Your Music: Make all saved albums available offline button

I recently emptied my cache etc. After that, I had to download all 35 albums by hand. It would be so much more pleasant if I could download them all with just ONE button ;) ;)

Hello and welcome to the community!
Just a few questions before we can give your idea a proper status:
- Which platform would you like to see this on (Desktop, mobile, etc)
- When you're talking about albums, do you mean the saved albums in 'Your Music'? So you want a "Make all saved albums available offline" button? Or have you saved those albums as playlist?

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[Desktop][Your Music] Make Songs in Your Music be available offline like in mobile

We should be capable of taking saved songs in your music to offline on desktop like we do on mobile. Currently, there is no "available offline" button in songs in the your music area. Offline is currently available just on playlists,

Sorry, I forgot to clarify why specifically I am disobeying the instructions here, namely it was promised that that thread would remain open for comments about 5 months ago, however...it's closed... Seriously, if we can make any other playlist available offline, the feature used to exist, AND it is available on mobile...it cannot be an insurmountable challenge for Desktop, certainly not one worth waiting years for.

[Desktop][Your Music] Make "Your Music" friendlier to large collections

I've appreciated all the big interface changes that have gone into helping out people who like to collect album-by-album, and the "Your Music" functionality is really great. However, for people with big collections such as myself (well over 6000 songs spanning over 18 straight days of music, although i'm sure I'm not the biggest out there) it's kind of hard to just browse your music looking for an album to listen to. The album art based "Albums" view is very pretty, but for me it only fits 8 albums on screen at a time, which makes browsing your collection by album very slow. My idea is to add a slider, similar to the functionality that lets you change icon size in Windows' File Explorer, by which you could control the size of the albums manually: (Image not mine) It would also be cool to have "List" functionality, like File Explorer; just displaying the albums in a big list next to the artist and year, sort of how the Songs view is now, but for albums. It's a pretty minor gripe, but it would help make Spotify more usable for "music hoarders" such as myself :)

Updated: 2015-07-26Hello and thanks for the feedback!
Any news regarding this request will be announced in the original idea topic here:
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Your-Music-View-Options-Icons-amp-List-view/idi-p/750175
Please add your kudos and comments there, if you haven't already. ;)

Is it possible to have your music and videos saved on different external drives and use the same iTunes library?

Is it possible to have your music and videos saved on different external drives and use the same iTunes library?
I am running out of space on my external hard drive and would like to split the movies and music between two external drives while using the same iTunes library is this possible.
My library is stored on the external drive all of my music etc is stored.

Yes.

Copy my music and all the album art

I am going to reinstall my computer, but I want and copy my music and all the album art on a hard drive, so I wonder if it is possible to copy all your music and album art that is iTunes into a hard drive?
Message was edited by: matgal

see _*The Complete Guide to Backing Up your iTunes Library*_.
JGG

Cannot find any "available offline" buttons

Hey there, How can I make songs availble offline? I've been searching forums for a way to save music to offline mode, but they all say to go to the playlist or song and click the "available offline" button. I can't find this button. I've also tried clicking the triple dots button, and there is nothing about "offline" in there either. I can "save" a song, and I can add a song to a playlist, but when I go into My Music, there is still no offline button.

Yes you can download=offline as long as your are using the downloaded desktop app, the app is the same for desktops and laptops.

[Desktop][Your Music] Make Album offline available, not only Playlists

That makes no sense at all to make a difference between playlists and album or artist since this feature is available for Andriod app.

Updated: 2015-07-08Hi and thanks for your contribution! A similar idea has also been suggested here:
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Enable-quot-Albums-quot-offline-synchronization-on-desktop/idi-p/744403
Add your kudos and comments there please!

[All Platforms][Your Music] Make it possible to tag and filter "My Music" with user-defined tags

It would be very nice and convenient to be able to tag and filter "My Music" (playlists, songs, albums and artists) with user-defined tags. I'm sure quite a few users would like to classify their music by genre. Myself, I would like to tag my albums, assigning them to different virtual collections.

Updated: 2015-07-23Hello and thanks for the feedback!
A similar idea has also been suggested here:
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Your-Music-Grouping-or-Sorting-by-Tags/idi-p/744947
Add your kudos and comments there please! ;)

How can I make the Help Topics available offline?

How can I make iBooks Author Help Topics available offline?

Deleted and re-installed...
Still get the following:
The selected topic is currently unavailable
Make sure you’re connected to the Internet. For help connecting, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click Network, and click “Assist me.”
If you’re connected to the Internet, and the content still doesn’t appear, try again later.

How do I access Your Music on the iPad app?

I mostly listen to albums, not playlists.
I used to keep all my saved albums on Spotify as playlists - but following the update I re-saved them all as saved albums under 'Your Music' (on the new desktop app for OS X) and deleted my old playlists (assuming I wouldn't need them anymore).
This was fine on my iPhone as now I can access my saved albums under the 'Your Music' However, I then tried this on my iPad and couldn't find a way to access 'Your Music' at all?
How do I access 'Your Music' and/or saved albums on the iPad app?

I wrote this thread before I became a rockstar in 2013, kindly click on it and read:
http://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-iOS-iPhone-iPad-iPod-Touch/Spotify-iPad-is-too-outdated-No-Discover-Me-amp-Others/m-p/575130#M23028
(I wrote about the problems with the iPad long time back..)
The rockstar role is voluntary, there's no KPIs, indexes, paycheques, you might want to read more about the rockstar programme here:
http://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Knows/What-is-the-Spotify-Community-Rock-Star-Program/ta-p/876081
And I'm also a paying premium subscriber every month. I'm only relying information that I get from reading every single response here in the iOS forums and those that are being passed on to me by the staff.

What do you do if all your music disappears into the Other folder......dreaded orange bar!

Hope this will help someone as there is clearly not much help from Apple nor this forum.
I am on vacation away from my home computer where my iTunes is. I turned on my iPod and scrolled down to Music and it showed "No Music." Went to "About" and saw that there were only 9GB of free space, so I felt for sure it was there because that's right at what I had when I last synced it, which was a couple days ago and it finished syncing with no problems. Went to the next "About" screen where you can see how much Audio, Video etc. etc. you have and it showed 0 Audio and The "Other" category had all the data in it. What happened to my music, and can I get it back on vacation without my iTunes on my computer at home? I tried the holding down of the Select middle button and the Menu button until the Apple logo appeared but that did not restore any Audio. Hope someone can help me out here.....Thanks
Re: Ipod Classic 160GB having issues, need help please?
Oct 25, 2011 5:06 AM (in response to Fishead)
Solved my issue and thought I might do someone a favor by posting the answer. If you wind up with NO MUSIC and find all your audio files have been synced into the OTHER folder on your iPod such as what happened to me, AND if you happen to be unlucky enough not to have access to your computer where your iTunes program would allow you to re-sync your iPod, here's what worked for me in a Windows7 OS.
1.You will have to find a computer that has enough storage to hold the amount of information stored on your iPod. In my case, 139GB!!! Download iTunes if it is not already on the system, or if it is, update to the latest software.
2. Plug your iPod into one of the USB ports.
3. Open iTunes if it does not open itself.
4. Select your iPod from the menu on the left and you should get a message that iTunes cannot read the iPod. Simply close that box. If you get a message that syncing your iPod will erase all content then decline the sync.
5. Open Computer and you should see your iPod as an external hard drive.
6. Open it and you will see some folders and a few files. The folders will likely look like they are a washed-out yellow instead of a deep yellow like you're accustomed to seeing. That threw me initially because as I was looking for the folder with @ 139GB, it was not there. Right click each folder, go to Properties and check the "Show hidden files" in the View menu. After that, the folders will appear dark yellow and as you hover over each one, you will see one that will have the full amount of data that was on your iPod before the mess started. Open that folder and you will see a bunch of other folders with strange names, like F00, F01 etc. etc. Do the Edit, Select All, right click and in Properties, View menu, check the Show Hidden Files again. All the folders that were that light yellow color will now turn deep yellow. Be sure to select show hidden files not only for the folder but all sub folders and files box that will come up....forgot to mention that earlier. Now all your folders and the files in them will be readable by iTunes.
7. The folders will all still be selected. If not, select them and then do either a copy/paste into iTunes Music Library or drag them over into that pane. The process will begin and likely take quite a while. In my case, several hours. When it is done, you will see all your music in iTunes along with the album art if you had any.
8. Now you will need to sync your iPod to that library, but before you do, you will need to Restore it. Simply select it from the left menu and click on the Restore iPod option. That will only take a few minutes and it will wipe your iPod clean. Before you do that, it is a good idea to MAKE SURE YOUR MUSIC IS ALL THERE!!! I also went to about a half dozen of the albums and tried playing a few songs just to be double sure. Proceed with the Restore, and when it is complete change the iPod name that will be in the small box on the same page as the Restore option and likely be something like"karens iPod" (whoever the computer belongs to will be the name there) to exactly what your iPod is called on your iTunes on your computer that it was originally synced to. I found that before I did this, it would not sync.
9. When you hit Sync, be patient because it took a minute or so before it actually began to sync. Then, it will be another few hours if you have as much music as I did for the sync to complete and depending on the speed of the computer you're using.
That's how I got all my music back and I am now a happy camper/listener again.,
I called Apple support and they were absolutely no help. Just told me I would have to re-sync to my iTunes even though I kept telling them that was 1,650 miles away at my house and not going to be possible. I even asked if the above process would work and they said they didn't know but "You could try it....." :-( At that time, I didn't have access to a computer with enough hard disc space on it yet so I called the Apple store in Louisville, KY which was 65 miles from where I was hoping that they might be able to help. After 2 calls and getting hung up in the same loop of menus that left me on hold for over 20 minutes long distance, I gave up and concluded that Apple and Support are two mutually exclusive terms and have no relationship to one another. This has been quite a nightmare, and if anything good has come of it aside from having my music back, it might be the learning process but I really feel that is a rather small reward for the time spent!
Not likely to be an Apple fan when considering my next purchase of home computer, laptop, nor the phone I am preparing to buy.
Hope this has helped someone.
Fishead
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I never throw anything away up to a point when it has become silly and then I have a cull. (This applies to the loft, the garage and the hard disk)
I always have (at least) two backups to external drives and by the end of a project also have a full backup to DVD.
I am a hobby photographer, so this isn't necessarily a good professional workflow!
I store work in progress within a folder structure that identifies just what it is, final folder being date stamped for the start date (eg D:\My Pictures\Photgraph Album Master\Family\Bob\20100715 Farnborough airshow)
Photographs of value are then kept within the folder with a date stamp and version number if they change within a day (eg 20100823 Alexander in cockpit 2).
Photographs I haven't touched remain with their camera-specified name.
Lightroom, which I use, doesn't know about external drives or DVD backups. (Maybe it should, but it would become confusing)
Bob

Your Music -- Album View under Artists [iOS]

When navigating the "artists" menu under "Your Music," please group the albums together when there is more than one so we can quickly find and play a specific album, rather than just placing all the songs by that aritsts in a list.

The new update to Spotify is a massive step forward for me. No longer will I scroll down and down and down and down to find a new album in my playlists. Brilliant!
But...Something is still missing.
The problem with the current versio of "Your Music" is that you can loose the ability to enjoy the music as the artisit indeeded, via their album. They spend days deciding what order to have the album, and with the current version of Spotify it makes it harder for you to pick out an album from the new "Your Music". All you can do is read the name under each track and work it out from there.
This is a simple fix for me. Just make the "Your Music" artisit page the same as the "Artist" page. Group the songs by album and allow is to play an album on its own.

TS4124 In my library, all of my albums show an icon defined as "available in icloud for download". I am looking a way I can download all by albums at once. Is there a way to do this?

I have installed icould on my new computer and have downloaded all my purchases from itunes. However, on each album in my library, there is an icon showing that the album is available in icloud for download. I have downloaded a couple of albums from icloud and it seems that I need to do this operation for each album one at a time. I am looking for a way I can download all the albums available in icloud all at once. Is there a way to do this?

Found it on another site, cos I had this question too. Create a playlist with all your songs... (select all in songs, then create new playlist from selection). After that I double-clicked the playlist and it started downloading all the songs. Hallelujah.

Windows 8 - "Make Available Offline" option missing. Went to Control panel- Sync Centre clicking "Manage offline files" Does nothing.

Hello I am running Windows 8 Single Language Edition.
I tried to Make a NAS folder available offline by right clicking on the folder. But "Make Available Offline" option is missing.
Then went to Control Panel->Sync Centre clicking "Manage offline files" does nothing.
How to fix my issue?
Thanks,
Simon Mandy

Hi Simon,
Regarding to this issue, please refer to this article:
User Cannot Make Files and Folders Available Offline
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc978347.aspx
Please also check if Offline Settings is enabled from NAS folder. Folder-> properties -> Advanced sharing on sharing tab -> Caching.
Hope this could be helpful. Keep post.
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Can you put your music from your iPhone onto your iCloud storage to make more room on phone

I am trying to install the latest iOS upgrade to my iPhone 4 but I don't have enough room on my phone for it. So I am trying to move things to my iCloud account however I can't seem to move my musi from my phone to the iCloud account. My music takes up the most space on my phone so I need to put it on the iCloud I clear up some free data. Is this possible??

No, the only way to access your music in iCloud is by subscribing to the iTunes Match service, which is a subscription service that is unrelated to your iCloud account. The only exception is music purchased from the iTunes store, which can be redownloaded for free at any time in most countries (provide the songs are still in the iTunes store). Redownloading past purchases is also not related to your iCloud account.
Your music should all be in your iTunes library. If it is, you can delete all off your phone, perform the update, then sync it back to your phone using iTunes.

Your Music: Make all saved albums available offline button

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