iCloud Music Library is a great feature that lets Apple users sync and share all the music tracks from Apple Music and iTunes to all devices. However, by enabling this service, you may encounter unexpected errors like:

Turn iCloud Music Library OFF and then turn ON again. If you are using an iOS device, go to 'Settings' 'Music' Sync Library, and turn the option to OFF. Wait for a few minutes and then turn iCloud Music Library to ON. After that, you need to redownload the music to your library. Sign out Apple ID and sign back in again. Nov 25, 2020 The iCloud Music Library allows Apple Music users to store their personal library online. It matches uploaded songs listed on iTunes or uploads them directly if none is available. In the iTunes app on your PC, sign in to the iTunes Store using the same Apple ID that you used to set up iCloud Music Library on the first computer. Choose Edit Preferences, then click General. Select the iCloud Music Library checkbox. Turn on iCloud Music Library on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Here is how you can enable iCloud Music Library on your Mac: Sign in to your iTunes using the same login information (Apple ID and password) as you use for your Apple Music. Go to the menu (on the top of the screen) and choose “iTunes”. Then, go to “Preferences”. In the “General Preferences” tab, make sure you put a tick next to. ICloud Music Library, together with Apple music, offer a feature that matches your local iTunes library with music in Apple’s cloud. In many cases, this matching works correctly. But, since iCloud Music Library matches music by only looking at your music’s metadata, it can make mistakes.

* Songs are synced with missing or mismatched album artwork
* Tracks show wrong metadata
* live tracks matched to their studio versions
* Albums or songs refuse to sync
* ...

The more complex your music library is, the more likely the issues occur. Instead of finding a fix to those bugs, the better solution is to turn off iCloud Music Library on your devices. How? The following content will show you the complete guide to disable iCloud Music Library on your Mac, PC, and iPhone step by step.

Things you should know before disabling iCloud Music Library

Before we start to teach you how to disable iCloud Music Library, you are recommended to think about whether you need to close it. And we also have a significant suggestion for you before you start to turn iCloud Music Library off.

What is iCloud Music Library?

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Launched in 2015, iCloud Music Library is the cloud-based service of Apple, which is used for the music downloaded from Apple Music. It enables you to synchronize songs, playlists, and albums automatically to iOS devices with the iCloud account. You can use this feature only if you purchase the $9.99 plan of Apple Music or pay $24.99 a year for iTunes Match. You can download up to 100,000 songs to up to 10 admitted devices. But the song cannot be larger than 200 MB or longer than 2 hours. iCloud Music Library will replace the songs with a higher quality version automatically. But you cannot sync music from iTunes to iPhone manually.

What will happen if you disable iCloud Music Library

Although turning off iCloud Music Library is a permanent solution to avoid syncing errors, you'll however lose access to music files including a cloud-based copy of your iTunes library, any saved songs from the Apple Music catalog, and other tracks you uploaded to iCloud to stream on other devices. And you cannot listen to Apple Music offline. If you decide to turn off iCloud Music Library, it is necessary to back up songs from Apple Music in advance.

How to use Apple Music without iCloud Music Library

So, if you still want to listen to Apple Music songs offline on your devices, you can do some tricks as below to use Apple Music without iCloud Music Library by downloading and converting Apple Music songs.

Step 1. Download and install TunesKit Audio Converter on your computer.

Introduction on TunesKit: TunesKit Audio Converter is an all-in-one tool for dealing with audios. It is able to convert Apple Music, iTunes songs, audiobooks, Audible audiobooks, and other common audios to MP3, AAC, M4A, M4B, FLAC, and WAV with 30X faster speed in high audio quality.

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Step 2. Launch the program and add your saved Apple Music tracks to the converter. Choose the output format as MP3, FLAC, or others. Hit Convert.

Step 3. After conversion, locate the converted Apple Music files and move them to any device or player for offline listening.

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For more details about Apple Music and TunesKit, you can visit this tutorial: How to Convert Apple Music to MP3.

How to turn off iCloud Music Library

When you decide to turn off iCloud Music Library, you can follow the guides in this part. We will introduce the method on iPhone, iPad, and iPod as well as the method on Mac or PC. By the way, when you only disable iCloud Music Library on some devices, the feature on other devices will not be affected.

How to turn off iCloud Music Library on iPhone, iPad, iPod

Follow these steps if you want to disable iCloud Music Library on your iOS devices.

Step 1. On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch, go to Settings >Music.

Step 2. Scroll down to the iCloud Music Library setting.

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Step 3. Uncheck the iCloud Music Library option.

How to turn iCloud Music Library off on Mac/PC

To turn off iCloud music on your Mac or PC, you can follow the instructions below:

Step 1. Open iTunes on the computer.

Step 2. Go to iTunes >Preferences.

Step 3. Under the General tab, uncheck the iCloud Music Library option.

Summary

If you want to turn off iCloud Music Library, you’d better know what it brings to you and what will you lose after the disabling. To summarize, you can only manually sync the Apple Music songs to other devices and cannot listen to Apple Music offline. So, you need a tool like TunesKit Audio Converter to convert Apple Music for you so that you can easily listen to Apple Music offline and sync to any other device.

Adam Gorden is an experienced writer of TunesKit who is obsessed about tech, movie and software.

• You can turn off your iCloud music library to stop syncing your music across all of your Apple devices.
• In order to sync and unsync your iCloud library, you need an active Apple Music subscription.
• iCloud music library can be enabled or disabled at any time via an iPhone's or iPad's Settings menu, or via the Apple Music or iTunes app on a Mac or PC.
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If you use several Apple devices and have an Apple Music subscription, you may find it helpful to utilize the iCloud music library. When signed into the same iCloud account on all devices, the feature will sync all of your songs, albums, and playlists and even restore purchases regardless of whether you bought them on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac.

However, this service isn't without its downsides. If you have a significantly large music library, downloading across devices can take hours or even days. In addition, some have found that the iCloud music library messes up the metadata of your tracks, which you might find inconvenient. Whatever your reasoning, if you choose to turn off your iCloud music library, doing so is easy and should only take a few seconds.

How to turn off iCloud music library on an iPhone or iPad

1. On your device, tap on the Settings app to open it.

2. Scroll down until you reach the 'Music' icon and tap it.

3. Next to 'Sync Library,' ensure the option is toggled off. You will know it's disabled when the button is no longer green (enabled) but turns grey to show it's no longer active.

How to turn off an iCloud music library on a Mac

1. Open the Apple Music, or iTunes, app on your Mac.

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2. Click 'Music' from the menu at the very top of your screen.

3. In the dropdown menu, click 'Preferences…'

4. In the 'General' tab of the Preferences window, uncheck the box next to 'Sync Library.' Note: If you don't subscribe to Apple Music or iTunes Match, this option will not appear in your General tab. You can re-enable the syncing feature at any time by checking the box again.

5. Click 'OK' to save your changes.

How to turn off an iCloud music library on a PC

1. Open the Apple Music, or iTunes, app on your PC.

2. Click 'Edit' from the menu bar at the top of the screen, and click 'Preferences…' at the bottom of the dropdown menu.

3. Uncheck the box next to 'iCloud Music Library' to disable the feature. Note: If you don't subscribe to Apple Music or iTunes Match, this option will not appear in your General tab. You can re-enable the syncing feature at any time by checking the box again.

4. Click 'OK' to save your changes.

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