple music on my imac. When I turned on computer few days ago, I couldnt play music that I payed over 300 dollars, because Apple moved it in another file. Would you have any idea what happen and have I done something. My 2 grandkids also plays Roblox on my computer sometimes. Can you please let me know what Ive done. Im sure there is few others users that might have the same question. Thank you
Hi... in spite of clicking the Infiniti symbol and checking the preferences... my iTunes playlists ( not subscribed to Apple Music presently ) is STILL automatically playing the next song. That doesn't work for me as I am a solo artist playing live and do not want it to move to the next song. What am I missing? Thank You in advance.
Hello sir i wanted to ask a question about iphones. I have a few MP3 songs downloaded on my iphone from the internet, and they show up in my files in iphone( not apple music/itunes). I want to add these songs along with my other songs. Is there any music player app which will be able to access all the local audio saved on my iphone and let me play it and make playlists etc. I used to have an Android phone earlier and there, almost all the music apps like wynk, Spotify could do this. There used to be a separate section called "local MP3" which used to display all the songs in my files app. Is there any such app in iphone?
If they are files in the Files app, then just move them to iCloud Drive (if they aren't already there) and then you'll have them on your Mac in iCloud Drive.
Is it possible to do those restrictions on a iPad? I have radio that just won’t go away and I want it to just be my download and rip music. And is it also possible to have Siri only have access to your music and not Apple Music? I say “hay Siri play blank” and instead of going to the music playlist I own. it opens Apple Music (I have Apple Music free for year but I will not renew)
No, you can't get rid of those items now. Just don't use them. Siri works with Apple Music mainly. The best way to deal with that is to name your playlists unique things and be very clear when asking Siri to "play my playlist X" and such. Try different things and eventually you can get it.
Man thank you so much, i subbed to you immediately without a doubt. This is so annoying! I was always getting that stupid popup to get Apple Music subscription. Now my only complaint is that some of the wording is in French, why my language settings should all be in Dutch, i live in Belgium and i never had this issue before until now, this is really annoying as well. But i will figure it out! Thank again A LOT man!
Hi Gary. I don't see the option "For You" under "Apple Music". I've signed in to Apple Music, but the option is not enable on my Music apps on my Mac. Any suggestions?
Thanks for all your tips. I still hate how Apple totally changed the way the search function works in Music as compared to how it was in iTunes. I have over 30,000 songs in my library and do an Internet Radio show. I search in my library to create the playlists for my show. If for instance, I want to play songs with the word five in it, I could specify to search just in songs. Or, I could specify to just search in artists for names with five in it. Now it brings up Albums, Artists and Songs with the word I am searching for. While it does break them down by category, the format shown is very difficult to work with. It is not in the normal Music spreadsheet format (as it was in iTunes), which made it very easy to play part of a song to see if I want to drag it into the playlist. Now, I must go back and forth between windows every time I play a song to go to the next one. I do get the spreadsheet layout if I use Filter Field, but that shows all entries that contain the word, whether it be in song title, album title, or artist name. So, instead of sometimes getting 50 songs to evaluate, I get 400 names thrown in different categories. They need to allow us to specify what we want to search as was the case in iTunes for many years!
Have new macbook air - signed in to music but only purchased items downloaded not my playlists nor cd ripped music. If i import my itunes library will i have duplicate items. Original itunes was windows 10 and new one macos will it work. Any videos youve done help?
Unless you have Apple Music or iTunes Match your ripped CD music will only come over if you bring it over manually. Those things are not in the cloud so there's no way for your Mac to find them.
@@mishi1967 I don't think so, but hard to say without being there to see. You can just import specific songs if you like, or import them all and see and then clean it up later. Or maybe it will all be perfect. Hard to tell.
Good video, thanks. That's the problem nowadays. People don't look at the new things and complain about them. But the new music service is a clear improvement on the old iTunes. Just my opinion.
Did this a few weeks ago, and it worked perfectly.... BUT. I upgraded to OS Monterey, and now I don't see any way to search in the iTunes Store... When I try to search (upper left sidebar), it only searches my library, not the iTunes Store. Did they hide or just eliminate the ability to search in iTunes??? Thanks for your video!
Do your search, and then look at the top right. You can switch between searching in your library and the iTunes Store. If you don't see it, maybe you disabled iTunes Store in Preferences, General?
You can't. Unless you are using Apple Music, or iTunes Match, you transfer from a Mac to an iPhone or iPad. That's how the music got there in the first place. So do you still have the music on a Mac somewhere? If not, go back to the original source for the music (CD, iTunes, etc).
@@lakeman59 Same thing applies. At some point you would have transferred the songs from your PC to your device. It goes in that direction. So if you removed the songs from your PC, go back to how you originally got them and get them from there again.
Really interesting video Gary, thanks for taking the time to post it for everyone. Can anybody please help with this issue I have re iTunes..... I have the Alexa Echo 4th Gen. When I ask Alexa to play songs from my iTunes library I just keep getting messages to sign up for apple music which I do not want to do at the moment. So, how can I play my iTunes songs on my echo, even though my macbook pro and echo are linked via Bluetooth ???
I don't think Alexa has any way to do that. Someone would need to build an Alexa process for that and it would need to work wit something installed on your Mac. Maybe ask an Alexa expert, but I don't think it is possible.
@@UKPurplePanther You'll probably need to move on to a cloud/streaming service for that. Otherwise Alexa would have to have some sort of specialized Mac client app that could access your local files and then stream them across to the echo. No way that is going to happen. Simply subscribing to Apple Music would do it right now, or you could use your Echo as a bluetooth receiver and ask Siri to play the music.
@@macmost I really appreciate the advice and suggestions Gary. It's so nice to find a UA-camr who makes the effort to post helpful replies. Have a great week ! 👍🏼 🌞 💻 🎵
Great Vid. I've been told that if I stop my subscription with Apple Music ALL of my songs from my Library will be deleted from my computer. Is this true? even those which I purchased from ITunes Store? Thanks much and keep up the good work!!
No. Songs that you purchased won't be deleted. If they aren't there for some reason (they may not be there now, as a storage space issue) you can always re-download purchased music just like before. support.apple.com/en-us/HT211816
Hi Macmostvideo! I am an Android user, and the Apple music app is available for it. I would like to use it only for my own music library and not streaming. However, when I click on Library tab and then "Try it now" It shows 3 payment plans. At the bottom says "Try It free" on top of that button says "Plan automatically renews monthly". I assuming this is only a trial. Do I have to pay just to use it for my own downloaded songs? Apple is developing the App for Windows (Apple Music Preview but works) and I am using that now. I am using that for my library and very happy with it. I just hope I can use the android phone app version for free too. Samsung music is a great app too and that is what I use, but it would be nice to know if I can use this app too.
I don't know much about the Android app, but if you don't want to use Apple Music (the streaming service) then I would imagine you would just use whatever the default music library app is on Android, not the Apple Music app.
Can you add music/movies/tv shows files that was downloaded in the internet and sync them on the apple device? Not talking about Apple Music or Purchased from iTunes Store.
Gary - thanks a million. You are the user manual that Apple forgot (conveniently) to publish. I think they intentionally keep steering us towards their new subscription service. Fortunately for us, we have YOU to set the record straight!
AGREED.
Tell ‘em how it is, SoFarsSoGood!
Hi Gary, Great as always. My question is . . . I have an old iTunes backup file from a couple computers ago. How can I add that to the current music app if it's possible?
Very helpful. I suggest you update this for Big Sur, which wiped my songs/albums & playlists! Thankfully I was able to rebuild my library & playlists/smartlists with a backup XML file I found from my Catalina library. Big Sur music app did not import any data at all.
Thanks so much for explaining this. This was driving me up the wall. I'm really starting to lose respect for Apple for making such a convoluted processes like this. You'd be forgiven for believing they just want to confuse you into ripping you off and spend money on services you don't necessarily need. SHAME.
I feel the same way.
It’s beyond frustrating but infuriating.
That's exactly what they're doing. They offered us something good, got us hooked and now we depend on them and do what they want us to do. They used to work for us, now we work for them.
AGREED!!!!!
Thank you. You helped another person today. - many blessings and peace to you and your family today.
Always an excellent tutorial Gary👍
Thank you so much!
Finally, I was able to access my iTunes files after watching your channel.
Thank you again.
One feature i wish the Apple Music app has is Album Shuffle. The Ipods from 10 years ago had them, not only could you shuffle song you also had the option of shuffling whole albums in tact. But for some reason they took that feature off. i miss that.
Love your clear and concise videos Gary. My question is a bit different. Can I load my existing Library onto my iPhone AND use Apple Music service? It really seems like they want you to use one or the other and can't simply toggle between. My complete library at home around 300GB was visible on my iMac but not able to play once I subscribed to Apple Music. Really nonintuitive. Any help would be great! Keep up the great videos and thank you!
You have been my guide on apple for years - thank you. Well, I have MY music on my mac Iin my library that I am unable to play - the message says"must sign into and join apple music" frustrating!
Any ideas? thanks..
Just turn off Apple Music like I show. It is slightly different in the current version of macOS, but same idea. If you still get a message, call Apple Support as something else is going on.
Always like your advise. I just go this new imac last year. In this case my friend, in music preferences I dont have 'restrictions'. So unable to do what you are suggesting.
ALSO, whenever I want to play my library music I have, it says subscribe to apple music - nothing goes forward beyond this!!!? Help if you can. Thanks!
Things look a little different in the latest Ventura, but as long as you are not signed in to Apple Music, you can disable it if you look in the Music app Settings.
I have been an iPhone user since it first came out but only started using a MacBook in July 2021; your video is one of the best "how to" ones I have watched thus far; I have added it to my YT playlist just in case I need it in the future. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.
Thank you, I have enjoyed iTunes over the years. I thought you had to swap to Apple Music, or sign up to keep and share you music with all your devices. But as you pointed out, you don’t have to subscribe. Thanks again!
I wasn't able to search for music in iTunes until I did as you said to turn off the Apple Music in settings it now works how I like it, many thanks Gary.
Thanks for this great video explanation, Gary. I'm a diehard holdover using iTunes in High Sierra on a 2011 Macbook Pro with an optical drive, and was always baffled on how to move to the new way of doing things. I'll have to do that soon when I upgrade to an M1 Mac.
how do you get the files from your old mac onto the new m1 without signing into apple music?
@@roccachoppa1 Migration assistant or copy the iTunes Library folder over to the new computer using a USB Drive or something else.
this has been driving me nuts
just got a new iMac and was having issues browsing some tracks
thanka man this was great 👋👍
You are my go-to expert on everything i ever need to know. Its like a personal call to get information like in the old days when service reps for a company used to be available to answer a simple phone call. (Back in the day.). Thank you so much for all your videos. I love them!!! I live by them!!!!
I've only just watched your video but found it very helpful. Thanks Gary!
Gary great info , I have been using iTunes since 2008, now the music app, and just recently bought my first MacBook ! But question is with the new Music app ,its missing the old option to just play purchased music , seems it only play recently added or just songs....I don't want my ripped music or mp3s included in that ,just want the ole purchased music playlist....I give up what happened to this feature ??
Thank you for this excellent presentation. Problem: I often cannot get the 3 areas of choice to show. Sometimes it shows and I use it and sometimes I can't find it. I would appreciate your help. Thanks Gary
Not sure what you mean. If you are looking in the same place, you should see the same things. What do you mean by "3 areas of choice?"
Excellent explanation!
It seems like you still can edit the tags, is that correct?
I've been editing tags on iTunes (on a Windows machine) and I was wondering if that still works on this new app.
Hi Gary, thanks for the video. I use Music app and all my music is stored in an external drive. The music library doesn't store the tracks on my macbooks drive, in order to save space. Now that i want to replace my external drive with a new one, i will copy / paste thw old external to the new one, which i will give the same name as the old. the music library will be ok, or i have to fix it again? Albums, song titles, artwork etc?
I have a question that perhaps you can address with your knowledge. Is there a way to keep all of my mac to iphone music that ive synced over usb? Im worried it will try to upload it all to icloud once i join apple music.
This is Great!!! Thank You So Much!!! One thing though; When I go to MUSIC>PREFERENCES > the RESTRICTIONS icon Is NOT there. I'm using macOS Monterey.
Thanks for that Gary. So I can download all my CD's and save them in the Apple Music app put can I then download the same music onto a USB stick so I can use it in the car?
I assume. Depends more on your car and its capabilities. Why not just connect your iPhone (or other phone) and use that to listen in your car instead. USB stick method is old tech at this point.
Thanks for explaining this mystery!
Hi Gary,
Might be a bit late for a reply but can I do this from an iPad. I have got songs under music files but when I select ‘Your Library’ option it’s blank, I can only listen via the iPads default player, I think it’s quick time. Is this functionality only for Mac OS.
Regards
John P
Thanks a bunch!!! Very helpful. I can't believe I missed that tiny bar.
Hi Gary, just come across your brilliant vid. I hope you don't think this is a daft q'n as i'm new to apple itunes/apple music, but do I have to get the free trial and put payment details in and then cancel. Then when my free trial is over I can use apple music as you show in the vid? Hope you're still posting, iI would be grateful for your help. Thankyou
If your free trial is over and you cancel, then you can't use Apple Music (the service). You would still be able to use the Music app (not Apple Music, the streaming service). You would just have to purchase music from the iTunes Store or import your own CDs or downloaded media.
This was really helpful especially since I have been putting off updated my mac because I was worried about losing my music library (which is massive). Thank you so much much for your help and clear explanation!
Gary, you are the man for all things mac..great video
this was very helpful thank you Gary. My only problem and Im not sure why but once I went up to Music as you suggested and go to Preferences to take Music off the side bar there is no Preferences for me to click in only Settings, Services , ETC no word of Preferences and I know Ive seen that other places before, what happened, is it gone now? Im running Ventura 13.4.1
thank you for your input.
It is Music, Settings, General. Then under "Show" you should see Apple Music. But it is only there if you are NOT signed up for Apple Music. If you are signed up, or even using the trial, then you'd need to cancel it first.
@@macmost it worked thank you thank you
I'm a windows user and plan to buy a mac. I been concerned about this and you cleared the confusion. I didn't want to switch to android, thank you very much.
I have an enormous MP3 and M4A library that I play through my current iTunes, and have been hesitating for months upgrading to Mojave only because I thought a) I'd have to pay for it monthly, and b) it would be configured in such a way that I would lose the methods that I use to import files or rip CDs. THANK YOU for assuring me it will be basically no different if I click off Apple Music when searching. I already subscribe to Spotify and don't need another streaming service.
Wow, This is indeed enlightening. Thank you very much for this educational video. Whenever Apple Music popped up I assumed that it was prompting me to subscribe. Now I know I can use Apple Music with my own music library. Thank you
Thank you for this video. I was so frustrated. Found the songs I needed right away.
I had Itunes on my computer and have not yet synced my Apple Music Library on my iphone with my macbook Apple Music Library . In these Library's I have allot of Music on my Iphone that are not on the computer and vice versa.
Is there a way to not lose any music on my Iphone if I Sync it with my computer music as it does say that you will "REMOVE" all Apple Music downloads on the phone when you do the Sync ??? Thanks
Love it! One question though... Do you need Apple Music with HomePod? I couldn’t play my own music and sold mine. Looking at HomePod Mini now.
Without Apple Music, HomePod probably isn't the right device for you. But you can use it with iTunes Match instead. Otherwise, you can also use it to play iTunes-purchased music. And you can always use it as an AirPlay streaming output. But the real value is to do it with Apple Music.
@@macmost thanks for the Insight, I’ve been creating a smart home w/Apple and Google devices but already love my music library. I went from Apple Music -> Google Play -> UA-cam Music -> Back to Apple. So far, downloading the tracks I want to hear in Apple Music and ripping/uploading mp3s to my iphone then playing “downloaded” tracks while Bluetooth connected works flawlessly. Just takes some effort. Then Siri on my iPhone does the smart part.
Great video, Thank you I really needed to learn since I have been totally confused for the last six months !!
Raally useful thanks, Gary. I have tried to drag mp3 files (and the folder, just in case it was that which I needed to drag) from my desktop to my library area in the Music app but it doesn't add any songs - any help you can give me would be great (a friend purchased the music and got a free download with it so I loaded them to my desktop from a USB). They play fine but won't import!
Make sure you are dragging them to your Library in the left sidebar.
Thank you.... Just bought a new to me/older Mac and it is running Catalina and I was worried I'd have to dual boot to older Mac OS to keep iTunes
Hi Gary - I have a question about sharing access to my iTunes/Apple Music library, which I hope you can help with.
I created my library years ago and it consists of music ripped from CD's and bought from iTunes. This was all done before my wife got her first iPhone. The library was created using iTunes and saved on my 2014 iMac, running MacOS Big Sur v.11.7.10.
My wife has an iPhone 13 and I have an iPhone 14 Pro. Both are running iOS 17.4.1.
I am the Organiser of 'Family' on my iPhone and my wife is the only other 'Family' member. I set up 'Family' when she got her iPhone 13 a few weeks ago so she could share the iCloud+ storage plan we have.
She has her own Apple ID, which was used to migrate data from her old iPhone to her new one. Her iPhone is using this Apple ID.
I've turned on 'Sync Library' on my iPhone but the 'Sync Library' option is not showing on my wife's iPhone? For a reason I just can't work out, she is not getting access to my/our music library, which she'd like to.
Any help or advice you could offer would be very much appreciated.
Kind regards, Robert
So are you using Apple Music? If so, and you have family sharing, then she should be able to use Apple Music too. But that doesn't mean she see YOUR library of music. She would have her own. So she would listen to whatever songs she likes and build her own library. You can certainly share playlist(s) with her though.
Great information. You explained the Apple Music app very well. It is so confusing. Thank you!
Thanks this helps once your in the Music app but I just got a new MacBook Air M2 and can’t even get into the Music without the Welcome to Apple Music on the screen I don’t want to click on Start Listening on the Apple Music showing on my screen. So how do I get rid of that so I can just get into my Music?
Click that Start Listening button to dismiss it. It doesn't do anything else.
@@macmost Ahh, ok thanks. I wasn’t sure that it might link me up automatically to Apple Music and was too scared to risk it.
Much appreciated!
Which app is this?? I have a MacBook Pro. Do I need to download? or just open iTunes?
The Music app is part of the system. You already have it.
Let's be honest if you are an owner like me of a big library (almost 50 GB) apple music is not enough and still needs a lot of improvements. When I updated to Catalina a lot of my Artworks disappeared and almost a year later since its release is still persisting. So I installed iTunes again with Retroactive, I was not going to replace by hand hundreds artworks. Hope with Big Sur all this get's resolved but I been a Mac user for 12 years now and after a big macOS always something like this happens and more frequent than not it has to be with artworks.
Could not agree with you more. Now on Monterey with an M1 2020 Pro and the Music/iTunes app CAN NOT handle my library collection. Glitches, spinning balls, frozen playlists, can't scroll.... very, very unsatisfied.
Hi great video. I wonder if you can help me further. I have albums which are saying I don’t have authorisation to play. When I do the sign in the still say the same. Any idea? Only about 4 albums but would be nice to know. Thanks. Nigel.
Sounds like maybe you bought those albums using another Apple ID.
@@macmost it was on a 2008 MacBook Pro. I used its hard drive to transfer music and video files. Just the few albums saying not authorised. Thanks for the amazingly quick response. Nigel.
Hi Gary. Thank you for a very useful and interesting tutorial. I feel I have less to fear now in migrating from iTunes to Music. One thing is still niggling though. Can I still sync my iPhone and iPod wirelessly to Music as I do at present with iTunes, it's such a chore having to get a lead out every time to do it?🐨
good question! did you manage to do that?
@@user-mm2xh3hq1z Hi Gary, yes I did, thanks for asking. You were a great help.😊
Hi. I bought new macbook pro. When I am connecting my oppo enco m31s or realme buds air 2 through bluetooth then headsets are failing to produce good sound. Even they are not giving stereo sound on youtube or apple music. Please guide. A dedicated video will be so helpful.
Hi Gary, This has just answered my question about the frustrating Apple Music. Quick question though, does my music library need to be in iCloud for other devices to use it or can the library be on some other cloud drive eg OneDrive?
Not sure what you are trying to accomplish by storing your Apple Music media (or Library) in OneDrive. It would behave the same as if you put it on any local storage location. You won't get any special cloud-like functionality from that. If you want the ultimate cloud features, you need to use Apple Music (the service) or iTunes Match. Then your music will sync to your other devices automatically. Otherwise, you can only manually sync by connecting a device to your Mac and choosing which songs to sync at that time.
@@macmost Hi Gary thanks for your reply. I accept that using Apple Music would be the best but my objection goes to cost. I am only wanting to play my music files, I am happy to pay for storage and would pay a reasonable amount for the app. But when I have to pay an annual fee, for iTunes Match (as I understand), it seem that I am paying twice to store my files on iCloud just to be able to use the Music app. Or is my understanding of how this all works incorrect.
Regards David
@@davidwright8920 iTunes Match is cheap. It allows you to sync all of your devices with your music as if you have Apple Music, but without the monthly fee and without access to the rest of everything. If you find that worth $25/year, then do it. Otherwise, resign yourself to having to manually sync each of your devices as needed all the time. Not sure how you see this as paying for storage twice -- iTunes Match will "match" your songs and store ones it doesn't match (rare) but otherwise what is the other time they are stored? They wouldn't be part of iCloud or anything.
@@macmost Thanks Gary. I may have this wrong but I thought that I would pay for iTunes Match and also for extra storage for iCloud. Is this not correct?
Regard, David
@@davidwright8920 Storage would be for your files, photos, etc. I don't think iTunes Match uses any storage as songs are "matched" not stored. I suppose unmatched songs are stored, but since that predates iCloud entirely, I don't think it uses iCloud storage. Even if it did, unmatched songs shouldn't be that many.
Thanks for this video it really helped. One thing I can't seem to do anymore is pick one genre to play at a time. Not sure why this is not possible. I used to be able to it..Any suggestions? Thanks
In the left sidebar, move your pointer next to where it shows "Library" and click Edit. Then add Genre.
@@macmost Thank you very much..it was driving me crazy..Happy Holidays
If I wanted to listen to my own cd collection that was downloaded to my iTunes, would I be able to listen to it on apple music on an iPhone? I tend to download everything in wav files so I don't lose quality.
THIS.... was such a find!
Thank you mate from way 'down under'... as this new Apple Music on my Mac was freaking out a long term iTunes user with lots of pre purchased CD's loaded in to my Library over the years.
Just one question if I may.
I'm on Monterey / MacBook pro, and the 3 'Source' items top right corner you show and refer to, (Apple Music / Library / iTunes store) are nowhere to be found. I'm guessing its a view setting somewhere but I can't seem to find it.
Best regards, and thanks again for a mind/life saving vid. Mark - South Australia
Those will only appear if you have done a search. So search for something first.
@@macmost Thanks for prompt reply mate cheers. Nup tried that still not showing. No real issue tho as I unchecked 'apple music' in prefs so now only my library and itunes store showing down left hand side. Maybe they removed the '3 boxes' in Monterey version? All good cheers
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! This was driving me crazy and I kept reading the information about iTunes and Apple Music but it wasn't making sense. OMGosh!! THANK YOU!!
Great job what are the few places I can go and get reasonable information
Information about what? What are you looking for?
Thank you so much for this explanation and clarification! Now it all makes sense!
Thanks Gary, but when I open the Music app on my iMac in Catalina, I only get the prompt to join Apple Music's free trial. Music preferences is greyed out. What can I do yo access my previous iTunes library without signing up to Apple Music?
Dismiss that and switch to the Library on the left.
@@macmost Thanks so much Gary. Your instruction worked perfectly. What a relief!
Thank you, I overlooked this tab.
Excellent! Thank you so much for posting this great information!
When I try to import music from an old windows library only a few of the Albums convert most don't organize into an album artwork or "albums" are unknown. It just lists the song title inside the Unknown Album.
Thanks for your advice. I managed to search in my library again. However, I think that not everything that you suggest is still possible. On my MacBook Air (M1, 2020) Monterey V. 12.6 I don't seem to have the option of 'restrictions', so I can't turn Apple Music off. Also, it's quite difficult reaching the toolbar with the options of Apple Music, My Library and I-Tunes Store. I think they're making it gradually more difficult to avoid Apple Music.
In Music, Preferences, General. You can turn off Apple Music there in Monterey.
@@macmost Thank you for your swift reply. For some reason I don't seem to be able to see it. I can't show you a screen save shot here but the options I have when I click on Music/Preferences/General are: Sync. Library. Automatic Downloads. Download Dolby Atmos. Always check for available downloads. Use Listening History. Show i-Tunes Store. Star Ratings. Songs list tickboxes. List Size. (Medium). Notifications, When song changes.
@@nigelhaywood9753 That's what you should see if you are logged into Apple Music. If you have Apple Music, you can't turn it off (why would you pay for it and not want to see it?). If you don't have Apple Music, you should see a checkbox for Apple Music under "Show:" there on that screen.
@@macmost You’re absolutely right. I’m silly for not realizing but I was actually thinking this was probably the only explanation. I’m subscribed to Apple Music. Someone told me it was the only way to have access to all my old i-tunes albums but it didn’t happen. It was one of those discount, first-month-free deals but they’re just about to raise the subscription fee so I’m going to try and cancel it.
Always great presentations and great content thank you
I’m at year late, but have a question. The CDs I imported onto my old iMac were transferred to my newer old iMac. Some playlists are not able to be located. There’s the album picture but I can’t locate the file anywhere. Where are my CD transfers? Some are working.
I tried disabling all you said to do. Frustrating, it’s like I’ve lost half my library. What can be done besides buying all the tracks? Thank you!
Sounds like the transfer had problems. Hard for anyone to help without a firsthand look. But why would you need to buy the tracks again? Do you still have them on your old Mac, or a backup? Can you just re-import them? Is the issue that they are just not in playlists? If so, just remake those playlists.
I'm not a big fan of subscription services, but I've found that Apple Music has exposed me to music I never would have found before. 🎶
PS: Shazam is your friend when searching for music while listening to radio streams. 🔍
Hi Gary, What’s frustrating with the Apple Music app is 1. After all these years, Apple doesn’t seem to put effort in good search. Not even to be able to search in a playlist. 2. The like button so deep in menus. Therefore it is not usable. 3. Very poor music suggestions because of the previous point. For all these reasons I went back to Spotify after 1,5 years of using Apple Music. Until today, I cannot believe that Apple does not listen to its users and look at how other streaming services work. I like your videos! Lot’s of greetings, Dennis 🇳🇱
Oh, I forgot to mention the bad ease of use of the UI across platforms and between the app en the iPhone. Spotify does a great job with this. Even when Spotify on my Mac is playing a song and I put in my AirPods Pro, Spotify switches directly to my iPhone. Amazingly not even Apple Music does that.
Gary, Great Video, ... BUT how can I use Apple Music on my iPhone without having an Apple Subscription? The iPhone App keeps asking me to sign up for a subscription. NOTE: I did try out the service for free and created a few playlists which are gone since I cancel my subscription. Also Is there a way to share my local Mac Music library songs with my iPhone. I did not find an iCloud option. Thanks in Advance
Do you mean the Music app? "Apple Music" is the subscription music service. "Music" is the name of the app. If you want to use Music without Apple Music, just say No when it asks if you want to try the subscription. Then use as you always have. You would then sync like always, connecting your Mac to your iPhone and syncing. Or, if you want to sync using the cloud without Apple Music, the product you are looking for is called "iTunes Match."
Excellent- very clear thank you
Excellent - so thankful for this video that I've subscribed. Well communicated and great help!
hi Gary, I always play apple music on my imac. When I turned on computer few days ago, I couldnt play music that I payed over 300 dollars, because Apple moved it in another file. Would you have any idea what happen and have I done something. My 2 grandkids also plays Roblox on my computer sometimes. Can you please let me know what Ive done. Im sure there is few others users that might have the same question. Thank you
Sorry, I don't know what the problem could be. Call Apple Support and walk through it with them.
I do not have the choice on the right to switch from store to library, etc.
Can you help?
Hi... in spite of clicking the Infiniti symbol and checking the preferences... my iTunes playlists ( not subscribed to Apple Music presently ) is STILL automatically playing the next song. That doesn't work for me as I am a solo artist playing live and do not want it to move to the next song. What am I missing? Thank You in advance.
Helpful and to the point, thanks!!
This was EXTREMELY Helpful! Thank You Soooo Much!!!
thank you! This was driving me nuts!
Gary You are a life saver!!!! Thank you So Much.
Gary, you are the Man , learned and applied a lot there.
Thank you I’ve been going crazy with this
Hello sir i wanted to ask a question about iphones. I have a few MP3 songs downloaded on my iphone from the internet, and they show up in my files in iphone( not apple music/itunes). I want to add these songs along with my other songs. Is there any music player app which will be able to access all the local audio saved on my iphone and let me play it and make playlists etc.
I used to have an Android phone earlier and there, almost all the music apps like wynk, Spotify could do this. There used to be a separate section called "local MP3" which used to display all the songs in my files app. Is there any such app in iphone?
If they are files in the Files app, then just move them to iCloud Drive (if they aren't already there) and then you'll have them on your Mac in iCloud Drive.
This was helpful - thank you!
Gary, what software do you use to emphasis your screen cast?
ScreenFlow
Very helpful. I was so frustrated. Thank you
Is it possible to do those restrictions on a iPad? I have radio that just won’t go away and I want it to just be my download and rip music. And is it also possible to have Siri only have access to your music and not Apple Music? I say “hay Siri play blank” and instead of going to the music playlist I own. it opens Apple Music (I have Apple Music free for year but I will not renew)
No, you can't get rid of those items now. Just don't use them. Siri works with Apple Music mainly. The best way to deal with that is to name your playlists unique things and be very clear when asking Siri to "play my playlist X" and such. Try different things and eventually you can get it.
Will the Music app bring in all your playcount data from iTunes? And will it play & encode Apple Lossless files?
You can't drag new mp3 files into Apple Music with Big Sur M1 chip, correct me if I'm wrong?
Man thank you so much, i subbed to you immediately without a doubt. This is so annoying! I was always getting that stupid popup to get Apple Music subscription. Now my only complaint is that some of the wording is in French, why my language settings should all be in Dutch, i live in Belgium and i never had this issue before until now, this is really annoying as well. But i will figure it out! Thank again A LOT man!
Hi Gary. I don't see the option "For You" under "Apple Music". I've signed in to Apple Music, but the option is not enable on my Music apps on my Mac. Any suggestions?
If you are signed in, then you should see Listen Now and Browse on the left (in 2022 Monterey).
Thanks for all your tips. I still hate how Apple totally changed the way the search function works in Music as compared to how it was in iTunes. I have over 30,000 songs in my library and do an Internet Radio show. I search in my library to create the playlists for my show. If for instance, I want to play songs with the word five in it, I could specify to search just in songs. Or, I could specify to just search in artists for names with five in it. Now it brings up Albums, Artists and Songs with the word I am searching for. While it does break them down by category, the format shown is very difficult to work with. It is not in the normal Music spreadsheet format (as it was in iTunes), which made it very easy to play part of a song to see if I want to drag it into the playlist. Now, I must go back and forth between windows every time I play a song to go to the next one. I do get the spreadsheet layout if I use Filter Field, but that shows all entries that contain the word, whether it be in song title, album title, or artist name. So, instead of sometimes getting 50 songs to evaluate, I get 400 names thrown in different categories. They need to allow us to specify what we want to search as was the case in iTunes for many years!
trying to access podcast via 'the old' itunes: free podcasts eg. BBC or Guardian shows: are these gone?
Have new macbook air - signed in to music but only purchased items downloaded not my playlists nor cd ripped music. If i import my itunes library will i have duplicate items. Original itunes was windows 10 and new one macos will it work. Any videos youve done help?
Unless you have Apple Music or iTunes Match your ripped CD music will only come over if you bring it over manually. Those things are not in the cloud so there's no way for your Mac to find them.
Ok but if i import my library will i now have duplicate downloads cos I’ve signed in on my new airbook b4 importing library
Forget above reply - basically anything not purchased will have to be manually added - got it cheers.
@@mishi1967 I don't think so, but hard to say without being there to see. You can just import specific songs if you like, or import them all and see and then clean it up later. Or maybe it will all be perfect. Hard to tell.
Good video, thanks. That's the problem nowadays. People don't look at the new things and complain about them. But the new music service is a clear improvement on the old iTunes. Just my opinion.
Did this a few weeks ago, and it worked perfectly.... BUT.
I upgraded to OS Monterey, and now I don't see any way to search in the iTunes Store...
When I try to search (upper left sidebar), it only searches my library, not the iTunes Store.
Did they hide or just eliminate the ability to search in iTunes???
Thanks for your video!
Do your search, and then look at the top right. You can switch between searching in your library and the iTunes Store. If you don't see it, maybe you disabled iTunes Store in Preferences, General?
@@macmost Thank you!! Found it!
I have an iPad. How do i listen to my own downloads without Apple Music subscription … thank u for this video
In the left sidebar, select anything under Library.
Is it at all possible to have a video on how to transfer your music library on an iPad air4 to an iMac PC?
You can't. Unless you are using Apple Music, or iTunes Match, you transfer from a Mac to an iPhone or iPad. That's how the music got there in the first place. So do you still have the music on a Mac somewhere? If not, go back to the original source for the music (CD, iTunes, etc).
@@macmost I have iTunes on a Windows PC
@@lakeman59 Same thing applies. At some point you would have transferred the songs from your PC to your device. It goes in that direction. So if you removed the songs from your PC, go back to how you originally got them and get them from there again.
@@macmost Why are some things so simple on Mac and others things they do suck.
Really interesting video Gary, thanks for taking the time to post it for everyone.
Can anybody please help with this issue I have re iTunes.....
I have the Alexa Echo 4th Gen. When I ask Alexa to play songs from my iTunes library I just keep getting messages to sign up for apple music which I do not want to do at the moment. So, how can I play my iTunes songs on my echo, even though my macbook pro and echo are linked via Bluetooth ???
I don't think Alexa has any way to do that. Someone would need to build an Alexa process for that and it would need to work wit something installed on your Mac. Maybe ask an Alexa expert, but I don't think it is possible.
@@macmost thank you so much for replying. I do hope one day I can tell Alexa to play one of my 1300 songs in my iTunes library. 👍🏼
@@UKPurplePanther You'll probably need to move on to a cloud/streaming service for that. Otherwise Alexa would have to have some sort of specialized Mac client app that could access your local files and then stream them across to the echo. No way that is going to happen. Simply subscribing to Apple Music would do it right now, or you could use your Echo as a bluetooth receiver and ask Siri to play the music.
@@macmost I really appreciate the advice and suggestions Gary.
It's so nice to find a UA-camr who makes the effort to post helpful replies.
Have a great week ! 👍🏼 🌞 💻 🎵
SO helpful, thank you so much for clearly breaking this down.
this video is gold
Great Vid. I've been told that if I stop my subscription with Apple Music ALL of my songs from my Library will be deleted from my computer. Is this true? even those which I purchased from ITunes Store? Thanks much and keep up the good work!!
No. Songs that you purchased won't be deleted. If they aren't there for some reason (they may not be there now, as a storage space issue) you can always re-download purchased music just like before. support.apple.com/en-us/HT211816
@@macmost Thanks much for your response. Happy Holidays!!
Hi Macmostvideo! I am an Android user, and the Apple music app is available for it. I would like to use it only for my own music library and not streaming. However, when I click on Library tab and then "Try it now" It shows 3 payment plans. At the bottom says "Try It free" on top of that button says "Plan automatically renews monthly". I assuming this is only a trial. Do I have to pay just to use it for my own downloaded songs? Apple is developing the App for Windows (Apple Music Preview but works) and I am using that now. I am using that for my library and very happy with it. I just hope I can use the android phone app version for free too. Samsung music is a great app too and that is what I use, but it would be nice to know if I can use this app too.
I don't know much about the Android app, but if you don't want to use Apple Music (the streaming service) then I would imagine you would just use whatever the default music library app is on Android, not the Apple Music app.
Can you add music/movies/tv shows files that was downloaded in the internet and sync them on the apple device? Not talking about Apple Music or Purchased from iTunes Store.
Yes.
I was fuming. Thanks to you I'm better now.