Hi Stephen, have a read of this, see if it gives any tips.

https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/mac-help/mchlbf6a1fab/mac



Regards

Pete

> On 22 Mar 2020, at 9:50 am, Stephen Chape <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Very erratic Apple Music behaviour though.
> My iMac and iPhone use the latest MacOS and iOS.
> 
> I downloaded to my iMac from Apple Music 2 days ago.
> Singer A = 2 Songs
> Singer B = 3 Songs
> Singer C = 2 Songs
> 
> Then I plugged my iPhone into my iMac and opened Music (on my iMac) to Sync.
> 
> Both Songs from Singer A arrived on my iPhone
> But nothing arrived on my iPhone from Singers B or C.
> 
> I took your advice yesterday and now have 2 of Singer B’s Songs on my iPhone 
> (not all 3)
> And both Songs from Singer C have arrived on my iPhone
> 
> Please don’t tell me this is normal for Apple.
> I am starting to think “The Dark Side” is involved. IE: Windows !!!
> 
> 
>> On 21 Mar 2020, at 4:16 pm, Peter Crisp <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Stephen, I think it may depend on what iOS you have on the iPhone but for 
>> some time now Apple Music has been a cloud based metadata library and if you 
>> download to your iMac from the Apple Music store then yo do indeed have it 
>> held on the iMac drive. But your library metadata is held in the Apple 
>> cloud, these songs will appear on your iPhone Music library but with a 
>> little cloud symbol next to them indicating they’re a part of your library 
>> now, but not yet downloaded. You can simply download to the iPhone (by 
>> tapping the cloud symbol) for local playing when out of service areas or on 
>> Aeroplane mode. Alternatively if you’re at home with infinite download data, 
>> just steam it. 
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
>> 
>> Pete
>> 
>>> On 21 Mar 2020, at 1:29 pm, Stephen Chape <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi folks.
>>> 
>>> On my iMac I downloaded from Apple Music some songs from 3 additional 
>>> artists yesterday.
>>> 
>>> Then on my iMac in Apple Music I selected my iPhone in the left column 
>>> (iPhone plugged into iMac).
>>> Then (as usual) I clicked on “Sync Settings”
>>> Then I clicked on the “Music” tab.
>>> Then I selected “Artists”
>>> 
>>> Only 1 of the 3 artists appears in the list.
>>> The other 2 do not appear in the list, so I cannot tick them ready for 
>>> syncing ?
>>> 
>>> I have restarted my iMac and my iPhone but those 2 artists still do not 
>>> appear.
>>> Even though they both appear in my iMac Music list.
>>> 
>>> Any ideas very welcome please ?
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Stephen Chape
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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> Regards,
> Stephen Chape
> 
> 
> 
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