Hi Jason, I’ve tried to replicate, as closely as I can, my entire CD and vinyl collection on Apple Music and have mostly done it (despite Apple’s/licencee’s efforts to thwart me 😐).
Firstly, I’ve never had match or the equivalent to can’t speak for that. I have my entire music library downloaded onto my iPhone, but only my library on my iPad and iMac, meaning that I can play anything on my iPhone with no internet and I stream it on the other two. Mostly. The only difference is where Apple Music didn’t have the music I had which meant I actually used Free Audacity to record the missing vinyl onto my Mac and then uploaded it to Apple Music or bought the CD where possible and did the same thing. You can upload your own music to the cloud and then stream it to other devices which is what I do. You have to be a detective sometimes! I had three Tangerine Dreams albums in my library when I first signed up. A month or so later I went to play one only to find it wasn’t there 😬. What had happened was than Virgin had put all the early TD albums on one mega-album and removed the original albums. To get around this I then setup playlists for the “missing” albums which allows me to treat them as albums in their own right instead of “tracks 3 and 4 on the Early Years”. I can set my own cover art too! There are tracks you can buy, but cannot stream and there are definitely some weird licensing issues for Apple Music but that is the way the music companies roll I think, but it’s frustrating and never happened when I owned the music (either physically or via iTunes). However, I now have 98% of all the music I’ve ever had on my phone to take and listen to anywhere (including all my 7” singles) and it’s a small price to pay for that. Happy to answer any questions if I can. Stephen You meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it. ~ Carl Jung > On 3 Jan 2022, at 18:43, 'Jason Davies' via Sussex Mac User Group > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi folks > > This is one of those 'surely this is easy but no one talks about it on the > web' questions. I have a carefully collected music collection, mostly > lossless, often rare and hard to replace. I've had Apple Match for years to > get stuff on all devices and I've been wondering about signing up for Apple > Music now that it's (sometimes) lossless but can't pin down what happens with > the following: > > what happens to the music on my iphone (currently nynced only to the Mac)? > Will it still be kept on the phone or it it all 'forced' to be streamed? The > signal on my train journey is lousy so streaming is not an option. > > what happens to the library on my Mac? Is there still such a thing as 'my > library' I can search within? > > can I still buy a song? I don't plat to use it for ever, just to see if the > 'related' introduces me to more than my (lets be honest) 80s-focussed > collection;) > > Grateful for any answers from those who've taken the plunge. > > Cheers, > > Jason > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/A1C0029D-5BD3-4C81-93BE-DF47E406D1A4%40me.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/642B25EF-B9F6-4BAC-901D-B4E569FA0FAE%40icloud.com.
