You can turn off the cloud service in Apple Music and still use it with your local tracks and music downloaded from the iTunes Music Store (which still exists).

I did this for most of last year. I had all local music in Apple Music, disabled the cloud stuff, and synced it all to my iPhone by plugging it in with a cable, as if it was an old iPod. It all still worked.

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dylan604 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Turning off the cloud service just does the syncing thing right? What about turning off the Apple Music service so that the only thing visible is your local content? That's what pisses me off the most.

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al_borland 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That's what I meant by cloud services. It hides the Apple Music part so it defaults to your local stuff.

Thought if I remember correctly, search was still showing it, which was a little annoying. But it depends on how much you search.

I'm currently using the service right now, so I can't really check if anything has changed since last year when I was doing it.

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thesuitonym 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I've only ever used Apple Music with local content. On iOS the only indication to me that non-local content is even possible is the radio tab at the bottom of the screen.

On MacOS I think it opens to the online home page, but I use it so infrequently I'm not sure. I pretty much only use it to buy music from iTunes.

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tap-snap-or-nap 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

VLC on iPhone has served me more reliably than Apple Music.

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dylan604 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I've recently tried syncing local content to my phone, but to find that content on the phone is difficult. The phone really wants to show me Apple Music stuff. I have to Library->Downloaded->Songs. Going to Artists or Albums just shows me "Download Music to Listen Offline". I really just don't want to spend the time I previously spent on my iTunes library all over again. I was really just trying to quick&dirty add content. They've made this unnecessarily difficult and I despise them for it.

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MoonWalk 43 minutes ago | parent [-]

Just go to the Library tab in the phone app. That's where your own stuff is located.

I have over 8000 songs synced to my phone, 100% from local files on my computer.

I never activate the "library sync" BS that Apple tries to force on you, because historically it has replaced your copies with incorrect or "remastered" (AKA dynamically compressed to hell) versions from Apple servers.

I've even caught it switching "library sync" on without permission during an update.

	▲	dylan604 37 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Please re-read what I wrote. I know where the local stuff is. It doesn't fix the glitch that app is

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DavidPiper an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Sadly it doesn't quite go away even when you've turned everything off: https://davids.town/dear-apple-please-fix-ios-music

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dijit 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You can, but basically every menu assumes Apple Music as a service, and its worse with each version.

You can technically still buy albums, but you can really tell its only there because it was forgotten about.

	▲	butlike 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Buy albums from Bandcamp. You can download them in multiple different formats and the artist gets one of the best cuts

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auxiliarymoose 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yep, I've been importing CDs to Apple Music (which I buy from my local music store) and adding them to my Android phone for personal listening. It's a great way to spend money on music in a way that supports local businesses!

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titzer 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Fool me once.