Music App questions...

[Rockdog97]

Ok, in the Music app, there are buttons along the bottom: radio | Playlists | Artists | songs | Albums | Genres | Compilations | Composers

Under Songs for instance, at the far right of each song is a Cloud with a down arrow - what is this for/

Under Composers, there seems to be a list of random names for songs..who are these people?

 

[Rockdog97]

The cloud icon is to download the song to your device. The music app will show all music purchased from iTunes or all your music if your an iTunes Match customer regardless of whether it is on your device. This should be a setting you can change to only show music on your device.

Where does it download from? I dont use match or the Cloud, just iTunes...

any idea what the Composers tab is?

 

[BreakingKayfabe]

Where does it download from? I dont use match or the Cloud, just iTunes...

any idea what the Composers tab is?

If you have songs you've purchased from iTunes then some of them are most likely not loaded on your phone. Hence the cloud icon offering to download it.

 

[Rockdog97]

any idea what the Composers tab is?

Anyone???? It's the far right button on the bottom, if anyone is confused..

 

[jburke82]

Anyone???? It's the far right button on the bottom, if anyone is confused..

It seems to be the composer of the song. For example, for me under "B" it shows "Bruce Springsteen 1 album, 1 song". Artists and composers are (obviously) two different things. It seems that iTunes lets you search by who performs the song (Artist) and who wrote the song (Composer)