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Title: How to use Apple Music without iCloud Music Library
Post by: HCK on May 09, 2016, 04:05:20 pm
How to use Apple Music without iCloud Music Library

Want to turn off iCloud Music Library? No worries: Here's how you can still use Apple Music without it.

Apple Music and iTunes Match both offer access to iCloud Music Library, an uploading-and-matching service that lets you access all your Mac's songs from up to 10 of your devices.

If you'd prefer not to use iCloud Music Library as part of your Apple Music subscription, however, here's how to go about it.

Why wouldn't you want to use iCloud Music Library?

There are a few reasons some folks are hesitant about iCloud Music Library right now: You may have over 100,000 tracks on your Mac, more than will fit in iCloud. You may have a lot of manually-tagged metadata and artwork, and don't want to risk Apple accidentally mis-matching your songs when making them available on other devices.

Alternatively, you may just not see the point in streaming your local music to other devices when you have the Apple Music streaming catalog at your fingertips.

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