Q: Apple Music replacing my private music with downloads from iTunes store
I just subscribed to Apple Music as a trial. So far everything was going well until ...
Over time I have uploaded a number of CDs to my iTunes library on my Mac, and synced on my iPhone. I was listening to a track while driving (from my iPhone through the car audio). Then I got home, turned up my Mac and went to listen to the same track ... and it was not the same at all. The one from the CD was a live performance, the new one was a studio recording. Very different.
A bit of googling confirmed that this is what Apple Music does: it essentially activates the iTune Match functionality and silently replaces all your songs from whatever is in the iTunes store. One guy on Reddit was complaining that he had lost a vast number of live recordings that way.
Note Check your Apple Music library settings - Apple Support actually warns you about that:
"if you already have music on your device, you'll be asked if you want to Merge or Replace the music. Choose Merge to add the songs currently on your device to your library.* If you select Replace, the music on your device is replaced with your Apple Music library.'
I must have foolishly chosen "Merge" when asked. The problem is that when U turn off "iCloud Music Library", all my private songs disappear. Only the purchases from iTunes Store remain. All my private songs have been uploaded to this "iCloud Music Library". I need to turn the library back to see them again.
Thankfully, the majority of my songs match those in the itunes store. Just a small number of tracks have been override by iTunes store versions. The solution seems to be this:
1) force download of all my private music from the iCloud library
2) Disable the iCloud music library
3) delete and reimport the CD with the replaced tracks
4) And of course, cancel my Apple Music subscription.
MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10)
Posted on Jul 23, 2015 1:05 AM
I have the same problem. Songs that I ripped from CD's have randomly been replaced with different versions. Worse - I stupidly sold and gave away a lot of my old CD's and can no longer find the original version. In a few cases - the replaced song is completed different - different artist - one has even been replaced by a foreign singer in a foreign language.
Apple has damaged my own personal library of music, perhaps irreparably.
The other problem is that I have an Ipod Classic for my car and when I try to synch it, it will not synch songs that I own but that Apple mistakenly thinks is part of Apple Music. So I cannot transfer songs that I own (and in many cases purchased on iTunes) because Apple has matched this song to something in Apple Music (which will not synch to an older device).
So once again, Apple has basically seized my property and will not allow me to access it.
Not only is this frustrating (and I am a long-time and continuing customer of Apple), I wonder how this can even be legal? How can Apple commandeer MY music and deny me access to property I have rightfully purchased?
Posted on Apr 16, 2016 4:06 AM