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Today I'm going to show you how to add
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your own custom songs to the Apple Music
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app. Maybe you found a live concert
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recording or a soundtrack that isn't on
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Apple Music that you'd still like to
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listen to. All you need to do is
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download your music in AAC, AIFF, MP3,
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or Wave formats. Download them on your
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Mac or your PC running iTunes. And it's
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as simple as selecting all the files,
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which are probably in your downloads
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folder, and dragging them into the music
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If for some weird reason that doesn't
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work, you can also go to the music app
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or iTunes and then go to file, import,
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and then select the music that way.
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Then you'll see it in the recently added
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section. Right click on it, and then
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click get info. And you can add in all
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of the metadata you might want to add,
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like the name of the album, the name of
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the artist, the year it came out, the
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genre, the number of tracks. Click okay
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when you're done. And if you have an
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image you want to use as the album
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artwork, you can go to the artwork tab
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and just drag an image in. Here's a
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picture I happened to take while I was
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at this concert. It's not very good, but
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it represents the concert. I'm going to
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use that as the album artwork, so I just
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drag it in. And there you go. You'll
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also see that the names of the music
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tracks aren't correct. And you can do
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the same thing. Right click on them,
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click get info, and then you can go in
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and add the track title along with the
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track number. It's a little tedious, but
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it could be worth it if you have a
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favorite concert you'd like to listen to
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There are a few downsides. You can't add
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custom music to a shared playlist, only
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music that exists in the Apple Music
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catalog. Custom music also doesn't
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appear in Apple Music replay at the end
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of the year. So, your stats like top
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artist, top album, and top songs for the
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month and year won't be accurate. Now,
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you can technically do this on Spotify
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as well, but the process isn't nearly as
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easy. It's one of the top reasons I stay
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with Apple Music. I'm Dearan Jones with
