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Q: Apple Music Library Obliterated after iTunes 12.5.1 Update!

Hello,

 

I just updated to iTunes 12.5.1 on PC and immediately noticed that at least half of all of my apple music playlists have a large majority of songs removed. This is obviously a freaky and devastating discovery!

 

In checking if content is also missing on iOS, it appears that only songs from a playlist i was working on this morning from iOS before updating iTunes has missing songs.  I am guarding it with my life and concerned that any wrong move might cause the songs to disappear from iOS as well. I have put it on airplane mode to reduce risk and I am considering screenshotting all of my playlists although that will take a very long time.

 

Any thoughts on what I can do? Can I get all of my content back to iTunes? Will these missing songs also disappear from iOS if I take it back online? Any way to get the songs back that are also missing from the playlist in iOS? These are all from adding songs to playlists over the course of a year that couldn't possible recreated.

 

Are Apple music libraries stored locally? I don't have any local music and my itunes .itl files appear to be unmodified within the last year, so I'm guessing no?

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I love Apple Music, but this is making me seriously consider running away forever if I cannot feel secure that my work won't disappear again in the future.

Apple Music / iTunes, Windows 8

Posted on Sep 15, 2016 9:13 AM

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  • by jdavidlawence,

    jdavidlawence jdavidlawence Sep 15, 2016 9:51 AM in response to jdavidlawence
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    Sep 15, 2016 9:51 AM in response to jdavidlawence

    Update:

     

    By disabling and reenabling iCloud Music Library, I was able to get most of the missing songs from the older playlists back, however, the most recent playlist I mentioned was still wiped. Luckly I had just gone through and added those songs to My Music Library so I was able to more or less recreate it.

     

    Moving forward, is there a way to export all of my playlists without having to do it one by one? I just tried exporting Music Library but in searching the xml file it doesn't appear to contain songs from my most recent playlist.

     

    What is the best way to avoid this in the future?

  • by tljkelly,

    tljkelly tljkelly Sep 30, 2016 4:36 AM in response to jdavidlawence
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    Sep 30, 2016 4:36 AM in response to jdavidlawence

    I have this same problem. How did you disable/reenable iCloud Music Library? I don't hold out much hope.