Apple Music / iCloud Music Library has made a right old mess of my iTunes library :(

[lagwagon]

I'm a bit of a fan of English Indie music. I uploaded my White Lies CD To Lose My Life to IML. The first four songs have been replaced by a hip hop duo called Da Muzicianz. (Needless to say i do not own any of their stuff).
Some tracks on Abba's Gold Greatest Hits album have been replaced with Euro Disco Tributes to the songs!
As others have said 95% of live music has been replaced with Studio versions. And some studio songs replaced with live versions.
Hundreds of examples of artwork wrong.

IML does not work very well.

My best one yet has been between two albums of the same artist. Both have the same song but way different versions. Song from album A got replaced with the song from album B, song from album B got replaced with song from album A. I just facepalmed and sighed.

 

[jsmith189]

Deleted all of the failed ones. But now all these songs that are attempting to upload are all failing as well. A mix of songs purchased on my current ID, old ID and songs I added myself. All match the requirements. Still nothing. Sigh.

 

[AHDuke99]

I don't even understand my problem. Some songs are labeled one thing with album art but play a totally different song. An entire justin timberlake album was labeled a Taylor swift album. Dave Matthews was labeled Harry Connick's Christmas album.

It's just a complete nightmare and I'll go back to spotify until it's fixed.

 

[John6Plus]

If I enable "iCloud Music" on one device, will the libraries on my other devices be safe? This is such a catastrophe, I am not willing to risk my main library. But I wouldn't mind playing with it on my account as long as I knew it won't mess with my meticulously tagged library.

 

[kastorff]

Anyone else seeing this?

I download an album to my phone by choosing "Make Available Offline" from the "..." for the whole album. Later I attempt to undo this by choosing "Remove Downloads" from the same pane. The iTunes icon (and white corner) disappear from the album artwork, but the individual songs in the track listing still show the iPhone icon indicating local storage. Do we actually have to remove them track by track even if we downloaded them by album? This seems broken.

 

[randy98mtu]

If I enable "iCloud Music" on one device, will the libraries on my other devices be safe? This is such a catastrophe, I am not willing to risk my main library. But I wouldn't mind playing with it on my account as long as I knew it won't mess with my meticulously tagged library.

I'm starting to think the answer to your question is no. I had iCloud Library on on my laptop for a few days and things seemed ok. Then I tried to download content to my iPad and things went haywire. I turned cloud library back off and I sync'd my phone, which is on iOS 9 Beta 2 and has NEVER had cloud library on. Now half the music that was previously sync'd to it just disappeared out of the blue. Playlists that had 80-100 songs now have 13, 51 and 52. This POS is really starting to get on my nerves. That LG G4 is starting to look better and better.

Edit: They messed with Kendrick???? Not cool.

 

[lagwagon]

So I've done it! I got my IML to be exactly like my local music library on my iMac.

Synced music to my iPhone, turned on IML, spent roughly 8-10 hours going through song by song (7715 songs) on the iPhone and changing the track names on my iMac for every song that had bad matching/art on my phone. I then copied my music folder + iTunes folder with the library files to my MacBook Pro and pushed that to the IML (to not risk my iMacs library.) What all this did was force uploads on everything that false matched so that it wouldn't screw anything up.

I let it upload while I slept and when I woke up this morning and turned on IML on my phone to check what is on the cloud and it's all good. Nothing mismatched and everything seems 100% like my iMac library.

I now just need to finish the process by turning off IML on my phone. Sync my music onto my phone from my iMac (with the edited names.) Turn on IML again and go through all the edited track names on my MacBook Pro changing them all back to proper.

So much trouble just to have my music locally on my phone and correctly in IML, so that I can finally use save for offline in Apple Muisc. Haha.

 

[whsbuss]

So I've done it! I got my IML to be exactly like my local music library on my iMac.

Synced music to my iPhone, turned on IML, spent roughly 8-10 hours going through song by song (7715 songs) on the iPhone and changing the track names on my iMac for every song that had bad matching/art on my phone. I then copied my music folder + iTunes folder with the library files to my MacBook Pro and pushed that to the IML (to not risk my iMacs library.) What all this did was force uploads on everything that false matched so that it wouldn't screw anything up.

I let it upload while I slept and when I woke up this morning and turned on IML on my phone to check what is on the cloud and it's all good. Nothing mismatched and everything seems 100% like my iMac library.

I now just need to finish the process by turning off IML on my phone. Sync my music onto my phone from my iMac (with the edited names.) Turn on IML again and go through all the edited track names on my MacBook Pro changing them all back to proper.

So much trouble just to have my music locally on my phone and correctly in IML, so that I can finally use save for offline in Apple Muisc. Haha.

I just opened a thread about an issue with one of my tracks being wrong on IML. The local track on my Mac is fine but the one on IML, as seen and played by my iPhone, is a different copy..... I assume matched by Apple Music although I don't have Match. How can I get the right copy for my sync'd devices?

 

[lagwagon]

I just opened a thread about an issue with one of my tracks being wrong on IML. The local track on my Mac is fine but the one on IML, as seen and played by my iPhone, is a different copy..... I assume matched by Apple Music although I don't have Match. How can I get the right copy for my sync'd devices?

The local track on you Mac will always be correct (because it's local.) Its what gets placed on IML if it matches that can be incorrect. To fix that (make sure you have backups of your actually music files.) remove the song from the library, re-add it and before right clicking on it to send to IML change the track name.

Example:
"This Is the Track Name"
Change it to
"AlbumNameThis Is the Track Name"

This is how I've changed and forced uploads of all badly matched songs.

Once it's uploaded and you can confirm its the correct song off your phone, you can then re-edit the track name back.

 

[randy98mtu]

And just like that, I watched it remove all music stored on my phone before my eyes. A song I listened to 10 minutes ago was gone. Songs that were shown as on device in regular text errored out as soon as I tried to play them and the rest of that playlist went grey. Now what do I do with the next 2 hours of my lousy first day back from vacation???

 

[whsbuss]

The local track on you Mac will always be correct (because it's local.) Its what gets placed on IML if it matches that can be incorrect. To fix that (make sure you have backups of your actually music files.) remove the song from the library, re-add it and before right clicking on it to send to IML change the track name.

Example:
"This Is the Track Name"
Change it to
"AlbumNameThis Is the Track Name"

This is how I've changed and forced uploads of all badly matched songs.

Once it's uploaded and you can confirm its the correct song off your phone, you can then re-edit the track name back.

Thanks that worked.

 

[0970373]

If I enable "iCloud Music" on one device, will the libraries on my other devices be safe? This is such a catastrophe, I am not willing to risk my main library. But I wouldn't mind playing with it on my account as long as I knew it won't mess with my meticulously tagged library.

You can do that. But the problem is, if you have iCML turn on on your iOS device and off on iTunes main library, there is no way to sync music between the two. And when you turn off iCML on your iOS device, you will need to resync any music you had on there locally.

 

[Jstuts5797]

You can do that. But the problem is, if you have iCML turn on on your iOS device and off on iTunes main library, there is no way to sync music between the two. And when you turn off iCML on your iOS device, you will need to resync any music you had on there locally.

This part is true UNLESS you were/are an iTunes Match subscriber as I was/am. I have my entire iTunes music library available to me on my iOS devices without having even updated or used iTunes on PC since Applw Music launched.

 

[lagwagon]

So I've done it! I got my IML to be exactly like my local music library on my iMac.

Synced music to my iPhone, turned on IML, spent roughly 8-10 hours going through song by song (7715 songs) on the iPhone and changing the track names on my iMac for every song that had bad matching/art on my phone. I then copied my music folder + iTunes folder with the library files to my MacBook Pro and pushed that to the IML (to not risk my iMacs library.) What all this did was force uploads on everything that false matched so that it wouldn't screw anything up.

I let it upload while I slept and when I woke up this morning and turned on IML on my phone to check what is on the cloud and it's all good. Nothing mismatched and everything seems 100% like my iMac library.

I now just need to finish the process by turning off IML on my phone. Sync my music onto my phone from my iMac (with the edited names.) Turn on IML again and go through all the edited track names on my MacBook Pro changing them all back to proper.

So much trouble just to have my music locally on my phone and correctly in IML, so that I can finally use save for offline in Apple Muisc. Haha.

The local track on you Mac will always be correct (because it's local.) Its what gets placed on IML if it matches that can be incorrect. To fix that (make sure you have backups of your actually music files.) remove the song from the library, re-add it and before right clicking on it to send to IML change the track name.

Example:
"This Is the Track Name"
Change it to
"AlbumNameThis Is the Track Name"

This is how I've changed and forced uploads of all badly matched songs.

Once it's uploaded and you can confirm its the correct song off your phone, you can then re-edit the track name back.

**So an update**

I got all my music locally synced from my iMac to my iPhone and turned on IML. All is still well and perfect now, after taking the numerous hours setting up all the mismatching songs (changing them how I described above.)

I now just need to take the time (which I can take my time on and not binge do it all in one sitting) to re-edit all those track names back to how they should be and I'm golden. FINALLY!

Knowing my luck Apple will release a proper fix tomorrow and allow IML an option to skip matching altogether, haha. Voiding the need for all i have done.

 

[jsmith189]

Small update for anyone that cares. Last I left, nothing was matching and it was all basically just giving me a big NOPE. I randomly booted into Safe Mode and opened iTunes, just to see what would happen. All looked the same. Came back into regular iTunes and they started adding - slowly, but successfully. I'm at work now so it's at home uploading for me. Still haven't really matched it up so that it looks as it should universally, but at least they're uploading. I can face the rest of the issues as and when that's complete.

Small win!

 

[Klew721]

I am having this issue now. I used to have iTunes Match, but have stopped using it. I have deleted my current "iTunes Library.itl" file and replaced it with a previous one, but still has the issue of renaming files. It's not every song that does it though. What should I do at this point?

 

[medic2442]

Yeah - They have violated rule #1 here - Don't mess with ANY of our already organized stuff - Scan it to give recommendations, but never, ever, ever change it and start propagating that everywhere.

It literally started writing over my metadata without even asking or mentioning it.

Nightmare.

That would be "AWESOME" if Apple would do that. Enable iCloud Music Library but give us the option if we want to upload our playlists to the cloud. If we don't our playlist remain untouched but we still can use all the features of Apple Music. I've been on the free trial since day one and unless they fix this issue, I'm undecided if it's worth $9.99 or not.

 

[lagwagon]

Small update for anyone that cares. Last I left, nothing was matching and it was all basically just giving me a big NOPE. I randomly booted into Safe Mode and opened iTunes, just to see what would happen. All looked the same. Came back into regular iTunes and they started adding - slowly, but successfully. I'm at work now so it's at home uploading for me. Still haven't really matched it up so that it looks as it should universally, but at least they're uploading. I can face the rest of the issues as and when that's complete.

Small win!

That's good it finally started to upload things for you. That's very weird that you've had issues of having it scan, match and upload without it crapping out on you mid way. I never once had anything like that and I've cleaned out and re-enabled numerous time while doing all my trial and error stuff to figure out the ins and outs and ultimately finding what works to not have the crap matches.

But yes small victory for you. Hopefully more to come.

 

[jsmith189]

That's good it finally started to upload things for you. That's very weird that you've had issues of having it scan, match and upload without it crapping out on you mid way. I never once had anything like that and I've cleaned out and re-enabled numerous time while doing all my trial and error stuff to figure out the ins and outs and ultimately finding what works to not have the crap matches.

But yes small victory for you. Hopefully more to come.

Spoke too soon lol. Must have stopped just after I left for work. Was just stuck on "uploading remaining songs and artwork" instead of listing the specific songs uploading like it usually does and no update on the progress spinner. Oh well, refreshed and uploading again now. We'll get there eventually. 500 uploaded overnight!

 

[lagwagon]

Spoke too soon lol. Must have stopped just after I left for work. Was just stuck on "uploading remaining songs and artwork" instead of listing the specific songs uploading like it usually does and no update on the progress spinner. Oh well, refreshed and uploading again now. We'll get there eventually. 500 uploaded overnight!

So weird. How long are you leaving it to do it's thing? The process would take 6-8 hours for me. And the most recent time (and thankful should be the last) was nearly 4000 uploads (about half those were altered track names, the other half uploading based on just no match found aka rare or obscure albums) with the other 3700-ish (7715 total songs that were scanned and delt with) being able to match. Everytime I've had smooth sailing as far as that process goes. Also my isp speed I pay for is 60dl and 5up. So not sure if that is a factor as well.

Perhaps you suffer from the wi-fi issues some people continue to have with Yosemite? (I've never had the issue, even on the first beta build.)

 

[jsmith189]

So weird. How long are you leaving it to do it's thing? The process would take 6-8 hours for me. And the most recent time (and thankful should be the last) was nearly 4000 uploads (about half those were altered track names, the other half uploading based on just no match found aka rare or obscure albums) with the other 3700-ish (7715 total songs that were scanned and delt with) being able to match. Everytime I've had smooth sailing as far as that process goes. Also my isp speed I pay for is 60dl and 5up. So not sure if that is a factor as well.

Perhaps you suffer from the wi-fi issues some people continue to have with Yosemite? (I've never had the issue, even on the first beta build.)

Honestly, it's probably the Yosemite issue (I've had it for a while), but it's definitely also my internet. Downloads are bad, uploads are worse, but it's the same for my whole area so I'm not surprised it's taking as long as it does. And as well as being slow, it's also very unstable, so it's just a double slap in the face. My phone's 4G is (quite literally) 10x faster. Yay Australia.

 

[jmmo20]

You can do that. But the problem is, if you have iCML turn on on your iOS device and off on iTunes main library, there is no way to sync music between the two. And when you turn off iCML on your iOS device, you will need to resync any music you had on there locally.

What people seem to be missing is that with iTunes Match or iCloud Music Library there's *NO* main iTunes library anymore. Your iTunes library is the iCloud one.. the rest, including your Mac are just replicating the icloud library locally.

 

[lagwagon]

What people seem to be missing is that with iTunes Match or iCloud Music Library there's *NO* main iTunes library anymore. Your iTunes library is the iCloud one.. the rest, including your Mac are just replicating the icloud library locally.

I see it as more the iCloud Music Library is just a replica of your main local library. Because you can edit anything (artist name, album name, track name, album art and so on.) from there and everything else gets updated and sees those changes. You don't "go into the cloud" to make the changes. It's done to/from your files.

 

[John6Plus]

What people seem to be missing is that with iTunes Match or iCloud Music Library there's *NO* main iTunes library anymore. Your iTunes library is the iCloud one.. the rest, including your Mac are just replicating the icloud library locally.

How about last played and play count stats, and smart playlists? Any hope at all for those of us who actually use some of the good things iTunes could do?

I am way too scared to try any of this right now, I don't want to spend days organizing stuff I already have organized.

 

[flur]

If you turn off icloud your library will go back to normal.

Everything *might* go back to normal, or you might find that Apple decided some of your own music was downloaded from AM and removed it from your machine.

That's the catch with the folks saying "no issues" or "I fixed the problems" is that they have no idea what will be removed from their hard drive if they turn iCML off.