Apple Music may be a streaming service, but you won’t always need an Internet connection to enjoy it. Apple has confirmed that you’ll also be able to download songs for offline listening, so you can enjoy albums and playlists when you’re on the road without data.
“As an Apple Music member you can add anything from the Apple Music library — a song, an album or a video — to your collection,” Apple told Recode. “And that’s just the warm-up act. From there you can create the perfect playlist from anything you’ve added. You can save it for offline listening and take it on the road.”
That means you can still enjoy Apple Music on a plane, on a train, out in the middle of nowhere… just about anywhere, in fact. Just remember to download the music you wish to listen to before you leave the house, so that it’s stored locally on your device.
Offline listening is a feature offered by most music streaming services, including Apple Music rivals like Spotify, Google Play Music, and Rdio. However, it wasn’t mentioned during Apple’s WWDC keynote on Monday, so many were wondering whether the service would allow it.
You’ll be able to enjoy Apple Music when it goes live around the world on June 30. It will cost $9.99 a month in the U.S., or $14.99 for a family plan for six members — but there will be a three-month free trial for all users before they have to pay a penny.
Killian Bell is a freelance writer based in the U.K. He has an interest in all things tech and also covers Android over at CultofAndroid.com. You can follow him on Twitter via @killianbell.
5 responses to “You’ll be able to download songs for offline listening with Apple Music”
Apple, during the announcement, really should have gotten right to the point as to the details of the Apple Music experience. Listening to Drake and Jimmy Iovine simply confused me as to what the hell was going on. Why did they waste all the time letting these two blather on? I doubt many are starstruck by celebrities on the WWDC stage, they want technical details.
Absolutely! They demonstrated it like they have invented speakers and MP3 format. I just don’t get why people pay for something that they won’t own. Even bank will let you own something eventually.
After learning the details, after the show, I think it’s a good deal.
Right now I buy all my music, but I do make purchases that get forgotten and that will sometimes reduce the amount of new music I get to discover.
So this deal is not that bad at all. I pay more for a similar deal for HBO and I can’t even download content for offline viewing. 90 day free trial, why not?
Didn’t watch the live stream and yeah, his shirt is awful.
So I wonder if Apple Music is going to eat away at iCloud storage or is Apple just going to give you what you need (haha). I mean if you read the description of Apple Music it states that all the music is on iCloud, even your purchased or ripped from CD music, it will load it into the cloud so you can access on all devices.