iTunes for Mac: Play or download unlimited songs with Apple Music
Apple Music gives you unlimited access to millions of songs on up to ten of your devices and computers. You can play songs—or download them to your computer or device so you can listen to them when you’re not connected to the Internet.
Apple Music also makes recommendations (which you can fine-tune at any time) based on your musical tastes. You can also see what Apple Music contributors—artists, reviewers, DJs, and others—are listening to and subscribe to their playlists.
To play and download songs from Apple Music, first become a member using your Apple ID. If you don’t have an Apple ID, you can create one during setup.
Join Apple Music
If you’re not already signed in, sign in using your Apple ID.
Choose Music from the pop-up menu at the top left.
Click For You, then click Get 3 Months Free.
If you don’t see For You, choose iTunes > Preferences, click General, and select Show Apple Music Features.
Follow the onscreen instructions.
When you join Apple Music as a new member, you get three months free.
Any items in your music collection that aren’t available in Apple Music are automatically uploaded to iCloud, so you can access them from your other computers and devices.
At the end of your three free months, your membership is renewed monthly. For information about turning off automatic renewal, see the Apple Support article View, change, or cancel your subscriptions.
Even if you aren’t an Apple Music member, you can follow your favorite artists and curators, find out what music they’re listening to, and keep up with their latest releases, news, and tour schedules. It’s a great way to stay in touch with your favorites and discover new music and artists. You follow only the artists and curators you select.
Find songs, albums, or playlists
Choose Music from the pop-up menu at the top left.
Do any of the following:
View recommendations tailored for you: Click For You, then click Recommendations.
See what’s new in Apple Music: Click Browse.
Search the Apple Music catalog: Click the search field in the top-right corner of the iTunes window, enter your search criteria for the item you want to find, then click All Apple Music.
Play songs, albums, or playlists
Do any of the following:
Double-click the item.
Move the pointer over the item and click the Play button
.
Add songs, albums, or playlists to your iCloud Music Library
You can add songs, albums, and playlists from Apple Music to your iCloud Music Library, which is accessible whenever you’re signed in to Apple Music. Items in your iCloud Music Library appear in iTunes, together with the rest of your music collection.
Select a song, an album, or a playlist.
Control-click the item, then choose Add to Library.
To add a song to a standard playlist without adding the song to your library, choose iTunes > Preferences, click General, then deselect “Add songs to Library when adding to playlists.”
For more information about playlists, see Create a playlist.
If you don’t see your saved Apple Music songs, choose iTunes > Preferences, click General, make sure iCloud Music Library is selected, select Show Apple Music Features, then click OK. When this checkbox is selected, you also see items you’ve saved on other computers or devices.
Download songs, albums, or playlists to your computer
After you add items to your iCloud Music Library, you can download them to your computer and play them at any time—even when you’re not connected to the Internet.
Important: Songs you download from Apple Music can’t be burned to a disc or added to a device, such as an iPod or iPad. Songs can only be downloaded to a device directly from Apple Music.
Click
next to the item you want to download.
If you don’t renew your Apple Music membership, the songs you’ve downloaded remain on your computer, but you can’t play them until you rejoin.
Fine-tune the recommendations you receive
When you join Apple Music, you’re asked about your preferred music genres and artists. Apple Music then uses your preferences to make recommendations for you. You can update your preferences at any time.
You can also let Apple Music know about your favorite and least favorite songs and albums.
Update your musical preferences: Choose Account > Choose Artists For You, then follow the onscreen instructions.
Love a song or album: Control-click the item, then choose Love. You can also click an item’s Love button
wherever it appears in iTunes.Dislike a song or album: Control-click the item, then choose Dislike.
A Loved icon 
appears next to your preferred songs and albums wherever they appear in iTunes. You can also add a Loved icon to a song by clicking its row in the Love column .
Tip: To see all your preferred songs in one place, you can create a Smart Playlist of your Loved songs and albums. To keep the playlist up to date whenever you add or change a rating, select Live Updating.
Subscribe to a playlist
You can subscribe to playlists created by any Apple Music contributor. That way, whenever the playlist is updated by its owner, it’s updated in your library as well.
Click the title of the playlist you want to subscribe to.
Click
next to the playlist’s title, then choose Add to Library.
To view your subscribed playlists, choose Music from the pop-up menu at the top left, then select a playlist in the sidebar on the left, below Apple Music Playlists.
Follow artists and curators
Even if you aren’t an Apple Music member, you can follow your favorite artists and curators using Connect.
Choose Music from the pop-up menu at the top left, click For You, then click Connect.
If you’re using Connect for the first time, click Sign In and follow the onscreen instructions.
Click Find More Artists and Curators.
Click the Follow button for each artist or curator you want to follow.
To see the latest updates from the artists and curators you follow, go to Connect and click See Who You’re Following.