Apple Music, Spotify or what

Actually on the devices or in cloud and accessible from both?

Posted by: Bruce

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I need get some way of getting music on my iPhone and MacBook. Any advice?

the built in Music app works well. 
you can subscribe to the Apple Music streaming service. Your playlists and stuff will sync between the devices through iCloud. This is easy. 

you can add your music files to the Music app on your Mac and subscribe to either Apple Music or Match and the files will be available on both devices through iCloud. 
or you can connect your iPhone to your Mac and sync or copy music from Music on the Mac to the iPhone. 

On my old pc and phone I had all the music I had ripped from the original cds, I also used to use the free version of Spotify until they made it more clunky without a subscription.

i would like to have my own music on my devices and be able to stream music.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

YouTube premium includes a music app. 

Posted by: Bruce

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i would like to have my own music on my devices and be able to stream music.

So if I understand correctly, you have ripped music and just want to access it? In which case there are two main ways. 

First is to have a NAS set up at home; then install VLC or similar on both PC and phone, point VLC to said NAS (while you're at home) and play. 

The other, more mobile option is to copy the music across to both devices, and use your preferred music player on each.

But this feels a bit obvious, so I may have misunderstood your question

I've never actually done this but it seems Apple Music does do what you want it to do. You can import your files into Apple Music and it will store it. If it finds a match though it won't upload your file, just match it to an existing stream. I guess it won't always match perfectly. You may get a different version of the song, or a different format so definitely try it out first.

How much of your own music do you have, where is it stored, what format?

Thanks Singletrack

I will now copy all the ripped CDs onto both devices so the existing music is there even when off line.

I will subscribe to Apple Music for online listening etc.

It was a bit obvious but I wanted some confirmation that what I was thinking of was not completely bonkers.

Thank you all for spending time to provide helpful replies. 😎