r/AppleMusic

Hello! I want to leave Apple Music as the monthly cost is too expensive.

Is there a way to leave but then to purchase the songs you have added to your library? So any songs I have listened with my Apple Music subscription… I want to keep them by paying for them like the old days of the iTunes Store?

I have some songs on my Music library that I paid for years ago, but I’m not sure what is Apple Music and not?

Switched to Apple Music on Windows from YT Music for the high quality audio and lossless files.

Why does the UI have to make playing music and having on algorithmic shuffle so complicated?! If you play a Single song, it does not automatically play any other songs in the same category. And even if you manually enable a station, it does not let you simply press "BACK" to go to the previous song?!

I mean what kind of ragebait UI is this? For all the sleek functions that Apple boasts about, it cannot fix a simple feature. So annoying

EDIT: The issue is not about it playing the song from the beginning with one tap of the "previous" button.

On the Apple Music player on windows, you literally cannot go back to the previous song because the "previous" key gets greyed out. So its not about single or double taps

Hi I have a large local file collection hosted on Apple Music. I’m wondering how I might be able to stream it to my work computer? I don’t want to sync it — they would not like that. My work laptop is not a Mac.

Hey guys!! new poster here is there a way to fix my algorithm on apple music or help it pick up a vibe or is it just this way? I played yebbas heartbreak and the next song was perkys calling not complaining about either but they aren’t the same vibe at all and it happens often
any advice would do!! thank you

Do you download any music from Apple Music?

I only use my iPhone for Apple Music, so don’t want to fill it up with everything from my library. But I don’t know how to go about it. I don’t know what exactly I’ll feel like listening to when I’m without Internet data. Any suggestions?

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I am not sure how to go about it because when I was on YouTube Music, it was easy. Their smart downloads feature automatically downloads and keeps updating a random bunch of songs based on how much storage you are willing to let it occupy. But you don’t have to do any of the work choosing the music. It would do all the work based on your listening. I thought that was really cool. I don’t think Apple Music has that.

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So this has been on my wishlist for a while now, but I wanted to talk a little more about it.

A little history. One of the exciting things about getting a new vinyl album back in the day was opening the shrink wrap, checking out the full album gatefold, admiring the 12x12 art, reading liner notes, lyrics or other notes on the record sleeve. On a boxed set, sometimes there was a full-sized booklet with multiple pages. There was always some cool little tidbit or interesting art associated with the album, and you would read all that stuff while you played the album for the first time.

This was all miniaturized with CDs, but there was still some creativity with those booklets as well, some thicker with lots of pages for lyrics, art, photos, and so on. A boxed set could still come with larger pamphlets.

Digital Booklets in iTunes were an admirable attempt to reproduce that experience digitally. You'd get a downloadable Adobe Acrobat file (pdf) in iTunes that would open to some really nice full-screen art, lyrics and liner notes on the desktop monitor. You can still get these booklets with purchases from the iTunes store.

The pros of the format:

• The art produced is high quality, high resolution, nicely reflecting the experience of the paper notes and booklets of old.
• It preserves the liner notes in the original state nicely replicating and preserving the original layout.
• For things like classical music it often details key information and history of each movement in the piece.
• The format of the booklet is pretty much up to the artist, it's very flexible. and can produce many booklet pages
• The booklet is printable for those who want to handle a hard copy

The cons of the format:

• It comes with all that Adobe Acrobat application "cruft" that frames the booklet -- it's annoying and distracting. No, we don't want to subscribe to Adobe.
• The Adobe controls for zooming and flipping pages are arcane, tailored to a mouse and keyboard.
• There is no way to change metadata on a digital booklet, making it extremely hard to organize alongside the music in the library.
• It only is available on Mac/PC, limiting its portability and basically chaining us to an old mouse and keyboard model.
• All of above make the booklets feel clunky and ultimately add up to a powerful disincentive to use them.

The initial idea of the booklets was great. My proposal for bringing them back would be to make them more accessible and manageable.

1. Find a way to remove the Adobe "wrapper" and display simply the content on screen without all the app nonsense
2. Bring the booklets to iOS, Android, tvOS and make it easy to access alongside the album. You should be able to play the album while the booklet is open for view. I can imagine a toggle between the album cover art and the full screen booklet.
3. On iOS and Android, enable touch screen controls like pinch-zoom and swipe to flip pages. Booklets should still be printable on Mac/PC. On tvOS, add simple controls to the remote for zoom and flipping pages.
4. On Mac/PC, allow booklet metadata to be edited similar to the way music file metadata is edited, though it could be a subset of fields (album name, genre, year). Digital Booklets need to be organized just like any other music track. This metadata should sync to all devices same as any other music file.

It'd be great to see these booklets back. They really are an essential aspect of an album, and a way for artists to reach out to their listeners in parallel to the music itself. There was a whole artistic statement packaged along with the music, and I would love to see these booklets come back as value added to the album. Not to mention preserving musical history.

One thing I did not note was whether the booklets should only come with an album purchase, but my feeling is that these should come along anytime an album is added to the library, whether or not the album was purchased in the iTunes store or added as part of an Apple Music sub. Love to hear thoughts on all this and thanks for reading this long post! :)

I’ve been getting more into external headphones and DACs with Apple devices lately, and honestly, proper custom EQ support feels like one of the biggest missing features in Apple Music right now.

The built in EQ on iPhone and iPad is extremely limited. It’s just presets with no real customization, and a lot of them also reduce volume noticeably. On Mac, at least Apple Music has a decent equalizer, but even there I still end up using a system wide EQ because AutoEQ profiles make such a huge difference.

What surprises me most is the iPad situation. Apple keeps trying to position the iPad as a more capable “computer-like” device, but Apple Music on iPad still feels far behind the Mac version in terms of audio controls and flexibility.

A more robust Apple Music experience on iPadOS could genuinely become a selling point for music enthusiasts and headphone hobbyists.

I even started looking into Android based DAPs just for better EQ options, but I’m not comfortable entering my main Apple ID password on random third party devices. App specific passwords would make that experience feel much safer.

A lot of people would absolutely benefit if Apple added:

• Proper customizable EQ for Apple Music on iPad, and if possible eventually on iPhone too
• Support for app specific passwords or safer authentication methods for Apple Music on third party devices and Android based DAPs

It honestly feels like Apple is missing an opportunity here. Improving the actual listening experience would matter far more to many users than some of the recent flashy features that don’t really change day to day usage.

It’s frustrating to finally have proper lossless music support that works great with wired audiophile headphones, but still not have a proper way to apply custom EQ on portable Apple devices.

can anyone help me? when i entered apple music, all the songs, except for the songs i added today, were gone! idk what to do 😭

Title. I want to upload a lot of music to am but is there a way to do this where you don't need to keep the local file or a dupilcate on the device so I can keep the files on a hard drive instead?

I'm on a pc.

Too often, when I’m listening to a playlist and the songs have shuffled perfectly and a vibe has been found, I’ll accidentally click on a random song while scrolling Apple Music (we exist!), and lose the shuffle. I know my exact situation is unique, but “losing the shuffle” is universal. So I’d love for Apple to implement a feature where I can pick up where I left off on whatever playlist in the exact order I was listening to it. Is this wizardry already possible? If not, Apple please take note!

as title said , apple music 3 month subscription hasnt went up yet since january and we're in may

wtf is going on

ive had no charges to my account

So every day I’ve got an alarm. I’ve had it for years now. Anyways I go to my history of music and it shows I listened to that song when I haven’t actually listened to that song in a while. But now it’s counting as if I listened to it. And I’ve got an app called Airbuds that’s also counting my alarm song. Will this count in my final stats? How do I stop this? Why is it only doing it now? I updated my phone the other day to iOS 26.5 and prior to my update it’s never done that. Did the update cause this? Idk.

Either I’m blind and just can’t find the option or you just genuinely can’t add songs to playlists anymore.

A friend of mine has a load of songs my band wrote about 10 years ago saved on her Apple Music on her phone, is there any way that she can send these to me easily? I’d like to send them to my old band mates for a laugh