Streamed music is great for having access to almost everything, but it isn’t always ideal when you’re on the move thanks to patchy data coverage and carrier data caps. While Apple didn’t mention it yesterday, it has now confirmed to Re/code that Apple Music supports offline listening. The feature is also listed in a feature checklist on Apple’s website.
As an Apple Music member you can add anything from the Apple Music library — a song, an album or a video — to your collection. And that’s just the warm-up act. From there you can create the perfect playlist from anything you’ve added. You can save it for offline listening and take it on the road.
Apple didn’t give any details, but offline listening is likely to work in the same way as Spotify Premium …
With Spotify Premium, you can select and download your music while you’re on WiFi. Spotify only allows the download if you have a valid subscription. Once the music is on your iPhone, you can continue to play it offline for up to 30 days, at which point Spotify requires you to go online again to confirm your subscription is still valid.
In practice, it’s very seamless: you’re exceedingly unlikely to be offline for anything even approaching 30 days – that protection is simply there to prevent someone subscribing for a month, downloading lots of albums and then continuing to have free access to them forever.
The feature checklist also confirms that you’ll be able to save Connect content – which will include demo tracks – for offline listening.
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Will Apple allow access from multiroom-systems like sonos?
So far, Sonos doesn’t look to be supported. It should work fine with generic WiFi audio receivers (that don’t require a specific app).
That’s not AN APPLE issue, it’s A SONOS issue!
Why is iTunes Match still around? What’s the difference between how Apple Music uploads music from your music collection to your Apple a music library and what ITunes Match does. On Apple.s website it just says Match and Music are complimentary of each other.
iTunes Match is cheaper if you only want on-demand access to your own music.
Uploading your personal music collection to Apple Music will count against your iCloud storage. With iTunes Match it doesn’t!
Where did you read this? I haven’t heard anything about Apple Music being linked to iCloud.
You’ve said this in a few articles now without mentioning a source.
Apple is saying this itself. Just have a look at the Apple Music page “Your entire library lives in iCloud…” and there you will find a link to iCloud informations. And there, at the iCloud page, you will find no information about uploading music to iCloud is for free, in case you are a Apple Music member.
I’m pretty sure…of course, not the whole music you’re uploading, but the “none matched” songs, who aren’t in the iTunes catalogue, will count against your iCloud storage.
There are 3 cases…
-with Apple Music AND iTunes Match subscription you’ll be able to upload “none matched” songs to iCloud and nothing is counting against your iCloud storage, because you paid for your iTunes Match subscription.
-you have only a Apple Music subscription, “none matched” songs will count against your iCloud storage and you’ll need to upgrade your storage plan, depending on how many “none matched” songs you have.
(believe me, I have a lot of “none matched” songs, though they’re are listed in the iTunes catalogue, but not purchased at iTunes…e.g.older CD’s etc.)
-you have only a iTunes Match subscription, you can upload your whole music library (till 25.000 songs are reached) to iCloud and everything is ok.
Doesn’t these 3 cases make sense, while Apple is explaining “Apple Music and iTunes Match are independent but complementary.”???
Have there been talks about an Apple Music api (like provided by Deezer and Spotify ao) so that we can integrate Apple Music ourselves in specific apps?
No.
So I could, in theory, download and put songs on my Apple Watch to run with?
Yes
Yup, just check FAQ page, it’s all here.
Found it. Thanks.
With a membership to Apple Music, you can sync music to your Apple Watch and play it back — even when your paired iPhone is not nearby.
Will users be able to create and share playlists and follow each other’s playlists like spotify?
Create and Share- Yes. Kinda like the currently iTunes Radio.
Follow users- no sure. I sure hope so!
What happens if you decide to un-subscribe? I would assume you don’t own the music you downloaded for offline listening. Does Apple take it back?
Assuming it works like Spotify, it’s removed from your device when your subscription expires.
Everything you ripped or purchased stays, everything you streamed and downloaded as part of Apple Music goes.
how does the family plan work? all family “members” musst be in the same wifi network?
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201085
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i have itunes match also i use itunes radio too much , so, i still be able to use itunes radio without ads using my itunes match account ?, or i will need to subscribe to apple music to use radio without ads?
Great question. They didn’t mention ads. This needs to be clarified.
I looks like the free tier is essentially the old iTunes Radio. This pleases me. That means even if I do nothing, I finally get iTunes Radio in Japan.
Will Apple Music Radio stations have ads (free and/or paid)?
For paid, definitely not. For free, I’m not sure. But I don’t think it has ads.
Does this include the audiobook selections????
*music*
The U.S. site says free users have limited skips and can listen to Apple Music radio stations. Other sites (like Canada) doesn’t have the check on free users for the Apple Music radio stations, just for the paid users.
How about iOS 9 beta users people!!!??
any software to move my deezer playlists onto Apple music?
Why can’t I stream music offline WITHOUT downloading it?