Store Your Music Library in the Cloud

Your music library can be on your Mac, or it can be in the cloud, if you enable Sync Library, or it can be in both locations. The Music app blurs the distinction between the two, because it can upload your own music to the cloud, and you can also add music from Apple Music to your library. While you aren’t required to use the cloud for your music library, it’s a powerful tool that allows you to have a huge music library accessible on all your devices. (Provided you have the bandwidth and data allowance to access it.)

This chapter looks at the two ways you can store your music library in the cloud, via Apple Music and iTunes Match. Both these options allow you to enable Sync Library, which lets you store ...

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