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Apple Music is available on your Mac. Streaming Internet radio stations have their place and are great. But Apple (like many of its industry rivals) curates its own streaming radio stations for your listening pleasure. The result is the radio portion of the Apple Music service, which you can get to by clicking the Radio tab in iTunes. You’ll land in an environment like this one.

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To qualify for an Apple Music student subscription, you must be a student studying a bachelor degree, post-graduate degree, or equivalent Higher Education course at a University, College (U.S. Only) or Post-Secondary School (Canada only).

As part of Apple Music, anyone using a Mac (or for that matter portable devices from Apple and Android) can tap into deejay-hosted Beats 1, a global 24-by-7 radio station broadcast live from studios in Los Angeles, New York, and London.

The other Apple Music radio stations, and the benefits that come with them, are reserved for people who subscribe to Apple Music. The cost is $9.99 a month for an individual or $14.99 a month for a family membership that covers up to six people. If you aren’t sure Apple Music is for you — and although it’s great, there are other fine music subscription services are out there, including Spotify — sample it for three months under a free trial.

Apple Music membership benefits include a bunch of genre-focused curated Apple Music radio stations. And if you hear music from these stations that tickles your fancy, click the heart to train the service into serving up more songs just like it.

You can also click the three dots next to the song title (when you hover the cursor over it) for other drop-down menu choices. For example, you can add the song to your My Music collection. You can add the song to a playlist or an iTunes wish list. You can share the song or station (via email, Twitter, Facebook, and Messages), or jump to the particular artist or album to explore other music from that performer. And you can use the song in question as the seed song that blossoms into its own custom radio station.

And if your opinion of the song is less harmonious, you can also tell Apple Music to “Never Play This Song.”

Songs with explicit lyrics are shown with a tiny E next to their title to ward off you (or perhaps your kids).

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Speaking of material that you or your children may not want to hear, if you are turned off by vulgar words or other potentially sensitive or scatological lyrics, head to iTunes Preferences, click the Restrictions tab, and place a check mark next to the Restrict: Music with Explicit Content option.

The various tabs at the top of your iTunes display hint at other sections of Apple Music. Click New to peek at Hot Tracks, Hit Songs, and other new music that Apple wants to bring to your attention.

Click For You for recommended playlists and albums that the Apple Music editors think you’ll like, based on your current collection and the songs you choose to buy or designate as favorites. The For You section is frequently updated to keep the material fresh.

Click Connect to follow certain artists and learn about new releases and tours, view candid photos, and even watch some video. You can read what fans of the artist have to say about the performer and contribute your own comments.

You’ve probably figured out by now that the My Music tab leads to your own iTunes music collection or library. If you subscribe to Apple Music, you can add the music you hear streaming on the radio to your collection. As a subscriber, you can also stream any song in the vast Apple Music collection that you want to hear and add that song to My Music too.

Of course, there is a great big catch here: If you no longer subscribe to Apple Music, you won’t be able to play back any of the music that you don’t outright own.

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If you're not going to be connected to the internet, or if you're worried about your cellular data, you can choose to download songs, albums, and even entire playlists to your iPhone or iPad for offline listening.

Why download music instead of streaming it?

Streaming is awesome: You can listen to anything you want—Beats 1 included—at any time, and it doesn't take up valuable space on your device. But it comes at a cellular cost, especially if you have a smaller data plan. And even if you have a massive cellular plan, there are places where streaming music just doesn't make sense: airplanes, for instance, or camping trips.

Lucky for you, if you have an Apple Music subscription and iCloud Music Library enabled, you have the option to download any song, album, or playlist from its catalog for offline listening; if you use iTunes Match, you can download anything from your Mac's library on your iPhone or iPad.

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How to automatically download content

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You can decide whether to have content automatically downloaded when it's selected for your library.

  1. Tap on the Settings app on your mobile device.
  2. Choose Music.

  3. Toggle Automatic Downloads under Downloads.

When this toggle is on, music selected going forwarded is automatically downloaded to that device. This setting has no bearing on your other devices.

Apple makes it easy to optimize music storage on your mobile device. To set up a minimum storage threshold:

  1. Tap on the Settings app on your mobile device.
  2. Choose Music.
  3. Tap Optimize Storage under Downloads.

  4. Set the minimum storage. Available levels are dependent on the amount of storage space on your device.

How to select/download content

The process to download content is slightly different whether downloads are performed automatically.

With automatic downloads:

  1. Open the Music app on your iPhone or iPad.
  2. Select the song or album you want to download.
  3. Tap the + or +Add button next to the song or album.

The music will automatically download to your device. After it's downloaded, you'll see albums marked as Downloaded.

With manual downloads:

  1. Open the Music app on your iPhone or iPad.
  2. Tap the + or + Add next to the song or album you'll like to add to your library.

  3. Tap the cloud icon to download the song or album.

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How to view only downloaded music

To see only the content downloaded:

  1. Open the Music app on your iPhone or iPad.
  2. Tap the Library tab in the Music app on your mobile device.

  3. Select Download Music at the top of the screen.

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Downloaded content is organized playlists, artists, albums, and songs.

How to delete downloaded music

To remove certain content from your mobile device:

  1. Open the Music app on your iPhone or iPad.
  2. Touch and hold the song or album that you've downloaded.
  3. Tap Remove.

  4. Choose Remove Downloads or Delete from Library depending on your preference.

To remove all music from your mobile device:

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  1. Tap on the Settings app on your mobile device.
  2. Choose Music.

  3. Tap Downloaded Music.

  4. Tap Edit at the top right.
  5. Choose the red icon to the left of All Songs or individual songs.

  6. Tap Delete.

Content selected is now downloaded from your device. Note: The content is still part of your library, however.

What about the Mac?

To see songs downloaded on your Mac:

  1. Open the Music app on your macOS device.

  2. On the left side of the screen, click Songs.

  3. Click View on the Apple Toolbar.

  4. Under View, click Only Downloaded Music.

Now, only the songs downloaded in the Music app are shown.

Note: Beginning with macOS Catalina, the iTunes app on Mac has been replaced by the Music app.

Questions?

If you have additional questions about music on your devices be sure to leave your thoughts in the comments below.

Updated August 2019: Includes content for the iOS 13 beta.

Serenity Caldwell contributed to an earlier version of this guide.

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