thank you, that, worked, i still have music that disappears, but the library has gotten much more stable,
Learning curve for me.
i have a older, iPod classic 5, that has my music library, and I used imazing , to put the music back that vanished , I didn't check, on
the software, in the iPod ive used imazing a few times over the years, for no other reason then convience. and of course, the next morning music is disappearing , and what I read on the "forums ", Iam not understanding "yet"
so third time I decided to reinstall catalina, as Iam pretty sure i destroyed the music app hunting for files, night before. I have 2012 mid 13 inch MacBook pro, that has been a trusty machine ,
so I cleaned out the music library except for the fragmented music , and i used finder and i got it back,
after I was done reinstalling catalina , i had 3/4 of my music libary ( cd's } and I just took my time putting it back in through the cd dvd (highlighting the device and then choosing , file-import- (device cd/dvd to import it in to music library,
"not using the import buttons next to the player"
double check that the "info" all matched up, I remember very well 10 years back doing same thing,
iam not that good with finder, but I'm going to be.
its been A few days now since that last reinstall , I still have some stuff vanishing its a lot easier to find it
I have a lot of audio books ( "cd's), and that was what I had to put back together, all 50 albums,
back in the itunes days one
could change The media source and put audiobooks as the option, I don't see that option now, and can't change it from music, so I haven't figured out how to get them to'' book/audio books,'' I have the original cd's still, so I can go that route,
if I have to,
delete all the audio books and then reinstall them,
and I want to get better on finder , I realized how much, i didn't know,
and I just checked this morning and that iPod hadn't been used 6 or 7 years, so I haven't confirmed it yet, iam thinking
that when I dumped the music back in in was maybe a old format maybe, so now my root library is all nice and simple now
I think I read everybody's posts here and that also helped .
Farrukh thank you so much,