If you subscribe to Apple Music, you’ll get i. Cloud Music Library included as part of your $9.99 monthly subscription ; otherwise, you can subscribe to Apple’s i. Tunes Match service and pay $24.99 a year to store your i. Tunes library (up to 100,000 songs) in i, and cloud.
What is icloud music library?
Apple has two music subscription services available for you that work with i. Cloud Music Library: i. Tunes Match and Apple Music., i Cloud Music Library is Apple’s service for storing your personal music library online by “matching” your tracks to songs listed on the i. Tunes Store (or uploading tracks directly, if there’s no match available).
Yup, both the Apple Music subscription service and the stand-alone i. Tunes Match option., i Cloud Music Library lets you upload or “match” your personal music library with the DRM-free i. Tunes Store catalog.
Depending on how much content you already have in your i. Tunes library it could take anywhere from a few minutes to multiple hours after initially turning the feature on. Here are a few more details about i. Cloud Music Library from Apple’s support page: You can have up to 100,000 songs in your music library.
Where are my songs stored in iCloud Music Library?
You can also view what songs are actually stored in i. Cloud Music Library by doing the following: Open i, and tunes. Select My Music from the drop down menu. Select Songs from the sidebar. Go to the View menu and select Show View Options. Check the i. Cloud Download checkbox.
, your i Cloud Music Library can keep the following available in the cloud: Up to 100,000 songs, not including songs (or music videos) purchased from the i. Tunes Store; files can be no larger than 200 MB.
You can stream and download songs in your i. Cloud Music Library on up to 10 devices. Apple mentions that ‘after you turn on i. Cloud Music Library, all the music that’s currently on your i. Phone and i. Pad is deleted and replaced with songs from i. Cloud.’ (But the Mac or PC you used to sync from previously still has the original files.).
How to turn off iCloud Music Library?
On your Mac: From the menu bar at the top of your computer screen, choose i. Tunes > Preferences and turn off i. Cloud Music Library. I had the same problem and followed your instructions. But now, I cannot listen to that song on my phone.
How do I use iTunes Match with iCloud Music Library?
If you’re signed in to your i. Tunes account, open i. Tunes and navigate to the Account menu. Click on the Match tab that appears in i. Tunes, (or go to Account > i. Tunes Match). Select Subscribe for $24.99 per Year. Enter your Apple ID and password. After your subscription goes through, select Use i. Cloud Music Library.