How to upload your own music to Apple Music?

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coco
December 12, 2023

If you subscribe to Apple Music, you can turn on Sync Library to access your music library and music that you’ve downloaded from Apple Music on all of your devices. If you only want to sync your existing music library across all of your devices, and not any music from the Apple Music catalog, you can subscribe to iTunes Match on your computer. iTunes Match lets you access your music library on any Apple device or a PC with iTunes for Windows.

How to upload your own music to Apple Music on Windows?

  1. Launch iTunes app on your PC, choose File > Add File to Library or Add Folder to Library.
  2. Locate a file or folder, then click Open.

How to upload your own music to Apple Music on macOS 10.14 and earlier?

  1. Launch iTunes app on your Mac, choose File > Add to Library.
  2. Locate a file or folder, then click Open.

How to upload your own music to Apple Music on macOS 10.15 and later?

  1. Launch Music app on your Mac, choose File > Add To Library or File > Import.
  2. Locate a file or folder, then click Open. If you add a folder, all the files it contains are added to your library.

You can also drag a file or folder from the Finder to the Music window to import it. By default, Music places a copy of each audio file in the Music folder (Home/Music/Music) and leaves the original file in the current location.

How to access your local music on all devices?

If you subscribe to Apple Music, you can turn on Sync Library to access your music library and music that you’ve downloaded from Apple Music on all of your devices. If you don’t subscribe to Apple Music or iTunes Match, you won’t see an option to turn on Sync Library.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

  1. Go to Settings > Music.
  2. Turn on Sync Library.

On your Mac

  1. Open the Apple Music app.
  2. From the menu bar at the top of your screen, choose Music > Preferences.
  3. Go to the General tab and select Sync Library to turn it on.
  4. Click OK.

On your PC

  1. Open iTunes.
  2. From the menu bar at the top of your screen, choose Edit > Preferences.
  3. Go to the General tab and select iCloud Music Library to turn it on.
  4. Click OK.

If you have a large music library, it might take some time to upload and sync your music library across all of your devices.

How to upload Spotify playlists to Apple Music?

If you plan to switch from Spotify to Apple Music but want to preserve all playlists, you may wonder how to upload Spotify music to Apple Music. Unfortunately, even you downloaded playlists with Spotify premium, you can’t upload them to Apple Music, since the songs are DRM protected and can only be recognized by Spotify. To upload Spotify music to Apple Music, you need to download Spotify playlists to MP3 first.

Pazu Spotify Converter is a professional Spotify music downloader for you to download Spotify songs, albums, playlists and podcast to common format including MP3, M4A, AAC, FLAC, WAV and AIFF with the 100% original quality kept. After downloading, all ID3 Tags and metadata including title, artwork, artist, album, track number will be preserved. To learn how to download Spotify music to computer with free account, here is a quick and short tutorial that you need to follow.

Key features of Pazu Spotify Converter:

  • Download Spotify songs without Premium.
  • Convert Spotify to MP3/M4A/AAC/FLAC/WAV/AIFF.
  • Best possible quality song download without any type of loss.
  • Keeps all the original ID3 tags: title, artist, artwork, etc.
  • No Requirement for the Spotify app.
  • Multilingual interface: English, Deutsch, Español, Français, 日本語, 简体中文.
  • Archive downloaded songs by album or artist.

1. Run Pazu Spotify Converter

Download, install and run Pazu Spotify Converter on your Mac or Windows. Log in your Spotify account with the built-in web player.

spotify converter

2. Choose output format

Click the ” Options ” button on the top right corner. Here you can select output format (MP3/M4A/AAC/FLAC/WAV/AIFF), output quality, customize the output path, organize the output files in various ways, rename output files and more.

Spotify converter settings

3. Select Spotify songs, albums or playlists

Select the songs, album or playlist you want to download. Spotify Converter will detect and display all songs. Uncheck the songs you don’t want to download if there are any. Click “Show All” icon to toggle “Hide Converted” on in case some songs have been downloaded before.

drag&drop spotify songs

4. Download and Convert Spotify Songs to Local

Click Convert button to start downloading the Spotify songs to your local computer.

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5. Upload Spotify music to Apple Music

Follow above steps to upload the downloaded Spotify songs to Apple Music.

  1. Open iTunes or Music app on your Windows or Mac.
  2. Click File – Add to Library and choose the folder where downloaded Spotify songs are saved.
  3. Then the songs will be added to iTunes/Music and you will find them from Recently Added.
  4. Add the songs to a playlist so you can quickly find them on different devices.

How to find uploaded Spotify playlists on Apple Music?

  • Open Apple Music on your device.
  • Tap Library – Playlist.
  • Tap Sort on the top right corner and choose Recently Added.
  • You will find the Spotify playlist.
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