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Apple Music & CDs in iTunes

Since subscribing to Apple Music, physical CDs that I buy and rip into iTunes don't appear on Apple Music on my iPhone or iPad, although they are on iTunes on my iMac. This wouldn't matter if the CDs were available in Apple Music, but such is my wayward musical taste, more often than not they bain't, so I can only listen at home to CDs that I have bought ... I've had this fixed twice by Apple Support; the first time it worked a treat, although I can now no longer remember how it was done. The second time, I was instructed to re-set my iPhone and iPad; I did this to the iPad and it didn't make any difference, although it took AGES to get the iPad back to the way I'd had it before! Anyone able to help?


Posted on Aug 15, 2019 6:23 AM

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Posted on Aug 15, 2019 8:13 PM

Converted audio CDs that were in iTunes prior to getting an Apple Music subscription, would have been matched with the Apple Music catalog and uploaded to a personal section of iCloud Music Library if they weren’t matched -- if you were patient enough to go through the upload of all that.


Converted audio CDs that were added to iTunes after getting an Apple Music subscription, would have to be manually uploaded/​matched separately. Make a selection of the tracks (probably easiest in list view by songs), then right-click or Control-click, and select add to iCloud Music Library.


Access your music collection on all of your devices with Apple Music - Apple Support


If there comes a period of being unsubscribed for more than 30 days, then these uploads will be lost.

These custom additions are personal and do not get included in the Apple Music catalog. As such, these tracks can’t be shared with other users.

If you can’t see your iCloud Music Library anymore on your iPhone, then resetting some settings on your device might bring it back.

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Aug 15, 2019 8:13 PM in response to Jim the Boogieman

Converted audio CDs that were in iTunes prior to getting an Apple Music subscription, would have been matched with the Apple Music catalog and uploaded to a personal section of iCloud Music Library if they weren’t matched -- if you were patient enough to go through the upload of all that.


Converted audio CDs that were added to iTunes after getting an Apple Music subscription, would have to be manually uploaded/​matched separately. Make a selection of the tracks (probably easiest in list view by songs), then right-click or Control-click, and select add to iCloud Music Library.


Access your music collection on all of your devices with Apple Music - Apple Support


If there comes a period of being unsubscribed for more than 30 days, then these uploads will be lost.

These custom additions are personal and do not get included in the Apple Music catalog. As such, these tracks can’t be shared with other users.

If you can’t see your iCloud Music Library anymore on your iPhone, then resetting some settings on your device might bring it back.

Apple Music & CDs in iTunes

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