iCloud Music Library, Loved Tracks, and Smart Playlists

I have a huge library of music I own. I just signed up for Apple Music and turned on iCloud Music Library syncing. All the tracks I’ve marked as “loved” have seemingly lost their rating. I have a smart playlist to show loved tracks and am seeing an empty playlist on both my devices (Mac and iPhone).

My other smart playlists are not afffected—it’s only and issue with playlists containing loved songs.

Any ideas? Thankfully I have a backup of everything but would really like to use iCloud Music Library without encountering issues with rating songs.

thanks!

iPhone X, iOS 12

Posted on Jul 16, 2019 10:09 AM

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John Nassiri Author

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Jul 17, 2019 1:46 PM in response to Urquhart1244

I understand that it isn't the same as track rating. But both are stored as keys in the iTunes Library.xml file and should be treated the same when uploading to iCloud. Also, you can create smart playlists of loved tracks which is pretty common for people who don't want to determine how many stars to give a track. I just want to see what I like.

I exported my favorite tracks playlists to XML and re-added all the hearts. Frustrating and time consuming but works and syncs across my devices.

Urquhart1244

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Jul 17, 2019 1:10 PM in response to John Nassiri

There seems to be a misunderstanding of Apple’s intentions with this feature. The loved tracks are not a rating. This is a personalization feature to refine your music taste, in order to make better suggestions/recommendations possible. There is no list available for your loved tracks.

Personalize Apple Music - Apple Support

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