How to add music that is not in Apple Music

Apple Music has a large enough catalog so that most of what we are looking for in Apple's new streaming service appears, but you can always make a certain album or artist that has been left out because of not having reached an agreement with Apple. The most notorious cases are those of The Beatles or Prince, but there are many others. If you miss an album or artist in the Apple Music catalog, don't worry, since thanks to the integration with iTunes Match you can easily add these titles to your Music and enjoy them from any of your devices as if it were inside Apple Music. We explain how.

In the example we are going to use one of the best known Beatles compilation albums, "1", which does not appear in Apple Music. As with any album that we want to add to iTunes, we just have to drag the folder to the iTunes window and it will automatically be added. We already have the album in iTunes but it is not in iCloud yet to be able to use it from any device.

If you look at each song title, a dotted cloud appears on the right, which means that it is not in iCloud, only on our computer. What we are going to do is have Apple identify it and look for its correspondence with the music it has in its iTunes catalog (where The Beatles are). This is the most delicate step, since requires the music to be correctly tagged so that it is identified by the album you have and not by any other. If it is not labeled, the best thing is to go to the album art and choose the option "Get information" by manually entering the title, year, artist, etc.

We already have our album correctly labeled and now what we have to do is add it to iCloud. Right click again on the album cover and we choose the option «Add to iCloud music library». After a few minutes or seconds the album will already be in your iCloud library, and therefore on all your devices with Apple Music.

Even you can remove the download from your computer and let it be heard via streaming. Notice that my music library on my computer is all in iCloud, not on the computer, identified by the small cloud that appears in the lower right corner. You can do the same on your iPhone or iPad, depending on whether you want to listen to it offline or through an internet connection. The Beatles are already on my Apple Music thanks to these simple steps.