Hi, Nothing ever "disappears" from your devices. What happens with Apple Music is that an iCloud Music Library is created on your behalf. So all your content, including playlists is copied up to iCloud for syncing across all your devices. So, copies of the music you've ripped are either uploaded to that iCloud Music Library, or if Apple has that same title in their library, it is simply marked as usable and downloadable by you. This saves on Cloud space as titles that Apple has in their own library do not need to be stored tons of times by tons of users. Keeping this in mind, it is important to keep a local copy of your ripped music, as Apple downloads an "Apple Music" encoded version of the song, which is great as long as you remain an Apple Music customer. When you terminate your Apple Music subscription, you retain the downloaded copies, but because they are Apple Music encoded, you will lose the ability to play them after a bit of time. Because you've kept the local copy on your Mac, those titles won't be affected by the Apple Music limitations, but the iPhone downloaded versions will.
the iTunes Match service also creates an iCloud Music Library but does not have the Apple Music restrictions when you terminate the service. I love the ability to have the same library across all my devices, so love both the Apple Music and iTunes Match services. there are benefits and limitations to both. Back to your original question, no you won't lose that music, but you may need to copy it over again from your Mac if and when you do so. Later... Tim Kilburn Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Feb 25, 2019, at 11:25, Petrus Tuerlings <petrus.t...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi all, I just started copying all of my CDs into iTunes on the Mac. Must admit it is a million times easier then doing it with iTunes on a windows machine. My question is: Once I’ve finished ripping the CD it appears in my music App on my iPhone along with a download button. I’m guessing this is happening because I’m subscribed to Apple Music? If I download the album that has shown up in my music app on the phone, will it vanish from the iPhone if I cancel my subscription to Apple Music even though it is the same album I copied from my CD onto my Mac? Or should I be transferring the copied album from my Mac to the iPhone directly so I don’t need to download it? Hope this question made sense? Thank you, Petrus Sent from Petrus' MacBook -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ <http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries <https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
