Hi Stephen, when you buy some content (Music) on your iMac, this in turn adds it to your iTunes library. If you have the "iCloud Music Library" button ON (green) (on the iPhone Settings>Music>iCloud Music Library), then there is no need to connect the phone to the Mac and synch, you can just open the Music app on the iphone and it will take a moment and then just synch over the air (within your WiFi or 4G) your entire library. This doesn't mean the content is downloaded onto the iPhone, it just means your library metadata is visible for you to then play it form the phone. It will play via streaming using Wifi or 4G unless you specifically select the Download symbol for that song/albums that you BUY. Conversely, you can BUY it using the phone and it then synchs back to the Mac iTunes library.
Kind Regards Peter Crisp ----- Original Message ----- From: wamug@wamug.org.au To:"WAMUG Mailing List" Cc: Sent:Mon, 29 Jun 2020 10:14:04 +0800 Subject:Re: Music Certainly some things have changed in the Apple music world. I occasionally buy a few songs from Apple Music.I do this using my iMac.Then I plug my iPhone 6S (and also my wife’s iPhone SE) into my iMac and Sync. But lately, when I Sync iPhones with iMac Music, not all songs transfer to the iPhones.There seems to be some kind of “disconnect” between them regarding Music. Can anyone explain this please ? On 29 Jun 2020, at 9:29 am, Peter Curtis wrote: Hi 95% of my music is off cassettes, records and CD’s! I’m not looking to avoid buying music, or giving it to others so they can avoid buying it. It’s just the simplicity I had before with iTunes seems to me to have been removed. I have found solutions to my current situation, just find the constant changes to shore up their profits annoying. When I purchased most of my music the costs were excessive due to their protections, it looks like they are moving towards that again in one way or another. I was just wondering if there was a replacement more like iTunes and less like Music. Kind regards Peter On 29 Jun 2020, at 8:01 am, Peter Crisp wrote: Hi Marcus, I think if you press the "buy" button on a song or album, if you're NOT an Apple Music paid subscriber, then you get to play that song on your apple device/s anywhere and download to your device to play where you don't have 4G service - but still constrained to your Apple devices. If you ARE an Apple Music Subscriber, you don't have to pay or press Buy on anything more for anything in the entire Music database which Apple manages because your subscription fee covers ALL music purchases. This does not include movies, it is just music. It's a similar theme for movies, when you 'buy (rent)' a movie, you buy the licence to play it for 48 hours (from when you start it) or if you pay to own the movie, you can play it as many times as you like on YOUR Apple devices too. Kind Regards Peter Crisp ----- Original Message ----- From: wamug@wamug.org.au [3] To: Cc: Sent: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 07:21:38 +0800 Subject: Re: Music Hi Pete, Is that correct if you buy music using iTunes, ie pay hard money for it vs renting through Apple Music? Cheers Marcus Marcus Harris Mobile +61417965618 On 29 Jun 2020, at 6:55 am, Pete wrote: Correct Stephen. If you 'buy' your music from Apple, you've actually only bought the right to play it on an Apple device. You can't make a CD of it or copy off to any other storage means. I'm sure it's in the fine print. Regards Pete On 28 Jun 2020, at 10:29 pm, Stephen Chape wrote: Hi Peter. I am not certain about this but …. I think if you bought the music from Apple, there are restrictions about copying it. On 28 Jun 2020, at 8:45 pm, Peter Curtis wrote: Hi all Is there an alternative to ‘Music’ on the Mac? I know I’m a bit behind the times but it appears I can’t access my music like to put a song on a usb stick to take somewhere? Kind regards Peter -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - Guidelines - Settings & Unsubscribe - Regards, Stephen Chape -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - Guidelines - Settings & Unsubscribe - -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - Guidelines - Settings & Unsubscribe - -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - Guidelines - Settings & Unsubscribe - -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - Guidelines - Settings & Unsubscribe - Regards, Stephen Chape Links: ------ [1] mailto:pe...@augold.com.au [2] mailto:petercr...@westnet.com.au [3] mailto:wamug@wamug.org.au [4] http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml [5] http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml [6] http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
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