iCloud and restoring music - Apple guru halp pls.

[Daise]

Hey hey

First of all, my NAS died taking my music with it. All I have now is ~1,500 songs on iCloud.

I've just upgraded to an iPhone 5s and need to restore the music on it.

Is there a faster way to put my music back on my phone? Or do I need to tap each song/album individually?

In the meantime I've downloaded everything from iCloud to store locally on my laptop - can I just click n drag instead?

[thro]

You could download all the songs to your PC and sync the phone to iTunes I suspect? (at least in iTunes you could do ctrl+a to select all and download at a guess?

Haven't tried to restore from icloud yet personally, whilst icloud music is nice its not really an ideal replacement for backup/restore... a lot of data to download off the internet.

I think it's more aimed at the case where you buy something on one device and then want to listen to it on another one...

[Desmo]

Hey hey

First of all, my NAS died taking my music with it. All I have now is ~1,500 songs on iCloud.

Need a hand?

[Arwon]

If you have them on the laptop, set your phone setting in itunes to manually manage before you start the select them all and drag and drop