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Apple Music vs Spotify and how Apple is better

Scatabrain

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True, your iCloud storage isn't affected by iCloud Music Library.
No, Apple doesn't remember which songs you have made available for offline use.
I created a few smart playlists in iTunes and some of them are intended for offline use only. Should I for whatever reason have to reinstall my iPhone from scratch, all songs will be available on my phone once I sign in on iCloud Music Library. After that, I only have to make those playlists available for offline use again and I'm good to go. I don't save any individual songs for offline use anyway. All songs I like to be offline belong in one of those smart playlists.

I do that exact thing with playlists. It's the same with getting music onto the watch. You make a playlist.
 

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We chatted about this on another thread yesterday. So I'm clear, any song I saved for offline listening isn't retained anywhere in iCloud? Meaning a list of the songs I downloaded for offline listening isn't referenced and the songs download again? I will have to pick each song and select for offline listening?

I'm thinking that's the case. My offline song list doesn't exist and I'm left to download each song again following a clean install.

I went back to Spotify last night, reactivated my account, restored my saved playlists, and the songs began to download to my iPhone.

If Apple Music can't do this, I hope they can in the future.

Your library and play lists are saved so if you put them in a playlist you'll get them back. Same with any other service


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