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Adding a station to itunes radio based on artist

Create smart playlists to differentiate between Apple Music and iTunes Match music

Introduction

Have you ever wanted to listen to your favorite christian, LDS, or secular artists on itunes radio?  In this tutorial I’ll show you how to add a station to itunes radio based on artist.

Requirments

    1. an itunes account

 

  1. itunes itselfScreen-Shot-2014-12-05-at-4.14.02-PM

Instructions

    1. login to your iTunes account if you have one.

 

    1. click on the Screen-Shot-2014-12-05-at-4.14.31-PMto see what stations you can add or listen to.

 

    1. click on the Screen-Shot-2014-12-05-at-4.14.43-PMnext to the My Stations heading.  you should see Screen-Shot-2014-12-05-at-4.15.09-PM.

 

    1. enter the name the artist you want to add a station for.  You should see a list of songs and artists you can choose from.

 

  1. If you typed in the name of a christian metal artist and chose Screen-Shot-2014-12-05-at-4.20.45-PM Then Screen-Shot-2014-12-05-at-4.21.10-PM should appear under the my stations heading and start playing.

Conclusion

There you have it a simple way to add a station to itunes radio based on artist.  whether you’re into christian metal LDS JPOP whatever you can add stations based on any artist you want.

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Create smart playlists to differentiate between Apple Music and iTunes Match music

Tutorials update

Disclaimer

My tutorial comes from Create Smart Playlists to find which of your songs are Apple Music, in the cloud, and more only my tutorial uses a more step-by-step approach.

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Intro

Ever wonder where your music gets stored whether you’re subscribed to iTunes match or apple music?  If you’re subscribed to iTunes match, it will attempt to match all the songs you currently own with songs available on the iTunes Store, the rest are uploaded to your iCloud music library the original songs stay where they are.  The same goes for Apple Music except for the songs you own are matched with songs in the Apple Music library, the only caveat with having just Apple music once you download those songs which you add to your library a little thing called DRM(digital rights management) is added so you don’t willy-nilly run off and use the songs.  To differentiate between the two I’m going to show you how to create smart playlists for iTunes match and Apple music respectively.

Tutorial Requirements

    • Screen-Shot-2016-01-17-at-9.09.49-PM.png

 

    • an Apple music/iTunes match subscription

 

  • the ability to create smart playlists like Screen-Shot-2016-01-17-at-9.18.44-PM.png and Screen-Shot-2016-01-17-at-9.18.54-PM.png.

Instructions

To make a smart playlist for Apple music:

    1. click on Screen-Shot-2016-01-17-at-9.18.30-PM.png and select new smart playlist.

 

    1. make the first condition Screen-Shot-2016-01-17-at-9.19.21-PM.png.

 

    1. click Screen-Shot-2016-01-17-at-9.19.53-PM.png and make the other condition Screen-Shot-2016-01-17-at-9.19.36-PM.png.

 

  1. Click Screen-Shot-2016-01-17-at-9.20.09-PM.png and you should get something like Screen-Shot-2016-01-17-at-9.09.49-PM.png

To make a smart playlist for iTunes match:

    1. click on Screen-Shot-2016-01-17-at-9.18.30-PM.pngand select new smart playlist.

 

    1. make the first condition Screen-Shot-2016-01-17-at-9.22.22-PM.png.

 

    1. hit the option key until you get … click that and make the nested condition Screen-Shot-2016-01-17-at-9.23.29-PM.png.

 

    1. Set the first nested condition to Screen-Shot-2016-01-17-at-9.23.42-PM.png.

 

    1. click Screen-Shot-2016-01-17-at-9.24.01-PM.png and set the second nested condition to Screen-Shot-2016-01-17-at-9.24.34-PM.png.

 

    1. click Screen-Shot-2016-01-17-at-9.24.52-PM.png again and set the last nested condition to Screen-Shot-2016-01-17-at-9.25.03-PM.png.

 

  1. click Screen-Shot-2016-01-17-at-9.25.19-PM.png and you should get something like Screen-Shot-2016-01-17-at-9.25.32-PM.png.

Conclusion

There you have it two smart playlists to differentiate between iTunes match and Apple music, and (going off on a tangent here) whether or not you’re subscribed to either iTunes match or Apple music or both I found out they actually work together even though they’re separate services.