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Q: Imported Music has iCloud Status: Apple Music

Hello,

 

I just tried to create a Smart Playlist containing ONLY Apple Music and it has created a playlist with 3/4 of my entire library.

 

The majority of these songs are physically on my computer and have been added to the library myself, so why has this happened?

 

I checked the 'iCloud Status' on many of the songs I definitely know are my own, and it says 'Apple Music'.

 

The path to the files are: /iTunes Media/Music, not: iTunes Media/Apple Music.

 

For some reason, iCloud Music has 'turned' most of my own music into Apple Music.

 

Has anyone else had this problem? Does anyone know of a fix?

 

iTunes Version: 12.3.0.44

Mac OS X 10.11.1

Posted on Oct 20, 2015 11:52 AM

by Jimzgoldfinch,Solvedanswer
Jimzgoldfinch Jimzgoldfinch
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Hi,

Itunes match uses the sound footprint to determine if a track can be matched whereas I believe Apple music relies more on the metadata. Whilst not perfect, match has a lot fewer mismatches than for Apple Music. I have had hardly any mismatches on my large library.

 

You could create a smart playlist based on Kind = Apple AAC audio file

 

Jim

Posted on Oct 23, 2015 9:35 AM

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  • by Jimzgoldfinch,Helpful

    Jimzgoldfinch Jimzgoldfinch Oct 21, 2015 2:06 AM in response to Ozzmystro
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    Oct 21, 2015 2:06 AM in response to Ozzmystro

    HI,

    Read this About iCloud Music Library icons and status - Apple Support

     

    JIm

  • by swandy,

    swandy swandy Oct 20, 2015 4:51 PM in response to Ozzmystro
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    Oct 20, 2015 4:51 PM in response to Ozzmystro

    iCloud Status of Apple Music means either (1) this is music you added to your library from Apple Music or (2) when you set up iCloud Music Library, these were songs that Apple Music felt it had in it's library, so instead of uploading a copy from your computer, it "matched" it to their files. (Unfortunately this also causes a lot of issues with the wrong version of a song being "matched" which you notice when you try to play it on a device that does not physically have the music files present.)

  • by Ozzmystro,

    Ozzmystro Ozzmystro Oct 21, 2015 2:08 AM in response to swandy
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    Oct 21, 2015 2:08 AM in response to swandy

    I see. I thought that the iCloud Status would be 'Matched' rather than 'Apple Music', but that is only for iTunes Match as far as I can see.

     

    So does anyone know how to make a playlist containing ONLY music downloaded through Apple Music?

     

    Also, I am having the exact problems you are describing Swandy - when I play some songs on my PC at work, it plays either the wrong song or the 'clean' version of an explicit song. Very irritating!

  • by Jimzgoldfinch,Solvedanswer

    Jimzgoldfinch Jimzgoldfinch Oct 23, 2015 9:35 AM in response to Ozzmystro
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    Oct 23, 2015 9:35 AM in response to Ozzmystro

    Hi,

    Itunes match uses the sound footprint to determine if a track can be matched whereas I believe Apple music relies more on the metadata. Whilst not perfect, match has a lot fewer mismatches than for Apple Music. I have had hardly any mismatches on my large library.

     

    You could create a smart playlist based on Kind = Apple AAC audio file

     

    Jim

  • by Ozzmystro,

    Ozzmystro Ozzmystro Oct 21, 2015 5:54 AM in response to Jimzgoldfinch
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    Oct 21, 2015 5:54 AM in response to Jimzgoldfinch

    It seems strange that they would employ two different techniques for essentially the same task.

     

    I shall try your suggestion when I get home and report back. Thanks!

  • by swandy,

    swandy swandy Oct 22, 2015 1:44 PM in response to Ozzmystro
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    Oct 22, 2015 1:44 PM in response to Ozzmystro

    Ozzmystro wrote:

     

    It seems strange that they would employ two different techniques for essentially the same task.

     

    I shall try your suggestion when I get home and report back. Thanks!

    I think the reason might be that iTunes Match "matches" your songs to the iTunes Store library and Apple Music/ICML "matches" your library to the Apple Music library. And as Jim pointed out, it uses the metadata, but unfortunately only the Artist Name and Track Name - hence the issues with mis-matching songs.

  • by Ozzmystro,

    Ozzmystro Ozzmystro Oct 23, 2015 9:36 AM in response to swandy
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    Oct 23, 2015 9:36 AM in response to swandy

    Some of the mismatches are crazy! Like an original song 'Disclosure - You & Me (feat. Eliza Doolittle)' gets matched to 'Disclosure - You & Me (Baauer Remix)'. I can maybe see how it might match the songs if it was the other way round, but for it to not match the original song just seems mental to me!

     

    The suggestion to create a smart playlist based on 'Kind = Apple AAC audio file' worked on my laptop that has my main library, but on my work computer where the whole library is playing via iCloud Music Library, this playlist still brings up a lot of music that isn't Apple Music. It's not an issue though because I only need it to work on my main library. Thanks Jimzgoldfinch!

  • by MichealCollins,

    MichealCollins MichealCollins Sep 4, 2016 4:32 PM in response to Ozzmystro
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    Sep 4, 2016 4:32 PM in response to Ozzmystro

    Yes I had this too What I did was i contacted Apple and explained the issue and their engineers reset my library from their end and thankfully all purc songs that had a wrong status such as uploaded or Apple Music changed to purchased. So this would be your best bet. However there was a few songs that wouldn't reset but Apple just simply gave me credit to repurchase them and that was fine hope this helps