Q: WARNING: iCloud Music Library just destroyed my Mac's iTunes Library

maybe today the BUG has been fixed?

You're about the only person that figured this out. Appreciate it. Works now.

well this is a total mess, loaded up itunes to add some new music and nothing there, only music downloaded from itunes which is really the trash they gave away a few christmas ago.  Only recent library i have is the same day as i logged in previous ones are back to 2012.

didnt sign up to cloud, didnt sign up to the streaming service.

this is a total joke

Here is the solution....you need to go into your settings then select the 'music' icon..where it says 'iCloud Music Library' - slide the bar to the off

position - That is basically it...now go back into your iTunes and resync your phone once you've done that select your phones music option in the left hand side column and hey presto your music playlist has re-appeared...HERE"S THE BUM DEAL THOUGH....you have to retick every **** playlist box you added before and even worse when you select to resync...it has to go back adding every single track back to those playlist...at leaat you get everything back as before but it would have been nice if Apple had warned us of this.....Always trying to change sh*t up that doesn't want or need changing.

but that only fixes iphone and possibly ipad issues, if your itunes library is screwed then it doesnt help and next time you try and sync a device it wants to wipe all of the music off the device completely as there is nothing in the library.

and not all ios 8 devices show the icloud music ours shows show apple music thats all

I was skeptical but this is amazing. You have saved my itunes. Legend

IT DID IT AGAIN!!!!

I am beside myself. After 4 days of rebuilding my entire library, this morning iTunes gave me the BBOD when I scrolled by one particular album -- an album I had deleted from my library but still showed up in my viewer because there was a copy of it in the cloud. Of course, I couldn't delete it from the cloud because to so that you have to turn back on iTunes match and I wasn't about to do that. So, anyway, it keeps crashing, so I think I should toss out the .itl file and let it rebuild the library from my now very clean and organized music folder. IT RESCANNED THE FOLDER AND RE-****** UP THE FILES. Now, its all chaos again. names, pictures, files mismatched, duplicated and scattered all over. I am NOT connected to the cloud but in the scanning my library and processing the files it decided to ruin my library again. I have a backup I can restore from, but I am inclined instead to throw my laptop through the window of the closest Mac store. (not really, internet police.)

Apple Music is working great for me now, aside some slow updating on content.  Just reporting in.

I really appreciate how apple team care about music and make efforts to provide with features that just transform our music libraries into such a great thing we can enjoy equally on all our Apple devices. The idea is really great... If it worked properly. It happens that it doesn't. If I add a new album to my music library from my iPhone Apple music inexplicably only adds some tracks (seems like only the ones I don't have in an other album).. The same when I want to turn an album available offline. If I force to put that song in, it somehow duplicates every single track with the same name I've got elsewhere. I've lost 3 hours trying to reorganise my U2 album yesterday because when I finally thought they were ok (checking from my iPhone) I opened my Mac and guess what? Everything duplicated and showing incomplete albums. Those are the worst features of apple music, but it has more issues. Album artwork doesn't sync properly either. It seems to set the first random artwork it finds for the same song name on iTunes Store, doesn't even check if that's from the same album.

In general, I do appreciate apple's efforts so far and I do have to say that despite those issues I would love the system. Nevertheless, Apple, please, turn Apple music and its syncing system better soon. Music lovers also stream, you know? The difference is that we do care about our music library and currently your system doesn't seem to care about ours. For Apple music, a service that's been offered saying it would change the way we enjoy music, what Apple offers right now is definitely unacceptable! Please work hard on it for the next months, it does need it.

Here's my story:

1. I have never used Match or iCloud for that matter.

2. I upgraded to itunes 12.2 on Sunday 5th of July

3. Turned on Apple Music and let it scan and upload my library

Result:

1. Itunes library on Mac is fine. No changes to any file or metadata. (All DateModifieds are from before July 5, except the apple music songs I added to playlists)

2. The library as presented on my iPhone (iCloud) is a big mess:

     - Apple Music tried to match my library but got almost everyrhing wrong thats not dead obvious

     - None of my own recorded music works, All live- and ancient bootleg albums are matched incorrectly to studio versions

     - A lot of music that have iCloud-status "uploaded" on my Mac are visible on the iPhone (in iCloud therefore) but cannot be played.

3. Playlists with Apple Music tracks created/edited on both Mac and iPhone synch nicely and work fine.

So, while I see problems on the iPhone (and therefore my library that was matched/uploaded to iCloud), it never touched my local iTunes library.

Why is this? Its different from lots of disasters described in this thread...

1. Apple already changed something on/before July 5?

2. I have a certain combination of history or sequence-of-events, and/or settings that prevent changing my local iTunes database..?

i bit the bullet and added albums back into itune, now I have a right mess, songs and albums split across nearly all albums, missing art work and we all know how much of a task it is to correct all of those.

Working on IT projects if i went live with something that did this much mess I wouldnt be working tomorrow!!

wouldnt try another product but what I really hate about apple is they just leave you, once you are out of warranty they want to charge you to help answer this and dont come on the forums.  Spent thousand on apple devices and now totally stuck!!

I ended up trying to create a new library, clearing all the music from the cloud and then uploading my old library again, but this led to the same issue. I can't determine if it was a problem before I enabled it on iOS again or not, but I couldn't delete everything from iOS so I told it to replace it with the cloud library.

Either way, until Apple fixes this issue, I guess I can't use Apple Music. It's back to Spotify. I won't be cancelling my subscription just yet.

DJCode24 wrote:

 

Apple Music is working great for me now, aside some slow updating on content.  Just reporting in.

Anyone else want to try (obviously, make like 30 backups before doing so)?

I will try later tonight, and will report in.

I'm in no way saying that the bug is fixed, but it does seem like some people are reporting that it no longer screws up their library. Again, in no way saying that applies to everyone.

UPDATE: Just enabled it on my iPhone... everything was fine except for album art, which still got screwed up.

Perhaps the magical fix that DJCode24 and others have is being rolled out to Apple's servers?

For me, turning the iCloud library on caused it to erase all the BPMs of songs I hadn't bought from the iTunes store. Many thanks to Zackadelic's solution.

Im afraid to bite the bullet right now, but can you tell me, is iCloud music library turned on by default?