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Originally Posted by mlewis78
OtinG: Do you play your Apple Music on your Echo? (Echoes)?
I am not currently subscribed to anything, but I had Amazon Music for about a year starting in 2020. I have free spotify and I don't think that will play on the Echo, except via bluetooth from my laptop.
I was wondering in case I ever decide to get . Not sure what I will do. I still have all my CDs and my stereo system and I have a lot of music on amazon music.
I just bought a MacBook Air and was disappointed to see that the itunes app no longer exists. It may still be on Windows. My Acer laptop died last week and I hadn't opened itunes in at least a year.
About a year ago all my itunes music on my iphone disappeared after an update on what was then a new phone. That was very disappointing. It said that any music I have bought from Apple would appear "here." I have bought very little from them but I had ripped a lot of CDs to itunes and downloaded from Amazon Music and put on itunes. If I want to listen to music while out and about with the phone, I have to use the Amazon Music app. It is laid out in a way that doesn't bring my attention to what I would want to listen to. Ugh.
I still use my Echo to listen to anything I am playing on the laptop. It was annoyingly loud with the "now playing from M's Macbook Air" but playing everything too low. I think I may have solved that by turning up the sound (in settings) all the way on the Mac. I will find out as I listen to more things.
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Yes I can play my Apple Music songs on my Echos. Once Apple Music is set up as the default goto music app, it is supposed to work by saying something like, "Alexa, play Alone by Heart." Sometimes that works, but often it tries to use Amazon Music instead, and thus decides to give me a bunch of dialog crap I don't want to hear. So to avoid that, I say, "Alexa, play Alone by Heart on Apple Music."
Yes, a few years ago iTunes was retired from newer Macs, iPhones, and iPads. You still get the functionality, but it was moved into other locations. My old MacBook Pro from 2014 still runs an old version of macOS and so it still has iTunes. If you have and older Mac or PC with iTunes, and you have ripped your CDs to that Mac, you might be able to transfer them to Apple Music. I did that years ago, it was quite a bit of work and not very intuitive as I recall, but I got them into Apple Music and the iCloud so I can listen to them on any Mac, iPhone, or iPad. I'm not sure if that is still an option with iTunes.
It sounds like you might have had the music stored locally on your old iPhone, and not in the iCloud. If you let the morons at an Apple Store update your new iPhone, stuff can happen, bad stuff. I don't trust them. I use the iCloud to backup all my iThingies on a regular basis, plus I store my Music and Photos in the iCloud. That way all is not lost if an update goes bad. You merely restore from the most recent backup.
ETA: As I recall, several years ago Apple scanned over the music I had added via iTunes (ripped CDs) and all of them that were legal (all of mine were legal) and within the Apple Music library were then converted to Apple Music versions at no charge just as though I had purchased them from Apple. I don't recall much more about that, but it was a rare act of generousity on Apple's part. I've long since lost the ripped CDs files, but since Apple converted them they are now permanently in Apple Music just like purchased songs.