Restoring music library after Apple Music cancellation
So I moved from Belarus to Latvia and faced the inevitability of switching my App Store country. I did my homework by putting my whole iTunes folder to Dropbox and then making two separate backups of the same: 1 week and then 1 day prior to Apple Music cancellation. I knew I was going to lose all of my AM tracks but then I was hoping the backup would alleviate this. I also went ahead and exported my library to the Library.xml file.
Yesterday I switched over the App Store country and resubscribed to AM. I got all of the music that was mine losing over 2,000 tracks that I previously had in AM. I wasn't sure why Music did not pick up the AM tracks since the Music app was still pointing to the same iTunes library path.
I control-clicked the Music app, pointed to my library file only to get to the same spot after all of the cloud syncing, audio normalization and other processes finished. I did not have any of my AM tracks in the library.
I went ahead and used the Import function on the Library XML file. Suddenly, Music app froze and in a few minutes suddenly unfroze with all of the AM tracks added to the library. I was about to sing hooray when I noticed that:
- I still did not have the entirety of my tracks with my library now totalling 4,700 tracks whereas it used to be around 6,000.
- All of the AM tracks were grayed out and completely unplayable.
All of the metadata is there except for artwork: title, play count, rating etc. But the cloud status is Error and updating the library does not help with that (done that a couple dozen times):
So on the one hand I do have the full backup of the library but then on the other hand I am unable to use that backup because it imports as incomplete and even whatever gets in is unplayable. I tried re-adding one of the grayed out tracks from AM and ended up getting a duplicate track whereas the original grayed out track cannot even be deleted from Music.
Any advice is deeply appreciated.
